Thor Hushovd

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Thor Hushovd
Thor Hushovd 2007
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 (1978-01-18) (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.

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.

[edit] Major achievements

1998
1st U23 World Time Trial Champion
2000
7th Summer Olympics ITT
2001
1st Stage 5 — Tour de France Team Time Trial
1st Overall – Tour de Normandie
1st Points Classification
1st Overall – Tour of Sweden (or PostGirot Open)
1st Paris-Corrèze
2002
1st Stage 18 – Tour de France
1st Stage 2 – Tour de l'Ain
2003
1st Stage 2 - Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
1st Stage 1 - Vuelta a Castilla y León
2004
1st  Norway National Time Trial Cycling Champion
1st  Norway National Road Race Cycling Champion
1st Stage 8 – Tour de France
1 day maillot jaune Stage 2
1st Stage 1 - Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
1st Overall (Series of 15 races) – Coupe de France de cyclisme sur route
1st, Classic Haribo
1st, Grand Prix de Denain
1st, Tour de Vendée
2005
1st  Norway National Time Trial Cycling Champion
1st Stage 7 – Volta a Catalunya
1st Points Classification
1st Points ClassificationTour de France
1st Stage 5 – Vuelta a España
1st stage 10 – Vuelta a España
1st Stage 2 – Dauphiné Libéré
3rd, Milan-San Remo
2006
1st Prologue - Tour de France
1st Stage 20 - Tour de France
2 days maillot jaune Stages 1 & 3
1st Stage 6 Vuelta a España
1st Points Classification
1st Gent-Wevelgem
1st Stage 7 – Dauphiné Libéré
1st Stage 4 — Tirreno-Adriatico
1st Stage 3 – Volta a Catalunya
1st Points Classification
1st Points Classification – Four Days of Dunkirk
2007
1st Stage 7 - Giro d'Italia
1st Stage 4 - Tour de France
2008
1st Points classification - Volta a Catalunya
1st Prologue - Volta a Catalunya
1st Stage 1 - Volta a Catalunya
1st Prologue Paris-Nice
1st Points classification
1st Stage 1 - Tour Méditerranéen
1st Stage 6 - Four Days of Dunkirk
1st Stage 2 - Tour de France
2009
1st Stage 6 - Tour de France
1st Stage 3 - Tour of California
1st - Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
1st, Stage 1 Volta a Catalunya
1st, Stage 6 Volta a Catalunya
3rd, Paris-Roubaix
3rd, Milan-San Remo

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