Laurent Didier
.jpg) Didier at the 2008 Münsterland Giro | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Laurent Didier |
| Born | 19 July 1984 Dippach, Luxembourg |
| Height | 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in) |
| Weight | 68 kg (150 lb; 10.7 st) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Retired |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | All-rounder |
| Amateur team | |
| 2008 | Team CSC (stagiaire) |
| Professional teams | |
| 2006–2008 | Regiostrom–Senges |
| 2009 | Designa Køkken |
| 2010–2011 | Team Saxo Bank |
| 2012–2018 | RadioShack–Nissan[1] |
| Major wins | |
| One-day races and Classics | |
Laurent Didier (born 19 July 1984) is a Luxembourgish former professional road bicycle racer,[2] who competed between 2006 and 2018 for the Kuota–Senges, Designa Køkken, Saxo Bank–SunGard and Trek–Segafredo teams.
Career
[edit]Didier is from Dippach, Luxembourg and his ancestors are no strangers to the world of cycling. His father, Lucien Didier, was part of winning team time trial squads in the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia, and his grandfather Bim Diederich won three stages of the Tour and wore the yellow jersey for three days.[3] Laurent is good in various terrains which makes him useful in different kinds of races.
From October 2008 to early February 2009, Didier rode for Danish Team CSC, and then moved home to Designa Køkken, also in Denmark.[4] In 2009, he finished second at the Luxembourgish National Road Race Championships behind Andy Schleck and was also runner-up in the Luxembourgish National Time Trial Championships behind Kim Kirchen.[5]
To most cycling experts it was a huge surprise that Didier was selected for the 2013 Tour de France, at the expense of former Belgian champion Stijn Devolder.[citation needed]
Major results
[edit]Source: [6]
- 2005
- 1st
Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships - 3rd Overall Flèche du Sud
- 1st Stage 3a
- 6th GP Möbel Alvisse
- 9th Overall Stuttgart–Straßburg
- 2006
- 8th Rund um Düren
- 2007
- 1st Saargau
- 1st Stage 2 Oberösterreich Rundfahrt
- 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
- 8th Ronde van Overijssel
- 2009
- National Road Championships
- 2nd Road race
- 2nd Time trial
- 6th Overall Tour de Normandie
- 2010
- 9th Overall Vuelta a la Comunidad de Madrid
- 2011
- National Road Championships
- 3rd Road race
- 3rd Time trial
- 2012
- 1st Road race, National Road Championships
- 1st
Mountains classification, Tour de Wallonie - 2013
- 1st
Mountains classification, Tour du Haut Var - 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
- 2014
- 1st Time trial, National Road Championships
- 1st Stage 5 USA Pro Challenge
- 2015
- 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Tour of Alberta
- 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
- 2016
- 10th Overall Tour of Utah
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
[edit]| Grand Tour | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Giro d'Italia
|
33 | 130 | — | — | — | — | 64 | DNF | 97 |
 Tour de France
|
— | — | — | 53 | — | DNF | — | — | — |
| Vuelta a España
|
— | — | 86 | — | — | — | 104 | — | — |
| — | Did not compete |
|---|---|
| DNF | Did not finish |
References
[edit]- ^ "RadioShack-Nissan-Trek announces lineup for 2012". VeloNews. Competitor Group, Inc. 5 December 2011. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
- ^ Schleimer, Chris (17 October 2018). "Zum Karriereende von Laurent Didier: Der Radprofi und der Mont-Saint-Michel" [At the end of the career of Laurent Didier: The professional cyclist and the Mont-Saint-Michel]. Tageblatt (in German). Editpress. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
- ^ ""Le Duc" Bim Diederich, est décédé" ["The Duke" Bim Diederich has passed away]. L'essentiel (in French). 6 December 2012. Retrieved 26 August 2018.
- ^ "Teams Laurent Didier". Radsportseiten.net. Archived from the original on 2 March 2012. Retrieved 14 July 2010.
- ^ "Ergebnisse Laurent Didier". Radsportseiten.net. Archived from the original on 2 March 2012. Retrieved 14 July 2010.
- ^ "Laurent Didier". FirstCycling.com. FirstCycling AS. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
External links
[edit]
- Team Saxo Bank profile at the Wayback Machine (archived 14 January 2010)
- Laurent Didier at Cycling Archives (archive)
- Laurent Didier at UCI
- Laurent Didier at Olympedia
- Laurent Didier at Olympics.com
