Richard Julian Porte (born 30 January 1985) is an Australian professional road bicycle racer who currently rides for

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. His successes include wins at 8 World Tour stage races: Paris–Nice in

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and 2015, the Volta a Catalunya in 2015, the

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, the Tour Down Under in

and

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, the

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and the

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. In

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s, he won the young rider classification at the

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, his first year at

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level, and finished on the podium of the

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, but was also frequently hit by illnesses and injuries.

Personal life

Porte was born in Launceston, Tasmania in 1985. He was educated at

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. A sports award at their Croagh Patrick campus is named in his honour and awarded to the best athlete in Year 9 annually. When he rides it is not uncommon to see Porte wear a necklace of

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, a homage to his home state.

Career

Early years, Team UniSA–Australia & Praties

Porte started dedicated cycling in 2006 when he was 21 years of age. He comes from a triathlon background, having competed in the sport since 2003. Prior to that he was a competitive swimmer. Porte rode for UniSA–Australia at the 2008 Tour Down Under and finished ninth overall. He raced with a

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team, , in 2008 and 2009, taking fifth place in the 2008 Herald Sun Tour and winning the Tours of Perth and Tasmania. Porte rose and under the eye of Andrea Tafi on the ''Monsummanese Grassi Mapei'' amateur Italian team in 2009, finishing tenth at the 2009 Tour de Langkawi. His performance at the 2009 ''Baby Giro'', where he won the individual time trial, brought him to the attention of the professional teams.

2010: Team Saxo Bank and individual success

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At the end of the 2009 season, he signed a two-year contract with . His coach at Team Saxo Bank was compatriot Bradley McGee. In April, Porte went on to win the stage 4 time trial at the

, finishing in tenth place overall. In May he made his Grand Tour debut in the Giro d'Italia where he finished seventh overall and won the young rider classification, by a margin of 7' 29" over Robert Kišerlovski, cementing his place as a rider for the future. He also led the race during stages 11 to 13 and thus wore the

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. In July Porte placed tenth in the

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and had a further run of strong performances; second in the stage 5 time trial of the Post Danmark Rundt, fourth overall at the

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and fourth overall at the

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. Porte narrowly missed out on the bronze medal in the time trial at the UCI Road World Championships, held in the Australian city of Geelong; he finished in fourth place, six and a half seconds down on third-place finisher, Germany's Tony Martin.

2011: Time trial successes

Although the 2011 season brought less individual success for Porte, through the expectation that he would become a key

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for

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in his overall victory in the Giro d'Italia, Porte continued his strong time trial performances; placing third in Paris–Nice and eighth at the

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. Porte then won the fourth stage at

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by virtue of Contador's disqualification. Porte then placed third in the final stage time trial at the Giro d'Italia, and fourth in the final stage time trial at the

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. Porte then went on to win fifth stage time trial at the Post Danmark Rundt, in

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, by a margin of 10 seconds over teammate,

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. Porte then finished his season with sixth position in the time trial at the UCI Road World Championships.

2012: Move to Team Sky

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Porte joined ahead of the 2012 season. In January 2012, he competed in his national championships in

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and Learmonth, where he finished third in the road race, and placed fifth in the

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several days later. In February 2012, Porte took the lead of the Volta ao Algarve after winning the race's queen stage, the summit finish at the ''Alto do Malhão'' in Loulé. He held the lead until the end of the race, eventually finishing 37 seconds clear of defending race winner, Tony Martin. Porte then worked for

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in Paris–Nice, helping his leader win the race overall. Porte was a key member of the Sky teams that helped Wiggins go on to win the

, the

and the

. Porte then rode the

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in support of

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, and took second place on stage 20.

