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Derek Gee (born 3 August 1997 in Ottawa, Ontario) is a Canadian racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam .
Road race
::1st Time trial
: 2nd Overall Ronde des Vallées
: 7th Overall Time trial, National Championships
: 8th Grand Prix de la Ville de Lillers
;2023 (1)
: 1st Time trial, National Championships
: 10th 
Individual pursuit
::1st Team pursuit
: National Championships
::1st Individual pursuit
::1st Team pursuit
::1st Omnium
::1st Madison (with Evan Burtnik)
::1st Points race
: 2nd Team pursuit, Individual pursuit
::1st Team pursuit
::1st Omnium
::1st Madison (with Michael Foley)
::1st Points race
::2nd Team pursuit
: 3rd Team pursuit, Omnium
::1st Team pursuit
: National Championships
::1st Individual pursuit
::1st Omnium
::1st Madison (with Michael Foley)
;2020
: National Championships
::1st Individual pursuit
::1st Omnium
::3rd Team pursuit
Career
He rode in the men's team pursuit event at the2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships
The 2018 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championships for track cycling in 2018. They took place in the Netherlands at the Omnisport Apeldoorn from 28 February to 4 March 2018.
Schedule
The schedule of events was as follows ...
. He qualified to represent Canada at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Gee is well known for his performance in the 2023 Giro d'Italia
The 2023 Giro d'Italia was the 106th edition of the Giro d'Italia, a three-week Grand Tour cycling stage race. The race started on 6 May in Fossacesia and finished on 28 May in Rome. There were 3 individual time trial stages and 6 stages longer ...
, which was his first Grand Tour
The Grand Tour was the principally 17th- to early 19th-century custom of a traditional trip through Europe, with Italy as a key destination, undertaken by upper-class young European men of sufficient means and rank (typically accompanied by a tuto ...
as well as in his first season on the UCI World Tour. Throughout the race, he placed second on four stages and fourth on two others, while having no victories. He also finished second overall in the points classification, the intermediate sprints classification and the mountains classification. He was also awarded the Combativity award
The combativity award is a prize given in 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 ...
on stages 10, 14 and 19, all of which he placed second on, as well as the overall most combative rider award.
Major results
Road
;2015 : National Junior Championships ::1st Road race
::1st Time trial
: 2nd Overall Ronde des Vallées
: 7th Overall Tour de l'Abitibi
The ''Tour de l'Abitibi'' is a junior bicycle stage race taking place in the Abitibi-Témiscamingue region of Quebec, Canada. The race was first held in 1969 and had only Canadian teams. It has since become an international competition part of ...
;2017
: Challenge du Prince
The Challenge du Prince is a series of one-day races held annually since 2010 in Morocco. It consists of three races: Trophée de l'Anniversaire, Trophée de la Maison Royale and Trophée Princier, with each rated as a 1.2 event on the UCI Afr ...
::5th Trophée Princier
::7th Trophée de l'Anniversaire
;2019
: 4th Time trial, National Championships
;2021
: National Championships
::3rd Road race
::3rd Time trial
;2022 (1 pro win)
: 1st Time trial, National Championships
: 8th Grand Prix de la Ville de Lillers
;2023 (1)
: 1st Time trial, National Championships
: 10th Brussels Cycling Classic
The Brussels Cycling Classic (known until June 2013 as Paris–Brussels) is a semi classic European bicycle race, one of the oldest races on the international calendar.
History
Paris–Brussels was first run on 12 August 1893 as an amateur even ...
: 10th Chrono des Nations
: Giro d'Italia
:: Combativity award
The combativity award is a prize given in 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 ...
Stages 10, 14, 19 & Overall
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
Track
;2016 : 2nd Omnium, National Championships ;2017 :Pan American Championships A Pan American Championship is a top level international sports competition between athletes or sports teams representing their respective countries or professional sports clubs in the Americas. Typically these championships are recurring, the most ...
::1st Individual pursuit
::1st Team pursuit
: National Championships
::1st Individual pursuit
::1st Team pursuit
::1st Omnium
::1st Madison (with Evan Burtnik)
::1st Points race
: 2nd Team pursuit, UCI World Cup The UCI World Cups are the World Cups for cycling disciplines organized by the Union Cycliste Internationale:
* UCI Road World Cup (1989–2004)
* UCI Women's Road World Cup (1998–2015)
* UCI Mountain Bike World Cup
* UCI Track Cycling World Cup
...
, Milton
;2018
: National Championships
::1st Individual pursuit
::1st Team pursuit
::1st Omnium
::1st Madison (with Michael Foley)
::1st Points race
::2nd Team pursuit
: 3rd Team pursuit, Commonwealth Games
The Commonwealth Games, often referred to as the Friendly Games or simply the Comm Games, are a quadrennial international multi-sport event among athletes from the Commonwealth of Nations. The event was first held in 1930, and, with the exce ...
;2019
: Pan American Championships A Pan American Championship is a top level international sports competition between athletes or sports teams representing their respective countries or professional sports clubs in the Americas. Typically these championships are recurring, the most ...
::1st Omnium
::1st Team pursuit
: National Championships
::1st Individual pursuit
::1st Omnium
::1st Madison (with Michael Foley)
;2020
: National Championships
::1st Individual pursuit
::1st Omnium
::3rd Team pursuit
References
External links
* 1997 births Living people Canadian male cyclists Sportspeople from Ottawa Cyclists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games medallists in cycling Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for Canada Olympic cyclists for Canada Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games competitors for Canada Medallists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games {{Canada-cycling-bio-stub