Rafał Majka
Rafał Majka 2012 | |
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Date of birth | September 12, 1989 |
nation | Poland |
discipline | Street |
Driver type | Mountain riders |
height | 173 cm |
Racing weight | 62 kg |
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Current team | Bora-hansgrohe |
function | driver |
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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 |
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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 .
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
- a stage of the Carpathian Couriers Race
2014
- two stages and the Tour de France mountain classification
- Overall ranking and two stages Tour of Poland
2015
- a stage Tour de France
2016
- Polish Championship - Road Race
- Tour de France mountain classification
- Summer Olympics - road races
2017
- one stage tour of California
- Overall ranking, mountain ranking and one stage Tour de Slovénie
- Best Pole Tour of Poland
- a stage Vuelta a España
2019
- Best Pole Tour of Poland
Grand Tour placements
Grand Tour | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
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Giro d'Italia | - | - | 7th | 6th | - | 5 | - | - | 6th |
Tour de France | - | - | - | 44 | 28 | 27 | DNF | 19th | - |
Vuelta a España | DNF | 32 | 19th | - | 3 | - | 39 | 13 | 6th |
Awards
Web links
- Rafał Majka in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Rafał Majka in the ProCyclingStats.com database
- Rafał Majka in the Tour de France database(French / English )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Majka: 'This is a great tour'. radsport-news.com, July 24, 2014, accessed February 2, 2015 .
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Majka with convulsions and willpower for the bronze medal. radsport-news.com, August 6, 2016, accessed August 7, 2016 .
- ↑ Wolfgang Brylla: Gold Cross of Merit for World Champion Kwiatkowski. radsport-news.com, October 23, 2014, accessed October 24, 2014 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Majka, Rafał |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish road cyclist |
DATE OF BIRTH | September 12, 1989 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Zegartowice |