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| Full name | Tejay van Garderen | |||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Hermes | |||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1988-08-12) August 12, 1988 Tacoma, Washington, United States | |||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 72 kg (159 lb; 11 st 5 lb)[1] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Team information | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Current team | EF Education First Pro Cycling | |||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | |||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | All-rounder | |||||||||||||||||||
| Amateur team(s) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2004–2005 | Rio Grande (Fort Collins, CO) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2005–2006 | Team 5280 (Boulder, CO) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2007 | VMG Racing | |||||||||||||||||||
| Professional team(s) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2008–2009 | Rabobank Continental Team | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2010–2011 | Team HTC–Columbia | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2012–2018 | BMC Racing Team[2] | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2019– | EF Education First Pro Cycling | |||||||||||||||||||
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Grand Tours
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Tejay van Garderen (born August 12, 1988) is an American professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam EF Education First Pro Cycling.[3] During the season, he lives in Nice, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.[4]
Contents
1 Early life
2 Career
2.1 Under-23 years (2007–2009)
2.2 HTC–Columbia (2010–2011)
2.2.1 2010
2.2.2 2011
2.3 BMC Racing Team (2012–2018)
2.3.1 2012
2.3.2 2013
2.3.3 2014
2.3.4 2015
2.3.5 2016–2018
3 Career achievements
3.1 Major results
3.1.1 General classification results timeline
4 References
5 External links
Early life
Van Garderen was born in Tacoma, Washington, but spent most of his childhood in Bozeman, Montana. His father is Dutch, and he speaks the Dutch language quite well.[5] He began riding at 10. By 14, he nearly beat two hours at the Mount Evans Hill Climb, a 28-mile climb gaining nearly 7,000 feet.[6] He won 10 junior national titles in road (road race, criterium and TT) and cyclo-cross.[7] Two of his early teams were the Team Rio Grande Racing developmental squad (2004–2005; Fort Collins, Colorado)[8] and Team 5280 Magazine developmental squad (2005–2006, once part of Garmin–Cervélo; Boulder, Colorado).[9]
Career
Under-23 years (2007–2009)
Van Garderen's first big senior race was at age 18 in the 2007 Tour of California as a part of the national team. He pulled out on stage 4.[10] He rode in the U.S. and Europe in 2007 and came 20th in the Tour de l'Avenir.
Van Garderen joined the Rabobank Continental Team in 2008. He lived in the Netherlands and came second in the Flèche du Sud and Circuito Montañés. He won a stage of the Tour de l'Avenir and came 24th in the Under-23 World Road Championships in Varese, Italy.
Van Garderen joined Team HTC–Columbia the following year.[11]
HTC–Columbia (2010–2011)
Van Garderen at the 2011 Tour de France
2010
Van Garderen came to a team with most wins in 2009 thanks to prolific sprinters Mark Cavendish and André Greipel. He finished 9th in his first stage race, the Volta ao Algarve, climbing to 5th place on the third stage to the Alto do Malhão summit. In the Tour of Turkey, he came second on two stages and second overall, 29 seconds behind Giovanni Visconti. Van Garderen supported leader Michael Rogers over the 6th and 8th stages of the Tour of California. He finished 28th overall and Rogers won. Van Garderen started the Critérium du Dauphiné as joint leader of Team HTC–Columbia with Kanstantsin Sivtsov and Peter Velits. After nearly upsetting Alberto Contador in the prologue, he came 4th in the Stage 3 time trial to move to 2nd overall. He lost time on mountain stages and finished 3rd. Van Garderen rode a strong Vuelta a España with having a very strong first 2 weeks of the race. His level of performance dropped after that but was still a valuable domestique to Velits, who went on to a third place overall in the race.
2011
In 2011, van Garderen got second place on stage 3 of the Volta ao Algarve[12] and second place in the opening time trial in the Tour de Suisse, behind Fabian Cancellara of Leopard Trek.[13]
His strong showing in the Tour of California also earned him the best young rider jersey. He was chosen to be a part of the Tour de France squad. This was van Garderen's first Tour de France and he was riding in support of Tony Martin and Peter Velits.[14] In stage 8, van Garderen won enough points on a Category 2 climb to earn a King of the Mountains jersey and Most Aggressive Rider honors. He was the first American to wear the King of the Mountains jersey in the history of the Tour de France – Greg LeMond briefly led the mountains classification during the 1986 Tour de France, but since he was also the overall leader at the time, he did not wear the mountains jersey. During his dramatic stage 8 ride, he was referred to as the "Bozeman Boss" by commentator Phil Liggett.[15] He would finish in 82nd place. At the Tour of Utah, Van Garderen won the time trial in the third stage.[16]
BMC Racing Team (2012–2018)
2012
Van Garderen during the nineteenth stage's individual time trial, at the 2012 Tour de France, wearing the White Jersey.
