Mikel Landa
This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Landa and the second or maternal family name is Meana.
.jpg) Landa at the 2012 Critérium du Dauphiné | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Mikel Landa Meana |
| Born |
13 December 1989 Murgia, Spain |
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) |
| Weight | 60 kg (130 lb) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Astana |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Professional team(s) | |
| 2009–2010 | Orbea Continental |
| 2011–2013 | Euskaltel-Euskadi[1] |
| 2014– | Astana |
|
Infobox last updated on 4 January 2015 | |
Mikel Landa Meana (born 13 December 1989) is a professional Spanish road cyclist, currently riding for Astana.[2]
After three years with the Euskaltel-Euskadi squad, Landa left the team at the end of the 2013 season – due to its disestablishment – to join Astana.[2] In 2015, Landa attacked from a breakaway on the last climb of the day to win the fifth stage of the Tour of the Basque Country.[3]
Palmarès
- 2010
- 10th Overall Ronde de l'Isard
- 5th Overall Tour de l'Avenir
- 2011
- 19th Overall Vuelta a Burgos
- 1st
Mountains classification - 1st Stage 5
- 1st
- 2012
- 2nd GP Miguel Indurain
- 2013
- 2nd Overall Vuelta a Asturias
- 1st Points classification
- 2nd Vuelta a la Comunidad de Madrid
- 6th Overall Vuelta a Burgos
- 6th Clásica de San Sebastián
- 2014
- 10th Overall Giro del Trentino
- 1st Stage 4
- 2015
- 1st Stage 5 Tour of the Basque Country
- 2nd Overall Giro del Trentino
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
| Grand Tour | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 |
|---|---|---|---|
 Giro |
– | – | 34 |
 Tour |
– | – | – |
| Vuelta |
69 | 39 | 28 |
WD = Withdrew; IP = In Progress
References
- ↑ "Basque Country's Euskaltel present UCI World Tour team". EITB (EiTB Group). 23 October 2012. Retrieved 5 January 2013.
The Basque backbone remains with Samuel Sanchez, Igor Anton, Ion Izagirre, Mikel Landa, Gorka Izagirre, Pello Bilbao, Mikel Astarloza and Mikel Nieve.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Corsi, Luca (10 August 2013). "Mikel Landa, al Astana" [Mikel Landa, to Astana]. El Diario Vasco (in Spanish) (Grupo Vocento). Retrieved 10 August 2013.
- ↑ Daniel Benson (10 April 2015). "País Vasco: Landa wins penultimate stage". Cyclingnews.com (Future plc). Retrieved 10 April 2015.
External links
Media related to Mikel Landa at Wikimedia Commons
- Mikel Landa profile at Cycling Archives
- Mikel Landa profile at Euskaltel-Euskadi (Spanish)