Arnaud Démare (born 26 August 1991) is a professional road racing cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . In 2011 he won the UCI World Under-23 Road Race Championships, and in 2016 he won the Milan–San Remo. He is one of five riders to have won the French National Road Race Championships three times, having won the race in 2014, 2017 and 2020.

Career

2012 season

In August 2012, Démare won the first World Tour race of his career by prevailing in the

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, ahead of local favorite André Greipel and

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. Démare clearly dominated the mass sprint contested in scorching heat at the end of the race. That year, he also participated in the Olympic road race, finishing 30th.

2013 season

In 2013, Démare won 3 stages in a row at the Four Days of Dunkirk and the general classification. On the third stage, his team-mate and lead-out rider Geoffrey Soupe produced a final power surge to launch Démare, and the duo finished one-two in the mass sprint, with Ramon Sinkeldam of taking third place.

2014 season

Démare won the Four Days of Dunkirk stage race for the second year in succession, winning two stages during the event. He also won the points and young rider classifications. He also put in some strong performances in the cobbled classics, finishing second in Gent–Wevelgem and twelfth in Paris–Roubaix.

2015 season

Démare struggled for form for much of the 2015 season, only scoring one top ten finish in the

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with a tenth place in Omloop Het Nieuwsblad. He did however manage to score two stage wins in the Tour of Belgium.

2016 season

In January 2016 Démare announced his race plans for the first half of the new season, starting his campaign on home soil at the

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and

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, followed by competing in the cobbled classics of Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne, Milan–San Remo, Gent–Wevelgem, Tour of Flanders and Paris–Roubaix, along with the stage races Paris–Nice and the Three Days of De Panne. He also announced that he would skip the Tour de France and focus on the Giro d'Italia instead. He enjoyed success at the Tour Méditerranéen, where his FDJ squad won the race's opening team time trial and he won the following stage. Démare went on win the first full stage of Paris–Nice and then took the biggest win of his career at the Milan–San Remo. His victory was questioned by rival riders Matteo Tosatto and

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, who alleged that Démare had been assisted by a tow from a team car on the climb up the Cipressa after he crashed with to go. However, in the absence of any photographic or video evidence, race officials decided not to take any action. Démare became the first Frenchman to win the Milan-San Remo since Laurent Jalabert in 1995. He was also the first Frenchman to win a Monument race since 1997, when Jalabert and Frédéric Guesdon had won the Giro di Lombardia and Paris–Roubaix respectively.

2017 season

On 4 July, two days after finishing Stage 2 in second position behind Marcel Kittel, Démare clinched his first Tour de France or

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stage win by winning the Tour de France's fourth stage that ended in a hectic sprint into Vittel; it was the first stage victory by a Frenchman in a bunch sprint since

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won Stage 1 that started and ended in

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in 2006. In

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, Démare was edged out again into a second-place finish by Marcel Kittel, who launched a perfectly timed late sprint with around 200 metres to go. Démare was ill during the mountainous Stage 8 and fell back very early. Two teammates were with him to try and bring him in within the time limit. He eventually finished in 188th position, 37 minutes and 33 seconds behind the Stage 8 winner. Démare, who was sitting in second position in the points classification at the start of the Stage 9, finished that challenging mountain stage in a group around 40 minutes behind the Stage 9 winner. That put him outside the time limit, and therefore out of the Tour de France, along with six other riders.

2018 season

After finishing second to

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at Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne, Démare took his first victory of the season with an opening-day stage win at Paris–Nice. He took third-place finishes on consecutive March weekends at Milan–San Remo and Gent–Wevelgem, but it was not until June before he took another victory, winning the penultimate stage of the Tour de Suisse. At the Tour de France, he was third on the second and thirteenth stages, before he took his second Tour de France stage win, on stage eighteen into Pau, following a lead-out from teammate

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. With a further third-place finish on the final stage, Démare finished third in the points classification. He was second at the EuroEyes Cyclassics, before he completed a clean sweep at the

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, winning all five stages on his way to the overall victory.

2019 season

Démare's first victory of the 2019 season came during the tenth stage of the Giro d'Italia, which ended on the streets of Modena, prevailing in a bunch sprint ahead of Elia Viviani. He took the lead of the points classification the following day, which he held for seven stages, but ultimately finished second to Pascal Ackermann – a rider he had criticised following his Modena stage victory. He then won two stages and the points classification at the

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, and also won a stage at the Tour de Wallonie. Démare's final win of the season came at September's

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, where he won the penultimate stage and the points classification; he finished second overall, one second in arrears of race winner

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2020 season

After competing at the UAE Tour prior to the

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-enforced suspension of racing, Démare's first win of 2020 came at Milano–Torino, which was held on a flatter parcours compared to previous years, as it was held as a midweek precursor to Milan–San Remo three days later. Over the rest of August, Démare took eight further victories – two stage wins and the general classification at the Tour de Wallonie, the French National Road Race Championships (becoming the fifth rider to win the race at least three times), and three stage wins and the general classification at the

, overhauling Josef Černý on the final day in the latter. He also won a silver medal in the road race at the UEC European Road Championships, held in

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, France, just behind Italy's

. After a stage win in September's Tour de Luxembourg, Démare returned to the Giro d'Italia in October, as one of the contenders for the points classification jersey. Démare won his first stage of the race on stage four, winning a bunch sprint into Villafranca Tirrena. Démare then won the next two bunch sprints on stages six and seven into Matera and Brindisi respectively, taking and solidifying his lead in the points classification, and as a result, becoming the first rider since Robbie McEwen in 2006 to win three stages in the opening week of the Giro d'Italia. He added a fourth stage victory on stage eleven into Rimini, again in a bunch sprint, and ultimately held the points classification lead until the finish in

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; he finished 49 points ahead of his closest challenger, Peter Sagan. Démare finished the 2020 season with fourteen victories, two more than any other rider.

2021 season

Démare took his first win of the season in April at the one-day race,

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, beating Nacer Bouhanni in a sprint finish. He then won two stages and the points classification in the

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, and in May, won the last three stages of the

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on his way to winning the general and points classifications at the race. He won the second stage of the

, before competing in the Tour de France for the first time since

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. Démare recorded a single top-ten stage finish (fourth) on stage six, and finished outside of the time limit three stages later, ending his race early. He made his first start at the Vuelta a España, looking to complete the triptych of winning a stage at all three

s. The closest he came was a second-place finish to Fabio Jakobsen on the fourth stage, and he finished inside the top-100 of a Grand Tour general classification for the first time. He finished the season with a second-place finish at

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, and victory in Paris–Tours, winning out of a four-rider group that had broken clear towards the end of the race. He became the first French rider to win the race for fifteen years.

2022 season

Early in the season Demare finished in 10th place in both Milan-San Remo and Gent Wevelgem. During the 2022 Giro d'Italia he rode very strongly winning three stages as well as the points classification. His victory on stage 13 of the Giro was the 10th

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stage win of his career.

Major results

;2008 :

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::1st

Points classification ::1st Stage 1 : 1st Stage 4 Coupe des Nations Abitibi : 9th Bernaudeau Junior ;2009 : 2nd Silver medal blank

Road race, UCI Junior World Championships : 2nd Paris–Roubaix Juniors : 3rd Bronze medal europe

Road race, UEC European Junior Road Championships : 3rd Overall Tour d'Istrie ::1st Stage 3 : 3rd Bernaudeau Junior : 6th Overall GP Général Patton : 9th Overall Tour De Lorraine Juniors ;2010 : 1st

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: 1st Stage 4

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: 5th Road race, UCI Under-23 Road World Championships : 8th

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: 9th Paris–Tours Espoirs : 10th ZLM Tour : 10th Grand Prix de la Ville de Lillers ;2011 : 1st Jersey rainbow

Road race, UCI Under-23 Road World Championships : 1st

: 1st

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::1st Stages 1 & 4 : 1st Stage 3 Tour Alsace : 4th Paris–Roubaix Espoirs : 4th ZLM Tour ;2012 : 1st

: 1st Le Samyn : 1st

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: 1st Stage 6 Tour of Qatar : 1st Stage 2 Route du Sud : 2nd Road race, National Road Championships : 2nd

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: 4th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne : 4th Tro-Bro Léon : 4th GP de Denain Porte du Hainaut : 9th Overall

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Points classification ::1st Stage 2 ;2013 : 1st Jersey pink

Overall Four Days of Dunkirk ::1st Jersey green

Points classification ::1st Jersey white

Young rider classification ::1st Stages 1, 2 & 3 : 1st

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: 1st RideLondon–Surrey Classic : 1st Grand Prix d'Isbergues : 1st Grote Prijs Beeckman-De Caluwé : 1st Stage 4 Tour de Suisse : 1st Stage 2 Eneco Tour : 2nd