After HTC–Highroad was disbanded, Van Garderen joined BMC Racing Team along with his HTC–Highroad team-mate Marco Pinotti.[2] Van Garderen won the young rider's jersey at Paris–Nice in early March,[17] having held the jersey for the entire race.
Van Garderen was selected for the Tour de France as one of the main domestiques for defending champion Cadel Evans. He enjoyed a strong first week, coming fourth in the prologue and wearing the white jersey – for the best-placed rider aged 25 or under in the general classification – until stage 7, where he lost time on the first summit finish of the Tour. He regained the jersey with fourth place on Stage 9, an individual time trial. On Stage 11, Van Garderen attempted to help Evans in an unsuccessful long range attack by breaking away from the yellow jersey group minutes before his leader did, but the attempt orchestrated by BMC Racing Team was foiled. He proved stronger than Evans on that day, pacing his leader up the final climb. He would go on to finish in fifth place overall while becoming the third American to win the Best Young rider classification, after Greg LeMond in 1984 and Andrew Hampsten in 1986. In August, Van Garderen finished second in the USA Pro Cycling Challenge behind Christian Vande Velde (Garmin–Sharp).[18] He had previously won the second stage of the race in a two-men sprint with Vande Velde, earning the yellow jersey in the process.[19] He would surrender the jersey to his fellow countryman the next day, take it back on stage 4 and finally lose it on stage 6.
2013
Van Garderen at the 2013 Tour of California
Van Garderen opened his 2013 campaign with the Tour de San Luis, where he finished second in the overall standings. He also showed strong appearances as the European cycling season opened in March, finishing Paris–Nice in fourth,[20] and Critérium International in third place.[21] In May, Van Garderen won the first major stage race of his career, the Tour of California.[22] He performed well in all the key stages, coming in second at stage two's hilltop finish,[23] then winning the individual time trial on stage 6.[24] He topped it off by defending the lead on stage 7, a mountaintop finish to Mount Diablo.[25] He somewhat lacked form at the Tour de France, finishing in 45th position.[26] He then went on to win the USA Pro Cycling Challenge, which included a lot of high altitude racing across Colorado.[27]
2014
In 2014, van Garderen finished fifth in the Tour de France.[28]
2015
In 2015, van Garderen started his season at the Tour of Oman, where he took second place behind Rafael Valls.[29] He reaped his first victory of the year on the fourth stage of the Volta a Catalunya, which was the queen stage. However, he was too far down in the overall standings to affect the general classification.[30] In June, he rode the Critérium du Dauphiné as a preparation for the Tour de France. He battled with Chris Froome who edged him in the overall classification by ten seconds and finished second.[31] In spite of a strong first two weeks,[32] he abandoned the Tour de France during Stage 17 due to illness a day after the second rest day. At the time of his abandon, he was in third place overall.[33]
2016–2018
He chose to not attend the 2016 Summer Olympics over concerns of the zika virus. He was named in the start list for the 2017 Giro d'Italia.[34] He won stage 18,[35] marking his first stage victory in a Grand Tour. His 2017 Vuelta a Espana got off to a good start with Team BMC winning the Team Time Trial in Stage 1, and his 10th place finish in the General Classification marked the 3rd time van Garderen had a Top 10 finish in a Grand Tour.
Career achievements
Major results
- 2006
- 1st
Time trial, National Junior Road Championships - 2008
- 1st Stage 5 (TTT) Volta a Lleida
- 2nd Overall Flèche du Sud
- 1st Stage 2
- 2nd Overall Circuito Montañés
- 4th Overall Grand Prix Guillaume Tell
- 1st Stage 4
- 8th Overall Tour de l'Avenir
- 1st Stage 9
Time trial, National Junior Road Championships- 2009
- 1st
Overall Tour du Haut-Anjou
- 1st
Overall Circuito Montañés
- 2nd Overall Tour des Pays de Savoie
- 2nd Overall Tour de l'Avenir
- 3rd Overall Olympia's Tour
- 1st Prologue (TTT) & Stage 5
- 6th Overall Istrian Spring Trophy
- 7th De Vlaamse Pijl
- 2010
- 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Vuelta a España
- 2nd Overall Tour of Turkey
- 3rd Overall Criterium du Dauphine
- 4th Overall Tour de l'Ain
- 1st
Young rider classification
- 1st
- 9th Overall Volta ao Algarve
- 2011
- 1st Stage 3 (ITT) Tour of Utah
- 2nd Overall Volta ao Algarve
- 3rd Overall USA Pro Cycling Challenge
- 1st
Young rider classification
- 1st
- 5th Overall Tour of California
- 1st
Young rider classification
- 1st
Tour de France
Combativity award Stage 8- Held
after Stage 8
Young rider classification
Young rider classification
Combativity award Stage 8
after Stage 8- 2012
- 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
- 2nd Overall USA Pro Cycling Challenge
- 1st Stage 2
UCI Road World Championships
- 2nd
Team time trial
- 4th Time trial
- 2nd
- 4th Overall Tour of California
- 5th Overall Tour de France
- 1st Young rider classification
- 1st
- 5th Overall Paris–Nice
- 1st Young rider classification
- 1st
- 7th Overall Volta ao Algarve
- 2013
- 1st Overall Tour of California
- 1st Stage 6 (ITT)
- 1st Overall USA Pro Cycling Challenge
- 1st Stage 5 (ITT)
- 2nd Overall Tour de San Luis
- 3rd Overall Critérium International
- 1st Young rider classification
- 1st
- 4th Overall Paris–Nice
- 7th Overall Tour de Suisse
- 2014
- 1st
Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships
- 1st Overall USA Pro Cycling Challenge
- 1st Stages 3 & 6 (ITT)
- 2nd Overall Tour of Oman
- 3rd Overall Volta a Catalunya
- 1st Stage 4
- 5th Overall Tour de France
- 6th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
- 2015
- 1st Stage 9 (TTT) Tour de France
- 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Vuelta a España
- 1st Stage 4 Volta a Catalunya
- 2nd Overall Tour of Oman
- 2nd Overall Critérium du Dauphiné
- 1st Stage 3 (TTT)
Team time trial
Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships- 2016
- 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Tirreno–Adriatico
- 2nd Overall Vuelta a Andalucía
- 1st Stage 4 (ITT)
- 5th Overall Volta a Catalunya
- 6th Overall Tour de Suisse
- 1st Stage 7
- 7th Vuelta a Murcia
- 10th Overall Tour de Romandie
- 2017
- 1st Stage 18 Giro d'Italia
- 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Tirreno–Adriatico
- 2nd Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships
- 5th Overall Volta a Catalunya
- 1st Stage 2 (TTT)
- 6th Overall Tour de Romandie
- 10th Overall Vuelta a España
- 1st Stage 1 (TTT)
- 2018
- 1st Prologue Tour of Utah
- 1st Stage 3 (TTT) Tour de France
- 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Tour de Suisse
- 2nd Overall Tour of California
- 1st Stage 4 (ITT)
- 3rd
Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships
- 3rd Overall Volta ao Algarve
- 8th Tour du Finistère
Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships
General classification results timeline
Grand Tour general classification results | |||||||||
Grand Tour | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
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 Giro d'Italia | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 20 | — |
 Tour de France | — | 82 | 5 | 45 | 5 | DNF | 29 | — | 32 |
 Vuelta a España | 35 | — | — | — | — | DNF | DNF | 10 | — |
Major stage race general classification results | |||||||||
| Race | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
| Paris–Nice | — | 31 | 5 | 4 | DNF | 16 | — | — | DNF |
 Tirreno–Adriatico | — | — | — | — | — | — | 25 | 21 | — |
 Volta a Catalunya | 62 | — | DNF | — | 3 | 30 | 5 | 5 | 17 |
| Tour of the Basque Country | — | 65 | — | DNF | 6 | 11 | — | — | — |
| Tour de Romandie | — | — | DNF | — | DNF | — | 10 | 6 | 45 |
 Critérium du Dauphiné | 3 | — | 14 | — | 13 | 2 | — | — | — |
| Tour de Suisse | — | 11 | — | 7 | — | — | 6 | 35 | 37 |
| — | Did not compete |
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DNF | Did not finish |
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