Chris Horner

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Chris Horner

Horner in 2007
Personal information
Full name	Christopher Horner
Date of birth	October 23, 1971 (1971-10-23) (age 36)
Country	USA
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	70 kg (150 lb/11 st)
Team information
Current team	Astana
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	All-rounder
Professional team(s)
1997–1999 2000–2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006–2007 2008–	Française des Jeux Mercury Prime Alliance Saturn Webcor Builders Saunier Duval-Prodir Davitamon-Lotto/Predictor-Lotto Astana
Major wins
Tour de Langkawi (2000) Tour de Georgia (2003) Champion, USA Cycling National Racing Calendar (2002, 2003, 2004)
Infobox last updated on:
December 29, 2007

Christopher Horner (born October 23, 1971) is an American professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam Astana. Originally from Bend, Oregon^[1], Horner has been a dominating figure in the American road racing scene ^[2] by winning the points standings in the 2002, 2003 and 2004 USA Cycling National Racing Calendar. Turning pro in 1995^[3], he captured his first major victory in a stage win of the Tour DuPont in 1996 riding for the NutraFig team, he was asked to ride in Europe with French team Française des Jeux. After three frustrating seasons from 1997 to 1999, he returned to America to resume a stellar domestic career, riding with Mercury in 2000, Prime Alliance in 2002, Saturn in 2003 and Webcor Builders in 2004.

Horner has won almost every important race in the US racing calendar, with the notable exception of the USPRO Championships and the Tour of California. He decided to move to Saunier Duval - Prodir after his top-ten finish in the 2004 UCI World Road Cycling Championship because he wanted to give the Tour de France a try. After being injured in the beginning of 2005, Horner showed strong performance in the USPRO Championships and won his first major European victory by taking the sixth stage of the 2005 Tour de Suisse. He then earned his place in the 2005 Tour de France team and nearly won the Miramas to Montpellier stage when he and Sylvain Chavanel refused to cooperate in the finale and were caught by the peloton. He made a move to the Belgian UCI ProTour squad Davitamon-Lotto for the 2006 season. The team was renamed Predictor-Lotto for the 2007 season. Horner moved to Astana for the 2008 season.

For 2007 Horner signed with Ed Krall Racing for the cyclo-cross season.

[edit] Major results

[edit] External links

• USA Cycling biography

[edit] References

v • d • e Riders on Astana Assan Bazayev | Janez Brajkovič | Antonio Colom | Alberto Contador | Koen de Kort | Thomas Frei | Vladimir Gusev | René Haselbacher | Chris Horner | Maxim Iglinsky | Sergei Ivanov | Benoît Joachim | Aaron Kemps | Roman Kireyev | Andreas Klöden | Berik Kupeshov | Levi Leipheimer | Julien Mazet | Andrey Mizurov | Steve Morabito | Dimitry Murajev | Daniel Navarro | Benjamín Noval | Sérgio Paulinho | Grégory Rast | José Luis Rubiera | Michael Schär | Tomas Vaitkus | Serguei Yakovlev | Andrey Zeits | Manager: Johan Bruyneel

Persondata
NAME	Horner, Chris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Horner, Christopher
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Road bicycle racer
DATE OF BIRTH	1971-10-23
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bend, Oregon, United States
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH