David Zabriskie

David Zabriskie

David Zabriskie (2006)
To person
Date of birth	January 12, 1979
nation	United States
discipline	Street
Driver type	Time trial
Team (s)
2000 2001–2004 2005–2007 2008–2013	7 UP-Colorado Cyclist US Postal Service Team CSC Garmin Sharp
Most important successes
American champion - individual time trial 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012 Tour of Missouri 2009 two stages Vuelta a España 2004 one stage Tour de France 2005 one stage Giro d'Italia 2005, 2008 World Championship - individual time trial 2006
Last updated: November 15, 2015

David Zabriskie at the Tour de Romandie 2011

David "Dave" Zabriskie (born January 12, 1979 in Salt Lake City , Utah ) is a former American cyclist . He achieved his greatest successes in time trials .

Career

From 2001 to 2004 he drove for the US Postal Team , from 2005 to 2007 he was part of the Danish CSC team. In 2008 he switched to the American team Slipstream-Chipotle , which was sponsored by Garmin this season and took the name of the new main sponsor.

His greatest successes up to 2006 included a stage win at the Vuelta a España in 2004 , winning the 8th stage ( individual time trial ) at the Giro d'Italia 2005 , the opening time trial of the Tour de France 2005 and the silver medal in the individual time trial at the UCI road World Championships 2006 . Zabriskie was the US time trial champion in 2000 (U23), 2004 and 2006.

In the 2007-2009 years he was able to defend the title of national time trial champion. In 2009 he also won a tour of the Tour of Missouri for the first time in his career . He laid the foundation for the overall victory on the third stage with a superior victory in the time trial. After being national time trial champion four times in a row, Zabriskie decided not to defend his title in 2010. In 2011 he won both the Tour de Romandie time trial and the Tour of California time trial . He also won the national time trial championship for the sixth time.

On October 10, 2012, Zabriskie was banned from the USADA for doping . On October 6, 2013, he contested his last international race with the Tour of Lombardy and then retired from competitive cycling.

successes

2004

• American champion - individual time trial
• a stage and team time trial Vuelta a España

2005

• a stage Tour de France
• a stage of the Giro d'Italia

2006

• American champion - individual time trial
• Prologue and a stage Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
• World Championship - Individual Time Trial

2007

• American champion - individual time trial

2008

• Tour de Georgia team time trial
• Giro d'Italia team time trial
• American champion - individual time trial

2009

• American champion - individual time trial
• Overall standings and one stage Tour of Missouri

2010

• one stage Tour of California

2011

• a stage Tour de Romandie
• one stage Tour of California
• American champion - individual time trial
• Tour de France team time trial

2012

• one stage Tour de Langkawi
• one stage Tour of California
• American champion - individual time trial
• Tour of Utah team time trial

Grand Tour overall ranking

Grand Tour	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
Giro d'Italia	-	-	-	104	-	58	DNF	152	-	-	-
Tour de France	-	-	-	DNF	74	DNF	-	77	101	DNF	100
Vuelta a España	120	-	DNF	-	-	-	-	-	DNF	-	-

Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Web links

Commons : David Zabriskie  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official site of David Zabriskie
• David Zabriskie in the Radsportseiten.net database
• David Zabriskie in the ProCyclingStats.com database
• David Zabriskie in the Tour de France database(French / English )
• David Zabriskie in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tour record driver Hincapie admits doping. In: Spiegel Online. October 10, 2012, accessed December 4, 2014 . 
2. ↑ Lombardy Tour is Zabriskie's last race of his career. October 6, 2013, accessed October 6, 2013 .