Nacer Bouhanni (born 25 July 1990) is a French former professional

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, who competed as a professional from 2011 to 2023. A sprinter, he was the winner of the 2012 French National Road Race Championships. Although his first Grand Tour was in 2012, his real breakthrough was in 2014 when he won three stages and the points classification in the

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. In August 2014 it was announced that Bouhanni would leave FDJ and join on an initial two-year deal from 2015.

Career

FDJ (2011–14)

After a good amateur career, which saw him winning the national cycling military championships, he signed a contract with in 2011. In January he got his first professional stage win in La Tropicale Amissa Bongo. Bouhanni won his first stage of the 2012 season by winning stage 1 of the

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. Later that season he got his breakthrough win by winning the French National Road Race Championships ahead of his teammate Arnaud Démare. He also rode his first Grand Tour at the

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, where his best finish was second on stage 10. The 2013 season started well with a stage win in the Tour of Oman. Afterwards he rode Paris–Nice, where he got a stage win and the leader's jersey, however he crashed out of the race the very next day. He rode the

, where he finished second to

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on the first stage, but abandoned on stage 13. He also rode his first

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, however he got sick and retired after a crash on stage 5. The 2014 season was very successful for Bouhanni, with numerous wins including three victories in the

as well as earning the points classification. In the

, Bouhanni won two mass sprints, Stages 2 and 8. The latter saw a battle occur in the crosswinds and Bouhanni managed to stay with the first group on the road to win the sprint ahead of Michael Matthews and Peter Sagan. After withdrawing from the Vuelta, Bouhanni gave an interview where he was critical of the FDJ management. As a response, Marc Madiot sidelined him for the remainder of the season, at the end of which Bouhanni left the team for .

Cofidis (2015–19)

He had to wait until April 2015 to get his first victory for his new team on the opening stage of the

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in a bunch sprint as the breakaway was caught inside the final kilometre. He also won the last stage of the event. A little later on that month, he won the Grand Prix de Denain for the second year in a row. He won his team's first

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race of the season on stage 2 of the Critérium du Dauphiné in a bunch sprint. He added a win on Stage 4 after a hectic finale which saw a flurry of attacks. Bouhanni was forced to withdraw from the 2015 Tour de France after a crash at the mark of Stage 5. In 2016, Bouhanni won stage 1 of the

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and took the leader's jersey. Bouhanni had to withdraw from the French National Road Race Championships due to a hand injury sustained in an altercation with fellow guests at a hotel the night before the race. The injury also caused him to withdraw from the

. On 21 August, Bouhanni initially won the EuroEyes Cyclassics but he was later relegated for irregular sprinting.

Arkéa–Samsic

In October 2019, Bouhanni signed for the team.

Incidents

Bouhanni was penalised one minute time for hitting another rider, Jack Bauer, in the 2017 Tour de France. The race jury also levied a fine of 200

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s. Bouhanni was also investigated after contact with Anthony Maldonado at the end of a stage in the Tour de l'Ain in August. The race jury decided to take no action. Later in 2017, after the Paris–Bourges race, Bouhanni had to be separated from Rudy Barbier, who had won the race. Bouhanni subsequently apologised for his behaviour, but maintained that Barbier had ridden dangerously and irregularly in the finishing sprint. In May 2018, French sports newspaper ''

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'' reported that Bouhanni had been involved in a "violent altercation" with Cofidis ''directeur sportif'' Roberto Damiani on the team's bus following the Eschborn–Frankfurt race, which Bouhanni did not finish. In the 2021 Cholet-Pays de la Loire, Bouhanni initially finished third, but was disqualified by the race jury for an aggressive manoeuvre in the final sprint. Bouhanni started his sprint behind his leadout man, and as he began to accelerate up to speed, he veered to his left to try and get onto the wheel of eventual winner

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. In doing so, Bouhanni pinned Jake Stewart against the barriers. Though Stewart was able to stay upright and avoid causing a crash, the contact from Bouhanni sapped his momentum and he ended up finishing 29th. After the race, Stewart and other fellow sprinters took to social media to criticise Bouhanni and call for his suspension, drawing similarities between Bouhanni's actions and those of Dylan Groenewegen at the 2020 Tour de Pologne, which caused Fabio Jakobsen to crash and sustain heavy injuries. On 12 May 2021, for his 'dangerous conduct,' the

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(UCI) handed Bouhanni a retroactive two-month suspension, expiring on 7 June 2021.