2013: Paris–Nice and super-domestique

In the absence of Wiggins and Froome, Porte was selected to lead at Paris–Nice. He won the fifth stage of the race – the queen stage – with an attack on La Montagne de Lure to take the lead of the race, from 's Andrew Talansky. Porte also won the final time trial on the Col d'Èze by 23 seconds over Talansky to seal overall victory by 55 seconds. Porte's time was only four seconds short of the course record, set by Wiggins the previous year. Porte's good form continued into the

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, winning the second stage's time trial. A second-place finish on the final mountain stage was not enough to prevent stage winner and teammate

from winning the general classification, but did secure Porte the points classification, and second place overall. Porte was again given the lead of for the

. Porte powered away in the final kilometres of stage five from a small group of elite riders, including race leader and teammate

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, to claim the stage. In the sixth and final stage, an individual time trial, Porte could not match

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over the undulating parcours, but managed to rise to second place in the general classification, ahead of Henao. Porte returned to a supporting role for Chris Froome at the

. He helped Froome win the race and placed eighth overall himself in the process. Porte and Froome next featured at the

at the beginning of June. Porte sat fifth overall after the time trial on stage four, and on the following stage helped Froome take the race lead by setting a strong tempo to drop Rohan Dennis, before Froome attacked to win the stage. Porte in the process moved up to second overall, 52 seconds behind his leader. Froome allowed Porte to attack on stage seven, although he only managed to take one second out of the other contenders. On the concluding stage eight, Froome and Porte rode clear of their rivals on the final climb, with only Andrew Talansky able to follow, to secure a one-two finish in the overall standings. Ventoux - Ritchie Porte 2

Porte entered the

as super-domestique for Froome. On stage eight – the first mountain stage – Peter Kennaugh and then Porte dropped most of the overall contenders and brought back an earlier attack by Nairo Quintana on the final climb before Froome attacked to take the stage win and overall lead. Porte was able to finish second on the stage, 51 seconds behind Froome, to rise to second overall. However, in the following stage Porte cracked following numerous early attacks by , and riders, leaving Froome completely isolated for most of the stage. Porte lost over ten minutes and dropped out of overall contention, although Froome managed to avoid time loss by fending off several attacks from

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and Quintana. On stage 15, Porte again provided the launch pad for Froome's victory on

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. On stage 18 – which finished at Alpe d'Huez – Porte's assistance proved vital for Froome, as Froome ran into difficulty towards the end of the stage; Porte dropped back to the team car to illegally get energy gels for his leader, then paced him to the end of the climb to limit his losses to Quintana and Joaquim Rodríguez. Porte and Froome each received a 20-second time penalty and a fine of 200 Swiss francs for the infringement. Froome went on to comfortably win the Tour by four minutes, 20 seconds over Quintana with Porte finishing 19th overall.

2014: A season wrecked by illness

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After finishing third behind

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and

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in the national road race championships, Porte began his 2014 season at his home race, the Tour Down Under. He won the penultimate fifth stage, finishing on Old Willunga Hill, and finished fourth in the

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on the final stage. Porte then followed up his result in the Tour Down Under with second overall at the

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. Porte's season then took a downwards turn finishing 22nd overall at the

. Porte then failed to start at

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and failed to finish at;

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, Volta a Catalunya, culminating in him taking leadership of due to

's abandonment and then finishing 23rd at the

. Porte then failed to finish the Vattenfall Cyclassics as well as GP Ouest–France which led him to end his season early after being diagnosed with

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. Just before the Tour de France, Porte revealed that he had beaten teammate Chris Froome's time on the famous Col de la Madone climb near to

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. Porte completed the climb in 29 minutes 40 seconds, besting Froome's time by 29 seconds.

