Tao Geoghegan Hart

Tao Geoghegan Hart
	Tao Geoghegan Hart (2016)
To person
Date of birth	March 30, 1995
nation	United Kingdom
discipline	road
Driver type	Mountain riders, tour riders
To the team
Current team	Ineos Grenadiers
function	driver
Societies)
	Hackney Cycling Club
Team (s)
2014 ; 2015 ; 2016-	Bissell Development Team ; Axeon ; Team Sky / Ineos Grenadiers
Most important successes
	Overall ranking Giro d'Italia 2020
	Last updated: October 26, 2020

Tao Geoghegan Hart [ ˈteɪoʊ ˈɡeɪɡən ˈhɑːrt ] (born March 30, 1995 in London ) is a British cyclist .

Athletic career

In the junior division, Geoghegan Hart won the silver medal in the team pursuit of the European Track Championships in 2012 together with Jonathan Dibben , Samuel Lowe and Christopher Latham . The following year, after focusing on road cycling , he won the overall ranking of the Tour of Istria and the Giro della Lunigiana . He finished at the junior edition of Paris-Roubaix , Le Pavé de Roubaix , third.

In the adult area, Geoghegan Hart received a contract with the Bissell Development Team and came third in the U23 edition of Liège – Bastogne – Liège . In 2016 he became British U23 road champion and won the Trofeo Piva .

In 2017 Geoghegan Hart moved to Team Sky , for which he had already been a stagiaire at the end of the 2015 season . He decided the junior competition of the California Tour for himself. At the Tour of the Alps 2019 he won two stages in the sprint of the front field and a four-man leading group and came second in the overall standings. In the same year he finished 20th overall at the Vuelta a España .

Geoghegan Hart was the overall winner of the Giro d'Italia 2020 . After he had already won the mountain arrivals of the 15th and 20th stages , he took over the Maglia Rosa in the individual time trial of the last stage from the previously simultaneous Jai Hindley .

Miscellaneous

The unusual first name Tao and his first surname Geoghegan come from Irish Gaelic ; Tao stands for Tom . Before Geoghegan Hart started cycling, he played soccer and was a swimmer . At the age of 13 he took part in a swimming relay through the English Channel . He is in a relationship with the cyclist Hannah Barnes ; the couple lives in Andorra ( as of 2020 ).