Haimar Zubeldia

Haimar Zubeldia
	Haimar Zubeldia at the Tour de France 2013
To person
Full name	Haimar Zubeldia Agirre
Date of birth	1st April 1977 (age 43)
nation	Spain
discipline	Street
End of career	2017
Team (s)
1998–2008 ; 2009 ; 2010–2011 ; 2012–2017	Euskaltel-Euskadi ; Astana ; Team RadioShack ; RadioShack-Nissan
Most important successes
	Young talent evaluation Critérium du Dauphiné 2002 ; Euskal Bizikleta 2000 ; Tour de l'Ain 2010
	Last updated: June 26, 2019

Haimar Zubeldia Agirre (born April 1, 1977 in Usurbil , Gipuzkoa ) is a former Spanish cyclist .

Career

The Basque Zubeldia became a professional at Euskaltel-Euskadi in 1998 and drove there up to and including the 2008 season. His breakthrough came in 2000 when he won the overall ranking of the Euskal Bizikleta and was second in the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré and tenth in the Vuelta a España . In 2004 he was fourth in the Dauphiné Libéré, where he also won the junior competition. At the Tour de France 2003 he placed for the first time in the top five of the overall ranking of a Grand Tour . By 2014 he had four more placements in the top ten of the Tour de France .

After the Clásica San Sebastián 2017 , where he finished 29th, he ended his career as an active.

family

Haimar's younger brother Joseba was also a cyclist.

successes

2000

Overall ranking and a stage in Euskal Bizikleta

2002

Young talent evaluation Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré

2009

Tour de France team time trial

2010

Overall classification and prologue Tour de l'Ain

Grand Tours placements

Grand Tour	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017
Giro d'Italia	-	-	-	-	-	49	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Tour de France	-	73	39	5	DNF	15th	8th	5	45	27	-	16	6th	36	8th	59	24	52
Vuelta a España	10	43	11	-	40	-	34	44	-	14th	-	25th	-	DNF	WD	23	19th	-

Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Teams

Web links

Commons : Haimar Zubeldia - collection of images, videos and audio files

Haimar Zubeldia in the Radsportseiten.net database

Haimar Zubeldia in the ProCyclingStats.com database

Haimar Zubeldia in the Tour de France database(French / English )

Individual evidence

↑ Zubeldia: 20 years with a few words and a lot of feelings. In: radsport-news.com. July 30, 2017. Retrieved October 15, 2017 .

personal data
SURNAME	Zubeldia, Haimar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Zubeldia Agirre, Haimar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Spanish cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH	April 1, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH	Usurbil , Gipuzkoa

[radsport-105208-1] Zubeldia: 20 years with a few words and a lot of feelings. In: radsport-news.com. July 30, 2017. Retrieved October 15, 2017 .