Michael Albasini (born 20 December 1980) is a

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former professional

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, who rode professionally between 2003 and 2020, for the , , and teams.

Professional career

Albasini began his career in 2003 with , moved to at the beginning of 2005, and signed with for the 2009 season. From 2012 until his retirement, Albasini rode with the Australian professional cycling team . In 2012, Albasini met success at the UCI World Tour race

Volta a Catalunya The Volta a Catalunya (; en, Tour of Catalonia, es, Vuelta a Cataluña, link=no) is a road bicycle race held annually in Catalonia, Spain. It is one of three World Tour stage races in Spain, together with the Vuelta a España and the Tour of th ...

. The six-stage event contained no time trials, and Albasini took the lead by triumphing on the very first stage over

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from , getting a 42 seconds overall lead. On the very next stage, he was part of a select group of about 20 riders that were led to the line by Bradley Wiggins after a day in the mountains and he outsprinted his rivals, taking his second win in a row. He held on to his advantage on the following hilly stages, winning the overall classification by 1 minute and 30 seconds over second-placed

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of . In 2015, Albasini took a prestigious podium placing at the La Flèche Wallonne, coming in third place atop the

Mur de Huy The Mur de Huy ( en, Wall of Huy) is a high hill located in Huy, Wallonia, Belgium. It is also known as ''le Chemin des Chapelles'' ( en, The Path of the Chapels) because of the seven chapels along its route. This climb is famous for being part ...

behind Alejandro Valverde and Julian Alaphilippe. He later won the second stage of the Tour de Romandie, having the better in the sprint of a group of 49 riders who had survived the climb and descent of the Col de la Vue des Alpes. He repeated the feat the very next day in Porrentruy, winning by a couple of bike lengths over Julian Alaphilippe. He had to abandon the

Tour de France The Tour de France () is an annual men's multiple-stage bicycle race primarily held in France, while also occasionally passing through nearby countries. Like the other Grand Tours (the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España), it consists ...

on Stage 5, suffering from a broken arm after a crash. In October 2019, Albasini announced that he would retire from the sport after the 2020

Tour de Suisse The Tour de Suisse ( en, Tour of Switzerland) is an annual road cycling stage race. Raced over eight days, the event covers two weekends in June, and along with the Critérium du Dauphiné, it is considered a proving ground for the Tour de France ...

. Following that race's cancellation due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Switzerland, Albasini announced that he intended to extend his career to the end of the 2020 season.

Major results

;1998 : 1st MaillotSuiza

Road race, National Junior Road Championships ;2001 : 4th Overall Ster Elektrotoer : 6th Overall

Grand Prix Guillaume Tell The Grand Prix Guillaume Tell (, "William Tell Grand Prize") was a professional cycling race held annually in Switzerland. It was part of UCI Europe Tour in category 2.2U. In 2007, the race was part of the UCI Under 23 Nations' Cup The UCI Unde ...

;2002 : 1st UEC Champion Jersey

Road race, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships : 5th Overall

: 7th Overall GP Kranj ::1st Stage 1 : 7th Giro del Lago Maggiore ;2004 : 5th Züri-Metzgete : 9th

Paris–Bourges Paris–Bourges is a French road bicycle race. The race originally started in Paris and ran to the town of Bourges in the Région Centre. However, in recent year with the length of races shortened it has become impossible to link the two cities a ...

;2005 :

::1st

Sprints classification ::1st Stage 5 : 7th Overall Three Days of De Panne : 10th Giro della Romagna ;2006 :

::1st

Mountains classification ::1st Jersey blue

Sprints classification : 3rd Grand Prix de Fourmies ;2007 : 5th Overall

Circuit de la Sarthe The Circuit des 24 Heures du Mans, also known as Circuit de la Sarthe (after the 1906 French Grand Prix triangle circuit) located in Le Mans, Sarthe, France, is a semi-permanent motorsport race course, chiefly known as the venue for the 24 Hou ...

::1st Stage 4 ;2008 : 2nd Overall

Tour de Luxembourg The Tour de Luxembourg is an annual stage race in professional road bicycle racing held in Luxembourg. The Tour de Luxembourg is classified as a 2.Pro race, the highest rating below the World Tour, by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), the ...

::1st Stage 3 : 2nd

GP Miguel Induráin The Grand Prix Miguel Induráin ( es, Gran Premio Miguel Induráin), formerly the "Grand Prix Navarre" is a Spanish one-day road bicycle race. History The race was inaugurated in 1951, but was limited to local competition. It was rebranded after ...

: 3rd Overall

Tour Méditerranéen Tour or Tours may refer to: Travel * Tourism, travel for pleasure * Tour of duty, a period of time spent in military service * Campus tour, a journey through a college or university's campus * Guided tour, a journey through a location, directed b ...

