Svein Tuft

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Svein Tuft Road cycling
Svein Tuft (2008)
Svein Tuft (2008)
To person
Date of birth May 9, 1977
nation CanadaCanada Canada
discipline Street
Driver type Time trial
To the team
Current team Rally cycling
function driver
Most important successes

silver World Time Trial Championships 2008
two stages Eneco Tour

Last updated: September 5, 2017

Svein Tuft (born May 9, 1977 in Langley ) is a Canadian cyclist .

Career

Before Tuft devoted himself to road cycling as a competitor , he was on his bike for a long time as a tramp accompanied by his 40 kilogram dog.

Tuft achieved his most important successes in the time trial : by 2014 he was Canadian champion in the individual time trial seven times. At the Olympic Games in Beijing in 2008 , he finished seventh in his specialty and at the 2008 World Road Championships he won the silver medal.

Tuft won the individual classification of the UCI America Tour racing series in 2007 . In addition to his time trial titles, Tuft was Canadian road and track champions in 2011 and 2014 in the singles pursuit and Madison . Also in 2008 he was Pan American champion in the single pursuit, in the points race and again in the Madison.

In 2008 Tuft received his first contract with a UCI ProTeam , the US team Garmin-Slipstream . In the following years he took part in "Grand Tours" several times . In 2012, after a stopover at the Canadian Professional Continental Team SpiderTech-C10, he switched to the Australian ProTeam Orica GreenEdge and achieved podium positions with this team at the road world championships in the team time trial : in 2012 he won bronze and in 2013 and 2014 the silver medal.

In 2017, Svein Tuft became Canadian time trial champion and won his tenth national time trial title.

successes

Street

2004
  • CanadaCanada Canadian Champion - Individual Time Trial
2005
  • CanadaCanada Canadian Champion - Individual Time Trial
2006
  • CanadaCanada Canadian Champion - Individual Time Trial
2007
2008
2009
  • CanadaCanada Canadian Champion - Individual Time Trial
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
  • Giro d'Italia team time trial
  • CanadaCanada Canadian Champion - Individual Time Trial
  • CanadaCanada Canadian champion - road racing
  • silver World Championship - Team Time Trial
2016
2017
  • CanadaCanada Canadian Champion - Individual Time Trial
2018
  • CanadaCanada Canadian Champion - Individual Time Trial

train

2008
  • Gouden medaille.svg Pan American champion - one's pursuit
  • Gouden medaille.svgPan American Champion - Madison (with Zach Bell )
  • Gouden medaille.svg Pan American champion - points race
  • CanadaCanada Canadian champion - one's pursuit
  • CanadaCanada Canadian Champion - Madison (with Zach Bell)

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - 125 - 148 154 155 - 146 142 147 -
Yellow jersey Tour de France - - - - 169 131 159 - - -
Red jersey Vuelta a España DNF - - - - - - 158 DNF -
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Teams

Web links

Commons : Svein Tuft  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tuft: Proud father with fearless sons. In: radsport-news.com. May 24, 2018. Retrieved May 24, 2018 .
  2. ^ Robert Jones: Svein Tuft wins 10th Canadian time trial title. In: cyclingnews.com. June 27, 2017, accessed June 28, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Tuft, Svein
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Langley