Cadel Evans
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cadel Evans (born 14 February 1977 in Katherine, Northern Territory, Australia) is a professional cyclist. Prior to turning to road cycling in 2001, Evans was a champion mountain biker, riding for the Volvo-Cannondale MTB team, winning the World Cup in 1998 and 1999 and placing 7th in the 2000 Sydney Olympics.
Contents |
[edit] Career
During his career on the road he has been a member of the following teams: Saeco (2001), Mapei (2002), 2003-2004 T-Mobile Team (then named Team Telekom). For the 2005 season he signed with Davitamon-Lotto, and on his first Tour de France later that year achieved 8th place in the overall General Classification, the first Australian to place in the top ten in the Tour de France since Phil Anderson. Evans demonstrated his climbing skills by often riding in the group with Lance Armstrong, Ivan Basso and Jan Ullrich in the Tour's mountain stages. He powered home the Stage 16 breakaway and conquered the Col d'Aubisque (1677m - HC), but was eventually caught by Óscar Pereiro, Eddy Mazzoleni, and Xabier Zandio. He pulled the hardest and longest especially on the run in to Pau.
In 2006, he won the Tour de Romandie, snatching the leader's jersey off two Spaniards, Liberty Serguros' Alberto Contador and Alejandro Valverde from the Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears team, on the last stage (a 20.4 km Individual Time Trial around the Swiss city of Lausanne).
His other successes as a road cyclist have been a stage win in the Austria Tour in 2001, overall win of the Austria Tour 2004, a stage win of the Tour Down Under in 2002, fourteenth place in the 2002 Giro d'Italia (he wore the leader's jersey, Maglia Rosa for one day), and Commonwealth Games time trial Champion in 2002.
Evans is an exceptionally strong climber on the high mountains, as he showed again this year in the Tour de France, where he always rode with the front group on the high mountain stages. He is also an exceptional Individual Time-Trialist, recording various top 10 finishes in races. Evans is considered one of the best riders in the Professional Peleton in the world at the moment.
Here is an excerpt of an interview after stage 16, of the 2005 Tour de France.
Journalist: This stage in very difficult circumstances today for you, any particular emotions fuelling you today?
Cadel Evans: A lot of emotions, you know, i've been, down and out, had two really bad years and there was a lot of, you know, i've had a really rough last two years and a lot of people have forgotten what sort of rider i am. I always believed in myself and some people really believed in me and i really thank them for that. This is all for all the people that believed in me: Marc Sergeant, the Davitamon-Lotto team, my girlfriend, my family, my really good friends who believed in me and stuck my be for the last two years because it hasn't been a very good two years for me and now you're seeing the old Cadel come back.
Source: SBS Television
[edit] Major Results
[edit] 2006
- 1st Stage 5 and Overall, Tour de Romandie 2006
- 4th Stage 11 Tour de France FRA
- 4th Stage 16 Tour de France FRA
- 5th Overall Tour de France FRA
[edit] 2005
- 7th Stage 8 Tour de France FRA
- 8th Stage 10 Tour de France FRA
- 7th Stage 11 Tour de France FRA
- 4th Stage 16 Tour de France FRA
- 7th Stage 20 Tour de France FRA
- 8th Overall Tour de France FRA
- 2nd Stage 5 Paris-Nice FRA
- 8th Overall Paris-Nice FRA
- 4th Australian Open Road Race Title AUS
- 5th Leige-Bastogne-Leige BEL
- 8th Stage 5a Vuelta al Pais Vasco SPA
- 9th Fleche Wallone BEL
[edit] 2004
- 1st Overall Tour of Austria AUT
- 1st Stage 2 Tour of Austria AUT
- 4th Stage 4 Tour of Austria AUT
- 3rd Vuelta Ciclista a Murcia-Costa Calida SPA
- 4th Stage 2 Rothaus Regio-Tour International GER
- 5th Overall Rothaus Regio-Tour International GER
- 5th Stage 3 Route du Sud FRA
- 6th Stage 4 Route du Sud FRA
- 6th Stage 5 Tour of Spain SPA
[edit] 2003
- 10th Stage 5 Tour Down Under AUS
- 10th Overall Tour Down Under AUS
[edit] 2002
- 1st Road Time Trial Commonwealth Games GBR
- 1st Stage 5 Tour Down Under AUS
- 1st Stage 1 Settimana Ciclistica Internazionale ITA
- 1st Stage 4 Intl UNIQA Classic AUT
- 2nd Road Race Commonwealth Games GBR
- 2nd Stage 13 Giro d'Italia ITA
- 2nd Stage 6 Paris-Nice FRA
- 3rd Stage 14 Giro d'Italia ITA
- 3rd Overall Settimana Ciclistica Internazionale ITA
- 3rd Overall Tour de Romandie SUI
- 4th Overall Tour Down Under AUS
- 5th Stage 5 Vuelta Ciclista al Pais Vasco SPA
- 5th Stage 5 Tour de Romandie SUI
- 6th Overall Vuelta Ciclista al Pais Vasco SPA
- 6th Overall Intl UNIQA Classic AUT
- 6th Stage 4 Tour de Romandie SUI
- 8th Overall GP Chiasso SUI
- 8th Stage 2 Giro d'Italia ITA
- 9th Road Race Australian Open Titles AUS
- 10th Overall Paris-Nice FRA
- 14th Overall Giro d'Italia FRA
