František Raboň

František Raboň

František Raboň (2011)
To person
Date of birth	September 26, 1983
nation	Czech Republic
discipline	Street
End of career	2014
Most important successes
Overall ranking Murcia Tour 2010
Last updated: November 28, 2016

František Raboň (born September 26, 1983 in Prague ) is a former Czech cyclist .

Career

Raboň belonged to the Czech cycling team PSK from 2002 to 2005 and switched to the T-Mobile team in 2006 and stayed with this team or the successor team Highroad until its dissolution at the end of the 2011 season. In the 2012 and 2013 seasons he rode for the Omega Pharmaceutical team Quick Step . As a road driver , Rabon was particularly successful in time trials : he was five times Czech champion in this discipline, including three times in the elite and twice in the U23.

After he did not get a contract with Omega Pharma-Lotto for the following year, he ended his career as a road driver and switched to the UCI Elite MTB Team Specialized Racing XC. After the 2014 season, Rabon ended his career.

Familiar

Rabon is the son of František Raboň sr. (* 1959), who won twelve national championship titles as a cyclist.

successes

2004

• Czech Champion - Individual Time Trial (U23)

2005

• Czech Champion - Individual Time Trial (U23)
• Czech champion - road race (U23)
• European Champion - Road Race (U23)
• a stage of the Course de la Solidarité Olympique

2008

• Czech champion - individual time trial
• one stage Tour of Ireland

2009

• one stage tour of Murcia
• Tour de Romandie prologue and team time trial
• Czech champion - individual time trial

2010

• Overall ranking and one stage of the Murcia Tour
• Czech champion - individual time trial

2011

• Giro d'Italia team time trial

2012

• Tour de l'Ain team time trial

Grand Tours placements

Grand Tour	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011
Giro d'Italia	147	79	101	-	134	DNF
Tour de France	-	-	-	-	-	-
Vuelta a España	-	-	-	134	-	-

Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Teams

• 2002-2005 PSK
• 2006–2007 T-Mobile team
• 2008 Team High Road / Team Columbia
• 2009 Team Columbia-HTC
• 2010 Team HTC-Columbia
• 2011 HTC Highroad
• 2012–2013 Omega Pharma-Quick Step
• 2014 Specialized Racing XC (MTB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cyclingnews.com of November 23, 2013: WorldTour road racer Rabon switches to mountain bike racing
2. ↑ MTB: Rabon ends his career - Kulhavy extends his career with Specialized. rad-net.de, January 9, 2015, accessed on January 9, 2015 . 
3. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 42/1988 . Berlin, S. 8 .

Web links

Commons : František Raboň  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• František Raboň in the Radsportseiten.net database
• František Raboň in the ProCyclingStats.com database