Rafał Majka

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Rafał Majka Road cycling
Rafał Majka 2012
Rafał Majka 2012
To person
Date of birth September 12, 1989
nation PolandPoland Poland
discipline Street
Driver type Mountain riders
height 173 cm
Racing weight 62 kg
To the team
Current team Bora-hansgrohe
function driver
Societies)
2007–2008
2008–2009
2009–2010 		WLKS Krakus Swoszowice
Gragnano Petroli Firenze
Petroli Firenze
Team (s)
2009
2011–2016
2017− 		Miche-Silver Cross-Selle Italia
Tinkoff
Bora-hansgrohe
Most important successes
Last updated: November 17, 2018

Rafał Majka (born September 12, 1989 in Zegartowice ) is a Polish road cyclist . He is a two-time winner of the Tour de France dotted jersey and third in the road race of the 2016 Olympic Games .

Career

After Majka drove for Italian club teams and at the end of the 2009 season for the UCI Continental Team Miche-Silver Cross-Selle Italia as a stagiaire , he got his first regular contract with an international cycling team , the UCI ProTeam Saxo Bank-SunGard , in 2011 , with which he was in his first season the Vuelta a España denied, but could not finish the tour .

Majka in the yellow jersey of the Tour of Poland 2013

In 2013, Majka first drew attention to himself in a difficult stage race : He finished the Giro d'Italia in seventh overall and led the junior competition for the Maglia Bianca for a long time . At the Giro d'Italia 2014 he confirmed the previous year's result and finished the race in sixth place.

After Majka's team-mate Roman Kreuziger was suspended shortly before the Tour de France 2014 due to abnormal values ​​in his biological passport , Majka joined the tour squad as a replacement for Alberto Contador's noble helper . After his captain gave up due to a fall, Majka was able to win two mountain arrivals and the mountain classification . A few weeks later, in addition to two stage successes, Majka achieved his first overall victory in a UCI WorldTour race by winning the overall ranking at the Tour of Poland .

In the 2015 season, Majka competed in the Tour de Suisse, among others , where she finished tenth overall. At the Tour de France 2015 he was able to win the eleventh stage as a helper for Alberto Contador , but could not build on his successes in the mountain classification from the previous year. As the captain of the Tinkoff Saxo team, Majka achieved third place on the Tour of Spain in the same year and thus his first podium finish on a Grand Tour .

At the Tour de France 2016 he won the mountain classification for the second time in his career. At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro , he was still one kilometer from the finish as an outlier, but was overtaken by the later Olympic champions Greg Van Avermaet and Jakob Fuglsang and finally won the bronze medal. After the end of the 2016 season, he moved to the German team Bora-hansgrohe .

successes

2010

2014

2015

2016

2017

2019

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - - 7th 6th - 5 - - 6th
Yellow jersey Tour de France - - - 44 28 27 DNF 19th -
Red jersey Vuelta a España DNF 32 19th - 3 - 39 13 6th
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Awards

Web links

Commons : Rafał Majka  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Majka: 'This is a great tour'. radsport-news.com, July 24, 2014, accessed February 2, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Rafal Majka: 'Three stages, and the mountain jersey on top of that!' (No longer available online.) Letour.fr, July 23, 2014, archived from the original on December 4, 2014 ; accessed on February 2, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.letour.fr
  3. ↑ Majka with convulsions and willpower for the bronze medal. radsport-news.com, August 6, 2016, accessed August 7, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Brylla: Gold Cross of Merit for World Champion Kwiatkowski. radsport-news.com, October 23, 2014, accessed October 24, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Majka, Rafał
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish road cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH September 12, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Zegartowice