Maxime Bouet (born 3 November 1986) is a French road racing cyclist, who currently rides for

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Career

Early years

Born in

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, Ain, Bouet participated at the French national track and road championships as a junior in 2003. At the track championships he won the silver medal in the

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, while at the road championships he took the bronze medal at the

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. In the following year (2004) he improved both results, winning the gold medal in the individual pursuit and the silver medal in the individual time trial. In January 2006 Bouet took part in the La Tropicale Amissa Bongo, a stage race in

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where he finished in 15th position overall. That same year, on 1 May he finished 19th in the under-23 version of Liège–Bastogne–Liège. He also reached the fourth position of the sixth stage in the

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, an individual time trial over where he finished 51 seconds behind winner

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Agritubel (2007–09)

2007 season

During the 2007 cycling season Bouet signed a contract with as a stagiaire. His first notable result for them was when he reached the fourth place in the

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of the Rhône-Alpes Isère Tour. He then came third in the first three stages of the

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, the second stage of the Tour du Chablais, the third and fourth stages of the Ronde de l'Isard as well as the general classification of that last race.

2008 season

offered him a professional contract for the 2008 season in which he started off with a 20th place at the Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise. After gaining more experience in the Tour Méditerranéen (19th), the Tour du Haut Var (47th), the Les 3 Jours de Vaucluse (17th) and the

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(116th) he won his first professional race on 24 March during the first stage of the

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, a

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in and around Mondeville. The six seconds he was ahead of Jos van Emden were enough to keep him in the leader's jersey for the next two days. He finished sixth in the Rhône-Alpes Isère Tour, 11th in the Clásica Internacional de Alcobendas and fourth in the Circuit de Lorraine. In the last couple of months of the season he finished second in the individual pursuit at the French National Track Championships and third in the second stage of the

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. He was called up to represent France at the under-23 race of the 2008 UCI Road World Championships in Varese where he came in 83rd place in a race that was won by

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2009 season

In 2009, his last season for , Bouet also started off in the Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise, this time claiming the 7th spot, one minute and seven seconds behind winner Rémi Pauriol. That same month he finished 19th in the Tour du Haut Var and also won his first race of the season, the first stage of the Les 3 Jours de Vaucluse, including the leading jersey. In the end, he finished in the second spot behind teammate David Lelay. Bouet competed in his first Paris–Nice race afterwards, finishing in 64th position overall. At the Volta ao Alentejo Bouet won another stage race opener and wore the leader's jersey for two days until Héctor Guerra won the individual time trial in stage 3. However, with a third place in the 5th and last stage of the race he reclaimed the lead and took the overall win, one second ahead of Guerra. After finishing third in the general classification of the Rhône-Alpes Isère Tour Bouet focused on some of the classic races. He reached the finish of

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in 138th position, but did not finish

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. Bouet was added to the

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shortlist for and was preparing for his first

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. With a win in the Boucles de l'Aulne and a seventh place in the

Grand Prix of Aargau Canton Grand Prix of Aargau Canton (german: Grosser Preis des Kantons Aargau) is a semi classic European bicycle race held in Aargau canton, one of the more northerly cantons of Switzerland. The race consists of fifteen laps around the Swiss town o ...

he confirmed his form and made the final selection. In the third stage from

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to La Grande-Motte, a race won by

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, Bouet sprinted in the bunch to a ninth position, earning him his first and only top ten result of the Tour de France that year. A great result in the 20th stage from

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in which he finished in 17th place, Bouet ultimately secured a 69th overall ranking when finishing on the

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the day after. The 2009 season for Bouet ended in August after he finished third in the second stage of the

where he claimed the 11th spot overall.

Ag2r–La Mondiale (2010–14)

2010 season

For the 2010 season Bouet signed a new contract, this time with . Bouet started off with a 60th place in the GP d'Ouverture Marseillaise, 41st place in the Tour du Haut Var and a 14th spot in the

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. In the Gran Premio di Lugano he finished fourth in the same group as winner Roberto Ferrari, while in Paris–Nice he finished in 21st position overall. The next two months Bouet took part in a lot of one day classics like Milan–San Remo (152nd),

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(88th), and

(80th), but his best results were held in the GP Miguel Induráin (7th), the Circuit de Lorraine (9th) and the Boucles de l'Aulne (10th). The 45th place he finished at in the

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was a preparation for the

where he finished in 105th place overall. In the second stage, however, that was completely held in

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on a route from

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to Spa he finished as the first rider of the

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in second position, three minutes and 56 seconds after lone winner Sylvain Chavanel. In the sixth stage Bouet ended up in the breakaway group that got a huge gap ahead of the peloton. In the end Sérgio Paulinho took the win in that stage, running from

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to Gap, with Bouet finishing in sixth place, three minutes and 20 seconds behind Paulinho, but still way ahead of the peloton that reached the finish line 14 minutes and 19 seconds later than Paulinho. In August that year he won the third stage of the

and came 11th overall.

