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Dominique Rollin

Dominique Rollin
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Rollin at the 2011 Four Days of Dunkirk
Personal information
Full name Dominique Rollin
Born (1982-10-29) 29 October 1982 (age 34)
Boucherville, Canada
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 team(s)
2004 USSA Pavilly Barentin
2005 Equipe du Quebec
2005 Gypco Télé-Annonces
2006 Vélo-Club de Roubaix Lille Métropole
Professional team(s)
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)

Dominique Rollin (born 29 October 1982) is a Canadian former professional cyclist.

Born in Boucherville, Canada, 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, 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. Thanks to that performance, he grabbed the lead in the sprints classification and would defend the jersey successfully for the remainder of the race.

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.

He was disqualified from the 2012 Giro d'Italia on the 20th stage for holding on to cars while he was unable to keep the pace.

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.


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