Mathieu Ladagnous

Mathieu Ladagnous

Personal information
Full name	Mathieu Ladagnous
Born	December 12, 1984 (1984-12-12) Pau, France
Team information
Current team	FDJ-BigMat
Discipline	Road, track
Role	Rider
Professional team(s)
2006–	Française des Jeux
Infobox last updated on 2 January 2012

Mathieu Ladagnous (born December 12, 1984 in Pau) is a French road racing cyclist who rides for FDJ-BigMat. He also competes as a track cyclist.

Career

Ladagnous became junior world champion at the madison in Melbourne, Australia in 2002 with his partner Tom Thiblier. In 2003 he won the French national title at the points race for the under-23 level. He also won a bronze medal at the individual sprint (under-23) and a silver medal at the madison with Fabien Patanchon in the elite class. Later that year he and Patanchon became European champions at the under-23 track cycling championships. A year later he won the bronze medal at the scratch in the 2003 under-23 championships. He improved his bronze national individual pursuit manager into a gold, while his points race gold was changed in a silver in 2004. In the elite class he won the madison gold, again alongside Patanchon.

In 2005 he first continued as a track cyclist and added another national under-23 silver to his palmarès at the individual pursuit. A silver medal in the elite class was added at the madison where he teamed up with Patanchon again. At the team pursuit he, Anthony Langella, Fabien Sanchez and Mickaël Mallie won the gold medal and became national elite champions. At the 2005 European championships in Fiorenzuola he won a silver medal at the points race. In 2005 he also made his first road cycling appearance. He immediately won the prologue in the Mainfranken-Tour (under-23) and the overall classification. He decided to focus mainly at the road for the 2006 season, but won another team pursuit gold with Mickael Delage, Jonathan Mouchel. Mikaël Preau and Sylvain Blanquefort. He booked his first road race win in 2006, when he won the fifth stage of the Tour Méditerranéen. Earlier that year he won the fifth stage and the general classification of the Four Days of Dunkirk.

Palmarès

2002

1st Madison, UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Junior

2003

3rd Individual pursuit, French National Track Championships – U23

1st Points race, French National Track Championships – U23

2nd Madison, French National Track Championships – Elite

1st Madison, European Track Championships – U23

2004

3rd Scratch, European Track Championships U23

1st Individual pursuit, French National Track Championships – U23

2nd Points race, French National Track Championships – U23

3rd Scratch, UCI Track World Cup, Sydney

1st Madison, French National Track Championships – Elite

2005

2nd Individual pursuit, French National Track Championships – U23

2nd UIV Cup, Rotterdam – U23

1st Prologue, Mainfranken-Tour – U23

1st General Classification, Mainfranken-Tour – U23

2nd Madison, French National Track Championships – Elite

1st Team pursuit, French National Track Championships – Elite

2nd Points race, European Track Championships – U23

9th Mediterranean Games Road Race

2006

1st Stage 5, Tour Méditerranéen

1st Team pursuit, French National Track Championships – Elite

2007

1st Stage 5, Four Days of Dunkirk

1st General Classification, Four Days of Dunkirk

2009

1st General Classification and 1st Stage 1, La Tropicale Amissa Bongo Ondimbo

1st, Polynormande

2011

1st Stage 1, Tour de Wallonie

External links

• Mathieu Ladagnous profile at Cycling Archives