2011 season

2011 started with a 45th-place finish in the Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise, followed by eighth position in the Étoile de Bessèges and a 15th place in the Tour du Haut Var. These results were followed by another eighth position in the

, a 13th place in the Gran Premio di Lugano and a 60th place overall in Paris–Nice. Other main races he competed in were the Volta a Catalunya (35th), the

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(16th), the

(124th), the

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(89th), the Bayern–Rundfahrt (13th) and the

(23rd). Before the

started Bouet finished 5th in the French National Road Race Championships. In the Tour de France he did not come up with remarkable results, but reached

in 54th position overall. Soon after the Tour de France finished he reached the third place in the

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Criterium, 15th in the

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, 14th in the Grand Prix de Wallonie, fourth in the Gran Premio Industria e Commercio di Prato as well as third in the Tour de Vendée.

2012 season

Bouet started with 21st position in the Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise and finished third in the individual time trial part of the 5th stage in the Étoile de Bessèges. In the Tour du Haut Var he finished in eighth position, while he finished 12th in the Gran Premio di Lugano. He went on to perform well in Paris–Nice where he reached the 14th spot overall, followed by a 12th place in the

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Etixx–Quick-Step (2015–16)

In August 2014 announced that Bouet would join them on a two-year contract from 2015, latterly known as , with a role as a

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for

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and with a view to eventually compete for stage wins in races such as the

and the

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Fortuneo–Vital Concept (2017–present)

In August 2016 Bouet announced that he was following team-mate Gianni Meersman to , joining the team with an initial two-year deal from 2017. The move reunited him with team manager Emmanuel Hubert, who signed him to his first professional contract when he was in charge of Agritubel. In his announcement he expressed a desire to race as a team leader with the French squad. With his new team he participated in the

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, placing 55th in the general classification.

Major results

;2003 : 2nd Individual pursuit, National Junior Track Championships : 3rd

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, National Junior Road Championships ;2004 : 1st MaillotFra

Individual pursuit, National Junior Track Championships : 2nd

, National Junior Road Championships : 2nd Classique des Alpes ;2007 : 3rd Overall Ronde de l'Isard : 4th Overall Rhône-Alpes Isère Tour : 10th

Paris–Mantes-en-Yvelines Paris–Mantes-en-Yvelines is a road bicycle race held annually in France. It is organized as a 1.2 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline ...

;2008 : 1st Stage 1 ( ITT)

: 2nd Individual pursuit, National Track Championships : 4th Overall Circuit de Lorraine : 6th Overall Rhône-Alpes Isère Tour ;2009 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall Volta ao Alentejo ::1st Stage 1 : 1st Boucles de l'Aulne : 2nd Overall Les 3 Jours de Vaucluse ::1st Stage 1 : 3rd Overall Rhône-Alpes Isère Tour : 7th Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise : 7th

;2010 : 1st Stage 3

: 4th Gran Premio di Lugano : 7th GP Miguel Induráin : 9th Overall Circuit de Lorraine : 10th Boucles de l'Aulne ;2011 : 3rd Tour de Vendée : 4th Gran Premio Industria e Commercio di Prato : 5th Road race, National Road Championships : 8th Overall Étoile de Bessèges : 8th

;2012 : 5th Overall Étoile de Bessèges : 8th Overall Tour du Haut Var ;2013 : 3rd Overall Giro del Trentino ::1st Stage 1a : 6th Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise : 7th Overall

: 10th Overall

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;2014 : 3rd

, National Road Championships : 6th Gran Premio di Lugano ;2015 : Jersey red number

Combativity award Stage 12

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;2016 : 7th Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana : 9th Overall Tour du Haut Var ;2017 : 2nd Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise : 6th Overall

Tour de Savoie Mont-Blanc The Tour de Savoie Mont-Blanc was a multi-day cycling race held annually in the departments of Savoie and Haute-Savoie in France between 1999 and 2021. It was held as part of the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road ...

: 7th Overall

: 9th Overall

Giro di Toscana The Giro di Toscana is a road bicycle race held annually in Tuscany, Italy. From 2005 to 2014, the race has been organised as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. The race was not held in 2015. On 4 April 2016 it was announced that the race will ...

: 10th Overall Tour La Provence ;2018 : 6th Overall

::1st Stage 1 : 9th Overall Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle-Aquitaine ;2021 : 7th Overall Volta ao Algarve ;2022 : 6th GP Industria & Artigianato : 9th Overall Tour de la Provence

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bouet, Maxime 1986 births Living people People from Belley French male cyclists Sportspeople from Ain European Games competitors for France Cyclists at the 2015 European Games Cyclists from Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes