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Eindhoven Team Time Trial
The UCI ProTour Eindhoven Team Time Trial was an annual road bicycle race held in Eindhoven, Netherlands. It was approximately . Each team had six riders. In 2006, team size expanded to eight. Conceived as part of the UCI ProTour in 2005, it was open to the 20 ProTour teams and 5 wildcard teams selected by the organisers. It was held immediately after the Ster Elektro Toer, a four-day race on the UCI Europe Tour. In early 2008 Eindhoven ended involvement in the event. The UCI said it would be replaced by another to be decided. In 2012, the [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Road Bicycle Racing
Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on Road surface, paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional sport, professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and spectators. The two most common competition formats are mass start events, where riders start simultaneously (though sometimes with a Handicapping, handicap) and race to a set finish point; and time trials, where individual time trial, individual riders or team time trial, teams race a course alone against the clock. Stage races or "tours" take multiple days, and consist of several mass-start or time-trial stages ridden consecutively. Professional racing originated in Western Europe, centred in France, Spain, Italy and the Low Countries. Since the mid-1980s, the sport has diversified, with races held at the professional, semi-professional and amateur levels, worldwide. The sport is governed by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). As w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sven Krauß
Sven Krauß (born 6 January 1983) is a retired German professional road bicycle racer, who last rode for Team Gerolsteiner in 2008. Tour de France 2008 During stage 13 of the Tour de France on Krauß hit a traffic island in the fast final 10 km of the stage causing him to crash heavily with sufficient force to shatter the frame of the bike. He recovered sufficiently well to complete the stage in last position on a spare bike. The incident was caught on film and posted to numerous video sharing websites. In 2013, Krauß became manager of the Continental team Bergstraße-Jenatec. Major results * Oberösterreich-Rundfahrt - 1 stage (2010) * Rund um Düren (2010) * Cinturón a Mallorca - 1 stage (2010) * Regio-Tour - 1 stage (2005) * Thüringen Rundfahrt - 1 stage (2003) * 2nd, National Team Pursuit Championship (2003) * Ster Elektrotoer The ZLM Tour is a cycling race held over five stages, held in the southern Netherlands and Belgium as a 2.Pro race on the UCI ProSer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Zabriskie
David Zabriskie (born January 12, 1979) is a retired professional road bicycle racer from the United States, who competed as a professional between 1999 and 2013. His main strength is individual time trials and his career highlights include stage wins in all three Grand Tour stage races and winning the US National Time Trial Championship seven times. Zabriskie is known for his quirky nature, including singing before stages and the interviews he does with fellow riders in the professional peloton which are posted on his web site. In 2005, he became the third American to wear the leader's yellow jersey at the Tour de France, after winning the prologue of that year's Tour. However, later admissions of drug use during that time caused him to be stripped of his stage win and the resulting yellow jersey. On October 10, 2012 – while a member of the squad – it was announced by USADA that he would be suspended for six months for admissions of doping during his time with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jens Voigt
Jens Voigt (; born 17 September 1971) is a German former professional road bicycle racer and, upon retirement, became a cycling sports broadcast commentator. During his cycling career, Voigt raced for several teams, the last one being UCI ProTeam . Voigt wore the yellow jersey of the Tour de France twice, though he was never a contender for the overall title owing to the mountainous nature of the stages of the race being better suited to climbing specialists. His career achievements include winning the Critérium International a record-tying 5 times and a number of one-week stage races, as well as two Tour de France stage victories. In September 2014, he set a new hour record. Among cycling fans, Voigt was generally popular, both for his aggressive riding style and his affable, forthright and articulate manners in dealing with the public and media. He speaks fluent French and English, in addition to his native German. Early life Voigt was born in Grevesmühlen, now in the state ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Vandborg
Brian Bach Vandborg (born 4 December 1981) is a Danish former professional road bicycle racer, who competed as a professional between 2004 and 2013. Over his career, Vandborg competed for (twice), , Team GLS, , and . Born in Snejbjerg, Herning, Vandborg was national U/23 champion in individual time trial in 2002 and 2003 and in 2004 he signed his first professional contract with , with a length of two years. He won stage 4 of Tour de Georgia in 2005, his first professional victory, but the rest of his season was ruined due to a case of mononucleosis. In 2006, Vandborg became a national champion by capturing the Danish Individual Time Trial Championship; he later finished fourth at the World Time Trial Championship. Vandborg moved to for the 2007 season. In 2009 he rode alongside Ivan Basso and Daniele Bennati at . Vandborg also rode for the team in 2011, and in 2012. Vandborg retired at the end of the 2013 season, after ten years as a professional. Major results ;200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuart O'Grady
Stuart O'Grady (born 6 August 1973) is a retired Australian professional road bicycle racer, who rode as a professional between 1995 and 2013. A former track cyclist, O'Grady and Graeme Brown won a gold medal in the Men's Madison at the 2004 Summer Olympics. O'Grady also won Paris–Roubaix in 2007. O'Grady competed in the Tour de France from 1997 and contended for the points classification in the Tour de France known as the green jersey, finishing second in the 1998, 1999, 2001 and 2005 races. He wore the yellow jersey of general classification leader in 1998 and 2001. With his participation in the 2013 Tour de France, he tied George Hincapie's record of 17 participations in the Tour de France. However, Hincapie was removed from three of his 17 starts for his part in the Lance Armstrong doping scandal, and O'Grady himself admitted having been assisted by illicit erythropoietin (EPO) use at least on the 1998 Tour de France (the Dutchman Joop Zoetemelk holds the absolute record ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Müller (cyclist)
