Pieter Weening
Pieter Weening (2015) | |
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Date of birth | April 5th 1981 |
nation | Netherlands |
discipline | Street |
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Current team | Trek-Segafredo |
function | driver |
Last updated: September 15, 2017 |
Pieter Weening (born April 5, 1981 in Harkema , Friesland province ) is a Dutch cyclist .
Athletic career
Pieter Weening has been part of the elite since 2004 and was part of the Rabobank team until 2011 . He then moved to the Australian team Orica GreenEdge . During these years he started at Grand Tours 15 times . The greatest success of his career came during the Tour de France 2005 when he won the 8th stage in the photo finish against Andreas Klöden . In 2012 he moved to the Australian team GreenEdge . By 2017 he had made 15 major tours, his best overall ranking was at the 2010 Giro d'Italia when he finished 24th.
When Weening switched from the Australian team Orica GreenEdge to the domestic team Roompot in 2016, he concentrated on smaller tours. In 2016 he won the Tour of Norway and a stage of the Tour de Suisse . The following year, he won a stage of the Tour of Norway , finished third in the overall standings and won the mountain ratings of the Tour de Yorkshire 2017 and the Tour of Austria 2017 .
successes
- 2002
- Overall ranking International Tour of Thuringia
- Dutch champion (U23) - road race
- 2003
- Overall rating of the Istrian Spring Trophy
- 2005
- a stage Tour de France
- one stage tour of Poland
- 2009
- one stage tour of Austria
- 2011
- a stage of the Giro d'Italia
- 2013
- Overall ranking Tour of Poland
- 2014
- a stage and team time trial Giro d'Italia
- Giro della Toscana
- 2015
- Giro d'Italia team time trial
- 2016
- Overall ranking and one stage Tour of Norway
- one stage Tour de Suisse
- 2017
- Mountain Classification Tour de Yorkshire
- one stage Tour of Norway
- Mountain classification Austria tour
- 2018
- one stage tour of Austria
- 2019
- one stage tour of Luxembourg
Grand Tour placements
Grand Tour | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
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Giro d'Italia | - | - | - | - | - | - | 24 | 44 | - | 37 | DNF | 92 |
Tour de France | - | 72 | 90 | 127 | 62 | - | - | - | 72 | - | - | 144 |
Vuelta a España | 59 | - | 61 | - | - | 44 | - | - | 88 | - | - | - |
Teams
- 2004–2011 Rabobank
- 2012–2015 Orica GreenEdge
- 2016 Roompot Oranje Peloton
- 2017-2019 Roompot-Charles
- 2020 Trek-Segafredo (from June 5th)
Web links
- Pieter Weening in the ProCyclingStats.com database
- Pieter Weening in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Homepage of Pieter Weening
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Weening, Pieter |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch cyclist |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 5th 1981 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Harkema , Friesland |