Lars Bak (cyclist)

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Lars Bak Road cycling
Lars Bak (2018)
Lars Bak (2018)
To person
Full name Lars Ytting Bak
Date of birth January 16, 1980
nation DenmarkDenmark 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
Most important successes
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
2005
2007
2008
2009
2011
2012

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia DNF - - - - - 16 - 126 72 94 56 90 DNF 118 106 -
Yellow jersey Tour de France - - - - - - - - 152 96 108 82 37 - 123 - 147
Red jersey Vuelta a España - - - 21st - - - 154 - - - - - - - - -
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ radsport-news.com from May 17, 2012: Bak packs it, Casar twice disappointed
  2. ↑ Merckx in hospital with severe head injuries. In: radsport-news.com. October 14, 2019, accessed October 14, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Retirements in 2019 - goodbye to the peloton's working class heroes. In: velonews.com. October 21, 2019, accessed October 22, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Cyclingnews: Lars Bak takes sports director role at NTT Pro Cycling. In: cyclingnews.com. December 7, 2019, accessed December 7, 2019 .
  5. ↑ radsport-news.com from December 20, 2011: Lars Bak is Danish cyclist of the year
personal data
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