Geoffrey Soupe
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Soupe at the 2011 Tour de l'Ain
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Personal information | |
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Full name | Geoffrey Soupe |
Born | Viriat, Ain, France |
22 March 1988
Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) |
Weight | 68 kg (150 lb; 10.7 st) |
Team information | |
Current team | Groupama–FDJ |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider |
Rider type | Rouleur |
Amateur team(s) | |
2005–2006 | VC Bressan (junior) |
2007–2008 | VC Vaulx-en-Velin (junior) |
2009–2010 | C.C. Etupes Le Doubs |
Professional team(s) | |
2011–2014 | FDJ |
2015– | Cofidis |
Infobox last updated on 2 January 2014 |
Geoffrey Soupe (born 22 March 1988) is a French professional road bicycle racer who rides for UCI ProTeam Groupama–FDJ.[1] Soupe was also the 2010 under-23 French national champion for the road race,[2] and finished second to Great Britain's Alex Dowsett in the European under-23 time trial championship.[3]
Born in Viriat, Ain, Soupe competed for the VC Bressan and VC Vaulx-en-Velin setups as a junior, and the C.C. Etupes Le Doubs squad as an amateur, before joining the FDJ professional team for the 2011 season as a neo-pro.[4] In his first race for the team, Soupe won the opening stage of La Tropicale Amissa Bongo in Gabon – beating Team Europcar's Anthony Charteau in a two-man sprint[5] – before finishing the race in eighth place overall.[6] Soupe later added a stage victory in the Tour Alsace,[7] before quitting the race the next day.[8]
Soupe made his Grand Tour début at the 2012 Giro d'Italia, taking a third-place finish during the race's first mass-start stage in Herning, Denmark; a result that Soupe stated that he was "sorry" for, after he was supposed to be leading out the team's main sprinter Arnaud Démare, until he was caught up in a final-corner crash.[9]
In August 2014 Cofidis announced that they had signed Soupe, alongside FDJ teammate Nacer Bouhanni, for 2015.[10] He was named in the start list for the 2015 Tour de France.[11]
Palmarès
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- 2008
- 1st Overall, Tour du Béarn
- 2009
- 2nd, National Under-23 Road Race Championships
- 2nd Overall, Boucles de la Marne
- 3rd, National Under-23 Time Trial Championships
- 3rd, Souvenir Michel Roques
- 5th, Chrono des Herbiers
- 2010
- 1st
National Under-23 Road Race Championships
- 2nd, European Under-23 Time Trial Championships
- 2011
- 1st, Stage 1, Tour Alsace
- 5th, GP de Pont á Marcq
- 8th Overall, La Tropicale Amissa Bongo
- 1st, Stage 1
- 2013
- 10th Overall, Four Days of Dunkirk
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External links
Media related to Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. at Wikimedia Commons
- FDJ-BigMat profile
- Geoffrey Soupe at Cycling ArchivesLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Cycling Quotient profile