Charly Wegelius
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| Charly Wegelius at the Giro d'Italia 2010 | |
| To person | |
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| Full name | Charles Wegelius |
| Date of birth | April 26, 1978 |
| nation |
 United Kingdom
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| discipline | Street |
| To the team | |
| Current team | EF Pro Cycling |
| function | Sports director |
| Last updated: April 5, 2016 | |
Charles "Charly" Wegelius (born April 26, 1978 in Espoo , Finland ) is a former British cyclist and later sports director .
Career
Charly Wegelius was born to a British mother and a Finnish father; his father Christopher Wegelius competed as a show jumper at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow . The son Charly grew up in York in the north of England .
After Wegelius drove as a stagiaire with the Linda McCartney Racing Team in late summer 1999 , he received his first regular professional contract with the Belgian cycling team Mapei-Quickstep and remained a professional driver with seven different teams until the 2011 season. He competed seven times in the Giro d'Italia and three times each Tour de France and the Vuelta a España and finished these Grand Tours a total of nine times. In 2004 he started at the Olympic Games in Athens in the road race , which he did not finish.
After finishing his active cycling career in 2011, Wegelius became the sporting director of the UCI ProTeam Slipstream Sports , then under the name Garmin-Sharp .
In 2013 Wegelius published the book Domestik together with Tom Southam , another former professional cyclist and today's journalist . He said: “I learned to take incredible pain in the service of my team and literally get the most out of myself, but I never won a single race. I was just a paid workhorse, a water carrier , a domestication . ”In 2013 his book was nominated for the prestigious William Hill Sports Book of the Year .
Grand Tours placements
| Grand Tour | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 |
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 Giro d'Italia
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48 | 46 | 58 | DNF | 69 | 105 | 29 | - |
 Tour de France
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- | - | - | 45 | - | 59 | DNF | - |
 Vuelta a España
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- | 60 | DNF | - | - | DNF | - | - |
Teams
- 2000–2002 De Nardi-Pasta Montegrappa
- 2003 De Nardi-Colpack
- 2004 De Nardi
- 2005 Liquigas-Bianchi
- 2006-2008 Liquigas
- 2009 Silence Lotto
- 2010 Omega Pharma Lotto
- 2011 United Healthcare Pro Cycling
Works
- Charly Wegelius: Domestics . Covadonga, 2015, ISBN 978-395726005-5 .
Web links
- Charly Wegelius in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Charly Wegelius as sporting director in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Charly Wegelius in the ProCyclingStats.com database
- Charly Wegelius in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Domestic. In: manz.at. Retrieved April 5, 2016 .
- ↑ Andrea Reidl:Professional cycling: round trip without glamor. In: Velophil - Das Fahrrad-Blog , Zeit Online , August 5, 2015.
- ^ Two cycling titles make William Hill Sports Book of the Year longlist. In: road.cc. October 3, 2013, accessed April 6, 2016 .
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Wegelius, Charly |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wegelius, Charles (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British cyclist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 26, 1978 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Espoo , Finland |