Søren Kragh Andersen

Søren Kragh Andersen
	Søren Kragh Andersen (2016)
To person
Date of birth	10th August 1994 (age 26)
nation	Denmark
discipline	Street
height	178 cm
Racing weight	73 kg
To the team
Current team	Sunweb
function	driver
Team (s)
2013 ; 2014–2015 ; 2016 ; 2017–	Team TreFor ; Team TreFor-Blue Water ; Team Giant-Alpecin ; Sunweb
Most important successes
	World Champion - Team Time Trial 2017 Paris – Tours 2018 a stage Tour de Suisse 2018
	Last updated: October 23, 2018

Søren Kragh Andersen (born August 10, 1994 in Strib, Syddanmark ) is a Danish cyclist .

Career

Kragh Andersen was the Danish U23 champion in the individual time trial in 2014 . In 2015 he won the overall ranking of the UCI Nations Cup race ZLM Tour , in which he also won two stages. In the Tour of the Fjord , he won the fourth stage and thus his first race in the first UCI category . The following autumn, he won two days of the UCI Nations Cup race Tour de l'Avenir .

Kragh Andersen then received a contract with the UCI WorldTeam Giant-Alpecin for the 2016 season . After winning the junior ranking at the Tour of Oman in 2016, he won the sprint of an eight-man top group on the mountain finish of the second stage of the Tour of Oman 2017 , thus winning his first competition in the hors category . In autumn 2017 he and his team became world champions in the team time trial and then took second place in the sprint of a group of three at the classic Paris-Tours .

In the white jersey on the 9th stage of the Tour de France 2018

Kragh Andersen on the 19th stage of the Tour de France 2018

At the Tour de Suisse he won the 6th stage and was second in the final time trial, 19 seconds behind Stefan Küng . The Dane was then added to his team's Tour de France line-up, where he wore the white jersey of the junior competition for seven stages, and in the individual time trial on stage 20 , Kragh Andersen also finished fifth. At the end of the season he won silver in the team time trial at the World Championships in Innsbruck . Shortly afterwards, the Dane won Paris-Tours after finishing second last year , after he distanced himself from Niki Terpstra and Benoît Cosnefroy ten kilometers from the finish and crossed the finish line with a margin of 25 seconds.