Edvald Boasson Hagen

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Edvald Boasson Hagen Road cycling
Edvald Boasson Hagen (2015)
Edvald Boasson Hagen (2015)
To person
Date of birth May 17, 1987
nation NorwayNorway Norway
discipline Street
Driver type Sprinter / time trial
To the team
Current team NTT Pro Cycling
function driver
Team (s)
2006–2007
2008–2009
2010–2014
2015
2016–2019
2020 		Maxbo Bianchi
Team Columbia-High Road
Team Sky
MTN-Qhubeka
Team Dimension Data
NTT Pro Cycling
Most important successes

one stage Giro d'Italia
three stages Tour de France
Gent – ​​Wevelgem 2009
overall ranking Eneco Tour 2009
Vattenfall Cyclassics 2011 World Championship - road race 2012
silver

Last updated: May 17, 2017

Edvald Boasson Hagen (born May 17, 1987 in Lillehammer ) is a Norwegian cyclist .

Career

Edvald Boasson Hagen became Norwegian junior champion on the road in 2004. A year later he defended this title and was also time trial champion. He also won stages in the junior races of the Peace Tour and the Lower Saxony Tour . In 2006 he drove for the Maxbo Bianchi team and mainly took part in U23 races. He won stages in the Tour Nord-Isère , the Ringerike GP and the Thuringia Tour . He also decided three stages in the Tour de l'Avenir for himself.

For the 2008 season he received his first contract with a UCI ProTeam with Team Columbia . For this team he won u. a. With a stage of the ENECO Tour in 2008 his first UCI ProTour race, in 2009 with Gent – ​​Wevelgem his first classic , with a stage of the Giro d'Italia in 2009 his first Grand Tour stage and with the overall ranking of the Eneco Tour 2009 his first ProTour Stage race .

In 2010 he switched to the Sky Professional Cycling Team and won the 6th stage to Lisieux and the 17th stage to Pinerolo in the 2011 Tour de France . In 2012 he won the points classification at the Tour Down Under in January . Another stage win in the Algarve Tour in Portugal should follow in February . In addition, he was also first in the points evaluation there. In March 2012 he won a stage in the Tirreno-Adriatico . On his home tour , the Tour of Norway , he won a stage and the overall ranking. This was followed by a stage at the Critérium du Dauphiné . He also won the Norwegian championship title in the individual time trial and road race . At the end of August he won the UCI WorldTour race Grand Prix Ouest France in Brittany .

At the end of the 2012 season he won the silver medal in the road race of the World Championship in Valkenburg in the Netherlands behind Belgian Philippe Gilbert .

2013 also followed again the win of the Tour of Norway and the championship title in the individual time trial as well as a stage at the Criterium du Dauphine . He also won the bronze medal in the team time trial with Team Sky at the World Championships in Florence . After not achieving any particular success in 2014, he switched to the South African team MTN-Qhubeka in 2015 . There he won a stage of the Tour of the Fjord and the championship titles in road racing and in the individual time trial. In addition, there was the overall victory in the Tour of Britain . In 2016 he was again Norwegian double champion and won one day each at the WorldTour stage races Critérium du Dauphiné and Eneco Tour 2016 .

Edvald Boasson Hagen at the Tour de France team presentation 2010

At the Tour de France 2017 he was able to win the 19th stage with a five-second lead over Nikias Arndt , with whom he initially separated from a top group of nine, three kilometers from the finish, before he also distanced him. Before that, he finished second in the mass sprint on the 7th stage to Nuits-Saint-Georges , six millimeters behind Marcel Kittel .

In 2018 Boasson Hagen became Norwegian champion in the individual time trial for the fourth time in a row and thus for the tenth time.

successes

2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia 77 - - - - DNF - - - - -
Yellow jersey Tour de France - 114 51 56 DNF - 82 109 78 84 76
Red jersey Vuelta a España - - - - 84 - - - - - 96
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Web links

Commons : Edvald Boasson Hagen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ This time Boasson Hagen spares himself the photo finish. radsport-news.com, July 21, 2017, accessed July 21, 2017 .
  2. ↑ 12 victories! Kittel breaks his record on Zabel's birthday. radsport-news.com, July 7, 2017, accessed July 12, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Boasson Hagen wins Norwegian TT championship - News Shorts | Cyclingnews.com . In: Cyclingnews.com . ( cyclingnews.com [accessed June 22, 2018]).
personal data
SURNAME Hagen, Edvald Boasson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Lillehammer , Norway