Jack Haig (cyclist)

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Jack Haig Road cycling
Jack Haig 2015
Jack Haig 2015
To person
Full name Jack Haig
Date of birth September 6, 1993
nation AustraliaAustralia
discipline Street
height 1.90 m
Racing weight 67 kg
To the team
Current team Mitchelton-Scott
function driver
Societies)
2013
2014
2015
Huon Salmon-Genesys Wealth Advisers
Avanti
Jayco – AIS World Tour Academy
Team (s)
2016
2017
2018–
Orica GreenEdge
Orica-Scott
Mitchelton-Scott
Last updated: August 15, 2020

Jack Haig (born September 6, 1993 in Southport , Queensland ) is an Australian cyclist .

Career

Haig started out in the mountain bike sector . Here he finished fourth overall at the Tour of Bright in 2012 and won two more stages. The following year Haig was Australian U23 champion in cross-country . In the same year he also won the Tasmania Tour . After switching to Avanti, he was able to achieve a remarkable 17th place in the overall ranking at the Tour Down Under and winning the junior ranking. At the Herald Sun Tour he won the junior ranking and finished third overall. At the Tour Alsace he also won the junior ranking and came second behind Karel Hnik.

In 2016 Haig then switched to UCI WorldTeam Orica GreenEdge . In the first year he won the points classification of the Tour of Slovenia and was second overall. He took part in the Vuelta a España . In 2017 he achieved his first international victory on the 6th stage of the Tour of Poland . When he participated in the Vuelta a España again , he was 21st. In 2018, he took part in the Giro d'Italia and finished the race in 36th place. Haig finished in 19th place in the Vuelta a España . At the UCI Road World Championships 2018 in Innsbruck he was 19th in 2019, behind the first three drivers, Egan Bernal, Nairo Quintana and Michal Kwiatkowski, he was fourth at Paris-Nice, just 18 seconds from the podium. At his first participation in the Tour de France he finished 38th. With the team he won the team time trial at the Czech Cycling Tour . He also finished third in each of the Bretagne Classic - Ouest-France and Gran Premio Beghelli . At the end of the season, he was also sixth in the Tour of Lombardy . In 2020 he finished second in the Tour of Valencia and second in the Tour of Andalusia, where he won the 4th stage in Andalusia.

successes

2014

2016

2017

2019

2020

Important placements

Grand Tour 2016 2017 2018 2019
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - - 36 -
Yellow jersey Tour de France - - - 38
Red jersey Vuelta a España 117 21st 19th -
Monument to cycling 2016 2017 2018 2019
Milan – Sanremo - - - -
Tour of Flanders DNF - - -
Paris – Roubaix - - - -
Liège – Bastogne – Liège DNF - 14th -
Lombardy tour DNF 24 DNF 6th
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Web links

  • Jack Haig in the database of Radsportseiten.net
  • Jack Haig in the ProCyclingStats.com database

Individual evidence

  1. Tour of Bright - Result Stage 1. In: my.raceresult.com. Retrieved August 15, 2020 .
  2. ^ Tour of Bright - Result Stage 2. In: my.raceresult.com. Retrieved August 15, 2020 .
  3. ^ Tour of Bright - GC. In: my.raceresult.com. Retrieved August 15, 2020 .