Grégory Rast

Grégory Rast
	Grégory Rast before the second stage of the 2007 Tour of Luxembourg
To person
Date of birth	17th January 1980
nation	Switzerland
discipline	Street
To the team
Current team	Trek-Segafredo
Team (s)
2003–2006 ; 2007–2009 ; 2010–2011 ; 2012–2018	Phonak Cycling Team ; Team Astana ; Team RadioShack ; Trek-Segafredo
	Last updated: August 12, 2016

Grégory Rast (born January 17, 1980 in Ebikon ) is a former Swiss cyclist .

Career

Rast was a member of the RMV Cham-Hagendorn club and was U23 Swiss road champion in 2002 and began his professional career a year later with the Phonak Cycling Team . In 2004 and 2006 he was elite Swiss champion. Rast started in the road race at the 2012 Olympic Games in London and finished eighth. His first success in a UCI ProTour competition was on the sixth stage of the Tour de Suisse 2013 between Leuggern and Meilen , which he won in a sprint of a six-man breakaway group.

Before starting his cycling career, he learned the profession of plumber.