Lars Ytting Bak (born 16 January 1980) is a

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former professional road bicycle racer, 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 Silkeborg () is a Danish town with a population of 49,747 (1 January 2022).Team Fakta where he rode with fellow Dane Allan Johansen. In 2004 they both switched to

BankGiroLoterij BankGiroLoterij was the name of a Dutch professional road bicycle racing team. The main sponsor from 1999 to 2004 was a Dutch lottery operator BankGiro Loterij . No sponsor was available for 2005, so the team disbanded. At that time, they were ...

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 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 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 independen ...

. 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

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and a number of hilly stages. In 2011 he finally made his

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debut where he worked hard for

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'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

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;2001 : 5th Overall

;2003 : 6th Veenendaal–Veenendaal : 6th

Druivenkoers Overijse Druivenkoers Overijse is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in August in Overijse, Belgium. Since 2005, the race is organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing Road ...

: 7th Omloop van de Vlaamse Scheldeboorden ;2004 : 5th

Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen (Championship of Flanders) or Koolskamp Koerse is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in September in Koolskamp (part-municipality of Ardooie), West Flanders, Belgium. Since 2005, the race is organized as a ...

: 9th 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), th ...

::1st Stage 1 : 9th Overall

Danmark Rundt Danmark Rundt is a Danish stage race for professional road bicycle racers organized as a part of the UCI Continental Circuits. It is currently sponsored by the Danish national postal agency, PostNord, and the race is therefore also known as Po ...

;2005 : National Road Championships ::1st MaillotDinamarca

Road race ::3rd

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: 1st

Overall

::1st Stage 1 : 1st

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: 6th CSC Classic ;2006 : 1st Stage 1 ( TTT)

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 ...

: 1st

Eindhoven Team Time Trial The UCI ProTour Eindhoven Team Time Trial was an annual road bicycle race held in Eindhoven, Netherlands. It was approximately . Each team had six riders. In 2006, team size expanded to eight. Conceived as part of the UCI ProTour in 2005, it was o ...

: 4th Overall Bayern–Rundfahrt : 8th

Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise Grand Prix Cycliste La Marseillaise, formerly known as the Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise, is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in February around the city of Marseille, France. Since 2005, the race is organized as a 1.1 event ...

;2007 : 1st MaillotDinamarca

, National Road Championships : 1st Stage 5

Tour de Wallonie The Tour de Wallonie is a stage race cycling race on the UCI Europe Tour. It runs in Wallonia, the French-speaking part of Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northw ...

: 3rd 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 World ...

: 6th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk ;2008 : 1st MaillotDinamarca

, National Road Championships : 2nd 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 ...

::1st Stage 1 ( TTT) : 2nd Overall

Herald Sun Tour The Herald Sun Tour is an Australian professional bicycle race held in Melbourne and provincial Victoria, sanctioned by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI). The first tour was held in October 1952 as a six-day event. It is now held annually ...

: 7th Overall Bayern–Rundfahrt : 9th Overall

Sachsen Tour The Sachsen Tour is a multi-stage road bicycle race held in the region of Saxony, Germany. It was first held in 1985 and since 2005 it has been organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicy ...

: 9th Overall Circuit Franco-Belge ;2009 : 1st MaillotDinamarca

, National Road Championships : 6th Overall

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: 7th Overall

Eneco Tour The Benelux Tour (previously known as the Eneco Tour and the BinckBank Tour) is a road bicycle racing stage-race that is part of the UCI World Tour. The race was established in 2005 and was originally known as the Eneco Tour, named after the orig ...

::1st Stage 5 : 8th Overall

: 9th Overall

Tour of Missouri The Tour of Missouri was a professional road bicycle racing stage race in Missouri that started on September 11, 2007 with six days of racing. The organizers, who also run the Tour de Georgia and the Amgen Tour of California, billed it as the thi ...

;2010 : 1st Stage 1 ( TTT)

: 2nd Road race, National Road Championships : 8th Overall

;2011 : 1st Stage 1 ( TTT) Giro d'Italia : 3rd

GP Herning Grand Prix Herning is a one-day road bicycle race, held in '' Midtjylland'', Denmark. The race is organised by Herning Bicycle Club with both start and goal in Herning. The race is characterised by its gravel paths, which result in multiple punc ...

: 5th

Paris–Roubaix Paris–Roubaix is a one-day professional bicycle road race in northern France, starting north of Paris and finishing in Roubaix, at the border with Belgium. It is one of cycling's oldest races, and is one of the ' Monuments' or classics of th ...

: 8th Overall

Ster ZLM Toer The ZLM Tour is a cycling race held over five stages, held in the southern Netherlands and Belgium as a 2.Pro race on the UCI ProSeries The UCI ProSeries is the second tier men's elite road cycling tour. It was inaugurated in 2020. The serie ...

;2012 : 1st

Grand Prix de Fourmies The Grand Prix de Fourmies is a bicycle race held in the Fourmies commune of France. Since 2005 it has been organised as a 1.HC event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing Road bicycle racing ...

: 1st Stage 12 Giro d'Italia : 10th Overall

;2013 : 2nd Overall

;2014 : 2nd Overall

;2015 : 2nd Overall

: 6th Overall

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;2018 : 10th

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;2019 : 7th Paris–Tours

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