Thor Hushovd

**Thor Hushovd**
	Thor Hushovd 2007
Personal information
Full name	Thor Hushovd
Nickname	The Bull (or Bear) from Grimstad; God of Thunder
Date of birth	January 18, 1978 (age 31)
Country	Norway
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	81 kg (180 lb; 12.8 st)
Team information
Current team	Cervélo TestTeam
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Sprinter; Classics Specialist
Professional team(s)1
2000–2008; 2009–	Crédit Agricole; Cervélo TestTeam
Major wins
	Tour de France: 7 Stages,; Points Classification (2005).; Vuelta a España: 2 Stages,; Points Classification (2006).; Giro d'Italia: 1 Stage.; Gent-Wevelgem (2006); Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (2009)
	Infobox last updated on:
	February 28, 2009 1 Team names given are those prevailing; at time of rider beginning association with that team.

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Thor Hushovd (born January 18, 1978 in Grimstad) is a Norwegian professional road bicycle racer, riding for Cervélo TestTeam. Hushovd is known for sprinting and time trialing. He is a former Norwegian time trial champion. He is the first, and to date the only, Norwegian to wear the yellow jersey in the Tour de France.

Before turning professional in 1998, Hushovd won the under-23 time trial world championship and the under-23 versions of Paris-Roubaix and Paris-Tours.

Hushovd was Norwegian time trial champion in 2004 and 2005 and road race champion in 2004. In 2006, Hushovd won seven UCI ProTour races and two stages of the Tour de France. Hushovd won the prologue in Strasbourg and wore the maillot jaune after the first day despite a cut arm. He continued with stitches and regained the maillot jaune after stage 2 with a third place finish. As the Tour started with Hushovd, it ended with his winning the last stage, beating Robbie McEwen in a sprint. In the 2006 Vuelta a España he won stage 6, wore the golden jersey for three stages and won the points classification.

At the 2008 Tour de France, Hushovd won stage two in a bunched sprint finish.^[1]

In 2009, Hushovd rides for the Cervélo TestTeam.^[2] He took one of the team's first victories of the season by winning Stage 3 of the Tour of California, and then won stage six of the 2009 Tour de France.