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| caption = Froome at the [[2013 Tour de Romandie]]
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Chris Froome
Froome at the 2013 Tour de Romandie
Personal information
Full nameChristopher Froome
NicknameFroomey/Froomie,[1][2] Froomedog, Froome
Born (1985-05-20) 20 May 1985 (age 39)
Nairobi, Kenya
Height1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight69 kg (152 lb)
Team information
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DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeAll-rounder
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
1 individual stage (2012)
Vuelta a España
1 individual stage (2011)

Stage races

Critérium du Dauphiné (2013)
Tour de Romandie (2013)
Critérium International (2013)
Tour of Oman (2013)
Medal record
Road bicycle racing
Representing  Great Britain
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2012 London Time trial
Representing  Kenya
All-Africa Games
Bronze medal – third place 2007 Algiers Road Cycling race

Christopher Froome (born 20 May 1985) is a professional road racing cyclist who rides for UCI ProTeam You have called {{Contentious topics}}. You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:

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Born in Kenya and brought up in South Africa, since spring 2008 he has ridden under a British licence on the basis of his passport and father's and grandparents' country of birth.[4] He is regarded as a strong mountain climber and solid time trialist, contesting the general classification.

He moved to Europe to further his career and only turned professional aged twenty-two. His potential was spotted in 2010 by You have called {{Contentious topics}}. You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:

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At the 2012 Tour de France, riding as a domestique for Bradley Wiggins, Froome won stage seven, which culminated on a steep uphill finish [5] and finished second overall, behind only Wiggins' win in the same race as the best British performance in the race's history. He also won the bronze medal in the time trial event at the 2012 Olympic Games and finished fourth in the 2012 Vuelta a España. His first stage race win came in the 2013 Tour of Oman, followed by wins in the 2013 Criterium International, the 2013 Tour de Romandie and the 2013 Critérium du Dauphiné.

Early life

Born in Nairobi, Kenya, Froome moved with his family to South Africa as a fourteen year-old.[6][7] Froome's ancestry is predominantly British, his mother was born in Kenya to British grandparents who emigrated to run a farm and his father is British-born.[7] He attended St John's College in Johannesburg[8] and subsequently studied at the University of Johannesburg.[9]

In Kenya Froome started in mountain biking. He was guided into the sport by professional cyclist David Kinjah. Together they would train in the rural highlands north of Nairobi. This where Froome gained the passion for cycling which he has today.[6] It was in South Africa that Froome started to participate in road cycling. It was not until he was twenty-two that he turned professional, regarded as a late age to turn professional for a successful road cyclist.[7]

Career

Early years

Froome started road racing in South Africa, specialising as a climber. Whilst representing Kenya at the 2006 Road World Championships, Froome crashed into an official just after the start of the time trial, causing both men to fall, although neither was injured. He finished in 36th place.[10]

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Froome turned professional in 2007 with the South African Team Konica Minolta, and was introduced to Team Barloworld by Robbie Hunter, joining them for the 2008 season, and was named in their team[11] for the Tour de France, in which he finished eighty-fourth overall and eleventh among the young riders' category.[12] His performances in 2008 attracted the attention of British Cycling coach, Rod Ellingworth who believed Froome had potential. Froome said: "Although I was riding under the Kenyan flag I made it clear that I had always carried a British passport and felt British. It was then we talked about racing under the Union Flag, and we stayed in touch."[7] In 2009, Froome participated in one Grand Tour, the Giro d'Italia, in which he came thirty-sixth overall, and seventh among the young riders.[13]

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2011

The early highlights of Froome's 2011 season were top fifteen finishes in the Vuelta a Castilla y León and the Tour de Romandie. Froome had a mixed Tour de Suisse, riding with the lead group on some mountain stages, whilst losing time on others, and finishing ninth in the final time trial.[19]

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Froome entered the Vuelta a España as the main domestique for Bradley Wiggins in the mountains. After being inseparable from Wiggins throughout the first week, he gained credit for his ride in stage nine, helping close down an attack on the final climb and finishing in fifth place, three seconds behind Wiggins, leaving both in the top twenty overall.[20] The following day in stage ten, however, Froome out-rode Wiggins to finish second in the time-trial behind Tony Martin and to take an unexpected lead in the race.[21] During stage eleven he helped his team to neutralise some attacks, but soon found himself unable to follow the main group. However, he managed to hang on second overall in the general classification.[22]

After losing the jersey to Wiggins on stage eleven, Froome continued to ride in support of his leader, and on stage fourteen helped to drop rivals including Vincenzo Nibali and Joaquim Rodríguez on the final climb. Wiggins credited his lead to Froome, in a stage which also saw Froome rise back up to second in the standings.[23] The tough stage fifteen which ended on the Alto de L'Angliru saw Froome lead the chase to stage winner Juan José Cobo, who took the overall lead at the end of the day. Froome proved stronger than Wiggins, finishing ahead of him in fourth place but forty-eight seconds behind Cobo, to retain second place in the overall classification.[24]

