George Bennett (cyclist)

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George Bennett Road cycling
George Bennett (2015)
George Bennett (2015)
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Full name George Nelson Bennett
Date of birth April 7, 1990
nation New ZealandNew Zealand New Zealand
discipline Street
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Current team Jumbo Visma
function driver
Last updated: March 12, 2020

George Nelson Bennett (born April 7, 1990 in Nelson ) is a New Zealand cyclist .

Career

Bennett achieved a stage win in 2010 at the Tour of Vineyards , the Tour of Tasmania and the Bechmark Homes Tour . In addition, he was able to place in the top 10 in the overall standings of the Tour of Wellington and the Ronde de l'Isard .

For the 2011 season, Bennett received his first contract with an international cycling team , the US UCI Continental Team Trek Livestrong U23 , and at the end of the season rode as a stagiaire for the American UCI ProTeam Team RadioShack . In the same season he won the overall ranking of the Tour of Wellington and finished second in the final classification of the Ronde de l'Isard . In addition, he was third in the overall ranking of the UCI Oceania Tour .

In 2012 he received a regular contract with the successor team of the RadioShack RadioShack-Nissan team , for which the Giro d'Italia 2013 contested his first Grand Tour and finished in 122nd place. He also took second place in the New Zealand road championships.

In a health check carried out by the Union Cycliste Internationale before the 2015 Giro d'Italia, Bennett's results showed that the cortisone level was too low , which can be an indication of an illness, but also of the use of cortisone as a doping agent . Although this did not prevent a start according to the rules of the UCI, his Dutch team Lotto NL-Jumbo voluntarily withdrew him from the start according to the rules of the Mouvement Pour un Cyclisme Crédible .

In 2016, Bennett started in the road race at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro but couldn't finish it. He finished tenth overall at the Vuelta a España 2016 , making him the first New Zealander to place in the top ten of a Grand Tour . The following year he won the Tour of California , again the first win for a New Zealander on a UCI World Tour . At the Tour de France 2019 he won the team time trial with his team Jumbo-Visma .

Honors

In 2019, George Bennett received a New Zealand Cycling Award .

successes

2011
2013
  • silver New Zealand Road Championship
2017
2019
2020

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia 122 - - - - 8th -
Yellow jersey Tour de France - - - 53 DNF - 24
Red jersey Vuelta a España - 89 37 10 DNF 35 33
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Teams

Web links

Commons : George Bennett  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Giro: Bennett fails the health check. radsport-news.com, May 9, 2015, accessed May 9, 2015 .
  2. ↑ LottoNL jumbo pull Bennett from Giro due to low cortisol levels. cyclingnews.com, May 8, 2015, accessed May 9, 2015 .
  3. ^ Phillip Rollo: Kiwi cyclist George Bennett creates history in Tour of California triumph. In: stuff.co.nz. Accessed May 21, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Development work rewarded at cycling annual awards evening. In: Cycling New Zealand. May 27, 2019, accessed May 28, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Bennett, George
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bennett, George Nelson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Nelson , New Zealand