Lars Bak (cyclist)
Lars Bak (2018) | |
To person | |
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Full name | Lars Ytting Bak |
Date of birth | January 16, 1980 |
nation | Denmark |
discipline | Street |
To the team | |
Current team | NTT Pro Cycling |
function | Sports director |
End of career | 2019 |
Team (s) | |
2002–2003 2004 2005–2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012–2013 2014–2018 2019 |
EDS-Fakta Bankgiroloterij Team CSC Team CSC-Saxo Bank Team Saxo Bank Team HTC-Columbia HTC-Highroad Lotto Belisol Team Lotto Soudal Team Dimension Data |
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Last updated: October 14, 2018 |
Lars Ytting Bak (born January 16, 1980 in Silkeborg ) is a sporting director of a cycling team and a former Danish cyclist .
Cycling career
Bak started his international career with the Danish cycling team EDS-Fakta . He celebrated his first international elite success in 2004 as a member of the Dutch team Bankgiroloterij with a stage win in the Tour of Luxembourg .
In 2005 he switched to Team CSC and had his most successful year to date, in which he won the one-day race Paris-Bourges in addition to a stage in the Tour of the Mediterranean Sea and a stage and the overall ranking of the Tour de l'Avenir .
Bak achieved his most important victories in 2012 when he won a stage at the Giro d'Italia as a soloist in Sestri Levante and won the semi-classic Grand Prix de Fourmies .
At the end of the 2019 season, Bak ended his active career. In his last race, the classic Paris-Tours , he finished seventh.
Bak was considered one of the best domestics in road cycling. Bak started on a total of 20 Grand Tours . His best placement was 21st place at the 2006 Vuelta a España . Bak was Danish champion four times, three times in the individual time trial and once in the road race .
After his active career, Bak became the sporting director of his last team, NTT Pro Cycling , formerly Dimension Data .
Honors
In December 2011, Lars Bak was voted Danish “Cyclist of the Year”.
successes
- 2004
- one stage tour of Luxembourg
- 2005
- one stage tour of the Mediterranean
- Danish champion - road race
- Overall ranking and a stage Tour de l'Avenir
- Paris – Bourges
- 2007
- 2008
- 2009
- 2011
- Giro d'Italia team time trial
- 2012
- a stage of the Giro d'Italia
- Grand Prix de Fourmies
Grand Tour placements
Grand Tour | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
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Giro d'Italia | DNF | - | - | - | - | - | 16 | - | 126 | 72 | 94 | 56 | 90 | DNF | 118 | 106 | - |
Tour de France | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 152 | 96 | 108 | 82 | 37 | - | 123 | - | 147 |
Vuelta a España | - | - | - | 21st | - | - | - | 154 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Web links
- Lars Bak in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Lars Bak in the ProCyclingStats.com database
- Lars Bak in the Tour de France database(French / English )
- Lars Bak in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ radsport-news.com from May 17, 2012: Bak packs it, Casar twice disappointed
- ↑ Merckx in hospital with severe head injuries. In: radsport-news.com. October 14, 2019, accessed October 14, 2019 .
- ↑ Retirements in 2019 - goodbye to the peloton's working class heroes. In: velonews.com. October 21, 2019, accessed October 22, 2019 .
- ↑ Cyclingnews: Lars Bak takes sports director role at NTT Pro Cycling. In: cyclingnews.com. December 7, 2019, accessed December 7, 2019 .
- ↑ radsport-news.com from December 20, 2011: Lars Bak is Danish cyclist of the year
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Bak, Lars |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bak, Lars Ytting |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish cyclist and sports director |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 16, 1980 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Silkeborg |