Simon Philip Yates (born 7 August 1992) is a British

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and

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racing cyclist who currently rides for

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. His twin brother is

Adam Yates Adam Richard Yates (born 7 August 1992) is a British road and track racing cyclist who currently rides for . He placed fourth overall at the 2016 Tour de France and became the first British rider to win the young rider classification, one year ...

, who is also a professional cyclist. He won the gold medal in the

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at the 2013 Track Cycling World Championships. Following a doping ban in 2016, he won the

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in the

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and the

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in the

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. Yates has also won multiple stages at each of cycling's three

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Career

Early career

The brothers took up cycling after their father John was injured in a collision with a car while riding. During John's recovery he took the twins to

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to track sessions run by his cycling club, Bury Clarion, to keep in touch with the other members. Both brothers soon started riding on the road for Bury Clarion and on the track for Eastlands Velo. At the age of 18, Yates was selected by

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for its Olympic Academy programme. He was also selected for the England team for the

2010 Commonwealth Games The 2010 Commonwealth Games (Hindi: 2010 राष्ट्रमण्डल खेल), officially known as the XIX Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Delhi 2010, was an international multi-sport event that was held in Delhi, India, f ...

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, where his room-mate was

Chris Froome Christopher Clive Froome ɹɪs fɹuːm (born 20 May 1985) is a Kenyan/British Road bicycle racing, road racing cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . He has won seven Grand Tour (cycling), Grand Tours: four editions of the Tour de ...

. He won the gold medal in the

at the

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. Yates made his breakthrough on the road in 2013 riding for the British national team. Along with brother Adam, he competed at the 2013

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for the Great Britain national team, where Simon won the race's fifth stage, ahead of Adam. Simon added another stage victory the following day, and finished the race tenth overall. He was then selected as part of the British national team to take part in the

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. He competed well throughout the race and on stage six he took his biggest win to that point, on the summit finish at

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, sprinting clear of a nine-man group, which included

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and

Nairo Quintana Nairo Alexánder Quintana Rojas, Order of Boyacá, ODB, (born 4 February 1990) is a Colombian racing cyclist, who rides for UCI ProSeries, UCI ProTeam . Nicknamed "Nairoman" and "El Cóndor de los Andes", Quintana is a specialist climber, known ...

. Yates finished third overall in the race, and was the best rider in the under-23 classification.

Orica–GreenEDGE/Mitchelton–Scott (2014–present)

2014

Yates along with his brother joined the Australian

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team in 2014. He finished 12th overall in one of his first World Tour races, the

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. Yates suffered a broken collarbone on Stage 3 of the

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. He recovered to take seventh overall and the young rider classification in the

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in June. He was a surprise selection for the team for the

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, with only 5 days' notice, and was one of only 4 British riders to take to the Grand Depart startline in

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. Yates featured in two breakaways during his Grand Tour debut, before being withdrawn by his team on the second rest day.

2015

In April 2015 Yates finished fifth overall in the

. Later that month he rode the

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and placed sixth overall. In June, Yates finished fifth overall in the

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after finishing second behind

on the final stage, a summit finish at

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. By doing so Yates also won the white jersey as best young rider. He was again selected for the

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, this time alongside his brother Adam. Simon placed eighth on Stage 3, which finished on the

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, and eleventh on Stage 20, the queen stage of the race finishing on

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2016

In March, Yates finished seventh overall at

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, however, in April it emerged that Yates had tested positive for the banned substance

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in an in-competition test during the race. Yates was disqualified from the race and served a four-month doping ban during 2016; his team took full responsibility for this blaming an "administrative error". The ban meant Yates missed the

, where his brother Adam finished fourth overall and won the

. Following the expiry of his doping suspension, he was named in the startlist for the

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. In stage 6 Yates, seeing an opportunity, escaped from a breakaway group to win a solo stage victory – the first of the Yates brothers to take a Grand Tour stage victory.

2017

2017 saw Yates collect stage wins at two prestigious stage races,

and the

. He placed second at the latter, his highest finish in a

stage-race at the time. He finished 7th overall at the

and won the young rider classification, matching the feat achieved by his twin brother a year prior.

