Pieter Weening

Pieter Weening

Pieter Weening (2015)
To person
Date of birth	April 5th 1981
nation	Netherlands
discipline	Street
To the team
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

Pieter Weening (r.) Third in the overall ranking of the Tour of Norway 2017

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
Giro d'Italia	-	-	-	-	-	-	24	44	-	37	DNF	92
Tour de France	-	72	90	127	62	-	-	-	72	-	-	144
Vuelta a España	59	-	61	-	-	44	-	-	88	-	-	-

Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Teams

• 2004–2011 Rabobank
• 2012–2015 Orica GreenEdge
• 2016 Roompot Oranje Peloton
• 2017-2019 Roompot-Charles
• 2020 Trek-Segafredo (from June 5th)

Web links

Commons : Pieter Weening  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Pieter Weening in the ProCyclingStats.com database
• Pieter Weening in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Homepage of Pieter Weening