Daniel Teklehaimanot

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Daniel Teklehaimanot Road cycling
Daniel Teklehaimanot (2018)
Daniel Teklehaimanot (2018)
To person
Full name Daniel Teklehaimanot Girmazion
Date of birth November 10, 1988
nation EritreaEritrea Eritrea
discipline Street
Most important successes
Africa Games
2019 silver - team time trial
African championships
2010 AfricanChampionJersey.png - road races, individual time trials, team time trials
2011 AfricanChampionJersey.png - individual time trial, team time trial
2012 AfricanChampionJersey.png - individual time trial, team time trial
2013 AfricanChampionJersey.png - individual time trial, team time trial
2015 AfricanChampionJersey.png - team time trial
Last updated: February 20, 2020

Daniel Teklehaimanot Girmazion (born November 10, 1988 in Debarwa ) is an Eritrean road cyclist .

Athletic career

Daniel Teklehaimanot won the sixth stage of the 2007 Tour of Eritrea , and at the Pan-African Games he finished eighth in the road race . The following year he was Eritrean road racing champion. At the end of the season he drove for the Polish Continental Team Amore & Vita-McDonald's as a stagiaire . At the African Championships in Morocco, Teklehaimanot was fifth in the individual time trial and eighth in the road race. At the 2010 African Championships in Rwanda , he was not only able to win the first continental individual title for a cyclist from Eritrea in the elite class, but was also the first athlete to win all three titles in the team time trial (with Natnael Berhane , Ferekalsi Debessay and Jani Tewelde ), individual time trials and road races .

In June 2015, Teklehaimanot secured the mountain classification of the Critérium du Dauphiné with 39 points ahead of overall winner Chris Froome , making him the first cyclist from Africa to win a classification jersey in a UCI WorldTour race. At the end of the same month he won the time trial championship in his home country.

On July 9, 2015, Teklehaimanot won the dotted jersey on the sixth stage of the Tour de France . This made him the first African in cycling history to wear this jersey for the mountain classification in the Tour de France , a "milestone for African cycling". After the two South Africans Daryl Impey , in 2013 in yellow , and Robert Hunter , in 2001 in white , he was the third African ever to wear a Tour jersey.

In June 2016, Teklehaimanot again won the mountain classification at the Critérium du Dauphiné . He also secured the national championship title in time trials and road races. Up to and including 2019, he won ten titles as Africa champion.

In 2018, Daniel Teklehaimanot drove for the French team Cofidis from February 6 , but his contract was not renewed at the end of his year. In 2019, however, he contested other races. He won the silver medal in the team time trial at the African Games .

Honors

In 2015 Daniel Teklehaimanot was named Africa's Cyclist of the Year .

successes

2008
  • EritreaEritrea Eritrean champions - road racing
  • AfricanChampionJersey.png African champions - individual time trial (U23)
  • silver African Championships - Road Race (U23)
2009
2010
2011
2012
  • AfricanChampionJersey.png African champions - team time trial
  • AfricanChampionJersey.png African champions - individual time trial
  • EritreaEritrea Eritrean champion - individual time trial
  • EritreaEritrea Eritrean champions - road racing
2013
2015
2016
2017
  • bronze Eritrean Championship - Individual Time Trial
2018
  • EritreaEritrea Eritrean champion - individual time trial
2019

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - - - - - 111
Yellow jersey Tour de France - - - 49 85 -
Red jersey Vuelta a España 146 - 47 - - -

Teams

Web links

Commons : Daniel Teklehaimanot  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ radsport-news.com - Zemke: ?? The last eight days have been incredible. In: radsport-news.com. June 15, 2015, accessed June 15, 2015 .
  2. ↑ radsport-news.com - Teklehaimanot sets a milestone for African cycling. In: radsport-news.com. July 9, 2015, accessed July 11, 2015 .
  3. ↑ Cofidis for 2019 complete: Berhane replaces Teklehaimanot. In: radsport-news.com. November 7, 2018, accessed February 20, 2020 .
  4. ^ Daniel Teklehaimanot Voted African Cyclist of the Year 2015. In: tesfanews.net. December 17, 2015, accessed December 17, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Teklehaimanot, Daniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Teklehaimanot Girmazion, Daniel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Eritrean road cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Debarwa