Christian Müller (born 1 March 1982) is a professional German road bicycle racer. He was a professional for five years, riding for Team CSC from 2005 to 2006, in 2007, in 2008 and in 2009. Wins ;2004 : German ITT Championship, U/23 : European ITT Championship, U/23 ;2005 : Stage 5, Sachsen Tour : Stage 5, Tour de l'Avenir Tour de l'Avenir ( en, Tour of the Future) is a French road bicycle racing stage race, which started in 1961 as a race similar to the Tour de France and over much of the same course but for amateurs and for semi-professionals known as independen ... External links * 1982 births Living people Sportspeople from Erfurt German male cyclists People from Bezirk Erfurt Cyclists from Thuringia 21st-century German people {{Germany-cycling-bio-1980s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bobby Julich
Robert Julich ( ), popularly called Bobby Julich, (born on November 18, 1971, in Corpus Christi, Texas) is an American former professional road bicycle racer who last rode for Team CSC in the UCI ProTour racing series. He got his international breakthrough when he finished 3rd overall in the 1998 Tour de France, becoming only the second American to finish on the podium. He is a strong time trialist who won a silver medal at the 2004 Olympic Individual Time Trial, and combined with his high versatility he has won a number of stage races on the international circuits including the 2005 edition of Paris–Nice. In September 2008, he announced his retirement as a professional cyclist. He served as a technical director for until November 2010, when it was announced that he would move to for the 2011 season as a race coach. On October 25, 2012, Team Sky announced that Julich would part ways with the team due to his admission to doping in the past. This departure is therefore in li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Blaudzun
Michael Blaudzun (born 30 April 1973 in Herning) is a Danish former professional road bicycle racer. Michael is the son of 1972 Summer Olympics track cycling bronze medalist Verner Blaudzun and a strong individual time trial rider who has won the Danish national championship in that discipline in 2001, 2003 and 2005. After Michael Blaudzun won the 1994 Danish Road Racing Championship while riding for amateur team Herning CK, he was signed for the remainder of the 1994 season as a ''stagiaire'' at professional team Word Perfect. For the 1995 season, the Word Perfect team changed its name to ''Novell'', and Michael Blaudzun turned professional for the outfit, riding for the team until 1997, by which time the team had once again changed its name to ''Rabobank''. Blaudzun had a few wins in his time at Rabobank, but when he switched to German outfit Team Telekom in 1998, he only managed a handful of secondary finishes. For the 1999 season, he switched to Danish Team home - Jack & ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lars Bak
Lars Ytting Bak (born 16 January 1980) is a Danish former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2002 and 2019 for the Fakta, , , , and squads. From 2022, Bak will act as team manager for UCI Women's WorldTeam . Background Born in Silkeborg, Bak became a professional in 2002 for Team Fakta where he rode with fellow Dane Allan Johansen. In 2004 they both switched to BankGiroLoterij where Lars Bak would gain his first professional win, but as the BankGiroLoterij team stopped after the 2004 season, both Bak and Johansen went to in 2005. Here, Bak won the Danish Road Racing Championship, and in the later half of the season he showed his strength and talent as a good upcoming rider, as he won the respected ten stage Under 25 race, the Tour de l'Avenir. He won the leader's jersey by sprinting to the win in a group of four riders on the first stage, a position he defended through the following nine stages bar one, including a time trial and a number of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 Eindhoven Team Time Trial
The 2006 edition of the Eindhoven Team Time Trial was held June 18 in Eindhoven, Netherlands. It marked the second year of this UCI ProTour event, which is a team time trial competition between the world's elite professional cycling teams and consists of the eight riders for each team riding in unison against the clock. The team with the fastest time through the 48.6 km course based on the time of its first five riders wins the competition. In 2006, Team CSC finished in first place with a time of 52 minutes, 28 seconds, which was 42 seconds ahead of second-place finisher and 55 seconds ahead of the 2005 champion . General Standings 18 June 2006: Eindhoven, 48.6 km. (TTT) External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Eindhoven Team Time Trial, 2006 2006 File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Torsten Schmidt (cyclist)
Torsten Schmidt (born 18 February 1972) is a former German cyclist. After retiring from competition he became a ''directeur sportif'' and coach, working with , , , and the Swiss national team. Career achievements Major results ;1992 :1st stage 1 Tour DuPont :1st stage 5 Olympia's Tour :1st stage 1 Tour de Wallonie ;1993 :2nd Tour de Berlin ;1998 :1st Grand Prix Théo Mulheims :1st Tour of Normandie ::1st stage 1 :1st Rund um Düren :1st stage 6 Niedersachsen-Rundfahrt :1st stage 6b Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt :2nd Tour de Berlin :3rd Grand Prix de la Ville de Lillers ;1999 :1st Route Adélie :1st Niedersachsen-Rundfahrt ::1st stage 4b :1st stage 10 Vuelta a Argentina :1st stage 4 3-Länder-Tour :3rd Colliers Classic :3rd Bayern Rundfahrt ;2000 :1st Niedersachsen-Rundfahrt ::1st stage 6 :1st Grand Prix EnBW (with Michael Rich) ;2001 :1st stage 2 3-Länder-Tour :1st stage 4 Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt :2nd Niedersachsen-Rundfahrt :3rd Rund um Köln ;2002 :2nd 3-Länder-Tour ;200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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