Thor Hushovd

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Thor Hushovd
Personal information
Full name Thor Hushovd
Nickname The Bear (or Bull) from Grimstad
Date of birth January 18, 1978 (age 29)
Country Flag of Norway Norway
Height 1.83 m
Weight 81 kg
Team information
Current team Crédit Agricole
Discipline Road
Role Rider
Rider type Sprinter
Professional team(s)
2000- Crédit Agricole
Major wins
Tour de France, 4 stages,
points classification (2005)
Vuelta a España, 2 stages,
points classification (2006)
Gent-Wevelgem (2006)
Infobox last updated on:
March 23, 2007

Thor Hushovd (born January 18, 1978 in Grimstad, Norway) has been a professional road bicycle racer since 2000. Known for his rather large size at 183 cm, 81.3 kg, he won the Tour de Normandie in 2001. He is also the first Norwegian to wear the yellow jersey in the Tour de France — a feat he achieved after stage two of the 2004 and the first and third stage of the 2006.

Before turning a professional in 1998, Hushovd won the U23 Time-Trial World Championship and the U23-versions of the two bicycle classics Paris-Roubaix and Paris-Tours. Hushovd aims to win Paris-Roubaix at senior level during his career.

Hushovd is currently a member of the 2007 Crédit Agricole cycling team. He has twice been the Norwegian Time Trial National Champion (2004 and 2005) and once the Road Race Norwegian Champion (2004). He was also the World Under-23 Time Trial Champion, adding Time Trial to his already impressive sprinting skills.

In 2006, Thor Hushovd won 7 UCI ProTour victories, including two stages of the 93rd Tour de France. Hushovd won the prologue in Strasbourg and wore the maillot jaune after the first day despite a cut suffered seconds before the finish of Stage 1 due to spectator interference. As the cut was not serious, he continued the tour with stitches in his arm and regained the maillot jaune after Stage 2 with a third place finish. And just as the Tour de France 2006 started with Hushovd, it also ended with him winning the last stage after beating Robbie McEwen in a strong finishing sprint. In the 2006 Vuelta a España he won stage 6, wore the golden jersey for three stages and also won the points classification.

[edit] Major achievements

2007 – Crédit Agricole
2006 – Crédit Agricole
2005 – Crédit Agricole
2004 – Crédit Agricole
  • Flag of Norway Norway National Time Trial Cycling Champion
  • Flag of Norway Norway National Road Race Cycling Champion
  • Stage 8 and 2nd, Points Classification – Tour de France
    • 1st (after Stage 2), General Classification – maillot jaune (or yellow jersey), (first career yellow jersey, 1 day)
  • Overall (Series of 15 races) – Coupe de France de cyclisme sur route
    • Classic Haribo
    • Grand Prix de Denain
    • Tour de Vendée
    • 3rd – Cholet-Pays de Loire
2003 – Crédit Agricole
2002 – Crédit Agricole
2001 – Crédit Agricole
  • Stage 5 — Tour de France Team Time Trial
  • Overall and Points Classification – Tour de Normandie
  • Overall – Tour of Sweden (or PostGirot Open)
  • Paris-Corrèze
1998
  • U23 World Time Trial Champion

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Riders on Crédit Agricole

Francesco Bellotti | László Bodrogi | William Bonnet | Alexandre Botcharov | Pietro Caucchioli | Anthony Charteau | Julian Dean | Christope Edaleine | Jimmy Engoulvent | Dmitry Fofonov | Angelo Furlan | Patrice Halgand | Sébastien Hinault | Jonathan Hivert | Thor Hushovd | Mads Kaggestad | Christophe Kern | Christophe Laurent | Christophe Le Mevel | Cyril Lemoine | Jean-Marc Marino | Rémi Pauriol | Benoit Poilvet | Saul Raisin | Mark Renshaw | Nicholas Roche | Pierre Rolland |  Yannick Talabardon
Manager
Roger Legeay
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