Daniel Teklehaimanot Girmazion ( ti, ዳንኤል ተክለሃይማኖት ግርማጽዮን, ; born 10 November 1988) is a professional

road racing cyclist Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and spectators. The two most common ...

from

Eritrea Eritrea ( ; ti, ኤርትራ, Ertra, ; ar, إرتريا, ʾIritriyā), officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in the Horn of Africa region of Eastern Africa, with its capital and largest city at Asmara. It is bordered by Ethiopia ...

, who last rode for

UCI Professional Continental team The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) – the governing body of cycling – categorizes teams into three divisions. The first division, consisting of the top 18 teams, is classified as UCI WorldTeams, and competes in the UCI World Tour. The secon ...

Career

Teklehaimanot was a member of the UCI's

World Cycling Centre The World Cycling Centre (WCC, french: Centre Mondial du Cyclisme) is a coaching and training centre in Aigle, Switzerland. It contains a indoor velodrome, a BMX racing track and other non-cycling facilities. It was built in 2002 to celebrate the ...

training program before signing for the new Australian cycling team in 2012. Whilst at the World Cycling Centre he was diagnosed with

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, which was corrected by surgery in early 2009. He returned to riding in May of that year and went on to finish sixth overall in that year's

Tour de l'Avenir Tour de l'Avenir ( en, Tour of the Future) is a French road bicycle racing stage race, which started in 1961 as a race similar to the Tour de France and over much of the same course but for amateurs and for semi-professionals known as independents ...

. In 2010 he rode as a trainee for . The same year, he won the African Championships in the road race, individual time trial and team time trial, at both senior and under-23 levels. On the

2010–11 UCI Africa Tour The 2010–11 UCI Africa Tour was the seventh season of the UCI Africa Tour. The season began on 6 October 2010 with the Grand Prix Chantal Biya and ended on 24 July 2011 with the Tour of Eritrea. The points leader, based on the cumulative resu ...

, he won the

Tour du Rwanda The Tour du Rwanda is a cycling event created in 1988 and based in Rwanda. The event is a cycling stage race that is organized by the Rwanda Cycling Federation (FERWACY). The event has been part of the UCI Africa Tour as a category 2.1 The Uni ...

and the

Kwita Izina Cycling Tour The Kwita Izina Cycling Tour was a multi-day road cycling race in Rwanda that was held annually from 2009 until 2012. It was part of UCI Africa Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were intro ...

. He participated in the

2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

being the first Eritrean competing in a sport other than athletics; he finished the road race in the 73rd position. In 2012, he became the first Eritrean to ride in the Vuelta a España, one of the 3 grand tours; he finished the race 146th overall.

MTN–Qhubeka (2014–17)

Teklehaimanot joined for the 2014 season, on a two-year contract. In 2015, at the Critérium du Dauphiné, he won the first World Tour jersey in 's history by taking the mountains competition. He was named in the start list for the

2015 Tour de France The 2015 Tour de France was the 102nd edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. The -long race consisted of 21 stages, starting on 4 July in Utrecht, the Netherlands, and concluding on 26 July with the Champs-Élysées stage ...

. In July of the year, Teklehaimanot also became the first rider from an African team to wear the

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at the Tour de France. In 2016, he again won the mountains classification at the Critérium du Dauphiné. He was named in the start list for the

2017 Giro d'Italia The 2017 Giro d'Italia was the 100th edition of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tour races. The race started on 5 May in Alghero on the island of Sardinia, and ended on 28 May in Milan. The race was won by Tom Dumoulin, who became the ...

where he briefly held the Mountains Classification jersey. His final race with Dimension Data was the 2017 Tour of Guangxi.

Major results

Tour de France 2015, étape 19, Teklehaimanot

;2007 : 8th Road race,

All-Africa Games The African Games, formally known as the All-Africa Games or the Pan African Games, are a continental multi-sport event held every four years, organized by the African Union (AU) with the Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa (AN ...

: 9th Road race,

African Road Championships The African Continental Cycling Championships are a series of cycling races held annually in Africa where the African cyclists decide who will be the champion for the year to come. They have been held since 2001. Editions Men Road Race ...

;2008 : 1st MaillotEritrea2

Road race, National Road Championships :

::5th Time trial ::8th Road race : 5th Overall

Tour Ivoirien de la Paix Tour Ivoirien de la Paix was a professional road bicycle racing event held in Côte d'Ivoire in 2008. The 6-day stage race was part of the UCI Africa Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were ...

;2009 : 2nd Overall

Tour of Eritrea The Tour of Eritrea ( ti, ዙር ኤርትራ, it, Giro dell’ Eritrea) is a multistage bicycle race held annually throughout Eritrea. History The first race was staged in 1946. It was promoted by the Italian community of Eritrea with the Ita ...

::1st Stages 1 & 3 : 6th Overall

;2010 :

::1st

Road race ::1st African Continental Champion Jersey

Time trial ::1st Gold medal africa

Team time trial : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

::1st Stage 2 : 1st Stage 2

Coupe des nations Ville Saguenay The Coupe des nations Ville Saguenay was a bicycle stage race held annually in Saguenay, Quebec, Canada. It was part of the UCI America Tour and the race was reserved to riders between 19 and 22 of age and was rated 2.Ncup by the UCI. It was the o ...

;2011 :

::1st

Time trial ::1st Gold medal africa

Team time trial : National Road Championships ::1st MaillotEritrea2

Time trial ::2nd Road race : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

::1st Stages 1, 2 & 3 : 1st Stage 5

Tour d'Algérie The Tour d'Algérie is an annual multi-day road cycling race held in Algeria. It has been held as a 2.2 category event on UCI Africa Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in 2005 ...

: 5th Overall

La Tropicale Amissa Bongo La Tropicale Amissa Bongo is a road cycling race held in Gabon and is part of the UCI Africa Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in 2005 by the Union Cycliste Internationale ( ...

::1st Stage 4 ;2012 :

::1st

Time trial ::1st Gold medal africa

Team time trial : National Road Championships ::1st MaillotEritrea2

Road race ::1st MaillotEritrea2

Time trial ;2013 :

::1st

Time trial ::1st Gold medal africa

Team time trial : 1st Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia ;2014 : 4th Overall

Mzansi Tour The Mzansi Tour is a staged cycling race held annually in South Africa. It is part of UCI Africa Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in 2005 by the Union Cycliste International ...

;2015 :

::1st

Team time trial ::2nd Silver medal africa

Time trial : 1st MaillotEritrea2

Time trial, National Road Championships : 1st Mountains classification, Critérium du Dauphiné : Tour de France ::Held after Stages 6–9 ;2016 : National Road Championships ::1st MaillotEritrea2

Road race ::1st MaillotEritrea2

Time trial : 1st Mountains classification, Critérium du Dauphiné : 3rd Bronze medal africa

Time trial,

;2017 : 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships : 7th 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 ...

: Giro d'Italia ::Held Jersey blue

after Stages 2–3 ;2018 : 1st MaillotEritrea2

Time trial, National Road Championships ;2019 : 9th Overall

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Teklehaimanot, Daniel 1988 births Living people Eritrean male cyclists Cyclists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists of Eritrea People from Southern Region (Eritrea) Competitors at the 2007 All-Africa Games African Games competitors for Eritrea