Cadel Evans

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Cadel Evans

Personal information
Full name	Cadel Evans
Date of birth	February 14, 1977 (1977-02-14) (age 31)
Country	Australia
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
Weight	68 kg (150 lb/10.7 st)
Team information
Current team	Silence-Lotto
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	All rounder
Amateur team(s)
1994?–1997?	Australian Institute of Sport (AIS)
Professional team(s)
2001 2002 2003–2004 2005–	Volvo-Cannondale (MTB) Saeco Mapei Team Telekom Davitamon-Lotto/Predictor-Lotto/Silence-Lotto
Major wins
Tour de Romandie (2006) UCI ProTour (2007)
Infobox last updated on:
October 20, 2007

Cadel Evans (born 14 February 1977, in Katherine, Northern Territory) is an Australian professional cyclist. In 2007 Evans became the highest ever placed Australian in the Tour de France by finishing second, and the first Australian to win UCI ProTour. Prior to turning to road cycling in 2001, Evans was a champion mountain biker, riding for the Volvo-Cannondale MTB team, winning the World Cup in 1998 and 1999 and placing 7th in the men's cross-country mountain bike race at the 2000 Sydney Olympics.

Contents 1 Career 2 Major results 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Career

Cadel Evans started his International career as a member of the Australian Institute of Sport MTB team, under the leadership of A.I.S. Head Coach, German-born Heiko Salzwedel and MTB Coach Damien Grundy. He was an exceptional Mountain Biker, winning Silver medals at the 1997 and 1999 MTB U23 World Championships, but also won Bronze medals at the 1995 Junior World Road Cycling Time Trial Championships and Junior World Mountain Bike Championships.

During his career on the road he has been a member of the following teams: Saeco (2001), Mapei (2002), 2003–2004 T-Mobile Team (then named Team Telekom). For the 2005 season he signed with Davitamon-Lotto, and on his first Tour de France later that year achieved 8th place in the overall General Classification, the first Australian to place in the top ten in the Tour de France since Phil Anderson. He bettered this performance in 2006, finishing 4th overall in the General Classification, post the disqualification of winner Floyd Landis.

In 2006, he won the Tour de Romandie, snatching the leader's jersey off two Spaniards, Liberty Serguros' Alberto Contador and Alejandro Valverde from the Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears team, on the last stage (a 20.4 km Individual Time Trial around the Swiss city of Lausanne).

In the 2007 Tour de France, Evans finished runner up in the general classification to Alberto Contador, cementing his position as one of the best cyclists in the world and highest placed Australian ever in Le Tour. He dominated riders such as Alexander Vinokourov, Carlos Sastre and Alejandro Valverde in the mountains, and finished second in both Time Trials. Evans finished just off the podium as 4th overall in the 2007 Vuelta a Espana. He capped off his year with a strong 5th place finish in the road race at the UCI Road World Championships and in the final UCI ProTour race of the year, the Giro di Lombardia, he finished in 6th place, securing the 2007 UCI ProTour title with 247 points, ahead of Davide Rebellin and Alberto Contador. The 2007 Giro d'Italia winner Danilo Di Luca was the ProTour leader until he was removed from the ProTour rankings due to a three month ban for his role in the Oil for Drugs scandal.

Some of his other successes as a road cyclist include a stage win in the Austria Tour in 2001, overall win of the Austria Tour 2004, 5th in the Tour of Germany in 2005, a stage win of the Tour Down Under in 2002, winning the Mountains Classification in the Tour Down Under in 2006, fourteenth place in the 2002 Giro d'Italia (he wore the leader's jersey, Maglia Rosa for one day), and Commonwealth Games time trial Champion in 2002. In 2006 he was awarded Australian Cyclist of the Year, and is expected to pick the award up again in 2007.

Here is an excerpt of an interview after stage 16, of the 2005 Tour de France.

Journalist: This stage in very difficult circumstances today for you, any particular emotions fueling you today?

Cadel Evans: A lot of emotions, you know, I've been, down and out, had two really bad years and there was a lot of, you know, I've had a really rough last two years and a lot of people have forgotten what sort of rider I am. I always believed in myself and some people really believed in me and I really thank them for that. This is all for all the people that believed in me: Marc Sergeant, the Davitamon-Lotto team, my girlfriend, my family, my really good friends who believed in me and stuck by me for the last two years because it hasn't been a very good two years for me and now you're seeing the old Cadel come back.^[1]

[edit] Major results

Sporting positions
Preceded by Alejandro Valverde	UCI ProTour Champion 2007	Succeeded by incumbent

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Cadel Evans' website
• Cycling Federation rider profile
• Cyclingnews.com interview
• 2006 Tour de France Official Rider Profile
• Cadel Evans profile

v • d • e Riders on Silence-Lotto Mario Aerts | Volodymyr Bileka | Christophe Brandt | Dario Cioni | Dominique Cornu | Francis De Greef | Wim De Vocht | Dries Devenyns | Glenn D'Hollander | Bart Dockx | Cadel Evans | Gorik Gardeyn | Nick Gates | Leif Hoste | Pieter Jacobs | Olivier Kaisen | Matthew Lloyd | Robbie McEwen | Yaroslav Popovych | Jurgen Roelandts | Bert Roesems | Roy Sentjens | Geert Steurs | Maarten Tjallingii | Greg Van Avermaet | Jurgen Van Den Broeck | Wim Van Huffel | Johan Van Summeren | Wim Vansevenant | Manager: Marc Sergeant

Persondata
NAME	Evans, Cadel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Road bicycle racer
DATE OF BIRTH	1977-02-14
PLACE OF BIRTH	Katherine, Northern Territory, Australia
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH