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2015 Critérium International
The 2015 Critérium International was the 84th edition of the Critérium International cycling race stage, stage race. It took place on the island of Corsica, around the city of Porto-Vecchio. Just like the previous three editions, the race consisted of three stages, two on the first race day (including a short individual time trial) and one on the second day. The race was won by Jean-Christophe Péraud of for the second year in a row, having claimed the overall lead by winning the final stage. Thibaut Pinot () finished second in the general classification and won the young rider classification. Fabio Felline of , who won the time trial on stage 2, was third in the general classification and won the points classification. 's rider Marco Canola claimed the mountains classification, while French team won the teams classification. Schedule Teams A total of 16 teams were selected to take part in the race: Stages Stage 1 ;28 March 2015 — Porto-Vecchio to Porto-Vecchio, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2015 UCI Europe Tour
The 2015 UCI Europe Tour was the eleventh season of the UCI Europe Tour. The 2015 season began on 29 January 2015 with the Vuelta a Mallorca, Trofeo Santanyí-Ses Salines-Campos and ended on 25 October 2015 with the Tour of Aegean. The points leader, based on the cumulative results of previous races, wears the UCI Europe Tour cycling jersey. Tom Van Asbroeck of Belgium is the defending champion of the 2014 UCI Europe Tour. Throughout the season, points are awarded to the top finishers of stages within stage races and the final general classification standings of each of the stages races and one-day events. The quality and complexity of a race also determines how many points are awarded to the top finishers, the higher the UCI rating of a race, the more points are awarded. The UCI race classifications, UCI ratings from highest to lowest are as follows: * Multi-day events: 2.HC, 2.1 and 2.2 * One-day events: 1.HC, 1.1 and 1.2 Events January February March April M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Individual Time Trial
An individual time trial (ITT) is a road bicycle race in which cyclists race alone against the clock (in French: ''contre la montre'' – literally "against the watch", in Italian: ''tappa a cronometro'' "stopwatch stage"). There are also track-based time trials where riders compete in velodromes, and team time trials (TTT). ITTs are also referred to as "the race of truth", as winning depends only on each rider's strength and endurance, and not on help provided by teammates and others riding ahead and creating a slipstream. Individual time trial are usually held on flat or rolling terrain, although sometimes they are held up a mountain road (in Italian: ''cronoscalata'' "chrono climbing"). Sometimes the opening stage of a stage race is a very short individual time trial called a prologue (8 km or less for men, 4 km or less for women and juniors). Starting times are at equal intervals, usually one or two minutes apart. The starting sequence is usually based on the finishing times ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathias Frank
Mathias Frank (born 9 December 1986) is a Swiss former road bicycle racer, who last rode for UCI WorldTeam . He is considered as a strong climber, having finished 8th overall in the 2015 Tour de France, and winning a breakaway stage in the 2016 Vuelta a España. In May 2021, Frank announced that he would retire from professional cycling at the end of the 2021 season. Professional career 2008–2013 Mathias Frank started his professional cycling career with German outfit . He won his first ever professional win at the GP Triberg-Schwarzwald. However the German team folded after the season which meant Frank had to look elsewhere to continue his cycling career. It ended with a switch to . He raced for the BMC Team for 5 years, and won 3 races with BMC, and great results at the Tour de Suisse. IAM Cycling (2014–2016) In 2013 a new Swiss professional continental cycling team was created, and Frank moved to for the 2014 season. He raced with the team for 3 years until it clos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Delaplace