: 6th

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 ...

: 7th La Flèche Wallonne : 8th

Gran Premio di Lugano The Gran Premio di Lugano ( en, Grand Prix of Lugano) is a road bicycle race held annually in Lugano, Switzerland. Prior to 1981 it was held as an individual time trial but in recent years it has been organised as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe ...

;2009 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

Tour of Austria The Tour of Austria (german: Internationale Österreich Rundfahrt) is a stage cycling race held in Austria. From 1949 to 1995 it was a race for amateur cyclists, turning into a professional event in 1996. In 2005 and 2006 it was organised as a 2 ...

::1st Stage 2 : 1st Stage 4 Tour of the Basque Country : 1st Stage 5

: 9th La Flèche Wallonne ;2010 : 1st Jersey yellow

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 ...

::1st Stage 3 : 4th 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 ...

: 10th La Flèche Wallonne ;2011 : 1st

Grand Prix of Aargau Canton Grand Prix of Aargau Canton (german: Grosser Preis des Kantons Aargau) is a semi classic European bicycle race held in Aargau canton, one of the more northerly cantons of Switzerland. The race consists of fifteen laps around the Swiss town of G ...

: 1st Stage 13

Vuelta a España The Vuelta a España (; en, Tour of Spain) is an annual multi-stage bicycle race primarily held in Spain, while also occasionally making passes through nearby countries. Inspired by the success of the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia, the r ...

: 1st

Mountains classification, Tour of the Basque Country : 3rd Overall

Bayern Rundfahrt The International Bayern Rundfahrt ( en, Tour of Bavaria) was a stage race cycling race held each year in Bavaria, Germany, between 1980 and 2015. The race was held as an amateur race between 1980 and 1988, and from 2005 to 2015, the race was orga ...

::1st Stage 3 : 4th Overall Tour of Oman ;2012 : 1st MaillotVolta

Overall

::1st Stages 1 & 2 : 1st Stage 8

: 2nd Road race, National Road Championships : 2nd La Flèche Wallonne : 4th

;2013 : 1st

: 1st Stage 4

Paris–Nice Paris–Nice is a professional cycling stage race in France, held annually since 1933. Raced over eight days, the race usually starts with a prologue in the Paris region and ends with a final stage either in Nice or on the Col d'Èze overlookin ...

: 1st Stage 4 ( TTT)

;2014 : 1st Tre Valli Varesine : Tour de Romandie ::1st Stages 1, 2 & 4 : 2nd Road race, National Road Championships : 5th

: 6th Giro di Lombardia : 7th Trofeo Muro-Port d'Alcúdia : 7th La Flèche Wallonne ;2015 : Tour de Romandie ::1st Stages 2 & 3 : 2nd

: 3rd La Flèche Wallonne ;2016 : Tour de Romandie ::1st Jersey green

Points classification ::1st Stage 5 : 2nd Liège–Bastogne–Liège : 7th La Flèche Wallonne ;2017 : 1st Coppa Ugo Agostoni : 1st Stage 2 Tour of the Basque Country : 1st Stage 1 Tour de Romandie : 2nd Vuelta a La Rioja : 3rd Amstel Gold Race : 4th

: 4th

Coppa Bernocchi The Coppa Bernocchi is a European bicycle race held in Legnano, Italy. Since 2005, the race has been organised as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. In 1919 the business magnate Antonio Bernocchi founded the Coppa Bernocchi (or Bernocchi Cup) ...

: 4th

Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli The Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli (also known as GP Beghelli) is a late season men's road bicycle race held annually in Monteveglio, near the city of Bologna, Italy. From 2005 to 2013, the race has been organised as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe T ...

: 5th La Flèche Wallonne : 7th Road race,

UCI Road World Championships The UCI Road World Championships are the annual world championships for bicycle road racing organized by the (UCI). The UCI Road World Championships consist of events for road race and individual time trial, and a mixed team relay. Events ...

: 7th Liège–Bastogne–Liège : 10th Tre Valli Varesine ;2018 : 1st MaillotCyan

Overall

Tour des Fjords Tour des Fjords (known as the Rogaland Grand Prix until 2012) was a road bicycle race held annually between 2008 and 2018 in the region of western Norway. The race merged with the Tour of Norway The Tour of Norway is a road bicycle race held an ...

::1st

Points classification ::1st Stage 2 : 7th Road race, UEC European Road Championships ;2019 : 4th Time trial, National Road Championships : 10th

: 10th Coppa Sabatini

Grand Tour results timeline

References

External links

Profile at ORICA-GreenEDGE official website
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