2015: Final season at Sky – Early season success

Porte started the 2015 season with success, taking victory in the

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. Much like the previous season, Porte took victory on the queen stage of the Tour Down Under at Old Willunga Hill resulting in a second place on the overall general classification. Porte then returned to Europe at the Volta ao Algarve again taking victory on the queen stage to the summit finish of Malhão, this stage win succeeded in elevating Porte to fourth overall on general classification behind teammate

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, as well as taking the win in the mountains classification. Porte's next victory came at Paris–Nice where he and teammate Thomas took a one-two victory on the summit finish of Croix de Chaubouret. Despite losing the chance to take the overall lead after a crash on the penultimate stage of the race, a victory in the final-day time trial (again on the Col d'Èze), by a margin of 13 seconds to his closest rival, gave him his second overall victory in the race in the past three seasons. Furthermore, this pushed him to the top of the

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. Porte's next victory came in late March when he secured the overall win at the Volta a Catalunya. Despite not winning a stage, Porte won the race by a margin of four seconds from

, after achieving two top-5 stage placings on the decisive finishes of La Molina and

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. In late April Porte notched up his third overall win of the season, taking the Giro d'Italia warm-up Giro del Trentino four-day stage race. Porte took a decisive stage victory on the Queen stage summit finish to Brentonico giving him a margin of 24 seconds to his closest rival,

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. Porte would carry the majority of this gap to the finish in

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. In doing so he became the first ever rider to win the Paris–Nice, Volta a Catalunya and Giro del Trentino treble in one season. In the Giro d'Italia, Porte made headlines by having a motor-home to sleep in as he was the team leader while his teammates slept in hotels. He was competitive during the first week of the race, and sat third overall after stage nine. However, on Stage 10 Porte punctured 5 km from the finish, and accepted a change of wheels from Simon Clarke from the team. Porte initially lost 47 seconds to the peloton, but was then docked two minutes and fined 200 Swiss francs for accepting Clarke's wheel as this manoeuvre is illegal according to UCI rules, dropping him to 12th place overall. On stage 13, Porte was involved in a crash from the stage finish, and lost a further two minutes. Porte suffered a bad individual time trial on stage 14 and an even worse stage 15, where he lost 27 minutes to then-leader

. After that debacle, he gave the leadership of the team to

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. After the aforementioned stage, he announced he was abandoning the race due to a leg injury. After the Giro, Porte was included in Sky's squad for the

as a key domestique for Chris Froome. He played a key role in Froome's overall victory in that race, especially during the first mountain stage 10, where Porte not only made the final pull that allowed Froome to launch his decisive attack, but recovered to overtake the chasing Nairo Quintana and arrive second behind Froome, increasing the latter's lead over Quintana due to bonus seconds. During the final mountain stage 20, with Froome seemingly running out of steam on the long uphill finish and Nairo Quintana aggressively attacking in front, Porte was the last Sky rider to steadily pull and pace Froome up the climb, allowing him to limit his losses and secure the overall lead and yellow jersey, to gain his second Tour de France victory. During the Tour Porte confirmed that he would be leaving the team at the end of the year, with the aim of becoming a team leader elsewhere. This would later, in August, be confirmed to be .

2016–2018: BMC Racing Team

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Ahead of the 2016 season Porte highlighted the Tour de France and the Olympic road race and

as his targets for the year. He started his season strongly in Australia, finishing second to new teammate Rohan Dennis in the

before going to the Tour Down Under, where he took his first victory in BMC colours by winning stage 5 to Willunga Hill for the third year in a row and finished second overall. He subsequently struggled in the

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in February, losing over three minutes to the leaders on each of the first two stages, before bouncing back upon returning to Europe, taking third place in the general classification at Paris–Nice after attacking the last stage's final climb alongside

followed by an overall fourth place in the Volta a Catalunya. Following his third place at Paris-Nice, Porte spent one week ranked number 1 in the

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, during the period in which the new rankings system was forming. Porte targeted the

, but lost time early on with a mechanical problem on stage 2. Along with Bauke Mollema and Froome he was leading an attack up

which involved all three riders being taken down when a motorcycle suddenly stopped in front of them disrupting the performance of all three riders and causing the ensuing chaos which involved Chris Froome running up Mont Ventoux. He rallied to perform well in the mountains and

