Hans Jacob Bauer (born 7 April 1985) is a New Zealand professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for

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. Bauer turned professional in 2010. For the 2023 season Bauer will ride for new team .

Early life

Bauer was raised in a remote area of New Zealand called Parapara near the township of

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. In 2003, Bauer began his tertiary studies at the

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, New Zealand whilst residing at Aquinas College in his first year. He was a nationally ranked mountain biker at the time. Whilst there, he was also often seen around the Dunedin Music scene playing his bass guitar in a band called Dream Farm. In 2006, Bauer earned his

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from

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, Otago, New Zealand. Bauer then worked as a cycle courier in Wellington for a year.

Career

Bauer moved to Ghent in 2009, he raced in amateur races and as a result obtained a contract with Endura Racing. While riding for , Bauer won the 2010

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. In a sprint finish on the 186 km Christchurch course, he finished ahead of

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and Julian Dean. Bauer said of the victory "I didn't really think I had the legs to last out there today but I managed to go with Roulston and Dean when they attacked on the hill and when we got down to a bunch of four on the last leg I hung in. It was a quality field so I'm stoked." Bauer came tenth in the Olympic road race at the

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. He said of the race "I was really struggling with 20km to go. I just started cramping up really badly and the weather was a bit warmer than I expected. Hydration is always hard and I started cramping pretty bad. I'm happy." In November 2011, Bauer signed with the renamed squad, for the 2012 season. He remained with for the 2013, 2014, and 2015 seasons. Jack Bauer won the 2013 Japan Cup. After initially coming in second place, he was upgrade to first place after Michael Rogers was disqualified for failing a drug test for clenbuterol. In the 2014 Jayco Herald Sun Tour, Bauer won the Prologue from

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. He said of the win "It's a bit of a pity to knock a fellow Kiwi om Scullyoff the top perch, but it might as well be another Kiwi doing it," On the fifteenth stage of the

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, Bauer broke away with

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for 222 km, only to be caught by the charging peloton a few meters from the line. Bauer said of the effort “It’s a childhood dream to win a stage at the Tour. And for a person like myself, I’m normally a domestique. It was my first chance to actually be up the road...I really gave it absolutely everything. As you could see from my meltdown at the finish line I was pretty disappointed to come away empty-handed.”

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said of Bauer being caught on the line: “It’s terrible. Heart breaking. I don’t know. Yeah. I don’t know. They could have just put the finish line 20 meters earlier and it would have been fine.”

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described the finish as "one of the most exciting sprint finishes in living memory". In the 2014 Commonwealth games in Glasgow, Jack Bauer won the silver medal in the road race behind

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in very wet conditions. Bauer said "When I attacked, of course gold was always the goal...But when I was joined by Thomas – he's one of the classiest riders in the world, he's really versatile, he's good in all weather, and he's just come off the Tour was well. So I knew that he would be a hard man to beat and that silver was probably going to be as good as I could get". Jack Bauer broke his femur in stage five of the 2015 Tour De France, After "a tiny little crash" he rode 90km to the finish using his other leg before abandoning. Bauer said of it "It's actually the first bone I've broken to date, both on my bike in my career and in my life, so I thought I'd start at the top and break all the big ones," In stage five of the

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, Jack Bauer escaped in a five man breakaway, and survived until the end, winning the stage. He said of it "if you have an opportunity to win, you lay it all on the line, oI didn’t think about what the bunch was doing...If they catch you, they catch you. I’d have regretted more being beaten by one of the other guys in the break.” In 2017, Bauer won the New Zealand time trial championships. He said of the 40km race in Napier, New Zealand "I am so thrilled to win this national title and to be able to take the national jersey back to Europe for my new team. I had no expectations today as it was more of a 40km hit-out for my major goal of the road championship on Sunday." In the 2020 Czech Cycling Tour, Bauer, riding for came second in the

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in the four stage race, 19 seconds behind team mate

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. Bauer currently resides in

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, Spain.

Major results

;2009 : 2nd Overall

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::1st Stage 2 ;2010 : 1st Road race, National Road Championships : 1st Stage 5 Tour of Wellington : 2nd Overall

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::8th

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::10th Road race ;2011 : 1st Stage 2

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: 2nd Overall

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: 9th Overall

Tour de Normandie Tour de Normandie is a road bicycle race held annually in the region of Normandy, France. The race started in 1939, but was not held in the periods of 1940–1955 and 1960–1980. It was originally a race for amateurs, but was opened for professi ...

;2012 : 1st Stage 4 ( TTT) Giro d'Italia : 1st Stage 2 ( TTT)

Tour of Qatar The Tour of Qatar was an annual professional cycling stage race held in Qatar. First organized in 2002, the event was part of the UCI Asia Tour until 2016. The 2017 edition was to have seen the event upgraded to the UCI World Tour for the firs ...

: 2nd Overall

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::1st Stages 1 & 4 : 4th Overall

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: 10th Road race,

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;2013 : 1st

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: 5th Overall

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;2014 : 1st Prologue

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: 2nd

Road race,

: 2nd Road race, National Road Championships : 7th Overall

::1st Stage 5 ;2015 : 7th Overall Bayern–Rundfahrt : 8th

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;2016 : 1st Stage 5

: 1st Stage 1 ( TTT)

Czech Cycling Tour The Czech Cycling Tour is a multi-day road cycling race held annually in the Olomouc region in the Czech Republic. It was created in 2010 and was initially part of the UCI Europe Tour in category 2.2, but in 2015 moved up to 2.1 The Union Cycl ...

;2017 : 1st

, National Road Championships ;2020 : 2nd Overall

::1st Stage 1 ( TTT)

Grand Tour results timeline

References

External links

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