Lars Bak
- This article is about the Danish cyclist. For the Danish computer programmer, see Lars Bak (computer programmer).
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| Full name | Lars Ytting Bak | ||
| Born | 16 January 1980 Denmark |
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| Height | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||
| Weight | 76 kg | ||
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| Current team | Lotto-Belisol | ||
| Discipline | Road | ||
| Role | Rider | ||
| Rider type | All-rounder | ||
| Amateur team(s) | |||
| 1996–1999 2000–2001 2001 2001 |
Silkeborg CR Hammel CK CCI Differdange UC Trevigiani-Mapei |
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| Professional team(s) | |||
| 2002–2003 2004 2005–2009 2010–2011 2012– |
Team Fakta BankGiroLoterij Team CSC Team HTC-Columbia Lotto-Belisol |
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| Infobox last updated on 5 January 2012 |
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Lars Ytting Bak (born 16 January 1980 in Silkeborg) is a Danish professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour team Lotto-Belisol.[1] He became a professional in 2002 for Team Fakta where he rode with fellow Dane Allan Johansen. In 2004 they both switched to BankGiroLoterij where Lars Bak would win his first professional win, but as the BankGiroLoterij team stopped after the 2004 season, both Bak and Johansen went to Team CSC in 2005.
Here, Bak won the Danish Road Racing Championship, and in the later half of the season he showed his strength and talent as a good upcoming rider, as Bak won the meriting ten stages long U/25 race Tour de l'Avenir. He conquered the leader's jersey by sprinting to the win in a group of four riders on the first stage, a position he defended through the following nine stages bar one, including a time trial and a number of hilly stages.
In 2011 he finally had his Tour de France debut where he worked hard for Mark Cavendish's train and finished off with a breakaway on the last stage. Bak joined Lotto-Belisol for the 2012 season.[1]
[edit] Palmares
- 2004
- 1st Stage 1, Tour de Luxembourg
- 2005
- 1st
National Road Race Champion - 1st
Overall Tour de l'Avenir
- 1st Stage 1
- 1st Paris–Bourges
- 2007
- 1st National Time Trial Champion
- 1st Stage 5 Tour de Wallonie
- 2008
- 1st National Time Trial Champion
- 2nd Overall Tour de Pologne
- 1st Stage 1 TTT
- 2009
- 1st National Time Trial Champion
- 6th Overall Tour de Romandie
- 7th Overall Eneco Tour of Benelux
- 1st Stage 5
- 2010
- 1st Stage 1 TTT Vuelta a España
- 2011
- 1st Stage 1 TTT Giro d'Italia
- 3rd GP Herning
- 5th Paris–Roubaix
[edit] References
- ^ a b "Bak looking forward to finally having his chance at Lotto-Ridley". Cycling News (Future Publishing Limited). 2 October 2011. http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/bak-looking-forward-to-finally-having-his-chance-at-lotto-ridley. Retrieved 5 January 2012.
[edit] External links
- Official site (in Danish)
- Profile at Team Saxo Bank (source for this article)
- Lars Bak profile at Cycling Archives
