Photo: filip bossuyt from Kortrijk, Belgium / CC BY 2.0 (source: Wikimedia Commons)
My Take
Romain Bardet is a cyclist I genuinely admire, the kind of climber who makes Grand Tours worth watching. At 184 cm he's tall for a mountain specialist, yet his climbing and descending made him a fixture among general classification contenders for years. What I find compelling is the second act: after retiring from the road following the 2025 Criterium du Dauphine, he pivoted to professional gravel racing rather than fading away. That hunger to keep competing on new terrain says a lot. The data wrongly tags him American, but he's French to the core, even decorated with the Order of Academic Palms in 2019.
Overview
Romain Bardet (French pronunciation: [ʁɔmɛ̃ baʁdɛ]; born 9 November 1990) is a French former professional racing cyclist. Bardet is known for his climbing and descending abilities, which make him one of the top general classification contenders in Grand Tours. After retiring from the road in the wake of the 2025 Critérium du Dauphiné he turned to professional gravel racing.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Romain Bardet
- Name (Japanese)
- ロマン・バルデ
- Reading
- ろまん・ばるで
- Born
- November 9, 1990 (age 35)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Scorpio / Horse
- Origin
- Brioude, Haute-Loire, France
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 184 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- sport cyclist
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
Awards & achievements
- 2019 Knight of the French Order of Academic Palms
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
Sport cyclist — see all → · More people from France →
7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.