Lars Ytting Bak (born 16 January 1980) is a
Danish former professional
road bicycle racer
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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
Allan Johansen
Allan Johansen (born 14 July 1971) is a Danish former professional road bicycle racer.
Career
He became professional in 1998 for Team Chicky World, before moving to (later known as Team CSC) in 2000. Johansen continued at Team Fakta from 2001 t ...
. 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
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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
Road race
::3rd
Time trial
: 1st
Overall
Tour de l'Avenir
::1st Stage 1
: 1st
Paris–Bourges
: 6th
CSC Classic
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;2006
: 1st Stage 1 (
TTT)
Vuelta a España
: 1st
Eindhoven Team Time Trial
: 4th Overall
Bayern–Rundfahrt
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: 8th
Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise
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;2007
: 1st
Time trial, National Road Championships
: 1st Stage 5
Tour de Wallonie
: 3rd Overall
Tour Down Under
: 6th Overall
Four Days of Dunkirk
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;2008
: 1st
Time trial, National Road Championships
: 2nd Overall
Tour de Pologne
::1st Stage 1 (
TTT)
: 2nd Overall
Herald Sun Tour
: 7th Overall
Bayern–Rundfahrt
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: 9th Overall
Sachsen Tour
: 9th Overall
Circuit Franco-Belge
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;2009
: 1st
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
Paris–Tours
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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