Mikel Landa

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Mikel Landa Road cycling
Landa at the Tour de France 2017
Landa at the Tour de France 2017
To person
Full name Mikel Landa Meana
Date of birth 13th December 1989 (age 30)
nation SpainSpain Spain
discipline Street
Driver type Mountain riders
height 173 cm
Racing weight 60 kg
To the team
Current team Bahrain-McLaren
function driver
Team (s)
2009–2010
2011–2013
2014–2015
2016–2017
2018–2019
2020- 		Orbea
Euskaltel Euskadi
Astana Pro Team
Team Sky
Movistar Team
Bahrain-McLaren
Most important successes

Jersey blue.svgMountain classification Giro d'Italia 2017
three stages Giro d'Italia
one stage Vuelta a España 2015

Last updated: July 30, 2018

Mikel Landa Meana (born December 13, 1989 in Murgia ) is a Spanish cyclist whose greatest successes are three stage wins and third place overall at the Giro d'Italia 2015 and a stage win at the Vuelta a España 2015 .

Career

The Basque Mikel Landa turned professional for the Spanish Continental Team Orbea in August 2009 . This year he still reached fourth place in the overall ranking of the Vuelta a Madrid for drivers under 23. In his first full professional year he was fifth in the overall ranking of the Tour de l'Avenir , which is one of the most important junior tours counts.

In 2011 he switched to ProTeam Euskaltel-Euskadi , for whom he was able to achieve his first professional victory. He won the fifth stage of the Burgos Tour and also the mountain classification. He finished the tour in 19th place overall. In 2014 Landa won one stage of the Giro del Trentino .

In 2015 he competed in the Giro d'Italia as domestics for Fabio Aru , where he won two stages in a row and finally finished third overall on this tour, 3:05 minutes behind, one place behind team-mate Aru. At the Vuelta a España , he won the mountain finish on the 11th stage.

At the end of the season he decided to switch to the British team Team Sky . In addition to a stage win at the Vuelta Ciclista al País Vasco , he won the overall and mountain classification at the Giro del Trentino , as well as the victory of the 2nd stage.

In 2017 he won the mountain classification and the 19th stage at the Giro d'Italia , after having been narrowly beaten in two mountain stages in the sprint. At the Spanish championships he was second in the time trial. He also won two stages of the Burgos Tour , the overall, points and mountain classification.

Landa also started at the Tour de France , where he was in the helper role for teammate Chris Froome and had to subordinate his own ambitions that he had during the tour. In the time trial on the penultimate stage, Mikel Landa narrowly missed the podium, the Frenchman Romain Bardet was just able to defend his third place in the overall standings and relegated the Basque to fourth place with a one-second advantage. Then Landa moved to the Spanish team Movistar .

In 2018 Landa won a stage at Tirreno – Adriatico . At the Tour de France , he started with his teammates Nairo Quintana and Alejandro Valverde with the overall standings as the goal, where he finished seventh in the overall standings and won the team standings with the team. A few weeks later he was involved in a mass fall at the Clásica San Sebastián and suffered serious injuries to his spine.

successes

2011

2014

2015

2016

2017

  • a stage and Jersey blue.svgmountain classification Giro d'Italia
  • silver Spanish Championship - Individual Time Trial
  • Overall ranking, two stages, points ranking and mountain ranking Burgos Tour

2018

2019

2020

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - - 34 3 DNF 16 - 4th
Yellow jersey Tour de France - - - - 35 4th 7th 6th
Red jersey Vuelta a España 69 39 28 25th - - - -
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Web links

Commons : Mikel Landa  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Landa: It hurt to sacrifice myself with no reward for the team | Cyclingnews.com . In: Cyclingnews.com . ( cyclingnews.com [accessed July 30, 2018]).
  2. ↑ Landa's Tour regret: 'I had legs to drop everyone' | VeloNews.com . In: VeloNews.com . July 25, 2017 ( velonews.com [accessed July 30, 2018]).
  3. ↑ Mikel Landa: Sky and me weren't always compatible | Cyclingnews.com . In: Cyclingnews.com . ( cyclingnews.com [accessed July 30, 2018]).
  4. ↑ Landa ready to respect Movistar hierarchy for Tour de France | Cyclingnews.com . In: Cyclingnews.com . ( cyclingnews.com [accessed July 30, 2018]).
  5. ↑ Mikel Landa breaks his lumbar vertebrae, Egan Bernal suffers facial injuries. In: Cycling Magazine. August 5, 2018, accessed August 5, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Landa, Mikel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Landa Meana, Mikel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Murgia