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s, finishing fifth overall, his highest Grand Tour placing to that point. In the 2017 season, Porte finished 12th in the World Tour individual classification, having won the Tour Down Under; he won the queen stage of the race, at Old Willunga Hill for the fourth successive season. Porte also won the

and finished 2nd in the

. He crashed out of the

on stage 9 while descending the Mont du Chat; he had been in an excellent position going into the high mountains being within about 30 seconds of the lead with only

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, Froome and Fabio Aru ahead of him. In the 2018 season, Porte won the

, finished second at the Tour Down Under, and third at the

. Again he crashed out of the

on stage 9, this time suffering a collarbone injury. Once again he was in good position prior to the high mountains being within a minute of Super-Domestique and eventual winner

and overall leader

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. He was also ahead of most other favorites including Romain Bardet,

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, Froome and

2019–2020: Trek–Segafredo

For the 2019 season, Porte moved to the team. He won the queen stage at the Tour Down Under, winning at Old Willunga Hill for the sixth successive year. During the

he was in tenth place overall when the race was shortened due to landslides and dangerous weather. He finished the race in eleventh overall, nearly thirteen minutes behind race winner Egan Bernal. He began the 2020 season by taking the lead midway through the Tour Down Under, but then

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took a two-second advantage going into the final stage on Old Willunga Hill. Porte did not win the stage – finishing second behind Matthew Holmes – however he gained enough time over Impey and the other overall contenders to win the race for the second time in his career, after his victory in

. During the

, Porte found himself in a top-ten position early in the race, and by the end of the second week he was in ninth place overall. He moved up to sixth in the general classification, after he finished third on stage fifteen, behind

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and

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. Porte moved into fourth overall following stage 17, a summit finish at the Col de la Loze, and was 1' 39" behind a podium placing going into the penultimate day's stage, a

that finished at La Planche des Belles Filles. Porte recorded the third-fastest time for the stage – only beaten by Pogačar and

– and by outpacing Miguel Ángel López by nearly five minutes, he moved into third place overall. He ultimately finished the race in that position, recording his first Grand Tour podium finish and the first by an Australian rider at the race since

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win. Porte was awarded the Sir Hubert Opperman Medal for AusCycling's Cyclist of the Year for 2020.

Ineos Grenadiers

In September 2020, it was announced Porte would leave , and he signed a two-year contract with from 2021 onwards. On his first start of the 2021 season, Porte withdrew from Paris–Nice on the opening stage, after a crash caused by a discarded water bottle. He returned to racing with second-place overall finishes at the Volta a Catalunya and the

. He then won the

ahead of teammate Geraint Thomas and

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. He appeared to be in good form heading into the

, however he lost over two minutes on the opening stage, marked by several crashes. He crashed on stage 9, losing further time, and he ultimately finished 38th overall, but assisted

Richard Carapaz Richard Antonio Carapaz Montenegro (born 29 May 1993) is an Ecuadorian professional road racing cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Carapaz won the 2019 Giro d'Italia, becoming the first Ecuadorian rider to win the race. In July 2021 ...

in the mountains to his third-place overall finish. After the race, he stated that it was his final Tour de France appearance.

Major results

;2007 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall Tour of Bright ::1st Stages 1 & 2 ;2008 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

Tour de Perth The Tour de Perth is an amateur road bicycle racing stage-race in Australia, established in 2006. There was a women's stage race between 2007 in women's road cycling, 2007 and 2009 in women's road cycling, 2009. Honours Men's Women's Sou ...

::1st Stages 2 & 3 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall Tour of Tasmania ::1st Stages 7 & 9 : 1st Stage 2 Tour of Wellington : 5th Overall Herald Sun Tour : 9th Overall Tour Down Under ;2009 : 1st GP Citta di Felino : 1st Stage 2 Giro del Friuli-Venezia Giulia : 1st Stage 4 ( ITT) Girobio : 3rd

Time trial In many racing sports, an athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athlete or team sets off at ...

