 Delage at the 2011Four Days of Dunkirk | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Mickaël Delage |
| Born | (1985-08-06)6 August 1985 (age 40) Libourne, France |
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) |
| Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Retired |
| Disciplines |
|
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | Rouleur |
| Professional teams | |
| 2005–2008 | Française des Jeux |
| 2009–2010 | Silence–Lotto |
| 2011–2021 | FDJ[1][2] |
Mickaël Delage (born 6 August 1985) is a French former professional road and track cyclist, who last rode forUCI WorldTeamGroupama–FDJ.[3]
Born inLibourne, Delage participated at the World Track Championships inMoscow in 2003 as a junior, where he won the silver medal at the points race, afterAustralianMiles Olman. In that same year he would become national junior champion of France at the team pursuit (alongsideJonathan Mouchel,Yannick Marie andMickaël Mallie) and the madison (together with Mouchel). In 2004 he would win the national title in the points race at the under-23 level.
Delage spent 17 years as a professional rider on the road, riding for 15 of those years with theFrançaise des Jeux team across two spells.[4] He made hisGiro d'Italia debut in 2006 and finished in 129th position and he won the 1st stage of theTour de l'Avenir. Later that year he would again become French national champion when he won the team pursuit together withMathieu Ladagnous, Jonathan Mouchel,Sylvain Blanquefort andMickaël Preau. In 2007 he made hisTour de France debut.
Delage's two periods with FDJ were separated by an interlude withSilence–Lotto, joining the Belgian squad alongside FDJ team-matePhilippe Gilbert. Whilst at Lotto he achieved what he later described as the best performance of his career, finishing as runner-up in the2009 Clásica de San Sebastián. He returned to FDJ in 2011, where he found a role as aleadout man forArnaud Démare.[4]
Delage suffered injuries at the2020 Tour de Pologne when he crashed whilst riding downhill at 80 km/h, including ameniscus injury andfriction burns. Following this he decided to retire from competition when his contract expired at the end of the following season. Although his 2021 season was disrupted by undergoing knee surgery in March, he returned to competition at theFrench National Road Race Championships, and finished his career atParis–Chauny in the autumn.[4]
Team pursuit Madison
Points race,UCI Junior Track World Championships Points race,National Under-23 Track Championships Team pursuit,National Track Championships
Combativity award, Stages 3 & 11| Grand Tour | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Giro d'Italia | 129 | — | — | — | — | — | 144 | — | — | — | 148 | — | — | — | — |
 Tour de France | — | 117 | — | 101 | DNF | 132 | — | — | 143 | — | — | DNF | — | — | — |
 / Vuelta a España | — | DNF | 103 | 73 | DNF | — | — | — | — | 109 | — | — | 112 | DNF | 142 |
| — | Did not compete |
|---|---|
| DNF | Did not finish |
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