Lars Ytting Bak (born 16 January 1980) is a Danish former professional

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, 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

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. 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

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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 hilly stages. In 2011 he finally made his Tour de France debut where he worked hard for Mark Cavendish's sprint train and finished off by taking part in a breakaway on the last stage. Bak joined for the 2012 season. In 2012, he won stage 12 of the Giro d'Italia. Bak retired at the end of the 2019 season after 18 years as a professional.

Major results

;2000 : 1st Stage 2a Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux ;2001 : 5th Overall Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux ;2003 : 6th Veenendaal–Veenendaal : 6th Druivenkoers Overijse : 7th Omloop van de Vlaamse Scheldeboorden ;2004 : 5th Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen : 9th Overall Tour de Luxembourg ::1st Stage 1 : 9th Overall Danmark Rundt ;2005 : National Road Championships ::1st MaillotDinamarca

Road race ::3rd Time trial : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall Tour de l'Avenir ::1st Stage 1 : 1st Paris–Bourges : 6th

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;2006 : 1st Stage 1 ( TTT) Vuelta a España : 1st Eindhoven Team Time Trial : 4th Overall

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: 8th

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;2007 : 1st MaillotDinamarca

Time trial, National Road Championships : 1st Stage 5 Tour de Wallonie : 3rd Overall Tour Down Under : 6th Overall

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;2008 : 1st MaillotDinamarca

Time trial, National Road Championships : 2nd Overall Tour de Pologne ::1st Stage 1 ( TTT) : 2nd Overall Herald Sun Tour : 7th Overall

: 9th Overall Sachsen Tour : 9th Overall

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;2009 : 1st MaillotDinamarca

Time trial, National Road Championships : 6th Overall Tour de Romandie : 7th Overall Eneco Tour ::1st Stage 5 : 8th Overall Danmark Rundt : 9th Overall Tour of Missouri ;2010 : 1st Stage 1 ( TTT) Vuelta a España : 2nd Road race, National Road Championships : 8th Overall Danmark Rundt ;2011 : 1st Stage 1 ( TTT) Giro d'Italia : 3rd GP Herning : 5th Paris–Roubaix : 8th Overall Ster ZLM Toer ;2012 : 1st Grand Prix de Fourmies : 1st Stage 12 Giro d'Italia : 10th Overall Ster ZLM Toer ;2013 : 2nd Overall Danmark Rundt ;2014 : 2nd Overall Danmark Rundt ;2015 : 2nd Overall Danmark Rundt : 6th Overall Three Days of De Panne ;2018 : 10th Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race ;2019 : 7th

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Grand Tour general classification results timeline

References

External links

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Profile at Team Saxo Bank
(source for this article) * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bak, Lars 1980 births Living people Danish male cyclists People from Silkeborg Danish Giro d'Italia stage winners Cyclists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists of Denmark Sportspeople from the Central Denmark Region