Edvald Boasson Hagen
 Edvald Boasson Hagen in 2011 |
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| Full name | Edvald Boasson Hagen | ||
| Nickname | Eddy Boss[1] | ||
| Born | 17 May 1987 Lillehammer, Norway |
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| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Weight | 76 kg (170 lb) | ||
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| Current team | Team Sky | ||
| Discipline | Road | ||
| Role | Rider | ||
| Rider type | Time-Trialist/Sprinter/Allrounder | ||
| Amateur team(s) | |||
| 2006–2007 | Team Maxbo Bianchi | ||
| Professional team(s) | |||
| 2008–2009 2010– |
Team High Road Team Sky |
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| Major wins | |||
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| Infobox last updated on 23 January 2012 |
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Edvald Boasson Hagen[2] (born 17 May 1987) is a Norwegian professional road racing cyclist riding for the UCI ProTour team Team Sky. He is the Norwegian Time Trial Champion and also considered as one of the biggest rising talents in the sport, being ranked as no. 3 in the world by UCI as of 31 August 2009, only 22 years old.[3]
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[edit] Career
Boasson Hagen joined the Norwegian continental team Team Maxbo Bianchi in 2006 and in his first season in the continental circuits he took eight wins including three stages of the Tour de l'Avenir.[4]
In 2007 he enjoyed a successful season and scored fifteen wins, ending up second in number of victories behind ProTour sprinter Alessandro Petacchi. But, after the disqualification of the Italian in May 2008 for doping, Alessandro Petacchi lost 5 stage wins in the 2007 Giro resulting in Boasson Hagen having the most victories. Boasson Hagen won the overall classification as well as stages at Paris–Corrèze, Ringerike GP and Istrian Spring Trophy. He also took stages at Tour of Ireland, Tour de Normandie and Tour de Bretagne as well as the Norwegian time trial championship. As a result of these achievements, he finished fifth in the individual point standings of 2006-2007 UCI Europe Tour. In early 2007 it was announced that for 2008 season he would leave Team Maxbo Bianchi for the German UCI ProTeam T-Mobile Team.[5] In late 2007 it was announced that Deutsche Telekom was to end sponsorship of T-Mobile Team with immediate effect. The team continued under the name "Team High Road".[6]
[edit] Team High Road/Team Columbia
Boasson Hagen began the 2008 season with a fifth place in the prologue of Tour of California, ahead of established time trial specialists like David Millar and Gustav Larsson. He later won the concluding individual time trial of Critérium International ahead of teammate Tony Martin and the Grand Prix de Denain. He also finished second at the Commerce Bank Reading Classic and became the Norway National Time Trial Champion for the second year in a row. Later in the year he competed in the Beijing Olympics Road Race, finishing 71st, and entered the ProTour race Eneco Tour of Benelux aiming for the overall classification. He finished third in the prologue and was well placed in the following stages when in the fifth stage the front of the peloton split in the strong cross winds and left him 14 minutes behind the leaders. Boasson Hagen lost any chance of overall victory but made up by winning the following stage in Brussels by passing Jimmy Engoulvent in the final 15 meters of the race.[7] At the Tour of Britain he won three stages and the points competition.
In 2009 he won the cobbled classic Gent–Wevelgem in a two man sprint against Liquigas rider Aleksandr Kuschynski. He also rode in the 2009 Giro d'Italia, his first ever Grand Tour, where Team Columbia won the Team Time trial, Boasson Hagen won the seventh stage in a sprint and finished second in the sixth and eighth stages. In the Tour de Pologne he won the 4th and 6th stages to finish 3rd overall, and secure Norway ten riders in the upcoming UCI Road World Championships. Hagen also won his first stage race in 2009, the Eneco Tour of Benelux, confirming his huge talent, and rising to third overall in the 2009 UCI World Ranking, 31 August 2009.
Later in 2009 Boasson Hagen finished his season by winning 4 of the 8 stages in the Tour of Britain, and winning the race overall.
After months of rumours, it was official on 10 September 2009 that Boasson Hagen would be joining Team Sky from the 2010 season, along with fellow Norwegians Lars Petter Nordhaug and Kurt Asle Arvesen.[8]
[edit] Team Sky
Boasson Hagen started his first race with Team Sky in the 2010 edition of the Tour of Qatar. After an impressive effort and stage win in the opening Team Time Trial, Boasson Hagen secured 3rd and 6th place finishes as his best results. In The Tour of Oman one week after the race in Qatar, Boasson Hagen won two stages including the final stage where he beat world time trial champion Fabian Cancellara by 17 seconds in the individual time trial. With this win Boasson Hagen claimed the second place in the overall classification, taking the young riders jersey and winning the overall Points Classification. Boasson Hagen won the seventh stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné. He also retained his national time trial title.
In 2011, Boasson Hagen again finished second in the Tour of Oman, also winning the points jersey for a second year running.[9] Boasson Hagen won the 1st stage of Bayern-Rundfahrt,[10] and went on to win the points jersey, as well as helping team-mate Geraint Thomas win to 1st overall in the event.[11] He won the Norwegian National Time Trial Championships for the fifth year running in June, but then contracted an illness that put his Tour de France in doubt.[12] Boasson Hagen did recover though, and was given the go-ahead to ride the Tour.[13] He went on to win stage six of the Tour, the first ever victory by a British registered professional cycling team in the Tour de France.[14][15] Boasson Hagen finished second to compatriot Thor Hushovd on Stage 16 after the pair were in a 3 man breakaway with Ryder Hesjedal.[16] The next day he was again in the breakaway, and broke clear on the final climb of the day to take his second stage win of the Tour.[17] Boasson Hagen finished second to Mark Cavendish on Stage 21 as the Tour concluded on the Champs Elysees.[18] In August, Boasson Hagen took a clean sweep of the jerseys at the Eneco Tour, winning the event overall, as well as the points and young riders competitions, and finishing first on the final stage.[19]
Boasson Hagen began the 2012 season with second place to André Greipel in the Down Under Classic.[20] After three top-five placings in stage finishes, he took the lead of the sprints classification after the fourth stage of the Tour Down Under[21] and held the jersey until the end of the race.
[edit] Major achievements
- 2004
- 1st
U-19 Road Race Champion - 2005
- 1st U-19 Road Race Champion
- 1st U-19 Time Trial Champion
- 2006
- 1st Scandinavian Open Road Race
- 1st Stage 1 Internationale Thüringen-Rundfahrt (U23)
- 1st Stage 5 Internationale Thüringen-Rundfahrt (U23)
- 1st Stage 3 Ringerike GP
- 1st Stage 2 Tour de l'Avenir
- 1st Stage 5 Tour de l'Avenir
- 1st Stage 7 Tour de l'Avenir
- 1st Stage 4 Rhône-Alpes Isère Tour
- 2nd GP Aarhus
- 2nd National Road Race Championship
- 14th Overall Tour de l'Ain
- 2007
- 1st National Time Trial Champion
- 1st
Overall Istrian Spring Trophee
- 1st Prologue
- 1st Overall Paris–Corrèze
- 1st Stage 1
- 1st Stage 2
- 1st Points Classification,
- 1st Overall Ringerike GP
- 1st Stage 1
- 1st Stage 2
- 1st Stage 3
- 1st Stage 5
- 1st Stage 2 Tour de Bretagne
- 1st Stage 7 Tour de Bretagne
- 7th Overall Tour de Normandie
- 1st Stage 8
- 12th Overall, Tour of Ireland
- 1st Stage 4
- 2008
- 1st National Time Trial Champion
- 1st Stage 3 Critérium International
- 1st Grand Prix de Denain
- 1st Stage 6 Eneco Tour of Benelux
- 1st Stage 4 Tour of Britain
- 1st Stage 5 Tour of Britain
- 1st Stage 7 Tour of Britain
- 1st Sprints Competition
- 2nd, Commerce Bank Reading Classic
- 2009
- 1st National Time Trial Champion
- 1st Gent–Wevelgem
- 1st
Overall, Eneco Tour of Benelux
- 1st Stage 6
- 1st Stage 7 ITT
- 1st
Points Classification
- 1st Stage 1 TTT Giro d'Italia
- 1st Stage 7 Giro d'Italia
- 1st Overall, Tour of Britain
- 1st Stage 3
- 1st Stage 4
- 1st Stage 5
- 1st Stage 6
- 1st
Points Classification
- 2nd Trofeo Sóller
- 2nd Trofeo Calvia
- 3rd Overall, Tour de Pologne
- 1st Stage 4
- 1st Stage 6
- 4th Monte Paschi Eroica
- 2010
- 1st National Time Trial Champion
- 1st Stage 1 TTT Tour of Qatar
- 1st Stage 7 Tirreno–Adriatico
- 1st Stage 7 Critérium du Dauphiné
- 1st Dutch Food Valley Classic
- 2nd Overall Tour of Oman
- 1st
Points Classification - 1st Best Young Rider
- 1st Stage 3
- 1st Stage 6 ITT
- 1st
- 2nd Vattenfall Cyclassics
- 2nd Chrono des Nations
- 3rd Overall, Eneco Tour
- 1st Points Classification
- 1st
- 2011
- 1st National Time Trial Champion
- 1st Stage 6 Tour de France
- 1st Stage 17 Tour de France
- 1st Stage 1 Bayern-Rundfahrt
- 1st Points Classification
- 1st
- 2nd Overall Tour of Oman
- 1st Points Classification
- 1st
- 1st Overall Eneco Tour
- 1st Stage 6
- 1st Points Classification
- 1st Young Rider Classification
- 1st Vattenfall Cyclassics
- 2012
- 7th Overall Tour Down Under
- 1st Sprint Classification
- 1st
[edit] Grand Tour General Classification results timeline
| 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tour | DNE | 116 | 53 |
| Stages won | — | 0 | 2 |
| Mountains classification | — | 60 | 31 |
| Points classification | — | 6 | 6 |
| Giro | 82 | DNE | DNE |
| Stages won | 1 | — | — |
| Mountains classification | — | — | — |
| Points classification | 6 | — | — |
| Vuelta | DNE | DNE | DNE |
| Stages won | — | — | — |
| Mountains classification | — | — | — |
| Points classification | — | — | — |
| 1 | Winner |
| 2–3 | Top three-finish |
| 4–10 | Top ten-finish |
| 11– | Other finish |
| DNE | Did Not Enter |
| DNF-x | Did Not Finish (retired on stage x) |
| DSQ | Disqualified |
| N/A | Race/classification not held |
| NR | Not Ranked in this classification |
[edit] References
- ^ "Team Sky – Edvald Boasson Hagen". Team Sky. http://www.teamsky.com/profile/0,27291,17543_6638044,00.html. Retrieved 19 August 2011.
