Presentation of Team Europcar 2011
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Presentation of Team Europcar 2011
Press Pack Presentation of Team Europcar 2011 www.teameuropcar.com Content Editorial by Philippe Guillemot, Chief Executive Officer of Europcar Groupe Page 5 Q&A with Jean-René Bernaudeau General Manager of Team Europcar Page 7 Team Europcar Jersey Page 8 Presentation of Team Europcar Page 9 Team Europcar career highlights Pages 10 à 20 Partners Pages 21 à 23 Contacts Page 24 3 www.teameuropcar.com 4 Edito Team Europcar is also the perfect incarnation of the values of cycling, values which we espouse: discipline, team effort along with individual performance, team spirit and togetherness. Philippe Guillemot Chief Executive Officer of Europcar Groupe These are many of the values and goals that Team Europcar will transmit throughout the 2011 season, at each of the races around the world, supported on a daily basis by our 6,500 employees and franchise holders acting as so many ambassadors. I wish lots of success and a wonderful season to all the Team Europcar riders. We are delighted to see them wearing our colours. Dear fans, Today we are proud to present Team Europcar, to reveal the teams’ roster, its riders and the programme for a season that is sure to be full of enthusiasm. Philippe Guillemot Since 2004, Europcar has been committed to Jean-René Bernaudeau and his team and it is with pride that we now invest in the next three seasons as title Sponsor. The Europcar brand now features on the jerseys of a team that we respect, support and encourage for the challenges of 2011. Mutual trust and respect lie at the heart of this great sporting adventure that we share as a team. The popularity of cycling around the world and the straightforward complicity that exists between the public and our riders perfectly reflect the positioning and the strategy of Europcar, a company that listens to the travel needs of its customers, respects the environment and invests in the development of the rental services solutions of tomorrow. 5 www.teameuropcar.com 6 Q&A with Jean-René Bernaudeau General Manager of Team Europcar 1. What does the arrival of Europcar as the Team’s main sponsor mean to you? We are delighted to welcome the Europcar Group as title sponsor. Today, this partnership, which is built on the close and trusting relationship established since 2004, gives us the means to realise our ambitions and to pursue the human and sporting adventure that so drives us. Europcar cultivates the values of service, of closeness and of team spirit that we also share. I hope that the Group’s employees will take pride in supporting Team Europcar not only in France, but also around the world, including from the end of January, the Tour of Gabon – la Tropicale Amissa Bongo –, before moving on with the Tour of Langkawi in Malaysia and the Tour of South Africa. The alliance with Europcar, a major brand recognised by consumers and present in 150 countries, is a perfect fit with the current globalisation of cycling, which is becoming ever closer to its growing audience. 2. What will be the major challenges for Team Europcar in the 2011 season? Our main objective in 2011 is to position Team Europcar in the world rankings and to aim for the first division in 2012. This obviously means winning races and sealing victories. There will be plenty of opportunities as we have received numerous invitations and the calendar for the 2011 season already includes 250 race days. If 2010 was the year of the 18 victories that enabled us to almost reach the world top 15, 2011 will be the year we go even further and beat that record. Team Europcar Jersey Races like the Paris-Nice, which we are expecting to be invited to and would be a first major objective – as well as other classics in France and Belgium, but also in Malaysia (Tour of Langkawi), South Africa and Gabon (Amissa Bongo), will enable us to continue the team’s gradual progress and to improve on its performances during these first key moments of the year. Team Europcar is very together and we have the means to do great things this season. 3. What are special qualities of Team Europcar? For ten years our trade mark has always been to provide our riders with both technical and physical training, as well as ethical, which has always been beyond reproach. We are counting on some sure bets such as our two excellent road riders, Thomas Voeckler and Anthony Charteau, really top level sportsmen and individuals. As well as having one of the best track records in France, Thomas is a charismatic rider, whose moral values of discipline, team spirit and generosity reflect the quality of his performances. As for Anthony, by winning the jersey for the best climber in the Tour de France last year, he demonstrated that the French have no reason to be shy in that area and that everything is possible. Then we have a good group of “classics” who will continue to mature, including Sébastien Chavanel and Saïd Haddou, but also some very promising riders such as Cyril Gautier and Pierre Rolland. Finally, there is a very good crop from our Vendée U amateur team, champions of France in 2010, and from which we have brought in three riders for the 2011 season: Jérôme Cousin, Tony Hurel and Kevin Reza. With this hotbed of talent we are always able to keep an eye on the future and to contribute to the development of Team Europcar. 7 www.teameuropcar.com 8 Team Europcar career highlights Presentation of Team Europcar YUKIYA ARASHIRO DOB: 09/29/1984 in Ishigaki (Japan) Yukiya Arashiro Mathieu Claude Saïd Haddou Alexandre Pichot Giovanni Bernaudeau Jérôme Cousin Tony Hurel Perrig Quemeneur Franck Bouyer Damien Gaudin Vincent Jérôme Kévin Reza Anthony Charteau Cyril Gautier Christophe Kern Pierre Rolland Sébastien Chavanel 2010 • 3rd • 3rd • 5th • 9th Giro d’Italia, third stage Tour de France, 12th stage Paris-Tours Japan Cup 2009 • 4th • 5th Japan Road Race Championships Tour de France, first stage 2008 • 1st • 3rd • 1st Tour du Limousin, one stage Tour du Limousin Okinawa Tour 2007 • 1st Japan Cycle Cup Road Race Yohann Gène Guillaume Le Floch Sébastien Turgot GIOVANNI BERNAUDEAU DOB: 08/25/1983 in Fontenay-le-Comte (France) 2010 • 2nd • 2nd Tour of Gabon first stage Tour of Gabon fifth stage 2008 • 6th • 4th • 2nd Tour of Gabon Tour of Poland, one stage Bavarian Tour, one stage 2006 • 6th Chinese Tour, one stage 2004 • 1st • 1st • 2nd David Veilleux 9 L’Essor Mayennais L’Essor Mayennais, one stage U23 Paris-Tours Thomas Voeckler www.teameuropcar.com 10 Team Europcar career highlights FRANCK BOUYER SÉBASTIEN CHAVANEL DOB: 03/17/1974 in Beaupréau (France) DOB: 03/21/1981 in Châtellerault (France) 2010 • 6th • 6th • 1st • 7th 2010 • 4th • 4th • 6th Criterium du Dauphiné, one stage Tour of Poland, one stage La Vuelta, one stage 2009 • 2nd • 3th L’Etoile de Bessèges, one stage Nokere-Koerse Tour de Bretagne, first stage Tour de Bretagne, sixth stage Tour de Bretagne Boucles de la Mayenne, first stage 2004 • Circuit de la Sarthe Pays de Loire, one stage • 2nd Circuit de la Sarthe Pays de Loire • 1st Paris-Camembert 2008 • Tour de Picardie • 2nd Tour de France, one stage • 2nd Critérium du Dauphiné, one stage 2007 • 1st • 1st • 1st ANTHONY CHARTEAU MATHIEU CLAUDE DOB: 06/04/1979 in Nantes (France) DOB: 03/17/1983 in Niort (France) 2010 • Tour de France 2010 Best Climber • 1st Tour of Gabon, fourth stage • 1st Tour of Gabon • 5th Tour de France, 10th stage 2010 • 4th Tour de Bretagne, fifth stage 2008 • 9th Tour Ivoirien de La Paix 2007 • 6th Boucles de l’Aulne 2006 • 7th Châteauroux Classic de l’Indre 2005 • 6th Grand Prix d’Isbergues 2003 • 1st • 1st U23 Paris-Tours Côte Picarde st 2009 • 1 rd 2008 • 3 st 11 L’Etoile de Bessèges, one stage Grand Prix de Denain National French Cup Mediterranean Tour Team Time Trial Paris-Bourges 2007 • 1 • 1st • 2nd Langkawi Tour overall Langkawi Tour, one stage Paris-Camembert 2006 • 1st Polynormande www.teameuropcar.com 12 Team Europcar career highlights JÉRÔME COUSIN CYRIL GAUTIER DOB: 06/05/1989 in Nantes (France) DOB: 09/26/1987 in Guingamp (France) Track • Five time French Track Champion • U23 Individual Pursuit Vice European Champion 2010 • 3rd • 1st Boucles Sud Ardèche Route Adélie 2010 • 1st • 1st • 1st • 2nd • 2nd Plages Vendéennes, second stage Ronde de l’Izard, first stage Chambord-Vailly U23 Vienne Classic race Plages Vendéennes, overall 2009 • 2nd • 7th Circuit de Lorraine, fifth stage Tour du Limousin, overall 2008 • 1st • 1st • 2nd U23 European Road Race Championship Kreiz Breizh Elites, one stage Grand Prix Plumelec 2009 • 1st • 1st Catalan Buckles Mareuil and Vertillac, third stage 2007 • 3rd Grand Prix de Rennes 2008 • 1st U23 Loire Atlantique race DAMIEN GAUDIN YOHANN GÈNE DOB: 08/20/1986 in Beaupréau (France) DOB: 06/25/1981 in Pointe-à-Pitre (Guadeloupe) 2010 • 1st French Team Championship and American Pursuit 2009 • 1st French Individual Track Pursuit Championship 2010 • 1st • 5th • 2nd • 2nd Tour of Gabon, fifth stage Tour of Gabon overall standing Trois Jours des Flandres, third stage Val d’Ille Classic U 35 • 1st French Track Championship Team pursuit • 2nd French American track Championship 2009 • 1st Langkawi Tour, seventh stage French Championship of American track 2008 • 6th Route du Sud, one stage 2007 • 5th Tour de la Somme 2006 • 4th Tour de l’Avenir, one stage 2008 • 1st •1 st French Track Championship Team Pursuit • Participation in Beijing Olympic Games 2007 • 1st •1 st • 1st 13 Paris-Roubaix U23 race French Pursuit Championship Deux Jours de Machecoul www.teameuropcar.com 14 Team Europcar career highlights SAÏD HADDOU VINCENT JÉRÔME DOB: 11/23/1982 in Issy-les-Moulineaux (France) DOB: 11/26/1984 in Château-Gontie (France) 2010 • 4th • 4th 2010 • 9th Boucles de la Mayenne, second stage 2009 • 6th Grand Prix d’Alméria 2008 • 3rd Tour du Doubs 2007 • 1st Tour du Doubs 2006 • 5th Australian Tour, one stage Tour de Bretagne, fourth stage Boucles de l’Aulne st 2009 • 1 Tro-Bro-Léon th • 10 Tour de France, ninth stage 2007 • 1st • 4th • 2nd • 3rd • 5th Tro-Bro-Léon Grand Prix de Denain Boucles de l’Aulne Tour of Poland, one stage Paris-Bourges 2006 • 1st Tour de Poitou-Charentes one stage 2005 • 1st Lys de Lannoy • 10th U23 Paris-Roubaix race 2004 • 1st U23 Paris-Tours race TONY HUREL CHRISTOPHE KERN DOB: 11/01/1987 in Lisieux (France) DOB: 01/18/1981 in Wissembourg (France) 2010 • 1st • 1st • 1st • 1st • 2nd • 2nd 2010 • 6th French National Time Trial Championship • 10th Turkey Tour 2009 • 1st • 1st • 1st • 4th Circuit des Plages Vendéennes Pays de Loire Championship Paris-Connerré National French Cup Team Time Trial Manche-Océan Classic Champagne-Ardenne Circuit de la vallée de la Loire Tour de Martinique eighth Time Trial stage Trophée des Champions Pays de Loire Championship 2009 • 2nd Tour de France Barcelone-Andorre Arcalis seventh stage • Polka-dot Jersey during the Tour de France ninth stage 2008 • 2nd • 2nd • 2nd French National Time Trial Championship Tour du Doubs Mountains Classification in La Vuelta 2007 • 3th • 2nd Giro d’Italia, sixth stage Tour de Wallonie, fifth stage 2006 • French National Time Trial Championship • Selection for the World Time Trials in Salzbourg 15 www.teameuropcar.com 16 Team Europcar career highlights GUILLAUME LE FLOCH PERRIG QUEMENEUR DOB: 02/16/1985 in Saint-Brieuc (France) DOB: 04/26/1984 in Landerneau (France) 2009 • 6th • 6th • 9th 2010 • 8th • 8th Tro-Bro-Léon Tour de Bretagne, first stage 2008 • 4th Tour Ivoirien de La Paix, one stage th 2008 • 7 2006 • 6th Tour of Gabon, first stage Tour of Gabon, second stage Tour of Gabon, overall Grand Prix Marseillaise Prix des Blés d’Or ALEXANDRE PICHOT KÉVIN REZA DOB: 01/06/1983 in Caen (France) DOB: 05/18/1988 in Versailles (France) 2010 • 6th • 7th • 9th 2010 • 1st /3rd Time of the Deux Jours Leclerc • 1st Boucle de la Loire • 3rd Volta ao Alentejo, third stage • 1st Team Time of the National French Cup of DN1 • 2nd Ronde Mayennaise Mediterranean Tour, third stage Tour de Picardie, overall Boucles de la Mayenne, overall 2009 • 11th Tour des Flandres • 3th Cholet Pays