Christian Vandevelde
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 2004: Vandevelde in his Liberty Seguros outfit. |
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| Personal information | |
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| Full name | Christian Vandevelde |
| Date of birth | May 22, 1976 (age 30) |
| Country |  United States |
| Height | 1.80 m |
| Weight | 69 kg |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Team CSC |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | Climber/Domestique |
| Professional team(s) | |
| 1998-2003 2004 2005- |
US Postal Liberty Seguros Team CSC |
| Major wins | |
| Tour de Luxembourg (2006) Eneco Tour of Benelux
Quatre Jours de Dunkerque
UCI World Cup, Individual Pursuit (1999) |
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| Infobox last updated on: | |
| January 15, 2007 | |
Christian Vandevelde (born 22 May 1976 in Lemont, USA), sometimes referred to as Christian Vande Velde, is an American professional road bicycle racer who currently rides for Team CSC. Son of United States Bicycling Hall of Fame inductee, John Vandevelde, Christian became professional in 1998 for US Postal.
He twice rode on the Tour de France team that brought Lance Armstrong to victory, in the 1999 Tour de France Vandevelde himself wore the young rider's jersey, the maillot blanc, for a time, while he did not complete the 2001 Tour de France. Christian Vandevelde moved to Liberty Seguros in 2004 and switched to Team CSC in 2005. He has always worked as a domestique, riding in support of varying team captains, even though the 2005 season saw Vandevelde taking chances of his own including a breakaway on 4th stage of the Eneco Tour of Benelux, which was eventually hampered when the peloton was lead on a false route, meaning the riders of the breakaway had to wait for the peloton to get back on track, at which time the gap between the break and the peloton was reduced from six to four minutes with 43 kilometres to go.
In the 2006 Tour de France, he was a domestique on Team CSC for team captains Carlos Sastre and Fränk Schleck. Vandevelde was the best of the climbers in the team apart from Sastre and Schleck, whom he supported brilliantly in the high mountain stages. On stage 16, he pulled for most of the early slopes of the Col de La Croix de Fer, after team-mates Sastre and Schleck attacked to put then race leader Floyd Landis under pressure. Later in the stage, he was also seen helping the team again and again, by delivering the water-bottles to his team-mates. On stage 17 to Morzine, he again pulled for most of the day along with team-mate Jens Voigt and Matthias Kessler and Serhiy Honchar from T-Mobile.
[edit] Results
- 2006
- 1st Overall – Tour de Luxembourg
- 24th Overall – Tour de France
- 3rd, Stage 14
- 6th, Stage 9 – Tour de Suisse
- 9th – Tour of California
- 2005
- Mountains classification – Eneco Tour of Benelux
- 12th overall – Tour de Georgia
- 2002
- Stage 1 (TTT) – Volta a Catalunya
- 2001
- 4th – Three Days of De Panne
- 5th – Vuelta Valenciana
- 1999
- Best young rider classification – Quatre Jours de Dunkerque
- Individual Pursuit – UCI World Cup
- 1st Overall – Redlands Classic
[edit] Notes
- ^ CyclingNews.com, cycling news for August 8, 2005
[edit] External links
| Riders on Team CSC |
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Kurt Asle Arvesen | Lars Bak | Michael Blaudzun | Matti Breschel | Fabian Cancellara | Íñigo Cuesta | Matthew Goss | Juan José Haedo | Volodymyr Hustov | Allan Johansen | Bobby Julich | Kasper Klostergaard | Alexandr Kolobnev | Karsten Kroon | Marcus Ljungqvist | Anders Lund | Lars Michaelsen | Stuart O'Grady | Martin Pedersen | Luke Roberts | Carlos Sastre | Andy Schleck | Fränk Schleck | Chris Anker Sørensen | Nicki Sørensen | Christian Vandevelde | Jens Voigt | David Zabriskie |
| Manager |
| Bjarne Riis |
