Nicolas Roche

Nicolas Roche
Roche, wearing the Irish national champion jersey, at the 2016 Tour of Britain.
Personal information
Full nameNicolas Roche
NicknameNico[1]
Born (1984-07-03) 3 July 1984 (age 40)
Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, Île-de-France, France
Height1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)[2]
Weight70 kg (154 lb; 11 st 0 lb)[2]
Team information
Current team
Disciplines
  • Road
  • Gravel
Role
Rider type
  • All-rounder
  • Domestique
Amateur teams
2002OCCV Draguignan
2003SC Nice
2003–2004Vélo-Club La Pomme Marseille
2004Cofidis (stagiaire)
2023–NR GRVL
Professional teams
2005–2006Cofidis
2007–2008Crédit Agricole
2009–2012Ag2r–La Mondiale
2013–2014Saxo–Tinkoff
2015–2016Team Sky
2017–2018BMC Racing Team
2019–2021Team Sunweb[3][4]
Managerial team
2022–Trinity Racing
Major wins
Grand Tours
Vuelta a España
2 individual stages (2013, 2015)
1 TTT stage (2017)

One-day races and Classics

National Road Race Championships (2009, 2016)
National Time Trial Championships (2007, 2016)

Nicolas Roche (/ˈroʊtʃ/; born 3 July 1984) is an Irish cyclist, who competes in gravel cycling for his own NR GRVL team. He is also a former professional road bicycle racer,[5] who rode professionally between 2005 and 2021 for seven different teams.

During his professional road racing career, Roche took twelve victories, including four titles at the Irish National Cycling Championships – two each in the road race and the time trial – and stage victories at the Vuelta a España in 2013 and 2015. He started a total of 24 Grand Tours, finishing 22, and he took a total of 65 top-10 finishes in Grand Tour stages, including 43 at the Vuelta a España (where he recorded a pair of top-10 overall finishes).[6] He represented Ireland at the Olympics on four occasions between 2008 and 2020, and represented Ireland at the UCI Road World Championships eleven times between 2006 and 2020.

Since retiring from road cycling at the end of the 2021 season, Roche has worked as a directeur sportif for UCI Continental team Trinity Racing and as a commentator for the international television feed at the Tour de France alongside Anthony McCrossan.

  1. ^ Martin, Dan (26 August 2013). "Dan Martin's Vuelta Diary: 'I saw Nico attack . . . he surged and went away like a rocket'". The Irish Times. Retrieved 1 September 2013.
  2. ^ a b "Nicolas Roche profile".
  3. ^ "Team Sunweb". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 3 January 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
  4. ^ "Team DSM". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 2 January 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  5. ^ Stokes, Shane (4 October 2021). "Nicolas Roche announces retirement from pro cycling". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference retirement was invoked but never defined (see the help page).