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( 2012) : Giro d'Italia ::1 individual stage ( 2010) One-Day Races and Classics : National Road Race Championships ( 2015) Chris Anker Sørensen (; 5 September 1984 – 18 September 2021) was a Danish

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who rode professionally between 2005 and 2018 for the , , , and teams. Sørensen then worked as a

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(and co-owner) for his final professional team, .

Career

Born in Hammel, Sørensen had a promising performance in the 2008

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, finishing fourth overall. A few weeks later, he competed for

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(along with Nicki Sørensen and Brian Vandborg) in the 2008 Olympic road race, finishing 12th overall. Starting with the 2010 season, Sørensen, who lived in Luxembourg, rode under a Luxembourg license, since the UCI no longer allowed the Danish federation to grant Danish licenses to riders living abroad. During the season, he won Stage 8 of the Giro d'Italia. In the 2012 Tour de France, Sørensen finished 14th overall and was awarded the super-combativity award after an attacking performance in several mountain stages. In September 2015, it was announced that he would leave and join for the 2016 season, with a role to support

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in Grand Tours. In February 2018, he announced his retirement at the end of the season.

Personal life

He commentated on

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from 2017 until his death.

Death

On 18 September 2021, Sørensen was killed by injuries sustained by being struck by a van while on a bike ride in

, Belgium; he had been due to cover the 2021 UCI Road World Championships, which started the following day. According to a statement of the

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parket released on 19 September, Sørensen did not yield on a location where he needed to do so.

Major results

;2001 : 3rd Road race, National Junior Road Championships ;2005 : 1st Stage 3

Ringerike GP Ringerike Grand Prix is a road bicycle race held annually near Hønefoss, in the region of Ringerike, Norway. The race was created in 1975 as the Fossen Grand Prix, and was ranked 2.2 on the UCI Europe Tour between 2005 and 2010. In 2011 it turn ...

;2006 : 4th Road race, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships : 4th Overall Triptyque des Barrages : 5th GP Demy–Cars : 6th

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: 7th Omloop van het Waasland : 8th

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;2007 : 6th Overall

Deutschland Tour The Deutschland Tour (English: ''Tour of Germany'' and sometimes ''Deutschland-Rundfahrt'' in German) is the most important multi-stage road bicycle race in Germany. Initially the race was held in May/June, but from 2005 until 2008 it was moved t ...

::1st Stage 2 ( TTT) : 7th

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;2008 : 1st Stage 6 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré : 3rd

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: 4th Overall

::1st Stage 2 ;2009 : 1st

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: 2nd Road race, National Road Championships : 5th Overall

Tour du Haut Var The Tour du Haut Var ( en, Tour of the Haut Var) is an early-season two-day road bicycle race in the Var department region in the south of France. Until 2008 it was run as a one-day race, part of the UCI Europe Tour. In 2009, the race transformed ...

: 6th

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: 8th

Giro dell'Emilia The Giro dell'Emilia is a late season road bicycle race held annually in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. Since 2005, the race has been organised as a 1.HC event on the UCI Europe Tour, and since 2020 it's part of the UCI ProSeries calendar. The ...

;2010 : 1st Stage 8 Giro d'Italia : 3rd Overall

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: 5th Road race, National Road Championships : 6th Overall

;2011 : 1st Jersey pink

Mountains classification

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: 5th Road race, National Road Championships : 6th

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: 8th Overall

;2012 : 1st Jersey red

Mountains classification

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: 5th Road race, National Road Championships : 5th

: 8th

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Overall

;2013 : 2nd

: 10th Overall

Tour de Pologne The Tour de Pologne ( Polish: ''Wyścig Dookoła Polski'', English: ''Tour of Poland'', official abbreviation TdP,) is an annual, professional men's multiple-stage bicycle race primarily held in Poland. It consists of seven or eight stages ...

;2015 : 1st MaillotDinamarca

Road race, National Road Championships : 9th Overall

Tour of Britain The Tour of Britain is a multi-stage cycling race, conducted on British roads, in which participants race across Great Britain to complete the race in the fastest time. The event dates back to the first British stage races held just after the S ...

;2016 : 5th Overall

Tour La Provence The Tour de la Provence is an early-season bicycle stage race in the Provence region of France. It is organized by southern French newspaper La Provence, which serves as the race's title sponsor for its first three years. It is held in February, ...

;2017 : 4th Overall

Kreiz Breizh Elites Kreiz Breizh Elites is a French stage cycling race held annually in Bretagne. It is part of the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in 2005 by the Union Cycliste In ...

: 9th

Sundvolden GP The Sundvolden GP is a one-day cycling race held in Norway. It is part of UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on pa ...

;2018 : 10th

Lillehammer GP The Lillehammer GP is a single-day road cycling race held annually in Norway since 2018. It is part of UCI Europe Tour in category 1.2. The race is part of the ''Uno - X Development Weekend'', which takes place in late August and early September ...

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

References

External links

Palmares at CyclingBase
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sorensen, Chris Anker 1984 births 2021 deaths Danish male cyclists Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists of Denmark Danish Giro d'Italia stage winners People from Favrskov Municipality Cycling road incident deaths Road incident deaths in Belgium Sportspeople from the Central Denmark Region