Greg Henderson

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Gregory Henderson Road cycling
Greg Henderson (2018)
Greg Henderson (2018)
To person
Nickname Greg
Date of birth September 10, 1976
nation New ZealandNew Zealand 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
MaillotNuevaZelanda.PNG 1996 National Champion - Individual Time Trial
one stage Vuelta a España 2009
Track
Jersey rainbow.svg 2004 World Champion - Scratch

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

1996
  • MaillotNuevaZelanda.PNG New Zealand Champion - Individual Time Trial
1997
  • MaillotNuevaZelanda.PNG New Zealand Champion - Individual Time Trial (U23)
1998
  • MaillotNuevaZelanda.PNG New Zealand Champion - Individual Time Trial (U23)
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2014

Placements in the Grand Tours

Grand Tour 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia DNF - - 88 - - - - - - -
Yellow jersey Tour de France - - - - - 124 162 DNF WD 155 -
Red jersey Vuelta a España - - 123 - - - DNF 133 - - -
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Web links

Commons : Greg Henderson  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Greipels approaching Henderson can cheer -. In: radsport-news.com. August 31, 2009, accessed November 1, 2017 .
  2. ^ Cycling: Greipel helper Henderson extends Lotto. In: zeit.de . July 12, 2013, accessed November 1, 2017 .
  3. a b Greg Henderson joins USA Cycling as Endurance Performance Director. In: Cycling News. September 14, 2017, accessed November 1, 2017 .
  4. Henderson's outstanding career. In: odt.co.nz. August 24, 2017, accessed November 1, 2017 .