Ramūnas Navardauskas

Ramūnas Navardauskas
	Ramūnas Navardauskas (2014)
To person
Date of birth	January 30, 1988
nation	Lithuania
discipline	Street
To the team
Current team	Nippo Delko Provence
function	driver
	Last updated: February 7, 2020

Ramūnas Navardauskas (born January 30, 1988 in Šilalė , Lithuanian SSR , Soviet Union ) is a Lithuanian cyclist . By 2019 he had eight Lithuanian championship titles.

Life

Navardauskas grew up in Klaipėda .

Ramūnas Navardauskas was in 2005 in the junior class Lithuanian time trial champion and he won a stage in the Cup of Grudziądz Town President . The next year he won the prologue at the Tour du Pays de Vaud . As a driver for the Belgian-Lithuanian Continental Team Klaipeda-Splendid , Navardauskas won the road race of the national championship in 2007. He also won a stage each in the Tour de Liège and the Ronde van Antwerpen as well as the one-day race Zillebeke-Westouter-Zillebeke. On the fourth stage of the Giro d'Italia 2012 , his Garmin-Barracuda team won the team time trial , which gave Navardauskas the lead in the overall standings. This makes him the first Lithuanian professional cyclist to win the Maglia Rosa ('pink jersey'). A year later he was able to win a medium-difficult mountain finish of the Giro single-handedly .

In 2014 Navardauskas won the 19th stage of the Tour de France , making cycling history as the first Lithuanian to win a stage as a single rider after winning a stage with his team in 2011. In 2015 he was named Lithuania's Sportsman of the Year .

In June 2017, Navardauskas gave up during the final stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné and was diagnosed with cardiac arrhythmias . He had an operation in early September. He returned to cycling and was again Lithuanian road champion in 2019.