Anthony Delaplace (born 11 September 1989) is a professional French road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam . Career Delaplace was a junior champion for France in 2007. He made his Grand Tour debut in the 2011 Tour de France, where he was the youngest rider in the competition, and finished 135th in the general classification. Delaplace left at the end of the 2013 season, and joined for the 2014 season. Major results ;2007 : 1st Road race, National Junior Road Championships ;2009 : 3rd Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships : 10th Overall Tour du Haut-Anjou ;2010 : 1st Stage 2 Tour de l'Avenir : 6th Overall Grand Prix du Portugal : 9th Paris–Troyes ;2011 : 1st Polynormande : 2nd Boucles de l'Aulne : 2nd La Roue Tourangelle : 4th Grand Prix Pino Cerami : 8th Overall Tour de Bretagne ;2012 : 1st Young rider classification, Étoile de Bessèges : 2nd Paris–Troyes : 4th Overall Circuit de la Sarthe : 10th Tour du Finistère ;2013 : 9th Overall Tour du L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ramūnas Navardauskas
Ramūnas Navardauskas (born 30 January 1988) is a Lithuanian professional road racing cyclist, who rides for UCI Continental team . He has also competed professionally for the , and teams. Career After four years in the amateur ranks, Navardauskas turned professional with in 2011. During the 2012 Giro d'Italia, Navardauskas finished sixth in the opening individual time trial; twenty-two seconds shy of American Taylor Phinney (). In stage four's team time trial, were victorious, and Navardauskas took the race lead. He became the first Lithuanian to wear the pink jersey. However, Navardauskas lost the jersey to Italian Adriano Malori () on stage six. In April 2015, Navardauskas won the Circuit de la Sarthe by a single second over Manuele Boaro, winning the race for the second consecutive year. In September 2017 Navardauskas had a successful heart surgery for a cardiac arrhythmia. Personal life Born in Šilalė, Navardauskas currently resides in Oliva, Valencian Communi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Manuele Boaro
Manuele Boaro (born 12 March 1987) is an Italian professional road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Born in Bassano del Grappa, Boaro competed for U.C. Giorgione Aliseo as a junior, and and as an amateur. Boaro joined professional team in the second half of 2010 as a stagiaire. After completing his stagiaire stint, Boaro joined for the 2011 season, on a one-year contract. His contract was extended by two more years in late 2011. He was named in the startlist for the 2016 Vuelta a España. After the team disbanded, Boaro joined . In August 2018 it was announced that Boaro would join from 2019 on a two-year contract, with a role as a domestique. Major results ;2004 : 3rd Time trial, National Junior Road Championships ;2005 : 1st Time trial, National Junior Road Championships : 1st Stage 3b Tre Ciclistica Bresciana Junior : 2nd GP dell'Arno Junior : 3rd Time trial, UEC European Junior Road Championships ;2007 : 1st Gran Premio della Liberazione : 1st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Jungels
Bob Jungels (born 22 September 1992) is a Luxembourgish road bicycle racer, who rides for UCI WorldTeam . Career Born in Rollingen, Mersch, Luxembourg, Jungels competed in the Tour de France for the first time in 2015, as part of the UCI World Tour team , finishing 27th overall and 5th in the young rider classification. Etixx–Quick-Step (2016–20) Jungels signed for for the 2016 and 2017 seasons. He was named in the start list for the 2016 Giro d'Italia where he finished sixth overall and won the young rider classification. In 2017 he confirmed his ambitions in the general classification by finishing 8th in the Giro d'Italia. He also defended the young rider classification from the previous edition. Only Vladimir Poulnikov and Pavel Tonkov won the classification in consecutive years before him. In the process he was able to take stage 15 and became the first rider from Luxembourg, since Charly Gaul 56 years earlier, to win at the Giro d'Italia. In 2018, Jungels won L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay McCarthy
Jay McCarthy (born 8 September 1992) is an Australian racing cyclist, who most recently rode for UCI WorldTeam . Career He finished in 91st place in the 2014 Giro d'Italia. In 2015, McCarthy showed promise by reaping a third place in the overall classification of the Tour of Turkey thanks to good placings in the mountains. He was named in the start list for the 2015 Vuelta a España and the 2016 Giro d'Italia. In October 2016 he was announced as a member of the squad for 2017, with a focus on short stage races and punchy one day classics. In June 2017, he was named in the startlist for the 2017 Tour de France. Major results ;2009 : 7th Road race, UCI Juniors World Championships ;2010 : National Junior Road Championships ::1st Road race ::2nd Time trial : UCI Juniors Road World Championships ::2nd Road race ::5th Time trial ;2011 : 3rd Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships : 4th Overall Thüringen Rundfahrt der U23 ::1st Stages 1 & 2 ( TTT) ;2012 : 1st Overall ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julián Arredondo
