 Soupe in 2019 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Geoffrey Soupe |
| Born | (1988-03-22)22 March 1988 (age 37) Viriat,Ain,France |
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) |
| Weight | 68 kg (150 lb; 10.7 st) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Team TotalEnergies |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | |
| Amateur teams | |
| 2004 | EC Bourg-en-Bresse(junior) |
| 2005–2006 | VC Bressan(junior) |
| 2007–2008 | VC Vaulx-en-Velin(junior) |
| 2009–2010 | CC Étupes le Doubs |
| Professional teams | |
| 2011–2014 | FDJ |
| 2015–2019 | Cofidis[1][2] |
| 2020– | Total Direct Énergie[3] |
| Major wins | |
Grand Tours
| |
Geoffrey Soupe (born 22 March 1988) is a French professional road bicycle racer, who rides forUCI ProTeamTeam TotalEnergies.[4] Primarily alead out man andbaroudeur, Soupe has taken four victories during his professional career, including a stage win at the2023 Vuelta a España with his remaining wins coming atLa Tropicale Amissa Bongo – stage victories in 2011 and 2023, along with the general classification in 2023.
Born inViriat,Ain, Soupe competed for the EC Bourg-en-Bresse, VC Bressan and VC Vaulx-en-Velin setups as a junior, and the CC Étupes le Doubs squad as an amateur; in 2010, Soupe won the under-23French National Road Race Championships,[5] and finished second to Great Britain'sAlex Dowsett in the under-23 time trial at theEuropean Road Championships.[6]
Soupe then joined theFDJ professional team for the 2011 season as aneo-pro.[7] In his first race for the team, Soupe won the opening stage ofLa Tropicale Amissa Bongo in Gabon – beatingTeam Europcar'sAnthony Charteau in a two-man sprint[8] – before finishing the race in eighth place overall.[9] Soupe later added a stage victory in theTour Alsace,[10] before quitting the race the next day.[11]
Soupe made hisGrand Tour début at the2012 Giro d'Italia, taking a third-place finish during the race's first mass-start stage inHerning,Denmark; a result that Soupe stated that he was "sorry" for, after he was supposed to be leading out the team's main sprinterArnaud Démare, until he was caught up in a final-corner crash.[12]
In August 2014Cofidis announced that they had signed Soupe, alongside FDJ teammateNacer Bouhanni, for 2015.[13] He made his first start at theTour de France in the2015 edition,[14] sharing sprint duties withChristophe Laporte, following Bouhanni's withdrawal in the opening week.[15] Over his five years with the team, Soupe recorded two top-ten individual finishes – sixth at the 2017La Roue Tourangelle,[16] and eighth at the 2019Elfstedenronde.
Soupe joinedTotal Direct Énergie for the 2020 season,[17] and finished ninth overall in his first race with the team at theSaudi Tour.[18] He took his first victory since 2011 at the 2023La Tropicale Amissa Bongo, when he won the opening stage of the race in Gabon.[19] Having lost the overall lead to teammateJason Tesson,[20] Soupe regained the lead when Tesson lost time on the penultimate day,[21] and Soupe ultimately won by approximately half a minute from his next closest challenger.[22] Later in the 2023 season, Soupe secured his firstGrand Tour stage victory at theVuelta a España, where he won the seventh stage in a bunch sprint.[23][24]
Source:[25]
Overall Tour du Béarn
Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships
Time trial,UEC European Under-23 Road Championships OverallLa Tropicale Amissa Bongo
Points classification| Grand Tour | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Giro d'Italia | 76 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
 Tour de France | — | — | — | 123 | 142 | — | — | — | 123 | — | — | — |
 Vuelta a España | — | DNF | 94 | DNF | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 101 |
| — | Did not compete |
|---|---|
| DNF | Did not finish |
A bandaged Bouhanni was able to take to the start of the Tour, only to crash out on stage 5 [...]
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