2018: Grand Tour success

Yates confirmed his and the team's plans for him participating in the Giro d'Italia and the

. In March, Yates won Stage 7 of the

, a mountain top finish to Valdeblore La Colmiane, to take the overall race lead going into the final stage. However,

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of the , who started 37 seconds down on Yates in sixth place overall, attacked around halfway into the stage along with compatriot

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(); the duo joined

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() at the head of the race, and the trio managed to stay clear of the rest of the field by the time they reached

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. As de la Cruz and Fraile contested stage honours, Soler finished third – acquiring four bonus seconds on the finish in addition to three gained at an earlier intermediate sprint – and with a 35-second gap to Yates and the remaining general classification contenders, it was enough to give Soler victory over Yates by four seconds. Later that month, Yates won stage 7 of the

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after attacking multiple times on the -long final circuit through the

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Park; he finished fourth overall. GIR40263 simon yates

Yates entered the Giro d'Italia as joint leader of with

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, supported by a strong climbing focused team including

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and Jack Haig. Yates placed seventh in the opening individual time trial in

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, 20 seconds down on defending race winner

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(). On Stage 6 to

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, Yates took the race lead after finishing second behind teammate Chaves; Yates attacked from the group of favourites from the summit and caught Chaves, who had been part of the day's breakaway, in sight of the line, but allowed Chaves to take the stage honours. The result meant Yates held the

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over Dumoulin in second, and Chaves in third place. Yates won stage 9 after accelerating away with to go on the summit finish to

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, extending his lead over Chaves and Dumoulin. Yates extended his lead further on Stage 10, but teammate Chaves lost 25 minutes after being dropped on the first climb. Yates claimed his second stage victory on Stage 11, attacking with to go and holding off the pursuit of Dumoulin to win on a hill top finish in

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, increasing his lead. On Stage 14, Yates finished second behind

() on

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. With six bonus seconds for finishing second, Yates extended his overall advantage over Dumoulin, whilst his gap over Froome was 3 minutes, 10 seconds. Yates pedaled to a solo win on stage 15 to

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, attacking with remaining, increasing his lead over Dumoulin. After holding his lead through the individual time trial held as stage 17, Yates cracked on the final climb to

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on stage 18, losing 28 seconds to all of his other general classification rivals. Stage 19 had been classified as the '

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' of the race, with three focussed climbs in the latter half of the stage: the half paved-half gravel climb of the

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, followed by the climb to

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and the final uphill finish to

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. Yates cracked on the lower slopes of the Finestre, before Froome launched a solo attack with left of the stage. Froome's advantage grew throughout the second half of the stage, culminating in him taking a stage victory of more than three minutes and thereby also taking the overall race lead, 40 seconds ahead of Dumoulin. Yates lost over 38 minutes to Froome and dropped to 17th overall. He eventually finished the race 21st overall, 1 hour and 15 minutes behind the winner Froome. Carmena entrega los premios a dos de los triunfadores de La Vuelta 02

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After the Giro, Yates made his return to racing at the

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, where he finished second behind team-mate Robert Power. He subsequently returned to WorldTour competition at the

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in August, where he won the race's closing stage with a solo attack and finished second overall behind

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. Yates was 's team leader for the

, with support from his brother. Yates moved into third place on the general classification after stage 4, the first mountain stage, ten seconds behind leader Kwiatkowski. On the ninth stage, Yates took the leader's red jersey from

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going into the first rest day. However he lost the lead on stage 12, when elected not to close down a large breakaway, with the red jersey being taken by

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with Yates in second and

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in third. The following day, Yates cut nearly two minutes from Herrada's lead, and he then took victory on the fourteenth stage, reclaiming the overall lead. He extended his lead during stages 16 (an individual time trial) and 19, and on the last mountain stage, Yates attacked his rivals on the penultimate climb, joining Miguel Ángel López and

alongside

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at the head of the race. He eventually finishing third on the stage behind Mas and López, who moved up into second and third overall after Valverde and

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lost significant time. He went on to safely cross the finish line in

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to secure his overall victory.

2019

Yates previously considered time-trialling to be a weakness, and slowly improved since his junior years. He had improved in 2019, with his first win in the discipline coming on a hilly course at

. Yates returned to the Giro d'Italia aiming for the

. He entered the race, publicly stating that he considered himself as "the number one favourite" for the race. He started, showing superb form on the opening stage, an individual time-trial in

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, where he finished second behind

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. Yates's hopes of the overall win looked all but over after a disastrous stage 9 time-trial that saw him lose over 3 minutes, dropping to 24th overall. He lost further time on stage 13 up to

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. Despite a second-place finish on stage 19, he finished 8th overall and described it as heartbreaking. 108

He rode the

, in support of his brother's general classification ambition, but Simon was allowed a day off

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duty, and won stage 12 into

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in a 3 up sprint against

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and

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. Unfortunately for Adam, his general classification hopes faded after losing time on the individual time-trial and the climb to

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. These general classification losses freed up Simon as the team refocused on stage wins, and he added another mountain stage win after a ferocious solo attack on stage 15, taking 's tally to 3 before the second rest day.

2020

In September 2020, Yates won the 2020 Tirreno-Adriatico beating

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and becoming the first British winner of the race. In the following month, Yates started the

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. However, he had to abandon the race before the start of stage 8, after he tested positive for

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2021

In April 2021, Yates claimed his first event of the season by winning at the

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. He finished 58 seconds ahead of Spaniard

and Russian Aleksandr Vlasov finishing third. At the

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, Yates took victory atop the Alpe di Mera on Stage 19, beating overall leader

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by 28 seconds. He would eventually finish third overall in Milan.

Doping ban

In April 2016 it emerged that Yates had tested positive for the banned substance

in an in-competition test during

the previous month, where he finished seventh overall. 's owner

Gerry Ryan Gerard Ryan (4 June 1956 – 30 April 2010) was an Irish presenter of radio and television employed by Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ). He presented ''The Gerry Ryan Show'' on radio station RTÉ 2fm each weekday morning from 1988 until hou ...

accused

of leaking the news of Yates's failed drug test to the press, and criticised the organisation for doing so. In a statement, claimed full responsibility for the test result, saying that the team's doctor had failed to apply for a therapeutic use exemption for an asthma inhaler used by Yates which triggered the positive test. Subsequently, the international governing body UCI issued a statement indicating that Yates would not be provisionally suspended from competition due to the substance he had tested positive for. On 17 June, the UCI decided to issue a four-month ban for the "presence and use of the specified prohibited substance terbutaline" backdated from 12 March (the date the positive sample was collected), preventing Yates from competing at the

2016 Tour de France The 2016 Tour de France was the 103rd edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The -long race consisted of 21 stages, starting on 2 July in Mont Saint-Michel, Normandy, and concluding on 24 July with the Champs-Élysées sta ...

Major results

Road

;2011 : 1st Stage 6

: 1st Twinings Tour,

Premier Calendar The British Cycling Premier Calendar Road Race Series is a season-long competition run by British Cycling. It comprises a series of road bicycle races for the country's top domestic road riders. Organisation and events In 2010 points were awar ...

: 9th Overall

Thüringen Rundfahrt der U23 Thüringen Rundfahrt der U23 was a bicycle road race held annually in the German state of Thuringia. It was a stage race reserved to athletes under the age of 23. Since 2005, it was organized as a 2.2U event on the UCI Europe Tour. After the 201 ...

;2013 : 1st MaillotReinoUnido

Road race, National Under-23 Championships : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall Arden Challenge ::1st Stage 4 : 3rd Overall

::1st Stage 6 : 3rd

La Côte Picarde La Côte Picarde was a professional cycling race held between 1986 and 2015 in Picardy, France. It was held as part of the UCI Europe Tour from 2005 onwards, in category 1.ncup, meaning it was part of the UCI Under 23 Nations' Cup The UCI Under ...

: 9th Overall

An Post Rás An, AN, aN, or an may refer to: Businesses and organizations * Airlinair (IATA airline code AN) * Alleanza Nazionale, a former political party in Italy * AnimeNEXT, an annual anime convention located in New Jersey * Anime North, a Canadian an ...

::1st

Young rider classification : 10th Overall

::1st Stages 5 & 6 : 10th Overall

Flèche du Sud The Flèche du Sud, is a road bicycle race held annually in Luxembourg. It is currently organised as a 2.2 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in 2005 b ...

