Alexander Kristoff

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Alexander Kristoff Road cycling
Alexander Kristoff (2018)
Alexander Kristoff (2018)
To person
Date of birth 5th July 1987
nation NorwayNorway Norway
discipline Street
Driver type Sprinter, classic driver
height 181 cm
Racing weight 78 kg
To the team
Current team UAE Team Emirates
function driver
Team (s)
2006
2007–2009
2009–2011
2012–2016
2017
2018– 		Glud & Marstrand Horsens
Maxbo Bianchi
BMC Racing Team
Team Katusha
Team Katusha Alpecin
UAE Team Emirates
Most important successes

World Championships
silver Road World Championships 2017
One-day race
Milan – Sanremo 2014
Tour of Flanders 2015
Gent – ​​Wevelgem 2019
Stage race
four stages Tour de France

Last updated: August 29, 2020

Alexander Kristoff (born July 5, 1987 in Oslo ) is a Norwegian cyclist . He is the winner of the “ Monuments of Cycling ” Milan-Sanremo and Tour of Flanders .

Career

Alexander Kristoff won the Norwegian elite road racing championship in 2007 at the age of 19 . In 2008 he won his first competition on the international calendar with a stage of the Ringerike Grand Prix .

After becoming the Norwegian elite champion for the second time in 2011, Kristoff achieved his first outstanding international placement by winning the bronze medal in the road race at the 2012 Olympic Games in London . In 2013 he won a UCI WorldTour race for the first time with a stage of the Tour de Suisse .

Kristoff won his first cycling monument with Milan – Sanremo in 2014 in the sprint of the 25-strong front field. In 2014 he also won the German one-day races Eschborn – Frankfurt and Vattenfall Cyclassics as well as two stage victories in the Tour de France . In February 2015 he was able to win three stages in the Tour of Qatar and in April won the three days of De Panne with three stage wins.

Kristoff won his second cycling monument with the Tour of Flanders in 2015 , when he pulled away from Niki Terpstra about 25 kilometers from the finish , whom he beat in a sprint.

In 2017 Kristoff won the Prudential RideLondon & Surrey Classic WorldTour race and became European road racing champion. At the subsequent road world championships in his native Norway, Kristoff won the silver medal in road racing behind Peter Sagan in the sprint .

Kristoff won the Eschborn – Frankfurt 2018 sprint for the fourth time in a row and was the sole record winner of the race after winning there in 2016 and 2017 . In 2019 he won the Gent – ​​Wevelgem race .

successes

2007
  • MaillotNoruega.PNG Norwegian champion - road race
2008
2009
2011
  • MaillotNoruega.PNG Norwegian champion - road race
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020

Important placements

Monuments of cycling
Monument to cycling 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Milan – Sanremo - - 131 8th 1 2 6th 5 4th 14th
Tour of Flanders - - 15th 4th 5 1 4th 4th 16 3
Paris – Roubaix DNF DNF 57 9 DNF 10 48 DNF 57 56
Liège – Bastogne – Liège - - - - - - - - - -
Lombardy tour - - - - - - - - -
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.
Grand Tours
Grand Tour 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia 156 149 - - - - - - -
Yellow jersey Tour de France - - 147 125 130 149 130 114 139
Red jersey Vuelta a España - - - - - - - - -

Web links

Commons : Alexander Kristoff  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kristoff steals the show from the top favorites in San Remo. In: radsport-news.com. March 23, 2014, accessed October 26, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Kristoff crowns an extraordinary spring with the "Ronde". In: radsport-news.com. April 5, 2015, accessed October 26, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Kristoff becomes the sole record winner in Frankfurt. In: radsport-news.com. May 1, 2018, accessed May 1, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Kristoff, Alexander
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH 5th July 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Oslo