Major results

;2010 : 5th Overall Tour de Gironde ::1st Stage 2 ;2011 : 1st Stage 3 La Tropicale Amissa Bongo : 5th Grand Prix de la Somme : 8th Grand Prix de Denain : 8th Paris–Troyes ;2012 : 1st MaillotFra

Road race, National Road Championships : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall Circuit de Lorraine ::1st Jersey green

Points classification ::1st Jersey white

Young rider classification ::1st Stage 1 : 1st

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: 1st Stage 1

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: 2nd Flèche d'Emeraude : 2nd Paris–Bourges : 6th Overall Tour de l'Eurométropole ::1st Stage 4 : 9th Cholet-Pays de Loire : 9th Grand Prix de Wallonie ;2013 : 1st Val d'Ille Classic : 1st Grand Prix de Fourmies : 1st Tour de Vendée : Tour of Beijing ::1st Jersey green

Points classification ::1st Stages 2 & 3 : 1st Stage 1 Paris–Nice : 1st Stage 6 Tour of Oman : 1st Stage 2

: 2nd Omloop van het Houtland : 3rd Grand Prix de Denain : 3rd

: 3rd

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: 8th Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes ::1st Jersey green

Points classification ::1st Stages 1, 2 & 3 ;2014 : 1st Grand Prix de Denain :

::1st

Points classification ::1st Azzurri d'Italia classification ::1st Stages 4, 7 & 10 :

::1st Stages 2 & 8 ::Held Jersey green

after Stages 2–3 :

::1st

Points classification ::1st Stage 1 : 1st Stage 1 Paris–Nice : 1st Stage 4 Eneco Tour : 1st Stage 2

: 1st Stage 1 Critérium International : 2nd Road race, National Road Championships : 3rd Le Samyn : 3rd

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: 10th Road race,

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;2015 : 1st

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: 1st French Road Cycling Cup : 1st

: 1st

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: 1st

Grand Prix d'Isbergues Grand Prix d'Isbergues is a professional cycle road race held in Isbergues, Pas-de-Calais The Pas-de-Calais (, ' strait of Calais'; ; ) is a department in northern France named after the French designation of the Strait of Dover, which ...

: 1st Grand Prix de Denain : 1st

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: Critérium du Dauphiné ::1st Jersey green

Points classification ::1st Stages 2 & 4 :

::1st

Points classification ::1st Stages 1 & 4 : Tour de l'Ain ::1st Jersey green

Points classification ::1st Stages 1 & 2 : 2nd Paris–Bourges : 2nd

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: 3rd Grand Prix de Fourmies : 4th Trofeo Santanyi–Ses Salines–Campos : 6th

Milan–San Remo Milan–Sanremo (in italian language, Italian ''Milano-Sanremo''), also called "''The Spring classic''" or "''La Classicissima''", is an annual road bicycle racing, road cycling race between Milan and Sanremo, in Northwest Italy. With a distance ...

: 9th Polynormande ;2016 : 1st Jersey green

Overall Tour de Picardie ::1st Jersey blue

Points classification ::1st Stages 1 & 2 : 1st Tour de Vendée :

::1st Stages 1 & 2 : Tour du Poitou-Charentes ::1st Stages 1 & 3 : 1st Stage 4 Paris–Nice : 1st Stage 1 Critérium du Dauphiné : 1st Stage 2 Vuelta a Andalucía : 2nd Trofeo Playa de Palma : 2nd Grand Prix de la Somme : 2nd Grand Prix de Fourmies : 3rd Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne : 3rd

: 4th

: 5th Clásica de Almería : 7th

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;2017 : 1st

: 1st Grand Prix de Fourmies : 1st

: 1st Paris–Camembert : 1st Stage 4

: 1st Stage 2 Tour de Yorkshire : 1st Stage 2 Tour du Poitou-Charentes : 1st Stage 2 Tour de l'Ain : 2nd Road race, National Road Championships : 2nd Grand Prix de Denain : 3rd Scheldeprijs : 3rd Trofeo Playa de Palma : 4th

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: 7th

: 8th

: 8th Bretagne Classic : 9th EuroEyes Cyclassics ;2018 : 1st Grote Prijs Marcel Kint : Boucles de la Mayenne ::1st Jersey red

Points classification ::1st Stages 2 & 3 : 1st Stage 6

: 1st Stage 1

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: 1st Stage 3

Four Days of Dunkirk The Four Days of Dunkirk () is road bicycle race around the Nord-Pas de Calais region of northern France. Despite the name of the race, since the addition of an individual time trial in 1963, the race has been held over a 5 or 6 day period for ...

: 2nd Ronde van Limburg : 6th Overall Dubai Tour ;2019 : 2nd Grote Prijs Marcel Kint : 4th Three Days of Bruges–De Panne : 5th

: 6th Elfstedenronde : 7th Heistse Pijl : 7th Cholet-Pays de Loire ;2020 : 1st Overall French Road Cycling Cup : 1st

: 1st Paris–Chauny : 1st Stage 1 Tour de la Provence : 2nd Overall

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::1st

Points classification ::1st Stage 4 : 3rd

: 3rd Paris–Camembert : 6th Milano–Torino : 8th Trofeo Campos, Porreres, Felanitx, Ses Salines ;2021 : 2nd

: 2nd Grote Prijs Jef Scherens : 4th Paris–Chauny : 6th Eurométropole Tour ;2022 : 1st

: 2nd Milano–Torino : 2nd Clásica de Almería : 3rd Classic Brugge–De Panne ;2023 : 6th Milano–Torino

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Classic results timeline

Personal life

Bouhanni has a son with his partner, actress Hafsia Herzi.

References

External links

* * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bouhanni, Nacer 1990 births Living people French male cyclists Sportspeople from Épinal Cyclists from Vosges (department) French sportspeople of Algerian descent French Giro d'Italia stage winners French Vuelta a España stage winners 2014 Vuelta a España stage winners 21st-century French sportsmen