Guillaume Boivin
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| Full name | Guillaume Boivin | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 25 May 1989 Montreal, Quebec, Canada | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 78 kg (172 lb)[1] | ||||||||||||||
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| Current team | NSN Cycling Team | ||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
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| 2004–2006 | Vélo Club Longueuil | ||||||||||||||
| 2006 | André Cycle IDCAD | ||||||||||||||
| 2007–2008 | EVA Devinci | ||||||||||||||
| 2007–2009 | Predictor–Lotto–VC Ardennes | ||||||||||||||
| 2009 | Volkswagen–Specialized | ||||||||||||||
| 2009 | Planet Energy (stagiaire) | ||||||||||||||
| Professional teams | |||||||||||||||
| 2010–2012 | SpiderTech–Planet Energy | ||||||||||||||
| 2013–2014 | Cannondale[2] | ||||||||||||||
| 2015 | Optum–Kelly Benefit Strategies | ||||||||||||||
| 2016– | Cycling Academy[3][4][5] | ||||||||||||||
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Guillaume Boivin (born 25 May 1989) is a Canadian professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam NSN Development Team.[6]
2020 Olympics
Boivin's greatest cycling accomplishment was finishing in a dead heat for the bronze at the World Under-23 Road Race Championships in 2010.[7] He finished 3rd in the 2012 Tro Bro Leon, getting on the podium with his teammate Ryan Roth, who won the race.[8] In October 2014, it was announced that Boivin would leave Cannondale and ride with Optum–Kelly Benefit Strategies in 2015.[9] On 29 April 2015, on the first stage of the Tour of the Gila, Boivin was the last man remaining of a breakaway that was caught by eventual solo winner, Rafael Montiel. Boivin took the second place of the mountaintop finish.[10]
In May 2018, he was named in the startlist for the Giro d'Italia.[11]
In July 2021, Boivin was named to Canada's 2020 Olympic team.[12][13][14]