: 10th Overall

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 Cycli ...

;2014 : 1st Jersey polkadot

Mountains classification,

Tour of Alberta The ATB Tour of Alberta was a Canadian bicycle stage race, which raced across the province of Alberta. It was sanctioned by Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) and was part of the UCI America Tour. It was classified as a 2.1 race, making it one ...

: 3rd Road race, National Championships : 7th Overall

::1st

Young rider classification ;2015 : 5th Overall

::1st

Young rider classification : 5th Overall

: 6th Overall

;2016 : 1st

: 2nd

Circuito de Getxo The Circuito de Getxo ( en, Getxo Circuit) is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in July in Getxo, Spain. Since 2005, the race is organised as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. Established in 1924 as Circuito de Getxo, since 2001 it i ...

: 4th Overall

Vuelta a Burgos Vuelta Ciclista a Burgos is an elite professional road bicycle racing event held annually in the Burgos province of Spain. The men's Vuelta a Burgos has been a multi-day stage race as part of the UCI Europe Tour since 2005. In 2019, a multi-day wo ...

: 6th Overall

::1st Stage 6 : 7th Overall
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 ...
: 7th

Clásica de San Sebastián The Donostia-Donostia Klasikoa — Clásica San Sebastián-San Sebastián (San Sebastián Classic) is a one-day professional men's bicycle road race in northern Spain that has been held every summer since 1981 in San Sebastián. It is the mo ...

;2017 : 1st

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 ...

: 2nd Overall

::1st Stage 4 : 7th Overall

::1st

Young rider classification Young rider classification (french: classement général des jeunes) is a cycling jersey competition in multi-day stage race events, such as the Tour de France, Giro d'Italia and many others, which awards the current leader by overall time for ride ...

: 9th Overall

::1st Stage 6 ;2018 : 1st

: 1st

Overall

::1st

Combination classification ::1st Stage 14 : Giro d'Italia ::1st Stages 9, 11 & 15 ::Held Jersey pink

after Stages 6–18 ::Held MaillotAzul

after Stages 9–18 : 2nd Overall

::1st Stage 7 : 2nd Overall

::1st Stage 7 : 2nd

: 4th Overall

::1st Stage 7 ;2019 :

::1st Stages 12 & 15 :

Vuelta a Andalucía The Vuelta a Andalucía (Tour of Andalusia) or Ruta del Sol (Route of the Sun) is a regional Spanish road bicycle race first held in 1925. Since 2005, it has been a 2.1 category race on the UCI Europe Tour. The race became a part of the new UCI P ...

::1st

Mountains classification ::1st Stage 4 : 1st Stage 5 ( ITT)

: 8th Overall Giro d'Italia ;2020 : 1st MaillotAzul

Overall

Tirreno–Adriatico Tirreno–Adriatico, nicknamed the "Race of the Two Seas", is an elite road cycling stage race in Italy, run between the Tyrrhenian and Adriatic coasts. Traditionally held in the early part of the season, it is considered to be an important prep ...

::1st Stage 5 : 3rd Overall

: 7th Overall

Tour Down Under The Tour Down Under (branded as the Santos Tour Down Under under a partnership arrangement) is a cycling race in and around Adelaide, South Australia, and is traditionally the opening event of the UCI World Tour and features all 19 UCI WorldTe ...

: 10th

Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race The Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race also known as Great Ocean Road Race or Cadel Road Race is an annual professional one-day road bicycle racing for both men and women starting and finishing in Geelong, Victoria, Australia, and routed along th ...

;2021 : 1st Jersey green

Overall

::1st Stage 2 : 3rd Overall Giro d'Italia ::1st Stage 19 : 4th Overall

CRO Race The CRO Race (formally: ''Tour of Croatia'') is a men's road cycling stage race that takes place in Croatia since 2015. It is part of the UCI Europe Tour and is rated by the UCI as a 2.1 event, the third tier of professional stage races. The e ...

::1st

Mountains classification : 9th Overall

: 10th Overall

;2022 : 1st Jersey multicolor

Overall

Vuelta a Castilla y León The Vuelta Ciclista a Castilla y León is a professional road bicycle stage race held in Castile and León, Spain. Since 2005, Vuelta a Castilla y León has been a part of the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicyc ...

