Tejay van Garderen

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Tejay van Garderen Road cycling
Tejay van Garderen at the 2012 Tour de France
Tejay van Garderen at the 2012 Tour de France
To person
Date of birth August 12, 1988
nation United StatesUnited States United States
discipline Street
Driver type Tour driver
height 1.86 m
Racing weight 72 kg
To the team
Current team EF Pro Cycling
function driver
Team (s)
2008–2009
2010–2011
2012–2018
2019- 		Rabobank Continental
HTC-Highroad
BMC Racing Team
EF Pro Cycling
Most important successes

Grand Tours

UCI Road World Championships

Further

Last updated: September 23, 2018

Tejay van Garderen (born August 12, 1988 in Tacoma , WA , United States ) is an American cyclist .

Career

Van Garderen received his first contract with an international cycling team , Continental Team Rabobank , for which he rode in 2008 and 2009. During this time he achieved his first international elite victory on a stage of the Flèche du Sud .

He then switched to the UCI ProTeam Team Columbia-HTC and competed with the Vuelta a España in 2010, his first Grand Tour , which he was able to finish in 35th overall. After this team was dissolved, van Garderen joined the BMC Racing Team in 2012 .

At the Tour de France in 2012 and 2014 , he finished fifth overall. In 2012 he also won the junior competition . He won the overall classification of the Tour of California in 2013 . In 2014 he and his team became world champions in the team time trial .

In the following years, however, he was no longer able to build on the top positions at Grand Tours . In the 2015 season he took part in the Tour de France and Vuelta a España national tours , where he was one of the favorites. However, he had to end both races early due to illness and the consequences of a fall.

In 2017, van Garderen partly built on previous successes: At the Giro d'Italia 2017 he won a mountain stage The Vuelta a España 2017 he finished tenth in the overall ranking.

For the 2019 season, van Garderen signed a contract with EF Education First . He had to give up the Tour de France 2019 as well as the Vuelta a España 2019 due to a crash.

successes

2004
  • MaillotUSA.PNG US Champion - Cyclocross (Youth)
  • MaillotUSA.PNG US Champions - Individual Time Trial (Youth)
  • MaillotUSA.PNG US Champions - Road Race (Youth)
2005
2008
2009
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2020

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - - - - - - - 20th - -
Yellow jersey Tour de France - 82 5 45 5 DNF 29 - 32 DNF
Red jersey Vuelta a España 35 - - - - DNF DNF 10 - DNF
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Web links

Commons : Tejay van Garderen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ BMC has to set new goals after van Garderen's tour-off. In: radsport-news.com. July 22, 2015, accessed September 6, 2015 .
  2. ↑ Jack Elton-Walters: Tejay van Garderen crashes out of the Vuelta a España - Cycling Weekly. In: cyclingweekly.com. August 29, 2015, accessed January 6, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Van Garderen lets his critics fall silent in Ortisei. In: radsport-news.com. May 25, 2017, accessed January 6, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Van Garderen has to end the tour with a broken hand. In: radsport-news.com. July 13, 2019, accessed January 6, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Formolo and Van Garderen give up tour of Spain. In: radsport-news.com. August 30, 2019, accessed January 6, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Van Garderen, Tejay
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH August 12, 1988
PLACE OF BIRTH Tacoma , WA , United States