: 3rd Paris–Tours : 9th Overall

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: 9th Omloop van het Houtland : 10th

;2014 : 1st MaillotFra

Road race, National Road Championships : 1st Jersey pink

Overall Four Days of Dunkirk ::1st Jersey green

Points classification ::1st Jersey white

Young rider classification ::1st Stages 1 & 2 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

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Points classification ::1st Jersey white

Young rider classification ::1st Stages 1, 2 & 4 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

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Points classification ::1st Stages 2 & 3 : 1st

: 1st Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen : 1st Grand Prix d'Isbergues : 1st Stage 6 Tour of Qatar : 2nd Gent–Wevelgem : 3rd

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: 10th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad ;2015 : Tour of Belgium ::1st Stages 2 & 3 : 4th

: 4th

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: 6th

: 10th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad ;2016 : 1st Milan–San Remo : 1st

Binche–Chimay–Binche Binche–Chimay–Binche (also known as Memorial Frank Vandenbroucke) is a single-day road bicycle race held annually between Binche and Chimay, in Wallonia, Belgium. The race is rated as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continenta ...

: La Méditerranéenne ::1st Stages 1 ( TTT) & 2 : 1st Stage 1 Paris–Nice : Route du Sud ::1st Jersey green

Points classification ::1st Stage 5 : 2nd Paris–Tours : 2nd

: 5th Gent–Wevelgem : 6th Grand Prix de Fourmies : 8th

;2017 : 1st MaillotFra

Road race, National Road Championships : 1st

: 1st

: Tour de France ::1st Stage 4 ::Held Jersey green

after Stages 4–6 :

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Points classification ::1st Stage 2 :

::1st Stages 1 & 4 : 1st Stage 1 Paris–Nice : 1st Stage 2 Four Days of Dunkirk : 2nd EuroEyes Cyclassics : 6th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne : 6th Milan–San Remo : 6th Paris–Roubaix : 7th Tro-Bro Léon ;2018 : 1st Jersey white

Overall

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Points classification ::1st Stages 1, 2, 3, 4 (

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) & 5 : 1st Stage 18 Tour de France : 1st Stage 1 Paris–Nice : 1st Stage 8 Tour de Suisse : 2nd EuroEyes Cyclassics : 2nd Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne : 2nd Grand Prix de Fourmies : 3rd Milan–San Remo : 3rd Gent–Wevelgem : 9th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad ;2019 : Giro d'Italia ::1st Stage 10 ::Held Jersey violet

after Stages 11–17 :

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Points classification ::1st Stages 2 & 4 : 1st Stage 4 Tour de Wallonie : 2nd Overall

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Points classification ::1st Stage 3 : 4th Paris–Tours : 6th

: 6th

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: 8th EuroEyes Cyclassics : 9th Road race, UEC European Road Championships ;2020 : 1st MaillotFra

Road race, National Road Championships : 1st Jersey white

Overall

::1st

Points classification ::1st Stages 1, 2 & 5 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall Tour de Wallonie ::1st Jersey green

Points classification ::1st Stages 2 & 4 : 1st Milano–Torino : Giro d'Italia ::1st Jersey violet

Points classification ::1st Stages 4, 6, 7 & 11 : 1st Stage 2 Tour de Luxembourg : 2nd Silver medal europe

Road race, UEC European Road Championships : 5th

;2021 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

::1st

Points classification ::1st Stages 2, 3 & 4 : 1st Paris–Tours : 1st

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Points classification ::1st Stages 2 & 5 : 1st Stage 2

: 2nd

: 5th Grand Prix d'Isbergues : 6th

;2022 : 1st Paris–Tours : 1st Grand Prix d'Isbergues : Giro d'Italia ::1st Jersey violet

Points classification ::1st Stages 5, 6 & 13 : Tour de Pologne ::1st Jersey white

Points classification ::1st Stage 7 : 1st Stage 1

: 2nd

Road race, UEC European Road Championships : 2nd Primus Classic : 2nd

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: 2nd Druivenkoers Overijse : 2nd

: 6th Classic Brugge–De Panne : 7th

: 10th Milan–San Remo : 10th Gent–Wevelgem

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Classics results timeline

Major championships timeline

References

External links

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