Zak Dempster

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Zak Dempster Road cycling
Zak Dempster (2019)
Zak Dempster (2019)
To person
Full name Zakkari Dempster
Date of birth September 27, 1987
nation AustraliaAustralia Australia
discipline Train / street
To the team
Current team Israel start-up nation
function driver
Most important successes

Arnhem – Veenendaal Classic 2019

Last updated: October 28, 2019

Zakkari "Zak" Dempster (born September 27, 1987 in Castlemaine , Victoria ) is a former Australian cyclist .

Career

Zakkari Dempster was initially successful in track cycling . In 2007 he became the Australian champion in team pursuit and scratch . At the Oceania Championships, he won gold in the team pursuit and silver in the points race and scratch. At the rail world championships in 2007 he finished sixth with the Australian team.

In the next few years he devoted himself to Dempster mainly to road cycling and won a stage of the Tour of Japan in 2010 . After working for Continental Teams since 2007 and as a stagiaire at ProTeam HTC-Highroad in 2010 , he received a contract with a professional Continental team , Team NetApp-Endura , in 2013 . For this team he contested the Vuelta a España 2013 and the Tour de France 2014 . He finished these races in 133rd and 152nd.

Parallel to his involvement in cycling, Dempster studied sports science after graduating from school and worked as a fitness trainer at the Carlton Football Club during the Australian summer from 2010 to 2013 .

At the end of the 2019 season, in which he achieved his most important career success with victory in the one-day race Arnhem – Veenendaal Classic , Dempster ended his racing career and moved to the management of his last team, the Israel Cycling Academy .

successes

2007
2008
2011
2012
2019

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - - - - - 126 -
Yellow jersey Tour de France - 151 DNF - - - -
Red jersey Vuelta a España 133 - - - - - -
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Teams

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ perthnow.com.au from June 27, 2014: Zak Dempster, 27, to become Australia's latest Tour de France debutant  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.perthnow.com.au  
  2. ↑ Kirsten Frattini: Zak Dempster moves into management role at Israel Cycling Academy. In: cyclingnews.com. October 26, 2019, accessed October 27, 2019 .

Web links

Commons : Zakkari Dempster  - collection of images, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Dempster, Zak
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dempster, Zakkari
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1987
PLACE OF BIRTH Castlemaine , Victoria, Australia