Luka Mezgec

Luka Mezgec

Luka Mezgec (2017)
To person
Date of birth	June 27, 1988
nation	Slovenia
discipline	Road / MTB / cyclo-cross
Driver type	sprinter
To the team
Current team	Mitchelton-Scott
function	driver
Most important successes
UCI WorldTour a stage of the Giro d'Italia two stage Tour of Beijing three stages tour of Catalonia two stages tour of Poland
Last updated: February 23, 2020

Luka Mezgec (born June 27, 1988 ) is a Slovenian cyclist . In road cycling , he is considered a sprint specialist who can also cope with hilly terrain. He also competes in mountain bike and cross country races .

Athletic career

Luka Mezgec won the overall ranking of the UCI Nations' Cup U23 - stage race Coupe des Nations Ville Saguenay in 2010 and his first international elite race in 2011 with a stage of the Istrian Spring Trophy .

From the 2013 season, Mezgec received a contract with the UCI ProTeam Team Argos-Shimano , for which he had a total of six daily stages of races in the UCI WorldTour : one stage each of the Tour of Beijing 2013 and 2014, three of the Tour of Catalonia 2014 and the 21st and last stage of the Giro d'Italia 2014 , before Giacomo Nizzolo and Tyler Farrar from a mass sprint.

For the 2016 season, Mezgec moved to the Australian team Orica GreenEdge . He won two stages of the Tour of Poland 2019 in the sprint .

In addition to being on the road, Mezgez is also successful in mountain bike races and cyclocross. After becoming Slovenian champion in the MTB cross country discipline in 2009 and 2015 , he managed a hat trick in 2017 by winning titles in road racing, MTB cross country and cyclocross .

successes

Street

2010

• Overall ranking Coupe des Nations Ville Saguenay

2011

• one stage of the Istrian Spring Trophy
• Memoriał Henryka Łasaka

2012

• a stage Five Rings of Moscow
• five stage tour of Qinghai Lake
• Memoriał Henryka Łasaka

2013

• one stage Tour of Beijing

2014

• Handzame Classic
• three stages tour of Catalonia
• a stage of the Giro d'Italia
• one stage Tour of Beijing

2015

• a stage Tour du Haut-Var

2016

• Slovenian Championship - Road Race

2017

• one stage tour of Slovenia
• Slovenian champion - road race
• Arnhem – Veenendaal Classic

2018

• two stages of the Hammer Sportzone Limburg
• Overall standings and Hammer Sprint Hammer Hong Kong

2019

• One stage and points scoring Tour of Slovenia
• two stages tour of Poland

2020

• Points scoring Tour of Poland

Mountain bike

2009

• Slovenian champion - cross country

2015

• Slovenian champion - cross country

2017

• Slovenian champion - cross country

Cyclo-cross racing

2017

• Slovenian champion

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Giro d'Italia	122	136	138	DNF	DNF	-	-
Tour de France	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Vuelta a España	-	-	108	-	-	141	DNF

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

Teams

• 2010 Zheroquadro Radenska
• 2011 Sava
• 2012 Sava
• 2013 Argos-Shimano team
• 2014 Team Giant-Shimano
• 2015 Team Giant-Alpecin
• 2016 Orica GreenEdge
• 2017 Orica-Scott
• 2018 Mitchelton-Scott
• 2019 Mitchelton-Scott
• 2020 Mitchelton-Scott

Web links

Commons : Luka Mezgec  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Luka Mezgec in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Luka Mezgec in the ProCyclingStats.com database
• Luka Mezgec - Results - MTBCrossCountry. In: mtbcrosscountry.com. July 16, 2017, accessed December 31, 2018 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mezgec is not only capable of high speed. In: radsport-news.com. August 7, 2019, accessed February 23, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Giro d'Italia 2014, 21st stage (Gemona del Friuli - Trieste). In: radsport-seite.de. Retrieved January 1, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Mezgec manages the title hat trick: Street, MTB and Cross. In: radsport-news.com. December 4, 2017, accessed January 1, 2019 . 
4. ↑ The victory was revoked from Sylwester Janiszewski and the second-placed Luka Mezgec was declared the winner, cf. Janiszewski: Only one race suspension after a positive test. In: radsport-news.com. November 21, 2012, accessed February 23, 2020 .