Rohan Dennis

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Rohan Dennis Road cycling
Rohan Dennis as world champion in the individual time trial 2018
Rohan Dennis as world champion in the individual time trial 2018
To person
Date of birth 28th May 1990 (age 30)
nation AustraliaAustralia Australia
discipline Train / street
Driver type Time trial
To the team
Current team INEOS team
function driver
Team (s)
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013–07 / 14
08 / 14–2018 		Team Jayco-AIS
Team Jayco-Skins
Rabobank Continental Team
Team Jayco-AIS
Garmin Sharp
BMC Racing Team
Bahrain-Merida
Most important successes
UCI Road World Championships
2018, 2019 Jersey rainbow.svg - individual time trial
2014, 2015 Jersey rainbow.svg - team time trial
UCI WorldTour
a stage Tour de France 2015
a stage of the Giro d'Italia 2018
two stages Vuelta a España 2018
UCI track world championships
2010, 2011 Jersey rainbow.svg - team pursuit
Hour record
52.491 km on February 8, 2015
Last updated: September 25, 2019

Rohan Dennis (born May 28, 1990 in Ashford ) is an Australian track and road cyclist . He became world champion six times in the adult sector (as of 2019) and was the holder of the hour record from February 8 to May 2, 2015 .

Athletic career

At the beginning of his career, Dennis devoted himself primarily to track cycling. In 2006 he was Australian champion in the individual time trial in the youth class. The following year he was national junior track cycling champion in the team pursuit . On the road he won the prologue at the Casut-Cimolais 3 Giorni in Friuli. In the 2008 season Dennis was Australian junior track cycling champion in the single pursuit and points race . At the junior track cycling world championship, he won the silver medal in the singles and gold in the team pursuit. He was also successful in the team pursuit at the World Cup in Melbourne. On the road, he won a stage in the Tour of the Murray River . In 2010 and 2011 Rohan Dennis became world champion in team pursuit.

In 2013 Dennis signed a contract with the UCI ProTeam Garmin Sharp . At the Critérium du Dauphiné 2013 he was beaten in the time trial on the fourth stage in second only by time trial world champion Tony Martin and thus secured the yellow jersey of the overall leader. In 2014 he won a stage on the Tour of California . The following August, he switched to the BMC Racing Team in agreement with the Garmin team , in order to be able to work with the sports director Allan Peiper , as at the beginning of his road career at Garmin . With this team he won the team time trial title at the 2014 road world championships .

Dennis attempting the world hour record on February 8, 2015

At the beginning of 2015, Dennis also won the third stage and thus his first race of the UCI WorldTour on the way to his overall victory at the Tour Down Under . On February 8, 2015, he improved the hour record held by Matthias Brändle in the Velodrome Suisse in Grenchen to 52.491 km. He remained the world record holder until May 2, 2015, when Alex Dowsett set a new record.

Rohan Dennis wins the opening time trial of the Tour de France 2015 in Utrecht .

Dennis won the first stage of the Tour de France 2015 , which was held as an individual time trial. He completed the 13.8-kilometer course in Utrecht in 14:56 minutes and drove the fastest individual time trial in Tour history at 55.446  km / h . In the same year he won two stages and the overall standings in the USA Pro Challenge . In addition, Dennis was able to defend the world title in the team time trial with BMC , in the individual time trial he was sixth after a flat tire.

At the start of the 2016 season, Rohan Dennis became the Australian elite time trial champion for the first time. At the Olympic Games in Rio he missed the medal ranks by eight seconds after his handlebars broke on the last 15 kilometers. At the Tour of Britain , after an attack two kilometers from the finish, he won the seventh half-stage after finishing second in the time trial a few hours earlier and finally finished the tour in second place. At the Eneco Tour he won both the individual time trial, but lost his lead in the overall standings due to a fall on the last stage. At the end of the season he finished second in the team time trial with his team at the World Championships and, as in the previous year, was sixth in the individual time trial.

Dennis in the time trial at the UCI Road World Championships 2017 in Bergen

Dennis started the 2017 season with the aim of developing into an overall classification driver. After Dennis had to give up early due to a fall at the Giro d'Italia , the Australian won the opening time trial at the Tour de Suisse . At Tirenno-Adriatico he won the team time trial with his team, was able to keep his time losses within limits in the mountains and won the final time trial, defending his second place in the overall standings 25 seconds behind Nairo Quintana . Dennis described this success as a “big step towards becoming a Grand Tour rider.” At the Vuelta a España , he won the team time trial on the first stage and thus took the lead in a Grand Tour for the second time since 2015, but gave it on the next day and had to give up the tour before the start of the 16th stage. At the World Championships , Dennis fell in the time trial, which he finally finished 1:37 minutes behind Tom Dumoulin , and in the team time trial he won silver.

