Kurt Asle Arvesen

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Kurt Asle Arvesen

Arvesen at the 2005 HEW Cyclassics
Personal information
Full name	Kurt Asle Arvesen
Date of birth	February 9, 1975 (1975-02-09) (age 33)
Country	Norway
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	70 kg (150 lb/11 st)
Team information
Current team	Team CSC
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Sprinter/Classics Rider
Professional team(s)
1998 1999-2000 2001-2003 2004-	Asics Riso Scotti Team Fakta Team CSC
Major wins
1997 UCI Road World Under-23 Championships Giro d'Italia, 2 stages Danmark Rundt (2004, 2007) National Champion (1999, 2002) National Time-Trial Champion (2001, 2006) E3 Prijs Vlaanderen 2008
Infobox last updated on:
March 30, 2008

Kurt Asle Arvesen (born February 9, 1975 in Molde) is a professional road bicycle racer from Eresfjord, Norway. He is currently part of the Danish Team CSC, where he has been since 2004.

After winning the gold medal at the 1997 Under-23 World Championship as an amateur, Arvesen turned pro with Italian team Asics in 1998, where later Team CSC teammate Ivan Basso rode as a stagiare. The two riders moved on to Davide Boifava's team, Riso Scotti-Vinavil in 1999, which was renamed Amica Chips-Tacconi Sport in 2000, but Arvesen's three years in Italy didn't get him the results his World Under-23 Championships win had foretold. In 2001 Arvesen and Basso split up, as Arvesen moved on to Danish Team Fakta, where he experienced his most successful years culminating in a stage win in the 2003 Giro d'Italia.

In 2004, Team Fakta closed, and Arvesen and sports director Kim Andersen both moved on to Team CSC. At Team CSC, Arvesen has been riding mostly as a domestique, but he managed to win the stage race Danmark Rundt as well as CSC Classic in 2004. For the 2004 Tour de France, Arvesen helped team captain Basso finish second overall, and he was named the toughest rider in the peloton when he managed to finish the three-weeks long race after crashing severely on several stages. For the 2005 Tour de France he would once more ride in support of Basso. This time Arvesen had the strength to ride aggressively, and on the 17th stage of the race, he got in a breakway with 16 other riders which lasted all the way to the finish line. As the leading group slowly disintegrated, he and Italian rider Paolo Savoldelli were the last riders for the sprint, but Savoldelli was too fast for Arvesen.^[1] In the 2006 UCI ProTour spring season Arvesen got a handful of top 10 placings. When he crashed into a right-swinging car during a training ride in April,^[2] he got away with road rash and a bruised right knee and less than a week later he rode Rund um den Henninger Turm, though he didn't ride the race to its end. He finally managed to win Ster Elektrotoer, but that was not enough to secure his place in 2006 Tour de France roster. Arvesen became the runner-up in Paris-Tours. In the 2007 Giro d'Italia Arvesen won stage 8 after beating Paolo Bettini in the finish.

[edit] Career highlights

[edit] References

1. ^ Savoldelli Successful On A Day Of Change, LeTour.fr
2. ^ (Norwegian) Kurt Asle Arvesen, Kjørt ned på trening!, KurtAsleArvesen.com, April 26, 2006

[edit] External links

• Official website
• Profile at Team CSC
• 1996 UCI Road World Under-23 Championships from Youtube

v • d • e Riders on Team CSC Kurt Asle Arvesen | Lars Bak | Michael Blaudzun | Lasse Bøchman | Matti Breschel | Fabian Cancellara | Íñigo Cuesta | Matthew Goss | Juan José Haedo | Volodymyr Hustov | Allan Johansen | Bobby Julich | Kasper Klostergaard | Alexandr Kolobnev | Karsten Kroon | Gustav Erik Larsson | Marcus Ljungqvist | Anders Lund | Jason McCartney | Bradley McGee | Stuart O'Grady | Carlos Sastre | Andy Schleck | Fränk Schleck | Chris Anker Sørensen | Nicki Sørensen | Jurgen Van Goolen | Jens Voigt | Manager: Bjarne Riis

Persondata
NAME	Arvesen, Kurt Asle
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Road bicycle racer
DATE OF BIRTH	1975-02-09
PLACE OF BIRTH	Molde, Norway
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH