Daryl Impey

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Daryl Impey Road cycling
Daryl Impey during the Tour de France 2018
Daryl Impey during the Tour de France 2018
To person
Date of birth December 6, 1984
nation South AfricaSouth Africa South Africa
discipline Street
Driver type All-rounder
To the team
Current team Mitchelton-Scott
function driver
Most important successes
a stage Tour de France 2019
Overall ranking Tour Down Under 2018, 2019
Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey 2009
Last updated: March 24, 2020

Daryl Impey (born December 6, 1984 in Johannesburg ) is a South African racing cyclist . He is considered a strong sprint all-rounder.

Athletic career

In 2004 Daryl Impey won a stage at the Giro del Capo . At the road cycling world championship 2006 in Salzburg he started in the road race of the U23 drivers, but could not finish the race. A little later, at the African Championship in Mauritius, he was only third in the time trial behind Robert Hunter and two days later fourth in the road race behind Darren Lill . In 2007 he won the prologue at the Giro del Capo. He won his first stage race in 2009 with the Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey despite a fall caused by the Dutch racing driver Theo Bos , in which Impey was seriously injured. At the Tour de France 2013 , after the sixth stage , Impey took the lead in the overall standings from his team-mate Simon Gerrans , who crossed the finish line a few seconds later, and thus became the first to wear the yellow jersey from Africa. In the same year he and his team won the silver medal in the team time trial at the road world championships .

In 2012 and 2016 , Impey competed in the Olympic Games. In 2012 in London he finished 40th in the individual time trial, in 2016 in Rio de Janeiro he finished 28th in the road race.

After Impey won his first stage in a UCI WorldTour race at the Tour of Catalonia in 2017 , he decided the following year, the Tour Down Under, his first WorldTour stage race. On the penultimate day, he took the lead with his second place on the finish slope, behind Richie Porte . Also in 2018 he won the Hammer Stavanger and a stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné . He was also a two-time South African champion in road races and individual time trials. The following year he won the Tour Down Under again and was able to win his national title again. The biggest success of the year was his victory in the ninth stage of the tour, as the second South African after Robert Hunter in 2007 .

At the beginning of 2020 Impey became the South African time trial champion for the ninth time.

Suspected doping

At the South African time trial championship on February 6, 2014, Impey tested positive for the doping agent probenecid , but was acquitted of suspicion of doping the following August. The acquittal was based on the testimony of Impey and witnesses, according to which he had accidentally acquired contaminated, empty gel caps in a pharmacy in order to fill them with sodium himself .

Honors

In December 2019, Daryl Impey was named Africa's Cyclist of the Year .

successes

Impey near Paris – Nice 2015
2004
2007
2008
2009
2011
  • MaillotSudáfrica.PNG South African champion - individual time trial
  • a stage Tour du Maroc
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
  • MaillotSudáfrica.PNG South African champion - individual time trial

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia DNF - - - - - - - ...
Yellow jersey Tour de France 111 74 - DNF 38 46 47 72 ...
Red jersey Vuelta a España - - - 84 - - - - ...
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Teams

Web links

Commons : Daryl Impey  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Impey wants to defend his title with the help of bonus seconds. In: radsport-news.com. January 11, 2019, accessed January 11, 2019 .
  2. ↑ radsport-news.com from May 1, 2009: Theo Bos threatens a six-month ban
  3. ↑ Exchange of shirts among friends. In: radsport-news.com. Retrieved November 14, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Impey and Dlamini shine for South Africa in Australia. In: radsport-news.com. January 21, 2018, accessed January 11, 2019 .
  5. ↑ radsport-news.com of August 29, 2014: Impey acquitted of suspected doping
  6. ↑ South Africa's Daryl Impey Named Best African Cyclist of the Year. In: sapeople.com. December 23, 2019, accessed February 20, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Impey, Daryl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION South African racing cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Johannesburg , South Africa