Kurt Asle Arvesen

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Kurt Asle Arvesen Road cycling
Kurt Asle Arvesen at the HEW Cyclassics 2005
Kurt Asle Arvesen at the HEW Cyclassics 2005
To person
Date of birth 9th February 1975 (age 45)
nation Norway
discipline Street
height 183 cm
Racing weight 74 kg
To the team
Current team Uno-X Norwegian Development Team
function Sports director
Societies)
-1997 Bjørgvin
Team (s)
1998
1999
2000
2001–2003
2004–2009
2010–2011
Asics
Riso Scotti
Amica Chips
Fakta
Team CSC-Saxo Bank
Sky
Most important successes

one stage Tour de France
two stages Giro d'Italia
one stage Vuelta a España
E3 Prijs Vlaanderen Tour of Denmark
Jersey yellow.svg

Team (s) as sporting director
2016
2017-
Sky
Uno-X Norwegian Development Team
Team (s) as coach
2012-2015 Sky
Last updated: February 12, 2020

Kurt Asle Arvesen (born February 9, 1975 in Molde ) is a former Norwegian cyclist , two-time Olympian (2000, 2004), later a cycling trainer and sport director .

Career

Kurt Asle Arvesen won the U23 road race title at the 1997 road world championships and in 1999 received his first regular contract with an international cycling team , Team Asics .

One of the greatest successes of his career in the elite sector was the victory at the 11th stage of the Tour de France 2008 , in which he was able to prevail in the sprint of a group of three riders who originally belonged to a breakaway group of 13 and two stage wins at the Giro d'Italia 2003 and 2007 . He also won the overall ranking of the Tour of Denmark in 2002 and the one-day race E3 Harelbeke in 2008, both races in the hors category at the time .

In 2006 he took second place in the French autumn classic Paris-Tours . Arversen has been Norwegian national champion several times, including five times in the elite road race . He represented his country at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics , finishing ninth in road races in 2004.

In 1997 he received the Kongepokal (King's Cup), which is awarded for the best athletic performance at Norwegian championships.

At the end of the 2011 season, Arvesen ended his career as a professional cyclist and coached his last team to be active, the UCI ProTeam Sky ProCycling . In 2017 he became the sporting director of the Uno-X Norwegian Development Team .

successes

1997
1998
2001
2002
2003
2004
2006
2007
2008
2009
  • MaillotNoruega.PNG Norwegian champion - road race
2010

Grand Tours placements

Grand Tour 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - - - - DNF - - - 62 - - - -
Yellow jersey Tour de France - - - - - 123 89 - 67 56 DNF - -
Red jersey Vuelta a España DNF - - - - - - 46 - - 108 - -
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Web links

Commons : Kurt Asle Arvesen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Per Jorsett (editor): Norsk Sykkelsports history . Ed .: Norges Cykleforbund. Self-published by NCF, Oslo 2000, p. 89 (Norwegian).
  2. Arvesen becomes sporting director at Team Sky on radsport-news.com v. October 11, 2011
  3. Race Coach. (No longer available online.) Team Sky, archived from the original on February 15, 2014 ; accessed on February 24, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.teamsky.com