Adam Yates (cyclist)

Adam Yates
	Adam Yates (2014)
To person
Date of birth	August 7, 1992
nation	United Kingdom
discipline	Street
Driver type	Mountain riders
To the team
Current team	Mitchelton-Scott
function	driver
Most important successes
	Clásica San Sebastián 2015
	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.