Julien Absalon

Julien Absalon

Absalon at the Albstadt round of the 2016 UCI Mountain Bike World Cup
Personal information
Full name Julien Absalon
Born (1980-08-16) 16 August 1980
Remiremont, France
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight 70 kg (150 lb)
Team information
Discipline Mountain bike racing
Role Rider
Rider type Cross-country
Medal record
Men's mountain bike racing
Representing  France
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 2 0 0
World Championships 5 2 2
World Cup 7 2 3
European Championships 5 4 0
European Games 0 0 0
Total 19 8 5
Olympic Games
2004 Athens Cross-country
2008 Beijing Cross-country
World Championships
2004 Les Gets Cross-country
2005 Livigno Cross-country
2006 Rotorua Cross-country
2007 Fort William Cross-country
2014 Hafjell Cross-country
2009 Canberra Cross-country
2015 Vallnord Cross-country
2011 Champéry Cross-country
2016 Nové Město Cross-country
World Cup
2003 Overall Cross-country
2006 Overall Cross-country
2007 Overall Cross-country
2008 Overall Cross-country
2009 Overall Cross-country
2014 Overall Cross-country
2016 Overall Cross-country
2010 Overall Cross-country
2015 Overall Cross-country
2005 Overall Cross-country
2011 Overall Cross-country
2013 Overall Cross-country
European Championships
2006 Lamosano Cross-country
2013 Bern Cross-country
2014 St. Wendel Cross-country
2015 Alpago Cross-country
2016 Huskvarna Cross-country
2003 Graz Cross-country
2005 Kluisbergen Cross-country
2007 Göreme Cross-country
2011 Dohňany Cross-country

Julien Absalon (born 16 August 1980) is a French cross-country mountain biker, widely regarded as the greatest of all time in this discipline.

Career

[1]

2003: Absalon won his first UCI Mountain Bike World Cup.

2004: Gold at World Champions and the Athens Olympic Games.

2005 Absalon again won the World Championships.

2006: Winner at the World Championships, European Championships, French Championships and the overall World Cup.

2007: World Champion and World Cup Champion

2008: Won 2nd Gold Medal at the Beijing Olympic Games, World Cup Champion

2009: Number 1 World Ranking for all but 5 days of the year. Winner of UCI MTB World Cup for the 5th time, silver at the World Championships

2010: 2nd Overall at World Championships

2011: 3rd at the World Championships and World Cup

2012: At the 2012 Summer Olympics cross-country race, he suffered a tyre puncture in the opening lap. After changing tyre and noticing that he was trailing the leader by 55 seconds, he decided to abandon the race, seeing that his chances of winning a medal had disappeared.[2][3]

2013: Won European Championships

2014: Wins 5th World Championship title, French and European Championships. His season was cut short when, that November, he suffered a broken collarbone during a cyclocross race.

2015: Absalon wins the European Championships, French Championships, and finished second overall in the World Championships. Completed the season ranked world number 1.

2016: Finishes the Rio Olympic Games in 8th place.

He has been overall winner of the World Cup mountain bike cross-country series seven times (2003, 2006–2009, 2014, 2016) and has won a record 33 World Cup cross-country races as of September 4, 2016. He won five cross-country Mountain Bike World Championships (2004–2007, 2014). He has also won all fourteen French cross-country championships between 2003 and 2016, and five European Championships (2006, 2013–2016). He currently rides for the BMC Racing Team. He previously rode for Bianchi (2001–2006) and Orbea (2007–2012).

References

  1. ↑ http://www.bmc-switzerland.com/us-en/experience/racing-teams/bmc-mountainbike-racing-team/team/julien_absalon/
  2. ↑ "Absalon crashes as Kulhavy wins Olympic mountain bike gold". Reuters. Retrieved 14 August 2012.
  3. ↑ "2-time Olympic champ Absalon fails to finish after puncture in Olympic mountain bike race". Washington Post. Retrieved 15 August 2012.


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