In 2018, Dennis became the national time trial champion for the third time in a row and won the time trial at the Abu Dhabi Tour and at Tirreno-Adriatico . At the Giro d'Italia he finished second in the opening time trial in Jerusalem, two seconds behind time trial world champion Tom Dumoulin. On the next stage, he then wore the overall leader's pink jersey by securing three bonus seconds in the intermediate sprint, and wore it up to the fifth stage. He became the third Australian after Bradley McGee and Cadel Evans to top the overall standings in all Grand Tours. In addition, Dennis won the 34.2 km time trial on stage 16 with a 14 second lead over Tony Martin . Finally, he finished the tour in 16th place. At the Vuelta a España , Dennis won the opening time trial in Málaga with six seconds ahead of Michał Kwiatkowski , thus winning a stage in all Grand Tours and becoming the 15th driver in history, the was able to triumph in the time trial at every Grand Tour. In the second time trial of the tour, Dennis also won with a gap of 50 seconds on teammate Joey Rosskopf and then left the tour to prepare for the World Championships in Innsbruck . There he was able to secure the world championship title in the 52.2 km time trial with 1:21 minutes ahead of last year's winner Tom Dumoulin.

Dennis on the 14th stage of the Giro d'Italia 2018
Dennis on the podium of the UCI Road World Championships 2018 in the time trial

For the 2019 season, Dennis moved to the Bahrain-Merida team , with whom he signed a two-year contract. He won the opening time trial of the Tour de Suisse 2019 . He gave up the subsequent Tour de France 2019 on the 12th stage in the refreshment zone without any apparent reason, which caused a stir in the media. He then did not contest races for several months. At the UCI Road World Championships 2019 in Yorkshire, England , he repeated his title success in the individual time trial from the previous year. He competed on a time trial bike from the manufacturer BMC and not on a model from the team sponsor Merida . The team management did not congratulate Dennis on his success and instead announced that the contract had already been terminated about two weeks earlier, whereas Dennis had called the arbitration committee of the Union Cycliste Internationale . Dennis signed a contract with Team Ineos for the 2020 and 2021 seasons

Private

Rohan Dennis is in a relationship with the former cyclist Melissa Hoskins .

successes

Street

2010
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019

train

2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2015
  • Hour record over 52.491 kilometers

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - - - - DNF 16 -
Yellow jersey Tour de France DNF - 101 DNF - - DNF
Red jersey Vuelta a España - 84 - - DNF DNF -
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Web links

Commons : Rohan Dennis  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ radsport-news.com from June 5, 2013: Dennis shows the best time trial of his career
  2. ↑ radsport-news.com from August 2nd, 2014: Dennis is leaving Garmin-Sharp and will be driving for BMC on Monday
  3. ↑ Rohan Dennis delivers a perfect performance in Grenchen. radsport-news.com, February 8, 2015, accessed February 8, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Dowsett manages a new hour record in Manchester. radsportnews.com, May 2, 2015, accessed May 3, 2015 .
  5. ↑ Cycling: Dennis wins the start of the tour with a new record. In: Spiegel Online . July 4, 2015, accessed July 4, 2015 .
  6. ↑ Dennis' bid for Worlds gold medal undone by flat tire. In: cyclingnews.com. September 24, 2015, accessed September 8, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Olympic Games: Late mechanical clips Dennis' podium ambitions. In: cyclingnews.com. August 10, 2016, accessed September 8, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Dennis loses Eneco Tour after crashing out of finale. In: cyclingnews.com. September 25, 2016, accessed September 8, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Dennis: This year has been better than ever. In: Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Limited, accessed September 7, 2018 .
  10. ↑ Cycling News: A Four Year Plan: Rohan Dennis and his Grand Tour designs - Q&A In: Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Ltd., accessed September 7, 2018 .
  11. ↑ Rohan Dennis: This is a great step toward becoming a Grand Tour rider. In: Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved September 7, 2018 .
  12. ^ Worlds: Time trial crash costs Dennis a shot at a medal. In: Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved September 7, 2018 .
  13. ↑ Alasdair Fotheringham: Dennis determined to battle on despite losing Giro d'Italia lead. In: cyclingnews.com. May 11, 2018, accessed September 8, 2018 .
  14. ^ Daniel Ostanek: Vuelta a España: Dennis claims opening stage win. In: Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Limited, August 25, 2018, accessed September 7, 2018 .
  15. ↑ Dennis adds another TT win at the Vuelta a Espana. In: cyclingnews.com. September 11, 2018, accessed September 26, 2018 .
  16. ^ Bahrain-Merida confirm signing of Rohan Dennis. In: cyclingnews.com. August 9, 2018, accessed September 8, 2018 .
  17. ↑ Dennis disappears wordlessly into the refreshment area. In: radsport-news.com. July 18, 2019, accessed July 18, 2019 .
  18. ↑ Bahrain - Merida terminated contract with Rohan Dennis. In: radsport-news.com. September 29, 2019. Retrieved September 29, 2019 .
  19. ↑ Patrick Fletcher 2019-12-10T00: 57: 42Z: Rohan Dennis to Team Ineos: Vanity signing or long-term project? Retrieved December 10, 2019 .
  20. ↑ Jessi Braverman: Melissa Hoskins announces retirement. In: cyclingnews.com. Retrieved September 25, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Dennis, Rohan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH May 28, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH Ashford