Simon Yates (cyclist)

Simon Yates
	Simon Yates (2014)
To person
Date of birth	August 7, 1992
nation	United Kingdom
discipline	Road , rail
Driver type	Tourers (road), endurance (rail)
To the team
Current team	Mitchelton-Scott
function	driver
doping
March – July 2016	Terbutaline
Societies)
2013	Team 100% Me
Most important successes
	Overall ranking Vuelta a España 2018 ; World Championship 2013 - points race; two stages Tour de France ;
	Last updated: October 28, 2019

Simon Philip Yates (born August 7, 1992 in Bury ) is a British cyclist . He is the overall winner of the Vuelta a España 2018 . His twin brother Adam is also a cyclist.

Athletic career

Initially, Simon Yates was particularly successful on the track . In 2010 he won the Velodromo Fassa Bortolo in Italy Montichiari together with Daniel McLay junior world champion in two-crew Drive ; in the team pursuit he won the silver medal together with McLay, Sam Harrison and Owain Doull . At the 2010/11 Track Cycling World Cup in Beijing , he finished third in the team pursuit in January 2011 (with Mark Christian , Erick Rowsell and Andrew Fenn ).

In 2013, Simon Yates became world champion in points race in Minsk . On the road , he won two stages of the Tour de l'Avenir as well as one stage of the Tour of Britain in the same year .

For the 2014 season he received a contract with UCI WorldTeam Orica-GreenEdge . In 2014 Yates won the mountain classification of the Tour of Alberta and the junior classification of the Tour of Slovenia . He also came third at the British Road Cycling Championships. In 2015 he won the junior ranking at the Critérium du Dauphiné and fifth overall. The young Briton had the same result on the Tour of the Basque Country .

On March 12, 2016, after the sixth stage from Paris – Nice , Yates tested positive for the prohibited substance terbutaline . His team, Orica GreenEdge , said the mistake was with the team doctor who failed to apply for an exemption for this asthma drug for Yates. He was banned for four months for "unintentional doping". Because of the suspension, he could not contest the Tour de France 2016 .

Simon Yates in the white jersey of the leader in the junior competition at the 2017 Tour de France

A few days after the end of the doping ban, he won the Spanish one-day race Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia . At the subsequent Vuelta a España 2016 , Yates won the hilly sixth stage after an attack four kilometers from the finish. He finished sixth in the overall ranking of this Grand Tour . The following year he started the Tour , won the junior ranking and finished seventh overall.

Yates in the pink jersey on the 19th stage of the Giro d'Italia 2018

At the Giro d'Italia 2018 , Yates took over the Maglia Rosa on the 6th stage with a mountain finish on Etna and then won three stages, including the mountain finish of the 9th stage on the Campo Imperatore , but collapsed on the 19th stage and lost 39 Minutes on the day's winner and new overall leader Froome. Yates finished the tour in 21st place overall.

In autumn of the same year he won the overall ranking of the Vuelta a España 2018 - in contrast to the Giro d'Italia - with a conservative strategy. After taking the overall lead on the mountainous ninth stage, he handed it over to the runaway Jesús Herrada on the 12th stage , only to conquer it two days later with a victory on a mountain finish . He then spared himself for the last two mountain stages in Andorra , where he extended his lead.