Tanel Kangert

Tanel Kangert
	Tanel Kangert (2013)
To person
Date of birth	March 11, 1987
nation	Estonia
discipline	Road / mountain bike
To the team
Current team	EF Pro Cycling
function	driver
	Last updated: April 28, 2018

Tanel Kangert (born March 11, 1987 in Vändra , Estonian SSR , USSR ) is an Estonian mountain bike and road cyclist .

Athletic career

In 2005 Tanel Kangert won the overall ranking of the junior race Course de la Paix . In the 2007 season he was Estonian champion in road racing in the U23 class. At the Tour du Gevaudan, he won the third section and was able to win the overall standings. He later got a place as a stagiaire with the ProTeam Ag2r Prévoyance , where he was tenth at the Coppa Placci . Kangert started at the 2007 road cycling world championships in Stuttgart and finished seventh in the U23 time trial.

In 2008 Kangert became Estonian champion in the individual time trial and repeated this success twice until 2013. In 2012 he was also the Estonian road champion. In the same year he won a stage of the Tour de Suisse .

By 2017 Tanel Kangert had made a total of eleven major tours across the country . His best placement was eleventh place at the Vuelta a España 2013 , in the same year he finished 14th at the Giro d'Italia . In 2015 he finished 13th at the Giro . In 2016 he won the Abu Dhabi Tour .

In 2011, Kangert became the Estonian mountain bike marathon champion .