Romain Bardet

Romain Bardet

Bardet at the 2019 Tour de France
Personal information
Full name	Romain Bardet
Born	(1990-11-09) 9 November 1990 (age 33) Brioude, France
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in)[1]
Weight	65 kg (143 lb; 10 st 3 lb)[1]
Team information
Current team	Team dsm–firmenich PostNL
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Climber
Amateur teams
2000–2008	Vélo Sport Brivadois
2009	CR4C Roanne
2010–2011	Chambéry CF
Professional teams
2012–2020	Ag2r–La Mondiale[2]
2021–	Team DSM
Major wins
Grand Tours Tour de France Mountains classification (2019) 4 individual stages (2015, 2016, 2017, 2024) Combativity award (2015) Vuelta a España 1 individual stage (2021) 1 TTT stage (2023) Stage races Tour of the Alps (2022)
Medal record Representing  France Men's road bicycle racing World Championships 2018 Innsbruck Road race

Romain Bardet (French pronunciation: [ʁɔmɛ̃ baʁdɛ]; born 9 November 1990) is a French professional racing cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam Team dsm–firmenich PostNL.^[3] Bardet is known for his climbing and descending abilities, which make him one of the top general classification contenders in Grand Tours.

So far in his career, his best results have primarily come on home soil. He has won a total of four stages in the Tour de France in four separate years, running from 2015 to 2017 and then subsequently in 2024; he placed in the top ten overall for five consecutive years (from 2014 to 2018) and finished on the podium twice: second overall in 2016 and third overall in 2017. He has also worn the Young rider classification jersey, and won the Mountains classification jersey in 2019 as well as the overall Combativity Award in 2015. Outside of France, he won a stage at the 2021 Vuelta a España, and won the general classification at the 2022 Tour of the Alps.