::1st Stage 2 : 1st

: Giro d'Italia ::1st Stages 2 ( ITT) & 14 :

Vuelta a Asturias Vuelta Asturias is a professional cycle road race held in Spain in early May each year. The event was first run in 1925 but has not been held consistently until 1968 to present. Since 2005, the race has been organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI E ...

::1st

Points classification ::1st Stages 1 & 3 : 2nd Overall

::1st Stage 8 : 5th Overall

: 6th

General classification results timeline

Classics results timeline

Track

;2009 : 3rd

Madison Madison may refer to: People * Madison (name), a given name and a surname * James Madison (1751–1836), fourth president of the United States Place names * Madison, Wisconsin, the state capital of Wisconsin and the largest city known by this ...

(with

), National Junior Championships ;2010 : UCI World Junior Championships ::1st Jersey rainbow

Madison (with

Daniel McLay Daniel "Dan" McLay (born 3 January 1992) is a British racing cyclist, competing in road, track and cyclo-cross, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam . His first season as a professional was 2015, racing for French pro-continental and 2014 Tour de ...

) ::2nd

Team pursuit : National Junior Championships ::1st MaillotReinoUnido

(with

) ::2nd Scratch ::2nd

Points Point or points may refer to: Places * Point, Lewis, a peninsula in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland * Point, Texas, a city in Rains County, Texas, United States * Point, the NE tip and a ferry terminal of Lismore, Inner Hebrides, Scotland * Point ...

National Championships A national championship(s) is the top achievement for any sport or contest within a league of a particular nation or nation state. The title is usually awarded by contests, ranking systems, stature, ability, etc. This determines the best team, indi ...

::2nd

::2nd Scratch ;2011 : 1st

Six Days of Ghent The Six Days of Ghent ( nl, Zesdaagse Vlaanderen-Gent) is a six-day track cycling race held annually in Ghent, Belgium. It takes place in the Kuipke velodrome in Ghent's ''Citadelpark''. The 2006 event from 21 November to 26 November was marred ...

Future Stars (with

Owain Doull Owain Daniel Doull (born 2 May 1993) is a Welsh road and track cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Doull specialises in the team pursuit on the track, and won a gold medal in the discipline at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro; ...

) : 2nd

Omnium An omnium (from Latin '' Omni'': of all, belonging to all) is a multiple race event in track cycling. Historically the omnium has had a variety of formats. In recent years, road racing has also adopted the term to describe multi-day races that fe ...

: 3rd Team pursuit, UCI World Cup,

Beijing } Beijing ( ; ; ), alternatively romanized as Peking ( ), is the capital of the People's Republic of China. It is the center of power and development of the country. Beijing is the world's most populous national capital city, with over 21 ...

;2012 :

::1st

(with

Mark Christian Mark Peter Christian (born 20 November 1990) is a Isle of Man, Manx former racing cyclist, who last rode for UCI ProSeries, UCI ProTeam . A former member of the Great Britain Olympic Development Program, Christian won a bronze medal for the Isl ...

) ::1st

::1st

Team pursuit The team pursuit is a track cycling event similar to the individual pursuit, except that two teams, each of up to four riders, compete, starting on opposite sides of the velodrome. Race format Both men's and women's events are competed over ...

;2013 : 1st Jersey rainbow

UCI World Championships The UCI world championships are annual competitions promoted by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) to determine world champion cyclists. They are held in several different styles of racing, in a different country each year. Championship winne ...

References

External links

* * * * * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Yates, Simon 1992 births British Giro d'Italia stage winners British Tour de France stage winners British Vuelta a España stage winners British male cyclists Commonwealth Games competitors for England Cyclists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Doping cases in cycling English male cyclists English sportspeople in doping cases English track cyclists Living people Olympic cyclists of Great Britain Sportspeople from Bury, Greater Manchester English twins Twin sportspeople UCI Track Cycling World Champions (men) UCI World Tour winners Vuelta a España winners

Career

Early career

Orica–GreenEDGE/Mitchelton–Scott (2014–present)

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018: Grand Tour success

2019

2020

2021

Doping ban

Major results

Road

General classification results timeline

Classics results timeline

Track

See also

References

External links