Romain Sicard

Romain Sicard
	Sicard in 2012
Personal information
Full name	Romain Sicard
Born	1 January 1988 (age 36); Bayonne, France
Height	1.77 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)
Weight	64.5 kg (142 lb; 10 st 2 lb)
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Climber; Puncheur;
Amateur teams
2002–2004	VC Tarnos
2005–2006	US Colomiers
2007–2008	GSC Blagnac
Professional teams
2009	Orbea
2010–2013	Euskaltel–Euskadi
2014–2021	Team Europcar

Romain Sicard (born 1 January 1988) is a French former professional racing cyclist,^[3] who rode professionally between 2009 and 2021 for the Orbea, Euskaltel–Euskadi and Total Direct Énergie teams.

Career

Born in Bayonne, Sicard won the Tour de l'Avenir and the under 23 World Road Race Championships in 2009, the only man to win both in the same season.^[4] In 2010, he joined the Basque UCI ProTour team Euskaltel–Euskadi as the second ever French national after Thierry Elissalde [fr].

Sicard joined Team Europcar for the 2014 season, after his previous team – Euskaltel–Euskadi^[5] – folded at the end of the 2013 season.^[6]

He announced his retirement in April 2021 due to the diagnosis of a cardiac anomaly.^[3]