Lars Bak

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**Lars Bak**
Personal information
Full name	Lars Ytting Bak
Date of birth	16 January 1980
Country	Denmark
Team information
Current team	Team CSC
Rider type	All-rounder
Amateur team(s)
1996-1999 2000-2001 2001 2001	Silkeborg CR Hammel CK CCI Differdange UC Trevigiani-Mapei
Professional team(s)
2002-2003 2004-2004 2005-	Team Fakta BankGiroLoterij Team CSC
Major wins
2005 Tour de l'Avenir 2005 Paris-Bourges

Lars Ytting Bak (born 16 January 1980) is a Danish professional road bicycle racer. He became a professional in 2002 for Team Fakta where he rode with fellow Dane Allan Johansen. In 2004 they both switched to BankGiroLoterij where Lars Bak would win his first professional win, but as the BankGiroLoterij team stopped after the 2004 season, both Bak and Johansen went to Team CSC in 2005.

Here, Lars Bak won the Danish Road Racing Championship, and in the later half of the season he showed his strength and talent as a good upcoming rider, as Bak won the meriting ten stages long U/25 race Tour de l'Avenir. He conquered the leader's jersey by sprinting to the win in a group of four riders on the first stage, a position he defended through the following nine stages bar one, including a time trial and a number of hilly stages.