Cadel Evans

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Cadel Evans Road cycling
Cadel Evans, at the Critérium du Dauphiné 2012
Cadel Evans, at the Critérium du Dauphiné 2012
To person
Date of birth February 14, 1977
nation AustraliaAustralia Australia
discipline Mountain bike (until 2001), road
Team (s)
1997
1998
1999, 2001
2002
2003–2004
2005–2009
2010–2015 		DiamondBack International
Volvo-Cannondale
Saeco
Mapei
T-Mobile
Lotto
BMC Racing Team
Most important successes

Yellow jersey Tour de France 2011 UCI Road World Champion 2009 UCI ProTour 2007 Tour de Romandie 2006 , 2011 La Flèche Wallonne 2010 Tirreno – Adriatico 2011
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Last updated: July 24, 2011

Cadel Lee Evans (born February 14, 1977 in Katherine , Northern Territory ) is a retired Australian cyclist .

As a mountain biker , he won the Mountain Bike World Cup in 1998 and 1999 , before finally switching to the road in 2001 after a few excursions into road cycling . His greatest successes on the road were winning the Tour de France 2011 and the world title in 2009 .

Athletic career

Mountain bike and first years as a road professional

Cadel Evans began his cycling career as a mountain biker with the Australian Institute of Sport . In 1998 and 1999 he won the Mountain Bike World Cup . At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney , he was seventh in cross country .

In the 2001 season, Evans focused on road cycling and joined the Italian cycling team Saeco . In 2002 he switched to Mapei and was able to take over the overall leader's pink jersey from Jens Heppner at the Giro d'Italia after the 16th stage , but collapsed on the following stage and lost ten minutes on the last climb. He finished his first Grand Tour in 14th place.

In 2003 and 2004 he drove for the German T-Mobile team . After breaking his collarbone three times in his first year there , team leader Walter Godefroot classified him as a “safety risk” and not nominated for the 2004 Tour de France .

First career highlights on the road

Evans in 2008

In the 2005 season Evans moved to the Belgian UCI ProTeam Davitamon-Lotto . With this team he scored his greatest successes so far on the road: In 2006 he won with a victory in the individual time trial , the UCI ProTour - stage race Tour de Romandie . After the doping suspension of Danilo di Luca and a sixth place at the Tour of Lombardy , he won the overall title of the 2007 UCI ProTour .

Evans also became a favorite for the Tour de France . He finished seventh in 2005 , fourth in 2006, and second in both 2007 and 2008 . He was beaten by Alberto Contador by 23 seconds in 2007 and by Carlos Sastre by 58 seconds in 2008 . At the Tour de France 2009 Evans did not confirm these placements and reached 30th place in the overall standings.

After Evans third in the 2009 Vuelta a España had become, he became the after an attack on the last climb Road World Championships in the Swiss Mendrisio Elite World Champion in the road race and celebrated the hitherto greatest success of his career. He became the second Australian title holder after Jack Hoobin , who won the amateurs in 1950 .

After critical remarks about what he believed to be a lack of support from the team at the Tour de France, the team management agreed with Evans to terminate the ongoing contract early after the end of the season, so that in 2010 he joined the BMC Racing Team , which was then still had a license as a Professional Continental Team .

Tour de France victory 2011

Evans at the prologue to the Tour de Romandie 2011

Evans celebrated his first victory for the BMC team on April 21, 2010 at the Flèche Wallonne after an attack on the final slope in Huy ahead of Alberto Contador . This was both his first victory in a classic and the first victory of an Australian in this race. At the Giro d'Italia 2010 Evans won a stage, the points classification, and achieved fifth place in the overall classification. On the eighth stage of the Tour de France 2010 Evans won the yellow jersey and had to give up the lead on the next stage because of a broken elbow. He finished the tour as far as Paris and finished 26th.

After Evans had already won the stage races Tirreno-Adriatico and Tour de Romandie in 2011 , he was able to achieve his greatest career success by winning the 2011 Tour de France . In contrast to previous years, he was able to avoid falls on the flat stages. In the mountains he lost little time to the brothers Andy and Fränk Schleck , in particular neutralized their attack on the 19th stage to Alpe d'Huez and was able to catch up in the time trial of the 20th stage and take over the overall lead from third place thus the first Australian Tour de France winner.

Evans could not repeat this success, but still took top positions in the Grand Tour . In the 2012 Tour de France he finished seventh, the 2013 Giro d'Italia third parties and 2,014 eighth. The Tour de France 2013 , however, did not go according to his expectations and after he was left behind in the mountains, he finished the tour in 39th place. His last major tour of the country was with the Vuelta a España in 2014 , where he was 52nd.

On February 1, 2015, Cadel Evans drove his last race, the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race , which was held in Geelong for the first time in his honor . He finished fifth.

Family and other things

In addition to English and Italian, Cadel Evans speaks a little German and French. He was married to the Italian Chiara, a classically trained pianist whom he met during his time with Saeco and Mapei. The two separated in 2015. The couple lived in Stabio in the canton of Ticino in Switzerland .

Cadel Evans supports the Free Tibet Movement .

Honors

In 2011, Cadel Evans was named Cyclist of the Year in Australia .

successes

Mountain bike

1993
  • MaillotAustralia.PNG Australian Champion - Cross-Country (U17)
1994
  • MaillotAustralia.PNG Australian Champion - Cross-Country (Juniors)
  • silver World Championship - Cross-Country (Juniors)
1995
  • bronze World Championship - Cross-Country (Juniors)
1996
  • MaillotAustralia.PNG Australian champion - cross-country
  • bronze World Championship - Cross-Country (U23)
1997
  • silver World Championship - Cross-Country (U23)
1998
  • Jersey worldcup.svg Overall World Cup Winner - Cross-Country
1999
  • silver World Championship - Cross-Country (U23)
  • Jersey worldcup.svg Overall World Cup Winner - Cross-Country
2001
  • silver World Championship - Relay

Street

1995
1998
1999
  • Overall ranking and one stage Tour of Tasmania
2001
2002
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014

Grand Tours placements

Grand Tour 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia 14th - - - - - - - 5 - - 3 8th
Yellow jersey Tour de France - - - 7th 4th 2 2 30th 26th 1 7th 39 -
Red jersey Vuelta a España - - 60 - - 4th - 3 - - - - 52

Web links

Commons : Cadel Evans  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cadel Evans cycling collection at nma.gov.au, accessed on November 21, 2014
  2. ↑ radsport-news.com of May 30, 2002: Savoldelli leads the Giro - New doping searches
  3. ↑ radsport-news.com of July 6, 2011: Evans has also beaten his bad luck
  4. ↑ radsport-news.com of October 18, 2007: UCI takes Di Luca out of ProTour classification
  5. ↑ radsport-news.com of September 27, 2009: Evans triumphs at the "home game"
  6. ↑ Jack Hoobin: Australia's first world road race champion on www.cyclingweekly.co.uk v. October 6, 2009 (english)
  7. ↑ cyclingnews.com of October 31, 2009: Evans to leave Silence Lotto
  8. ↑ radsport-news.com of April 21, 2010: Evans this time with the right tactics
  9. ↑ radsport-news.com from July 23, 2010: Evans rode with a broken elbow
  10. ↑ radsport-news.com of July 24, 2011: Evans - the anti-Armstrong
  11. ↑ radsport-news.com of July 22, 2011: Evans couldn't be stopped even with three early stops
  12. ↑ stern.de from July 24, 2011: Evans triumphs as the first Australian on tour  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.stern.de  
  13. ↑ radsport-news.com from July 14, 2013: Evans not where he wanted to be
  14. ↑ Evans says goodbye to his fans with a fifth place. radsport-news.com, February 1, 2015, accessed February 2, 2015 .
  15. ↑ Cadel Evans , in: Internationales Sportarchiv 24/2011 of June 14, 2011, supplemented by news from MA-Journal until week 29/2011 (accessed via Munzinger Online ).
  16. ↑ End of the road for cycling champion Cadel Evans and his wife. dailymail.co.uk, May 23, 2015, accessed November 15, 2015 .
  17. ↑ So much Switzerland is in Evans' tour victory at bazonline.ch, July 25, 2011 (accessed July 27, 2011).
  18. ↑ smh.com.au of June 13, 2008: Evans gears up for a free Tibet tour
  19. ↑ Evans is Australia's cyclist of the year on radsport-news.com v. November 11, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Evans, Cadel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Evans, Cadel Lee (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Katherine , Australia