Cadel Evans
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| Full name | Cadel Evans |
| Date of birth | February 14, 1977 (age 30) |
| Country |  Australia |
| Height | 1.74 m |
| Weight | 68 kg |
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| Current team | Predictor-Lotto |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | All rounder |
| Professional team(s) | |
| 2001 2002 2003-2004 2005- |
Saeco Mapei Team Telekom Davitamon-Lotto/Predictor Lotto |
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| December 24, 2006 | |
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.
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[edit] Career
Cadel Evans started his International career as a member of the Australian Institute of Sport MTB team, under the leadership of A.I.S. Head Coach, German born Heiko Salzwedel and MTB Coach Damien Grundy. He was an exceptional Moutain Biker, winning Silver medals at the 1997 and 1999 MTB U23 World Championships, but also won a Bronze medal at the 1995 Junior World Road Cycling Time Trial Championships.
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.
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 fueling 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] 2007
- 7th Overall, Paris-Nice
[edit] 2006
- 1st, Stage 5 and Overall, Tour de Romandie
- 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, Vuelta a España 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 1,4 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
[edit] External links
- Cadel Evans' website
- Cycling Federation rider profile
- Cyclingnews.com interview
- 2006 Tour de France Official Rider Profile
| Riders on Predictor-Lotto |
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Mario Aerts | Christophe Brandt | Dario Cioni | Dominique Cornu | Wim De Vocht | Dries Devenyns | Bart Dockx | Cadel Evans | Nick Gates | Chris Horner | Leif Hoste | Nick Ingels | Josep Jufré Pou | Olivier Kaisen | Bjorn Leukemans | Matthew Lloyd | Robbie McEwen | Pieter Mertens | Fred Rodriguez | Bart Roesems | Roy Sentjens | Tom Steels | Geert Steurs | Greg Van Avermaet | Jurgen Van Den Broeck | Preben Van Hecke | Wim Van Huffel | Johan Van Summeren | Wim Vansevenant |
| Manager |
| Marc Sergeant |
