Blel Kadri

Blel Kadri (born 3 September 1986) is a French professional road racing cyclist, who most recently rode for UCI ProTeam AG2R La Mondiale. He is of Algerian descent.[1]

Blel Kadri
Personal information
Full nameBlel Kadri
Born (1986-09-03) 3 September 1986
Bordeaux, Aquitaine, France
Height1.76 m (5 ft 9 1⁄2 in)
Weight65 kg (143 lb)
Team information
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeAll-rounder
Amateur teams
2000–2004Villeneuve CC
2005–2006GSC Blagnac
2007–2008Albi VS
2008Ag2r–La Mondiale (stagiaire)
Professional team
2009–2016Ag2r–La Mondiale
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
1 individual stage (2014)

One-day races and Classics

Roma Maxima (2013)

Career

2013

In March 2013, Kadri won the Roma Maxima, a newly revived race formerly known as the Giro del Lazio. He was part of the early breakaway which formed after the first hour of racing, and shook off his fellow escapees until he was alone with 40 km (24.9 mi) to go. He managed to resist to the peloton's onslaught and triumphed in Rome.[2]

2014

On 12 July 2014, he achieved his biggest success, winning his first stage victory in the Tour de France. Also on this stage he won the Most Combative Rider award for the second time during the Tour de France and held the King of the Mountains jersey. Shortly after the stage, whilst receiving treatment from his Soigneur, Kadri received a text message of congratulations from François Hollande, the President of France. The text was followed by a call from a withheld number, again it was the President to offer his congratulations.

Post-cycling

After retiring from professional racing he was working in the cycling aisle of a department store in Toulouse.[3]

Career achievements

Major results
2007
7th Overall Giro delle Regioni[4]
2008
2nd Overall Ronde de l'Isard
1st Stage 2
7th Overall Tour du Haut-Anjou
2009
3rd Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan
7th Trophée des Grimpeurs
2010
7th Overall Route du Sud
1st Stage 2
9th Overall Étoile de Bessèges
2011
2nd Overall Circuit de la Sarthe
4th Overall Bayern–Rundfahrt
8th Overall Tour Down Under
10th Overall Volta a Catalunya
2012
1st Mountains classification Route du Sud
10th Les Boucles du Sud Ardèche
2013
1st Roma Maxima
Combativity award Stage 2 Tour de France
2014
Tour de France
1st Stage 8
Held after Stage 8
Combativity award Stages 2 & 8 Tour de France

Grand Tour general classification results timeline
Grand Tour 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Giro d'Italia — — — — — — 147
Tour de France — 116 89 125 84 — —
Vuelta a España 82 — 169 — — 150 —
Legend
— Did not compete
DNF Did not finish
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gollark: In theory voters should do that, but it's hard to actually *check* if your politician did stupid things, and it is NOT very granular.
gollark: It would probably be good if there was some mechanism for punishing politicians who spend money on things which turned out to be bad/stupid/pointless. Although someone would have to evaluate bad/stupid/pointlessness somehow.
gollark: They're still very happy to randomly spend money because the incentives to spend it on useful things are lacking.

References
  1. Stéphane Colineau (22 July 2012). "L'échappé Blel". Le Journal du Dimanche (in French). Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 14 July 2014.
  2. Pastonesi, Marco (3 March 2013). "Roma Maxima goes to the Frenchman Kadri who managed to join the winning breakaway". La Gazzetta dello Sport. RCS MediaGroup. Retrieved 13 April 2013.
  3. https://www.ladepeche.fr/2019/07/16/ancien-maillot-a-pois-blel-kadri-est-devenu-vendeur-chez-decathlon,8315200.php
  4. "Swift wins Giro delle Regioni final stage". Cycling Weekly. 1 May 2007. Retrieved 29 January 2017.


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