Chris Froome

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Chris Froome Road cycling
Chris Froome (2013)
Chris Froome (2013)
To person
Full name Christopher Froome
Nickname Froomey
Date of birth 20th May 1985 (age 35)
nation United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
discipline Street
Driver type Tour driver
height 1.86 m
Racing weight 69 kg
To the team
Current team Ineos
function driver
Team (s)
2007
2008–2009
2010–2020
Konica Minolta
Barloworld
Ineos
Most important successes
UCI WorldTour
Yellow jerseyTour de France 2013 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017
Jersey pink.svg Giro d'Italia 2018
Jersey red.svgVuelta a Espana 2011 , 2017
Olympic games
bronze 2012 Olympic Games - Individual Time Trial
bronze 2016 Olympic Games - Individual Time Trial
Last updated: May 21, 2019

Christopher "Chris" Froome OBE (born May 20, 1985 in Nairobi , Kenya ) is a Kenyan- British cyclist . He is a four-time winner of the Tour de France (2013, 2015–2017) and also won the other two great country tours with the Vuelta a España 2011 , the Vuelta a España 2017 and the Giro d'Italia 2018 .

Athletic career

Beginnings in Africa

Froome was born in Kenya and initially dedicated himself to mountain biking . As a teenager he moved to South Africa with his parents . Until 2007, Froome competed in international cycling races with a Kenyan license, since then he has been riding with a British license due to his British citizenship acquired through his parents. For Kenya he won the silver medal in the B-World Championship in the individual time trial in 2007 , and in the road race of the African Games he was third in the same year.

After Froome had already driven for the South African Continental Team Konica Minolta in 2007 , he switched to the South African Professional Continental Team Barloworld in 2008 . For Barloworld he competed in the 2008 Tour de France and the 2009 Giro d'Italia . He finished these tours in positions 84 and 36.

Change to Team Sky

In the 2010 season, Froome became a member of the British UCI ProTeam Sky ProCycling . At the Giro d'Italia 2010 he was disqualified on the 19th stage after he let himself be pulled by a police motorcycle in an ascent in order to be able to finish the stage despite knee problems.

Froome (l.) And Juan José Cobo on the 19th stage of the Vuelta a España 2011

In 2011 he joined the Vuelta a España as a helper for team captain Bradley Wiggins . In the time trial on the 10th stage, he finished second behind Tony Martin and took the lead in the overall standings. On the next stage, he took over the tracking work for his team, was thereby distanced from the finish and slipped to second place behind Bradley Wiggins. He finished the steep climb to the Alto de Angliru before his captain, who lost the lead to stage winner Juan José Cobo . Froome won the 17th stage, one second ahead of Cobo and reduced the gap to the Spaniard to just 13 seconds. However, he was unable to reduce this gap any further in the following stages and at the end of the tour he came in second overall. When Cobo was subsequently disqualified for doping in 2019, Froome was officially the winner of the tour.

Froome (r.) In the role of Bradley Wiggins' helper at the 2012 Tour de France

At the 2012 Tour de France , Froome was again used to support Wiggins and was sometimes superior to him in the mountains. Froome was able to win the mountain finish to La Planche des Belles Filles on the 7th stage , Wiggins took over the yellow jersey . In the time trial on stage 9 , he finished second behind Bradley Wiggins and moved up to third overall. On the 11th stage to La Toussuire he distanced himself from his captain four kilometers from the finish, but was called back a little later and moved up to second place at the end of the stage after Cadel Evans had fallen behind. He finished the tour in second, 3:21 minutes behind his captain.

Chris Froome won bronze in the time trial at the 2012 Olympics

A month later he won the bronze medal in the time trial at the Olympic Games in London .

At the end of the season, Froome played as captain of the Vuelta a España . On the mountain finish on the 3rd stage he was third and after the 4th stage moved up to second place in the overall standings, but lost a lot of time in the second half of the tour and finished the Tour of Spain 10:16 minutes behind Alberto Contador .

From the 2021 season, Chris Froome will drive for the Israel Start-up Nation team : a long-term contract is to be signed on August 1, 2020.

Tour de France victories

At the Tour de France 2013 , Froome started as captain of his Sky team for the first time in the absence of last year's winner Wiggins, who was missing due to injury. He took over the yellow jersey with a solo victory on the mountain finish of the 8th stage . He subsequently extended his lead and won both the 15th stage on Mont Ventoux and the time trial of the 17th stage . In the overall standings he finally had a lead of 4:20 minutes on the runner-up Nairo Quintana . After this victory he was the favorite of the Tour de France 2014 , but had to give up the race after falling on the 4th and 5th stage with bruises on his elbows, hips and wrists as well as massive abrasions.

At the 2015 Tour de France , he took over the yellow jersey after the 7th stage after Tony Martin , who had been leading until then , retired due to an injury. Froome won the 10th stage , which ended with a mountain finish in La Pierre Saint-Michel , 59 seconds ahead of his teammate Richie Porte . As a result of the tour, he fended off all attacks by his opponents and only lost some time on the later second-placed Nairo Quintana on the 19th stage to La Toussuire and on the 20th stage to L'Alpe d'Huez . He won the tour by 1:12 minutes and was also the first overall winner since Eddy Merckx in 1969 to secure the mountain classification .

Froome won the 8th stage of the Tour de France 2016 after an attack on the descent of the last mountain and thus took over the overall lead, which he did not give up until Paris. He also won the individual time trial of the 18th stage and was the overall winner with 4:05 minutes ahead of Romain Bardet .

Froome (r.) And Rigoberto Urán at the Tour de France 2017
Chris Froome on the podium of the Vuelta a España 2017

He won the Tour de France 2017 with a 54 second lead over Rigoberto Urán without having won a stage. He took over the yellow jersey on the mountain finish of the Tour de France 2017/5. Stage , but lost it in the meantime after a weakness on the finish slope of the 12th stage to Fabio Aru , who, however, already arrived in the back field on the 14th stage and had to give up the lead again to Froome - who then defended it to the end. Froome won the subsequent Vuelta a España 2017 and also won two stages, the points and the combination classification. He finished the season with the bronze medals of the road world championships in team and individual time trials.

Froome shortly before his attack on Colle delle Finestre on the 19th stage of the Giro d'Italia 2018

After his Tour-Vuelta double, Chris Froome also contested the Giro d'Italia 2018 for the first time since 2009 , despite ongoing investigations. In training for the opening time trial in Jerusalem he crashed and later lost 37 seconds to winner Tom Dumoulin . On the 9th stage, Froome fell again, the next day he lost around a minute after Gran Sasso d'Italia . He was able to win the difficult mountain finish to Monte Zoncolan on the 14th stage , but was still 3:10 minutes behind in the overall standings. On the next stage, he again lost time and its deficit to the pink jersey of Simon Yates grew to 4:52 minutes. Last week he was able to move up to fourth in the time trial on stage 16, and two stages later he made up time on Yates and was now 3:22 minutes behind. On the 19th stage, the royal stage of the tour, Froome started a solo attack around 80 kilometers from the finish at Colle delle Finestre , crossed the finish line three minutes before the second of the day, took the lead in the overall standings and was now 40 seconds ahead of Tom Dumoulin . He was able to defend his lead and became the seventh cyclist to win all three Grand Tours at least once, and he is only the third after Eddy Merckx (1972–1973) and Bernard Hinault (1982–1983) in at least three consecutive years great tours emerged as the overall winner. At the Tour de France 2018, Froome was unable to repeat his previous year's victory and was third overall behind his team-mate Geraint Thomas and Tom Dumoulin from the Sunweb team .

In June 2019, Chris Froome had an accident while inspecting the track for the individual time trial of the Critérium du Dauphiné . While he was taking one hand off the handlebars to blow his nose, he was caught in a sudden gust of wind and hit the wall at high speed. He broke a thigh , hip , elbow and several ribs . After an operation in the hospital of Saint-Étienne , he was transferred to the intensive care unit, after about three weeks he was able to leave the clinic. His start in the following Tour de France had to be canceled.

Illness and doping allegations

In 2010 Froome was diagnosed with the debilitating tropical disease schistosomiasis . Since then he has been treated with special drugs. Skeptics see this as parallels because of doping blocked Lance Armstrong , who due to his cancer had an exemption for certain therapies.

On the 14th stage of the Tour de France 2015 he was splashed with a mug of urine by a spectator, which Froome also attributed to critical comments from French journalists, including the former professional Laurent Jalabert . Sports journalist David Walsh , who was instrumental in uncovering the doping program of Lance Armstrong and his US Postal team , rates Froome as clean, among other things because, unlike Armstrong at the same time in his career, there is no evidence of doping practices .

In December 2017 it became known that Froome had submitted a doping sample during the Vuelta 2017, in which the limit value for the substance salbutamol was exceeded. This was the result of joint research by the Guardian and Le Monde ; the world cycling association UCI confirmed the result of the test. Froome said it was well known that he had asthma . This got worse during the Vuelta, which is why he increased the dose of salbutamol on the advice of the team doctor. However, he was careful not to exceed the permissible dose. The limit value of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) for salbutamol is 1000 nanograms per milliliter (ng / ml). A concentration of 2000 ng / ml was detected in Froome.

The Amaury Sport Organization initially banned Froome from participating in the 2018 Tour de France due to an ongoing doping process . His team Sky appealed against this to the arbitration tribunal of the French Olympic Committee. When the world cycling association Union Cycliste Internationale did not request a ban on Froome immediately afterwards, the representative of the tour organization Christian Prudhomme declared the start ban null and void. The statements by Froome, his Team Sky and WADA continued to be viewed critically. WADA has now announced that the Salbutamol test is prone to errors, even though drivers had previously been convicted of precisely this test. At the presentation of the team before the tour began, Froome was booed and whistled down by the audience.

Honors

In 2013 Chris Froome was awarded the Vélo d'Or . In 2015 he received this award again, in 2016 he finished second behind Peter Sagan .

After his first two Tour de France victories, Froome was awarded the Order of the British Empire in 2016.

successes

2007

2009

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

  • Jersey pink.svgOverall ranking, Jersey blue.svgmountain ranking and two stages of the Giro d'Italia

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - 36 DSQ - - - - - - - 1 -
Yellow jersey Tour de France 84 - - - 2 1 DNF 1 1 1 3 -
Red jersey Vuelta a España - - - 1 4th - 2 DNF 2 1 - -
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout. DSQ: disqualification.

Web links

Commons : Chris Froome  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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