Sébastien Hinault

Sébastien Hinault
	Hinault in 2014
Personal information
Full name	Sébastien Hinault
Born	11 February 1974 (age 50); Saint-Brieuc, France
Team information
Current team	Arkéa–B&B Hotels
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider (retired); Directeur sportif;
Professional teams
1997–2008	GAN
2009–2012	Ag2r–La Mondiale
2013–2014	IAM Cycling
Managerial team
2015–	Bretagne–Séché Environnement
Major wins
	Grand Tours Vuelta a España 1 individual stage (2008) One-day races and Classics Boucles de l'Aulne (2012)

Sébastien Hinault (born 11 February 1974) is a French former professional road racing cyclist, who competed professionally between 1997 and 2014, competing in seventeen Grand Tours. He now works as a directeur sportif for UCI ProTeam Arkéa–B&B Hotels.^[1]

Career

Born in Saint-Brieuc, Hinault debuted in 1997 with the French team GAN, which later became Crédit Agricole, and has competed in the Tour de France five times. After Crédit Agricole disbanded in 2008, Hinault joined Ag2r–La Mondiale. Hinault left Ag2r–La Mondiale at the end of the 2012 season, and joined the new IAM Cycling team for the 2013 season.^[2] Hinault retired from competition at the end of the 2014 season and in October 2014 was announced as a directeur sportif for the Bretagne–Séché Environnement team for 2015.^[3]

Although they share the same birthplace and surname, he is not related to former champion cyclist Bernard Hinault.^[4]^[5]

Major results

1999

4th Tro-Bro Léon

8th Grand Prix de Denain

9th Overall Tour du Limousin

2000

1st Tour du Finistère

4th Trofeo Pantalica

6th Overall Tour du Limousin

6th Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise

6th Tour de Vendée

7th Cholet-Pays de Loire

7th À Travers le Morbihan

10th Paris–Camembert

2001

1st Stage 5 (TTT) Tour de France

2002

3rd Tro-Bro Léon

10th Tour du Finistère

2003

1st Stage 4 Tour de Pologne

2nd Grand Prix de la Ville de Lillers

3rd Classic Loire Atlantique

6th Grand Prix de Rennes

8th Classic Haribo

10th Cholet-Pays de Loire

2004

1st Stage 4 Deutschland Tour

3rd Classic Haribo

3rd Tour de Vendée

2005

3rd Overall Circuit Franco-Belge

1st Stage 2

5th Grand Prix de Villers-Cotterêts

9th Tro-Bro Léon

2006

1st Stage 8 Tour de Langkawi

1st Stage 4 Tour de Picardie

1st Stage 4 Tour du Limousin

3rd Tour de Vendée

4th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk

10th Brabantse Pijl

2007

1st Stage 3 La Tropicale Amissa Bongo

4th Boucles de l'Aulne

9th Grand Prix d'Isbergues

2008

1st

Overall Tour du Limousin

1st Stage 3

1st Stage 10 Vuelta a España

2009

4th Overall Tour du Limousin

6th Paris–Bourges

2010

9th Overall Paris–Roubaix

9th Overall Vattenfall Cyclassics

2011

8th E3 Prijs Vlaanderen

2012

1st Boucles de l'Aulne

3rd Tour de Vendée

4th Overall Circuit de Lorraine

1st Stage 3

2013: 7th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk; 9th Tour du Jura

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014
Giro d'Italia	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	135	100	—	—	—	—
Tour de France	123	125	137	147	138	DNF	115	113	132	—	—	—	111	122	—	—
Vuelta a España	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	64	69	117	—	—	—	106

Legend
—	Did not compete
DNF	Did not finish

References

^ "Team Arkea - Samsic". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 5 July 2020. Retrieved 5 July 2020.
^ Mignot, Alexandre (1 August 2012). "Direction IAM Cycling pour Sebastien Hinault" [Sebastien Hinault heading for IAM Cycling]. Cyclism'Actu (in French). Swar-Agency. Retrieved 11 August 2012.
^ "Sébastien Hinault directeur sportif" [Sébastien Hinault sporting director]. L'Équipe (in French). 21 October 2014. Retrieved 23 March 2015.
^ "Les coureurs français toujours sur les traces de Bernard Hinault" [French riders still in the footsteps of Bernard Hinault]. Le Croix (in French). 7 July 2015. Retrieved 7 June 2022.
^ "Tour de France : Sébastien, l'autre Hinault" [Tour de France: Sébastien, the other Hinault]. France Soir (in French). 6 July 2011. Archived from the original on 10 July 2011. Retrieved 7 June 2022.