Dominique Rollin (born 29 October 1982) is a Canadian former professional cyclist.[1]
 Rollin at the 2011 Four Days of Dunkirk | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Dominique Rollin |
| Born | 29 October 1982 Boucherville, Quebec |
| Height | 188 cm (6 ft 2 in) |
| Weight | 82 kg (181 lb) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Retired |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | Sprinter |
| Amateur teams | |
| 2004 | USSA Pavilly Barentin |
| 2005 | Equipe du Quebec |
| 2005 | Gypco Télé-Annonces |
| 2006 | Vélo-Club de Roubaix Lille Métropole |
| Professional teams | |
| 2001–2002 | Sympatico – Jet Fuel Coffee |
| 2007 | Kodakgallery.com – Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. |
| 2008 | Toyota–United |
| 2009–2010 | Cervélo TestTeam |
| 2011–2013 | FDJ |
| 2015 | Cofidis |
| Major wins | |
| Tour of California, 1 Stage Rochester Omnium National Road Race Championships (2006) | |
Born in Boucherville, Quebec, Rollin began his professional career in 2001 with the team Sympatico High Speed-Jet Fuel Coffee and again the following year, 2002 with Sympatico Edition Haute Vitese. He then spent three years in France racing as an elite amateur under director-sportif Guy Gallopin for the Roubaix team. After having issues with the way he was treated during Roubaix's transition to a professional team,[2] he returned to North America to ride for the Kodakgallery.com - Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. team.
For 2008 Rollin joined the Toyota-United team, with whom he won the Rochester Omnium and the fourth stage of the Tour of California. He won the stage with a nearly seven-hour breakaway in a driving rainstorm, just holding off his fellow breakaway companions after attacking near the finish.[3] Thanks to that performance, he grabbed the lead in the sprints classification and would defend the jersey successfully for the remainder of the race.[4]
In 2009 he got his chance to join a major European professional team in the Swiss-based, Canadian-sponsored Cervélo TestTeam, with his best result of the year coming at the Scheldeprijs semi-classic where he reached the podium with a third place. In October 2010, he signed for two years with the ProTour team FDJ.
Rollin initially retired from racing at the end of 2013 after being unable to secure a contract for the 2014 season. However, in August 2014 Cofidis announced that they had signed Rollin alongside his former FDJ teammates Nacer Bouhanni and Geoffrey Soupe for 2015.[5]
Career achievements
editMajor results
edit- 2005
- 1st 1 stage Tour de Beauce
- 2006
- 1st
National Road Race Championships - 1st 1 stage Tour de Gironde
- 2007
- 3rd overall Tour of Missouri
Pan American Games Time Trial
- 2008
- Tour of California
- 1st Stage 4
- 1st Sprints classification
- 1st Overall Rochester Omnium & 1 Stage
- 1st 1 stage Tour of Southland
- 2nd Overall Tour de Murrieta
- 9th Overall Tour of Missouri
- 1st Mountains classification
- 2009
- 5th Profronde van Drenthe
- 3rd Scheldeprijs Vlaanderen
- 2010
- 2nd Tour du Poitou-Charentes
- 2011
- 10th Dwars door Vlaanderen
- 2013
- 6th Cholet-Pays de Loire
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
edit| Grand Tour | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Giro d'Italia
|
— | — | — | DNF | 75 |
 Tour de France
|
— | — | — | — | — |
 Vuelta a España
|
DNF | — | — | 153 | — |
| — | Did not compete |
|---|---|
| DNF | Did not finish |
References
edit- ^ "FDJ – FRA". UCI World Tour. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 2 January 2014. Retrieved 5 January 2013.
- ^ Lamoureux, Lyne (11 February 2008). "Dominique Rollin - Bring it on". Archived from the original on 24 July 2008. Retrieved 19 October 2009.
- ^ Mark Zalewski (21 February 2012). "Rollin survives epic ride for epic win". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. Retrieved 14 October 2012.
- ^ Mark Zalewski (24 February 2008). "Hincapie redeems High Road". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. Retrieved 14 October 2012.
- ^ Farrand, Stephen (1 August 2014). "Transfers: Cofidis confirms the arrival of Nacer Bouhanni". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 3 August 2014.
External links
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Media related to Dominique Rollin at Wikimedia Commons
- Dominique Rollin at ProCyclingStats
- Dominique Rollin at Cycling Archives (archived)
- About Dominique Rollin
- Palmares on Cycling Base (French) Archived 16 December 2007 at the Wayback Machine