de Loire 2008 • 6th • 5th Tour of Qatar Paris-Camembert 2007 • 8th Tour of Qatar Tour of Qatar, white jersey 2006 • 2nd 17 2007 • 1st Grand Prix de Buxerolles • 10th Tour du Limousin • 4th Tour de Bretagne 2009 • Best climber U23 Haut-Anjou UCI • Three victories in the Tour de la Martinique • 13th U23 Paris-Tours race 2008 • 2nd • 1st Plages Vendéennes, second stage U23 Vuelta de Madrid race, second stage Tour de l’Avenir, one stage www.teameuropcar.com 18 Team Europcar career highlights PIERRE ROLLAND DAVID VEILLEUX DOB: 10/10/1986 in Gien (France) DOB: 11/ 26/1987 in Cap-Rouge (Canada) 2010 • 1st • 2nd • 5th • 4th 2010 • 1st • 1st • 1st • 2nd Canadian Elite Criterium Championship US National Criterium Championships Fitchburg Longsjo Classic, overall Elk Grove Tour, overall 2009 • 1st Canadian U23 Time Trial Championship 2008 • 1st • 1st Canadian U23 Time Trial Championship Canadian U23 Road Race Championship 2007 • 1st Canadian U23 Time Trial Championship 2006 • 1st • 1st Canadian U23 Road Race Championship Canadian U23 Time Trial Championship Circuit de Lorraine, fourth stage Circuit de Lorraine, overall Boucles de l’Aulne Tour de France, 11th stage 2009 • 22th Tour de France, overall • 3rd Tour of Gabon, overall 19 2008 • 2nd • 6th Dauphiné Libéré, one stage National French Road racing Championship 2007 • 1st • 1st Tour of Gabon, one stage Tour du Limousin, one stage SÉBASTIEN TURGOT THOMAS VOECKLER DOB: 04/11/1984 in Limoges (France) DOB: 06/22 1979 in Schiltigheim (France) 2010 • 1st • 2nd • 6th • 6th • 6th Trois jours de la Panne, second stage Boucles de la Mayenne, fourth stage Tour de France, fifth stage Tour de France, sixth stage Tour de France, seventh stage 2009 • 3rd Circuit de Lorraine, third stage 2010 • 5th • 2nd • 11th • 2nd • 1st • 1st • 1st Paris-Nice, fifth stage Paris-Nice, eighth stage Liège-Bastogne-Liège Giro d’Italia, 12th stage French National Road Race Championship Tour de France, 16th stage Grand Prix du Québec 2008 • 1st • 2nd • 3rd Tour Ivoirien de La Paix, one stage Tour Ivoirien de La Paix, overall Paris-Tours 2007 • 1st • 1st Trois Jours du Vaucluse Tour des Landes 2009 • 1st • 1st • 1st • 2nd • 1st Etoile de Bessèges, overall Haut Var General, overall Trophée des Grimpeurs Giro d’Italia, 19th stage Tour de France, fourth stage 2008 • 1st Circuit de la Sarthe, overall www.teameuropcar.com 20 About Europcar Europcar is the European leader in vehicle rental access to the world’s largest car rental network. Partners services, providing its customers with Thanks to its franchise holders and partners Europcar is present in over 150 countries and, through its portfolio of brands, has enjoyed revenues of almost €3 billion in 2009 of which 1.85 billion euros is consolidated turnover. 6,500 employees committed to customer satisfaction and a fleet of almost 200,000 vehicles, Europcar is also a company that takes its responsibilities to society seriously and this year once again won the World Travel Award for being “the World’s Leading Green Transport Solution Company”. With its The Vendée General Council has supported Team Europcar since its creation. The values of team spirit and fair play embraced by the riders under the leadership of Jean-René Bernaudeau are indeed an example for the many young sportsmen active in our department. Team Europcar knows that it can count on the support and enthusiasm of all the people of Vendée during the coming year. Europcar is held by the investment company, Eurazeo. For more information: www.europcar.com/corporate Accorhotels.com, special sponsor of Team Europcar, is the bookings portal for the 4,000 hotels of the Accor Group. Present in 90 countries and ranging from luxury to budget, you can book your hotels on Accorhotels.com, the leading hotel booking site in France with more than 6.5 million visits per month. 21 www.teameuropcar.com 22 Havas Sports & Entertainment press office [email protected] 0033(0)1 58 47 84 95 - 0033(0)1 58 47 90 52 Contacts Europcar press office [email protected] 23 www.teameuropcar.com 24