Christopher Juul

Christopher Juul
	Christopher Juul (2015)
To person
Full name	Christopher Juul-Jensen
Date of birth	July 6, 1989
nation	Denmark
discipline	Street
Driver type	All-rounder
To the team
Current team	Mitchelton-Scott
function	driver
Most important successes
	Tour de Suisse 2018 - 4th stage
	Last updated: June 12, 2018

Christopher Juul-Jensen (born July 6, 1989 in Kilmacanogue , Ireland ) is a Danish road cyclist.

Athletic career

Christopher Juul grew up as the son of Danish parents in Ireland and started mountain biking there . When numerous roads were closed there in 2001 because of the foot and mouth disease , he switched to the street. In 2005 he started for Ireland at the European Youth Olympic Festival . At the age of 16 he moved to Denmark for school reasons.

In 2007 Juul won a stage at the Tour du Pays de Vaud in the junior class and also won the overall standings. In the same year he was together with Rasmus Guldhammer and Ricky Jørgensen Danish champion in the team time trial of the youth class. From 2008 Juul drove for the Danish Continental Team Glud & Marstrand . In the 2010 season he finished eighth in the U23 event in Liège-Bastogne-Liège and second in the U23 road race of the national championship. In 2011 Juul was again U23 runner-up in the road race and won the overall standings at the Coupe des Nations Ville Saguenay . After four years at Glud & Marstrand, he moved to the Danish ProTeam Saxo Bank in 2012 , where in his first season he was primarily to act as a team helper and gain experience.

In 2015 Christopher Juul became Danish champion in the individual time trial and won the overall ranking of the Tour of Denmark . The following year he finished 32nd in the road race at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro .

In 2018, Juul won the fourth stage of the Tour de Suisse .

successes

2007

Overall ranking and one stage Tour du Pays de Vaud (Juniors)

Danish Youth Champion - Team Time Trial (with Rasmus Guldhammer and Ricky Jørgensen )

2011

Overall classification Coupe des Nations Ville Saguenay (U23)

Danish champion - team time trial (with Lasse Bøchman , Daniel Foder , Jimmi Sørensen , Michael Valgren and Troels Rønning )

2015

Danish champion - individual time trial
Overall ranking Tour of Denmark

2018

one stage Tour de Suisse

2019

Team time trial Tirreno-Adriatico
Team time trial Czech Cycling Tour

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Giro d'Italia	100	135	-	109	74	70
Tour de France	-	-	119	-	-	112
Vuelta a España	-	-	-	107	-

Teams

Web links

Commons : Christopher Juul - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Christopher Juul in the Radsportseiten.net database

Christopher Juul in the ProCyclingStats.com database

Individual evidence

↑ Saxo Bank SunGard signs Danish talent Chris Juul-Jensen. In: velonation.com. June 12, 2018, accessed June 12, 2018 .
^ The amazing story of Irish-born Chris Juul Jensen; new Tour of Denmark champ - Sticky Bottle. In: stickybottle.com. December 27, 2011, accessed June 12, 2018 .

personal data
SURNAME	Juul, Christopher
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Juul-Jensen, Christopher (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Danish road cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH	July 6, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ireland

[velonati-9294-1] Saxo Bank SunGard signs Danish talent Chris Juul-Jensen. In: velonation.com. June 12, 2018, accessed June 12, 2018 .

[stickybo-The_amaz-2] The amazing story of Irish-born Chris Juul Jensen; new Tour of Denmark champ - Sticky Bottle. In: stickybottle.com. December 27, 2011, accessed June 12, 2018 .