Julián David Arredondo Moreno (born 30 July 1988) is a Colombian former professional road cyclist, who rode professionally between 2012 and 2017 for the and teams. Arredondo is best known for winning the mountains classification at the 2014 Giro d'Italia, as well as the 2012–13 UCI Asia Tour standings. He also competed at the 2014 Vuelta a España and the 2015 Tour de France. Major results ;2006 : 1st Road race, National Junior Road Championships ;2007 : 1st Stage 1 Clásica Marinilla ;2008 : 10th GP Capodarco ;2010 : 1st GP Folignano — Trofeo Avis : 3rd GP Capodarco ;2011 : 5th Trofeo Internazionale Bastianelli : 5th Gran Premio San Giuseppe : 6th GP Capodarco : 9th Gran Premio Folignano ;2012 : 2nd Overall Tour of Japan ::1st Mountains classification ::1st Stage 3 : 2nd Overall Tour de Kumano ::1st Mountains classification : 4th Japan Cup ;2013 : 1st Overall UCI Asia Tour : 1st Overall Tour de Langkawi ::1st Stage 5 : 1st Overall Tour de Kumano ::1st Mountains ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Benjamin Giraud
Benjamin Giraud (born 23 January 1986 in Marseille) is a French former cyclist, who competed professionally for the team between 2011 and 2017. Since 2020, Giraud now works as a directeur sportif for the team. Major results ;2009 : 3rd Paris–Mantes-en-Yvelines : 3rd Grand Prix de Bavay ;2010 : 1st Stage 5 Tour de Franche-Comté : 3rd Emirates Cup ;2011 : 1st Stage 3 Circuit des Ardennes : 3rd Cholet-Pays de Loire ;2012 : 1st Grand Prix Souvenir Jean-Masse : 10th Grand Prix de la Somme ;2013 : 1st Stage 6 Tour de Taiwan : 1st Stage 10 Tour of Qinghai Lake : 2nd La Roue Tourangelle : 4th Val d'Ille Classic : 8th Châteauroux Classic : 9th Overall Tour of China I ::1st Points classification ::1st Stages 2 & 5 : 10th Overall Tour de Picardie : 10th Grand Prix de Denain ;2014 : 1st Stage 2 Tour de Taiwan : 4th Grand Prix de la Somme : 5th Grand Prix de Fourmies : 6th Châteauroux Classic : 8th Grand Prix de Denain ;2015 : 1st Stage 5 Tour of Hainan : 1st Stage 3 ( TTT) Circuit de ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clément Venturini
Clément Venturini (born 16 October 1993 in Villeurbanne) is a French cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . In 2011, he won the UCI Junior World Cyclo-cross Championship. In May 2018, he was named in the startlist for the 2018 Giro d'Italia. In August 2019, he was named in the startlist for the 2019 Vuelta a España. In August 2020, he was named in the start list for the 2020 Tour de France. Major results Cyclo-cross ;2010–2011 : 1st UCI World Junior Championships : UCI Junior World Cup ::1st Pontchâteau ;2011–2012 : Under-23 Challenge de la France ::2nd Lignières-en-Berry ::2nd Rodez : 3rd National Under-23 Championships ;2012–2013 : Under-23 Challenge National ::1st Pontchâteau ::1st Saverne : 2nd National Under-23 Championships ;2013–2014 : 1st National Under-23 Championships : 1st Rennaz : Under-23 Challenge National ::1st Saint-Etienne-lès-Remiremont ::1st Quelneuc ::1st Flamanville ;2014–2015 : 1st Overall EKZ CrossTour ::1st Hittnau ::2nd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Veelers
Tom Veelers (born 14 September 1984) is a retired Dutch professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2003 and 2016 for Löwik–Tegeltoko, the and . Born in Ootmarsum, Overijssel, Veelers won the 2006 edition of U23 Paris–Roubaix. In December 2016 he announced his retirement after suffering from knee injuries for over two years. Major results ;2002 : 1st Road race, National Junior Road Championships : 4th Road race, UCI Junior Road World Championships ;2003 : 10th Kattekoers ;2004 : 1st Noord-Nederland Tour (with 21 other riders) : 2nd Road race, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships : 3rd Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships : 3rd ZLM Tour : 4th Grand Prix de Waregem ;2005 : 3rd Ronde van Drenthe : 4th Internationale Wielertrofee Jong Maar Moedig : 5th Overall Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux : 5th Grand Prix Pino Cerami : 6th Overall Tour du Loir-et-Cher ::1st Stage 5 : 7th Grand Prix de Waregem : 9th Paris–Roubaix Espoi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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