Simon Clarke

Simon Clarke
	Simon Clarke (2015)
To person
Date of birth	July 18, 1986
nation	Australia
discipline	Train / street
Driver type	All-rounder / sprinter
height	175 cm
Racing weight	63 kg
To the team
Current team	EF Pro Cycling
function	driver
Societies)
2006-2008	SouthAustralia.com-AIS
Most important successes
	two stages Vuelta a España; Mountain Classification Vuelta a España 2012; General Classification Herald Sun Tour 2014
	Last updated: January 13, 2019

Clarke in the individual time trial of the 2018 Tour de France

Simon Clarke (born July 18, 1986 in Melbourne ) is an Australian cyclist .

Athletic career

Simon Clarke was the 2004 UCI World Junior World Championships Team Pursuit with Matthew Goss , Michael Ford and Miles Olman . At the Tour Down Under 2006 he finished eighth overall and took second place in the junior ranking. In 2008 he was the Australian U23 road racing champion .

Clarke received his first contract with a UCI ProTeam in 2011 with the Kazakh Pro Team Astana and was able to achieve his first place in a road race of the highest category in the ProTour race as seventh in the peloton's mass sprint . On the mountainous fourth stage of the Vuelta a España 2012 , he achieved his greatest success to date, after beating his escape colleague Tony Martin in a two-man sprint . He finished the tour in 77th place overall and won the mountain classification .

2013 won Clarke together with the GreenEdge Cycling Team , the team time trial of the Tour de France . The following year he was the overall winner of the Herald Sun Tour . In 2015 he was able to win another team time trial with the GreenEdge team by winning the Giro d'Italia . In 2018 he won another stage of the Vuelta a España . He won the sprint from a group of three, ahead of Bauke Mollema and Alessandro De Marchi . In the overall standings, he finished 46th, his best result so far in a major tour of the country .