Daniel Martin (cyclist)

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Daniel Martin Road cycling
Daniel Martin during the Tour de France 2017
Daniel Martin during the Tour de France 2017
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Date of birth August 20, 1986
nation IrelandIreland Ireland
discipline Street
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Current team Israel start-up nation
function driver
Most important successes
Last updated: August 28, 2020

Daniel Martin (born August 20, 1986 in Birmingham , United Kingdom ) is an Irish cyclist .

Daniel Martin is the son of the former British cyclist Neil Martin and the nephew of the Tour de France winner Stephen Roche , whose son Nicolas is therefore his cousin. Martin was born in England, but has both British and Irish citizenship. He decided to start under an Irish license while he was in the juniors , after having become the British junior road champion in 2004.

Athletic career

During his time in the U23 age group, which he competed in the service of the well-known and successful French team VC La Pomme Marseille , Daniel Martin, who was considered a great talent for climbing climbs at an early age, was able to attract attention with some very good results : He won a stage in the Giro della Valle d'Aosta stage race in 2006 and came second in the overall standings. In the following year he was able to win a stage there again and secure fourth place in the overall standings as well as the points classification. At the Tour des Pays de Savoie 2007 he won a part and was able to win the overall ranking; In addition, he was twice second on stages of the Ronde de l'Isard , which he finished fourth in the overall standings. At the end of the 2007 season he drove for the US professional Continental Team Slipstream as a stagiaire and signed his first professional contract for the following season.

Martin had his first full season as a professional in 2008 for Garmin-Chipotle presented by H3O and the first successes came straight away with a stage win and the overall ranking of the French stage race Route du Sud , the win of the Irish championship in the road race and one Fourth place in the overall ranking of the Tour of Britain . In 2009 he was able to win the junior ranking of the Mediterranean Tour , a stage race which he was able to finish third in the overall ranking.

In 2013 he won the overall ranking of the UCI WorldTour stage race Tour of Catalonia , the spring classic Liège – Bastogne – Liège and the ninth stage of the Tour de France from Saint-Girons to Bagnères-de-Bigorre . With the fall classic Il Lombardia , Martin won his second cycling monument in 2014 .

Up to and including 2017, Daniel Martin started a total of eleven times in major country tours. He was among the top ten overall rankings three times: he finished seventh at the Vuelta a España 2014 , ninth at the Tour de France 2016 and sixth at the Tour de France 2017 and eighth in 2018 .

successes

2004
  • MaillotReinoUnido.PNG British Champion - Road Race (Juniors)
2006
2007
2008
  • MaillotIrlanda.PNG Irish Champion - Road Race (U23)
  • MaillotIrlanda.PNG Irish Champion - Road Race
  • Overall ranking Route du Sud
2009
2010
2011
2013
2014
2016
2017
2018

Grand Tours placements

Grand Tour 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - 57 - - - DNF - - - - -
Yellow jersey Tour de France - - - 35 33 - 39 9 6th 8th 18th
Red jersey Vuelta a España 53 - 13 - DNF 7th DNF - - DNF -
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Teams

Web links

Commons : Daniel Martin  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dan Martin: The next big thing? In: autobus.cyclingnews.com. October 31, 2008, accessed May 26, 2018 .
  2. ^ Daniel Martin: Recycling the family name. In: autobus.cyclingnews.com. June 25, 2007. Retrieved May 26, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Martin, Daniel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Irish cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH August 20, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Birmingham , UK