Álvaro Hodeg

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Álvaro Hodeg Road cycling
Hodeg in the leadership jersey of the Deutschland Tour 2018
Hodeg in the leadership jersey of the Deutschland Tour 2018
To person
Full name Álvaro José Hodeg Chagüi
Date of birth September 16, 1996
nation ColombiaColombia Colombia
discipline Street
Driver type sprinter
To the team
Current team Deceuninck-Quick-Step
function driver
Most important successes

one stage Volta a Catalunya
one stage Tour of Poland
one stage BinckBank Tour

Last updated: January 31, 2019

Álvaro José Hodeg Chagüi (born September 16, 1996 in Montería ) is a Colombian cyclist . He is considered a sprint specialist in road cycling .

Career

Hodeg grew up as the son of a cattle farmer and initially devoted himself to table tennis , volleyball , tennis and soccer before his godfather introduced him to cycling . He won a medal in the Pan American Championships and several national championships.

At the beginning of the 2017 season, Hodeg drove for the UCI Continental Team Equipo de ciclismo Coldeportes Zenu and at the end of the season drove with the UCI WorldTeam Quick-Step Floors as a stagiaire . In autumn of this year he won his first race on the international calendar as a member of his national team at the UCI Nations' Cup U23 - Tour de l'Avenir stage race .

For the 2018 season, Hodeg received a regular contract with Quick-Step Floors and won his first international elite competition with the one-day race Handzame Classic and his first races of the UCI WorldTour with stages of the Volta a Catalunya and Tour of Poland .

In the 2019 season, Hodeg won another WoldTour race with a stage of the BinckBank Tour . Two days after he scored his seventh individual UCI win of the season with Sparkassen Münsterland GIRO at the beginning of October , he fell in the Belgian Tour de l'Eurométropole , breaking his left forearm, right shoulder and two ribs.

Trivia

Hodeg's real last name is Hodge , inherited from his great-grandfather, who left Scotland to emigrate to the United States , but ended up in Colombia . For reasons inexplicable to Hodeg, the spelling of the surname was changed in his official papers, but he nevertheless insists that his real surname is Hodge and that it is also pronounced Hodsch (hɒdʒ) in English .

successes

2017

2018

2019

Teams

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b 3: 2! Hodeg returns the favor from Ackermann. In: radsport-news.com. August 23, 2018. Retrieved August 23, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Münsterland Giro winner Hodeg fell badly. In: rad-net.de. October 6, 2019, accessed October 6, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Alvaro Hodeg: From Monteria to Europe, via Medellin. In: quickstepfloorscycling.com. Accessed August 24, 2018 .

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personal data
SURNAME Hodeg, Álvaro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hodeg Chagüi, Álvaro José (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Colombian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1996
PLACE OF BIRTH Montería