, National Road Championships : 3rd Coppa della Pace : 4th Giro Valli Aretine : 10th Overall

Tour de Langkawi The Tour de Langkawi is a multiple stage bicycle race held in Malaysia. It is named after the archipelago Langkawi, where the first edition started and finished. The race has been held annually since 1996, primarily in February. It usually con ...

;2010 : 4th

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 ...

: 4th Overall

: 7th Overall Giro d'Italia ::1st Jersey white

Young rider classification ::Held Jersey pink

after Stages 11–13 : 10th Overall

::1st Stage 3 ( ITT) : 10th

;2011 : 1st Stage 4 ( ITT)

: 1st Stage 5 ( ITT) Post Danmark Rundt : 6th

;2012 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall Volta ao Algarve ::1st Stage 3 : 3rd Road race, National Road Championships : 4th Overall

: 4th Overall Bayern–Rundfahrt : 9th Overall

;2013 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall Paris–Nice ::1st Stages 5 & 7 ( ITT) : 2nd Overall

::1st

Points classification ::1st Stage 2 ( ITT) : 2nd Overall

::1st Stage 5 : 2nd Overall

: 3rd

Team time trial,

: 8th Overall

: 10th

UCI World Tour The UCI WorldTour (2009–2010: ''UCI World Ranking'') is the premier men's elite road cycling tour, sitting above the UCI ProSeries and various regional UCI Continental Circuits. It refers to both the tour of 38 events and, until 2019, an ann ...

;2014 : 2nd Overall

: 3rd Road race, National Road Championships : 4th Overall Tour Down Under ::1st Stage 5 ;2015 : 1st MaillotAustralia

, National Road Championships : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall Paris–Nice ::1st Stages 4 & 7 ( ITT) : 1st Overall Volta a Catalunya : 1st Jersey violet

Overall Giro del Trentino ::1st Stage 2 : 2nd Overall Tour Down Under ::1st Stage 5 : 4th Overall Volta ao Algarve ::1st Jersey blue

Mountains classification ::1st Stage 4 ;2016 : 2nd

, National Road Championships : 2nd Overall Tour Down Under ::1st Stage 5 : 3rd Overall Paris–Nice : 4th Overall Volta a Catalunya : 4th Overall

: 5th Overall

: 7th

;2017 : 1st Jersey orange

Overall Tour Down Under ::1st Stages 2 & 5 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

: 1st Stage 7 Paris–Nice : 2nd Overall

::1st Stage 4 ( ITT) ;2018 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

::1st Stage 1 ( TTT) : 1st Stage 3 ( TTT)

: 2nd Overall Tour Down Under ::1st Stage 5 : 3rd

, National Road Championships : 3rd Overall

;2019 : 2nd Overall Tour Down Under ::1st Stage 6 : 5th Overall

Tour of California The Tour of California (officially sponsored as the Amgen Tour of California) was an annual professional road cycling stage race on the UCI World Tour and USA Cycling Professional Tour that ran from 2006 to 2019. It was the only event on the ...

: 5th Overall Herald Sun Tour ;2020 : 1st Jersey orange

Overall Tour Down Under ::1st Stage 3 : 2nd Mont Ventoux Dénivelé Challenge : 3rd Overall

: 3rd Overall Tour des Alpes-Maritimes et du Var : 6th Overall Route d'Occitanie : 8th

La Flèche Wallonne La Flèche Wallonne (, French for "The Walloon Arrow") is a men's professional cycle road race held in April each year in Wallonia, Belgium. The first of two Belgian Ardennes classics, La Flèche Wallonne is today normally held mid-week betw ...

;2021 : 1st Jersey yellow-bluebar

Overall

: 1st Stage 3 ( TTT)

: 2nd Overall Volta a Catalunya : 2nd Overall

;2022 : 4th Overall

: 7th Overall

Tour of the Alps The Tour of the Alps is an annual professional cycling stage race in Italy and Austria. First held in 1962, it was named Giro del Trentino ( en, Tour of Trentino) until 2016, and run over four stages in the Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol region o ...

General classification results timeline

References

External links

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