- ^ In relation to his given names and family name, he is quoted: "In my passport it says Hagen as a surname, and Edvald Boasson as first names. Boasson is a kind of middle name. But I prefer to use both as a surname." Cycle Sport (May 2009, p. 114)
- ^ "UCI world ranking". Union Cycliste Internationale. 31 August 2009. http://www.uci.ch/templates/BUILTIN-NOFRAMES/Template3/layout.asp?MenuId=MTU2MzU&LangId=1&RankType=RIDER&RankId=148. Retrieved 31 August 2009.
- ^ "Cruising into the ProTour, Norwegian style". www.cyclingnews.com. 24 August 2007. http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/riders/2007/interviews/?id=edvald_boasson_hagen_aug07. Retrieved 26 November 2007.
- ^ "Norwegian youngster to T-Mobile". www.cyclingnews.com. 26 May 2007. http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2007/may07/may26news2. Retrieved 8 December 2007.
- ^ "T-Mobile ends cycling sponsorship". BBC Sport. 2007-11-27. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/other_sports/cycling/7115547.stm. Retrieved 2007-12-06.
- ^ Eneco Tour 2008 – Stage 6. Dailypeloton.com (2008-08-26). Retrieved on 2011-08-18.
- ^ "More stars for Team Sky". Sky News. 10 September 2010. http://www.skysports.com/story/0,19528,11979_5547881,00.html. Retrieved 2009-09-10.
- ^ Tour of Oman 2011 – Key moments. Paris-nice.fr. Retrieved on 2011-08-18.
- ^ Boasson Hagen wins Bayern-Rundfahrt opener – Yahoo! Eurosport. Uk.eurosport.yahoo.com. Retrieved on 2011-08-18.
- ^ News: Thomas wins Bayern-Rundfahrt « A Report «. Velouk.net. Retrieved on 2011-08-18.
- ^ Team Sky's Edvald Boasson Hagen a doubt for Tour de France | Sport. guardian.co.uk. Retrieved on 2011-08-18.
- ^ Boasson Hagen over illness, gets green light for Tour. Velonation.com. Retrieved on 2011-08-18.
- ^ "Team Sky's first Tour de France stage win gives Murdoch some good news". Guardian. 7 July 2011. http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2011/jul/07/team-sky-tour-de-france-stage-win. Retrieved 7 July 2011.
- ^ "Team Sky records first win after Norwegian rider Edvald Boasson Hagen wins stage six". Daily Telegraph. 7 July 2011. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/cycling/tour-de-france/8623462/Tour-de-France-2011-Team-Sky-records-first-win-after-Norwegian-rider-Edvald-Boasson-Hagen-wins-stage-six.html. Retrieved 7 July 2011.
- ^ Tour de France 2011: Thor Hushovd beats Boasson Hagen to the line | Sport. The Guardian. Retrieved on 2011-08-18.
- ^ Tour de France: Boasson Hagen wins for Sky as Voeckler suffers on fast descent – Others, More Sports. The Independent (2011-07-21). Retrieved on 2011-08-18.
- ^ IG Markets Rider of the Day Stage 21 – Edvald Boasson Hagen – News – Tour de France. ITV (2011-07-26). Retrieved on 2011-08-18.
- ^ Clean sweep for Boasson Hagen | Sky Sports | Cycling | News. Sky Sports. Retrieved on 2011-08-18.
- ^ "Andre Greipel wins Down Under Classic". USA Today. Associated Press (David Hunke; Gannett Company). 15 January 2012. http://www.usatoday.com/sports/cycling/story/2012-01-15/down-under-classic/52582588/1. Retrieved 21 January 2012.
- ^ Aubrey, Jane (20 January 2012). "Freire back in the winner's circle with Tour Down Under victory". Cycling News (Future Publishing Limited). http://www.cyclingnews.com/tourdownunder/stage-4/results. Retrieved 21 January 2012.
[edit] External links
- Edvald Boasson Hagen profile at Cycling Archives
- Palmares by cyclebase.nl
- Palmarès by cyclingbase.com (French)
- Edvald Boasson Hagen's official website (Norwegian)
- Profile on Official Sky Team Site
