Jack Bauer (cyclist)

Jack Bauer

Jack Bauer (2016)
To person
Date of birth	April 7, 1985
nation	New Zealand
discipline	Street
To the team
Current team	Mitchelton-Scott
function	driver
Team (s)
2010–2011 2012–2014 2015 2016 2017 2018–	Endura Racing Garmin Sharp Team Cannondale-Garmin Cannondale Pro Cycling Team Quick-Step Floors Mitchelton-Scott
Most important successes
Japan Cup 2013
Last updated: January 6, 2017

Jack Bauer (born April 7, 1985 in Takaka ) is a New Zealand cyclist .

Career

Bauer initially devoted himself to mountain biking and competed for New Zealand as a U23 rider in the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships in 2006. To train for this championship, he bought a racing bike for the first time so that he could ride longer distances. During the period up to the age of 21, Bauer completed his studies and tried to be successful as a rock musician.

To improve his skills on the road , Bauer spent a long time in Belgium in 2009 and won a few local races. Back in New Zealand, Bauer won his first international competition in 2009 with a stage of the Tour of Southland and took second place in the overall standings.

He then received a contract with the British Continental Team Endura Racing , for which he drove in 2010 and 2011. In his first year with Endura Racing, he became the New Zealand road racing champion and won a stage in the Tour of Wellington . In 2011 he won a stage of the Tour of Utah .

In 2012, Bauer moved to the US UCI ProTeam Garmin Sharp , for which he was his first Grand Tour with the Giro d'Italia 2012 , which he finished 114th overall. After the disqualification of Michael Rogers, he won the Japan Cup , a race hors categorie . In 2014 Jack Bauer won the silver medal in the road race at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow . 139 drivers had started in this race, of which only twelve made it to the finish line due to heavy rain. Bauer finished second behind Geraint Thomas, one minute and 21 seconds behind. He won a stage of the Tour of Britain in 2016 .

In 2017, Bauer drove for Quick-Step Floors and was an important helper in the 2017 Tour de France in the sprint train of four-time stage winner Marcel Kittel . Then moved to the Mitchelton-Scott team .

successes

2009

• one stage Tour of Southland

2010

• New Zealand champion - road racing
• one stage Tour of Wellington

2011

• one stage tour of Utah

2012

• Team Time Trial Tour of Qatar
• Giro d'Italia team time trial

2013

• Japan Cup

2014

• Prologue Herald Sun Tour
• Commonwealth Games - road racing

2016

• Team time trial Czech Cycling Tour
• one stage Tour of Britain

2017

• New Zealand Champion - Individual Time Trial

2018

• Sprint and Chase Hammer Sportzone Limburg

2020

• Team time trial Czech Cycling Tour

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Giro d'Italia	-	-	114	-	-	-	-	-	-	95
Tour de France	-	-	-	DNF	137	DNF	-	105	121	-
Vuelta a España	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

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

Web links

Commons : Jack Bauer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Jack Bauer in the ProCyclingStats.com database
• Jack Bauer in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Jack Bauer in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Sophie Hurcom: Man with Mission . In: Procycling , German edition . August, 2019, p. 48 ff .
2. ^ Sadhbh O'Shea: Thomas wins gold for Wales in Commonwealth Games road race. In: Cyclingnews.com. August 3, 2014, accessed August 6, 2014 .