Daniel Teklehaymanot
.jpg) Teklehaymanot at the 2012 Critérium du Dauphiné | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Daniel Teklehaymanot Girmazion | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
10 November 1988 Debarwa, Eritrea | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 71 kg (157 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | MTN Qhubeka | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2008 2009–2011 2010 |
Amore & Vita-McDonald's (stagiaire) Centre mondial du cyclisme Cervélo TestTeam (stagiaire) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Professional team(s) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2012–2013 2014– |
GreenEDGE MTN Qhubeka | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Daniel Teklehaymanot Girmazion (born 10 November 1988)[1] is a professional road racing cyclist from Eritrea.[2] He competes for the MTN Qhubeka squad.[3]
Career
Teklehaymanot was a member of the UCI's World Cycling Centre training program before signing for the new Australian cycling team GreenEDGE in 2012.[4] He finished sixth overall in the Tour de l'Avenir in 2009. In 2010 he rode as a trainee for Cervélo TestTeam. The same year, he won the African Championships in the road race, individual time trial and team time trial, at both senior and under-23 levels. On the 2010–2011 UCI Africa Tour, he won the Tour of Rwanda and the Kwita Izina Cycling Tour.[5] He participated in the 2012 Summer Olympics being the first Eritrean competing in a sport other than athletics, he finished the road race in the 73rd position. In 2012, he became the first Eritrean to ride in La Vuelta, one of the 3 grand tours; he finished the race 146th overall.
Teklehaymanot joined MTN Qhubeka for the 2014 season, on a two-year contract.[3]
Palmarès
- 2008
- 1st
National Road Race Championships - 5th Overall Tour Ivoirien de la Paix
- 2009
- 2nd Overall Tour Eritrea
- 1st Stages 1 & 3
- 6th Overall Tour de l'Avenir
- 2010
- African Cycling Championships
- 1st Road race
- 1st Individual time trial
- 1st Team time trial
- 1st Overall Tour of Rwanda
- 1st Stage 2
- 1st Stage 2 Coupe des Nations Ville Saguenay
- 2011
- African Cycling Championships
- 1st Individual time trial
- 1st Team time trial
- 1st National Time Trial Championships
- 1st Overall Kwita Izina Tour
- 1st Stages 1, 2 & 3
- 1st Stage 5, Tour d'Algérie
- 5th Overall Tropicale Amissa Bongo
- 1st Stage 4
- 2012
- African Cycling Championships
- 1st Individual time trial
- 1st Team time trial
- 1st National Road Race Championships
- 1st National Time Trial Championships
- 2013
- African Cycling Championships
- 1st Individual time trial
- 1st Team time trial
- 1st Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia
References
- ↑ "Daniel Teklehaymanot". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 1 April 2012.
- ↑ CQ Ranking
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Teklehaimanot moves to MTN-Qhubeka". Cyclingnews.com (Future plc). 10 October 2013. Retrieved 14 December 2013.
- ↑ Carrey, Pierre (4 August 2011). "Teklehaymanot signs for GreenEdge". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 5 August 2011.
- ↑ Arinaitwe, Ostine (13 June 2011). "Rwanda: Teklehaimanot Wins Kwita Izina". allafrica.com. Retrieved 5 August 2011.
External links
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