Adam Yates (cyclist)
Adam Yates (2014) | |
To person | |
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Date of birth | August 7, 1992 |
nation | United Kingdom |
discipline | Street |
Driver type | Mountain riders |
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Current team | Mitchelton-Scott |
function | driver |
Most important successes | |
Last updated: September 26, 2017 |
Adam Yates (born August 7, 1992 in Bury ) is a British cyclist . His twin brother Simon is also a cyclist.
Career
In 2011 and 2012 he won bronze medals at the British Scratch Championships, in 2013 he won a stage of the Tour de Franche Comté Cycliste and came second in the overall standings of the Tour de l'Avenir .
For the 2014 season, he and his twin brother Simon joined the Australian ProTeam Orica GreenEdge . In his first season for the team, he celebrated his first victories in races on the international cycling calendar by winning a stage and the overall ranking of the Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey in May . His first success on the WorldTour was when he won the Clásica San Sebastián 2015 , where he benefited from the fall of the runaway Greg Van Avermaet .
At the 2016 Tour de France , he became the first British cyclist to win the junior rider classification and came fourth overall. In addition, Adam was nominated for participation in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and finished 15th in the road race.
In 2017, in eighth place, seven seconds behind the winner at Liège – Bastogne – Liège, he achieved his best result to date at a cycling monument . At the Giro d'Italia that followed , he led the youngsters' classification and finally came in ninth overall.
successes
- 2014
- Overall ranking and one stage Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey
- Gran Premio Industria e Artigianato
- 2015
- 2016
- Tour de France junior competition
- 2017
- 2018
- a stage Tirreno – Adriatico
- a stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné
- 2019
- a stage Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
- Team time trial Tirreno – Adriatico
- one stage tour of Catalonia
- One stage and mountain classification Tour of the Basque Country
- Overall ranking, one stage and mountain ranking Tour of Croatia
- 2020
- Overall ranking and one stage UAE Tour
Grand Tour placements
Grand Tour | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
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Giro d'Italia | - | - | - | 9 | - | - |
Tour de France | - | 50 | 4th | - | 29 | 29 |
Vuelta a España | 82 | - | - | 34 | 45 | - |
Teams
- 2014 Orica GreenEdge
- 2015 Orica GreenEdge
- 2016 Orica GreenEdge
- 2016 Orica-BikeExchange
- 2017 Orica-Scott
- 2018 Mitchelton-Scott
- 2019 Mitchelton-Scott
- 2020 Mitchelton-Scott
Web links
- Adam Yates in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Adam Yates in the ProCyclingStats.com database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Clasica San Sebastian: Accompanying motorcycle brings down Van Avermaet, Yates wins. In: Velomotion. Degen Bikeportal UG, August 2, 2015, accessed on August 26, 2019 .
- ↑ In the future a British duel for the yellow jersey? radsport-news.com, July 26, 2016, accessed August 14, 2016 .
- ↑ Yates climbs into the top ten and takes the whites off Jungels. In: radsport-news.com. May 25, 2017. Retrieved September 26, 2017 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Yates, Adam |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British cyclist |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 7, 1992 |