Greg Henderson
Greg Henderson (2018) | |
To person | |
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Nickname | Greg |
Date of birth | September 10, 1976 |
nation | New Zealand |
discipline | Train / street |
End of career | 2017 |
Team (s) | |
2002–2003 2004–2006 2007 2008–2009 2010–2011 2012–2016 2017 |
7 UP-Maxxis Health Net-Maxxis T-Mobile-Team Team High Road Team Sky Lotto Belisol Team UnitedHealthcare |
Most important successes | |
Road |
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Team (s) as sporting director | |
2017– | National track team (endurance) of the USA |
Last updated: March 6, 2017 |
Gregory Henderson (born September 10, 1976 in Dunedin ) is a retired New Zealand cyclist . In track cycling he became World Scratch Champion . Among other things, he won a stage of the Vuelta a España on the road . Since 2017 he has been the sporting director of the US national team in the endurance area.
Career
In 1996 Greg Henderson was New Zealand time trial champion . In the following years he won numerous national championships in various cycling disciplines.
In the early years of his career, Henderson was particularly successful on the track. He won two team pursuits with the New Zealand national team in the 2000 Track Cycling World Cup . In the next few years, more World Cup victories followed in team pursuit, scratch, points race and Madison . In 2002 he also won the points race at the Commonwealth Games after finishing third in the same discipline in 1998. At the World Railroad Championships in 2003 , he and his compatriot Hayden Roulston won the silver medal in the Madison. He celebrated his greatest success in 2004 when he became world champion in scratch. He did not manage to defend this title, but he was runner-up in the following event. At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , he narrowly missed a medal. He was fourth in the points race and seventh in the Madison.
After winning international cycling races alongside his track successes on the road, Henderson joined the German UCI ProTeam T-Mobile in 2007 and devoted himself primarily to road cycling. He won since 2009 a. a. two stages from Paris – Nice and one of the Tour of Catalonia , stage race of the highest UCI category . Probably the greatest success of his career so far was when he won the third stage of the Vuelta a España 2009 in a mass sprint. Henderson was on the Columbia-HTC team as a driver for his team-mate André Greipel , but took his own chance after communication with Greipel was disrupted. After two years with Team Sky , he returned to the Lotto Belisol Team in 2012 for Greipel, where he stayed until 2016.
In 2017, Greg Henderson joined the UnitedHealthcare Professional Cycling Team . In August of that year he contested his last race with the Colorado Classic . He then took up the position of sporting director of the USA national endurance team.
Professional
Henderson holds a bachelor's degree in sports science from the University of Otago . He has been a trainer since 2014. After completing his active cycling career in 2017, he became the sporting director of the US national endurance team.
Private
Greg Henderson is married to the Australian cyclist Katie Mactier . The family lived in Girona until they moved to Boulder , Colorado , USA .
successes
Placements in the Grand Tours
Grand Tour | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
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Giro d'Italia | DNF | - | - | 88 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Tour de France | - | - | - | - | - | 124 | 162 | DNF | WD | 155 | - |
Vuelta a España | - | - | 123 | - | - | - | DNF | 133 | - | - | - |
Web links
- Greg Henderson in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Greg Henderson in the ProCyclingStats.com database
- Greg Henderson in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Greipels approaching Henderson can cheer -. In: radsport-news.com. August 31, 2009, accessed November 1, 2017 .
- ^ Cycling: Greipel helper Henderson extends Lotto. In: zeit.de . July 12, 2013, accessed November 1, 2017 .
- ↑ a b Greg Henderson joins USA Cycling as Endurance Performance Director. In: Cycling News. September 14, 2017, accessed November 1, 2017 .
- ↑ Henderson's outstanding career. In: odt.co.nz. August 24, 2017, accessed November 1, 2017 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Henderson, Greg |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Henderson, Gregory |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | New Zealand cyclist |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 10, 1976 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Dunedin |