Christophe Riblon
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Tremblay-en-France, France
.jpg) Riblon at the 2009 UCI Road World Championships | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Christophe Riblon | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 17 January 1981 Tremblay-en-France, France | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 65 kg (143 lb; 10.2 st)[1] | |||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Road and track | |||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Puncheur (road) Endurance (track) | |||||||||||||||||
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| 2005–2017 | AG2R Prévoyance | |||||||||||||||||
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Christophe Riblon (French pronunciation: [kʁistɔf ʁiblɔ̃]; born 17 January 1981) is a French former road and track racing cyclist who competed as a professional for the AG2R La Mondiale team for 13 seasons between 2005 and 2017.[2] He also competed for France at the 2008 Summer Olympics.[3]
Born in Tremblay-en-France, Seine-Saint-Denis, Riblon won two mountain-top finishes of the Tour de France, including stage 14 of the 2010 Tour de France at the ski resort of Ax-3 Domaines in the Pyrenees, and stage 18 of the 2013 Tour de France at Alpe d'Huez.
During his 2010 victory, he was part of the early breakaway that went free 30 kilometres (19 mi) into the race, and he crested the penultimate climb of the day alone, the Port de Pailheres. He had a two-minute lead at the foot of the last climb, and held on to win solo as the general classification contenders were battling it out behind him.[4]
He won his 2013 stage following a long breakaway, chasing down Tejay van Garderen over the second ascent of Alpe d'Huez and holding on to win by a minute, despite crashing into a ditch on the descent of the Col de Sarenne. In doing so he became the race's first (and only) French winner of a stage that year.