On stage seventeen, Froome attacked Cobo 1 km (0.6 mi) from the summit finish, but Cobo fought back, catching Froome in the final 300 m, only for Froome to attack again to win the stage and arrive one second in front of Cobo.[25] As a result of time bonuses, Froome reduced Cobo's lead to thirteen seconds. Froome was unable to reduce Cobo's lead any further and finished second overall in the Vuelta, equalling Robert Millar's second place in the 1987 Giro d'Italia as the highest finish by a British rider in a Grand Tour.[26]

After the Vuelta it was revealed Froome had suffered throughout the year from the tropical bug Bilharzia, having been diagnosed in 2010. On 16 September 2011 Froome signed a new three year contract with Sky.[27] He was part of the Great Britain team that helped Mark Cavendish win the World Road Race Championship.[28] In October, Froome finished third overall in the first edition of the Tour of Beijing.[29]

2012

The early part of Froome's 2012 season was wrecked by illness. He withdrew from the Volta ao Algarve with a severe chest infection, and blood tests showed his bilharzia parasites had returned.[30] In March, Froome was involved in a collision with a seventy-two year old pedestrian on a training ride.[31] He returned to racing at the Tour de Romandie, where he helped Bradley Wiggins win the race overall, before participating in a training camp on a volcano in Tenerife with several of his team-mates.

Froome on stage nineteen of the Tour de France, where he finished second to Bradley Wiggins in the general classification.

Froome was selected in the Sky squad for the Tour de France. After a good performance in the opening prologue, Froome suffered a flat tyre towards the end of stage one and lost over a minute to leader Fabian Cancellara. On stage three, Froome was involved in a crash on the hilltop finish in Boulogne-sur-Mer, and was sent flying into safety barriers, but was unharmed and was given the same finishing time as his team-mate Edvald Boasson Hagen, who finished second on the stage. On stage seven finishing atop the Category 1 climb to La Planche des Belles Filles, he protected his leader Wiggins and was part of a small group that came in sight of the finish line. Cadel Evans (You have called {{Contentious topics}}. You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:

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On stage eleven to La Toussuire, Froome rolled all day in the mountains in front of the pack or near it, setting the pace for his leader Wiggins but was forced to take two rests during the flatter, faster sections, dropping in behind Wiggins' group leaving Wiggins out in front. Froome recovered well however and in a surprising event, due to what appear to be confused team orders, he attacked the remaining group on the last climb, just as Wiggins was easing off after the hard chase to catch Nibali 4 km (2.5 mi) away from the finish line. He subsequently received the order from his team manager to hold back and wait for yellow jersey Wiggins. He finished third of the stage after a late burst of speed.[35] For his efforts in assisting Wiggins, Froome was lauded in the media as a super-domestique.[36]

On stage seventeen, Froome and Wiggins finished second and third respectively on the final mountain stage to further cement their general classification positions,[37] although Froome repeatedly waited for Wiggins on the final climb, costing him the chance of winning the stage.[38] On stage nineteen, a time trial, Froome finished second to Wiggins, mirroring the overall standings.[39] Wiggins went on to win the tour with Froome second, becoming the first two British riders to make the podium of the Tour de France in its 109-year history.[40]

Froome during the time trial at the 2012 Summer Olympics, finishing the race with the bronze medal

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Froome was selected as Team Sky's leader for the Vuelta a España, where he aimed to go one better than 2011 and win his first grand tour.[44] He lay third after the first mountain finish on stage three,[45] and moved up to second on stage four after leader Alejandro Valverde crashed, losing fifty-five seconds to the chasing group.[46] Froome moved down to third during the stage eleven time trial sixteen seconds off leader Rodriguez.[47] He lost another twenty-three seconds on stage twelve putting him fifty-one seconds down.[48] He struggled through the rest of the second half of the race. He ended up finishing fourth overall, finishing over ten minutes behind the race winner, Alberto Contador.[49]

2013

Froome in the leader's jersey at the 2013 Tour de Romandie

Froome's 2013 season began at the Tour of Oman, where he took the race lead on stage four, finishing second to Rodríguez on the summit finish of Jebel Akhdar.[1] Froome then won the following stage to extend his lead, out-sprinting Contador and Rodríguez.[50] He finished the race taking the overall classification, his first stage race win of his career, twenty-seven seconds ahead of Contador, with Cadel Evans twelve seconds further back. He also won the points classification.[51]

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Froome returned to action, and to the top step of the rostrum, in the Critérium International. After finishing fourth in the short second stage time trial, he powered away on the last climb of the third and final stage to win, and overtake team-mate, and second place on the stage, Richie Porte in the general classification.[54]

In late April, Froome won the 7.5 km (4.7 mi) prologue of the Tour de Romandie in Le Châble, Switzerland, taking the leader's jersey, with a six-second gap over Andrew Talansky of You have called {{Contentious topics}}. You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:

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Palmarès

Source:[59]

2005
1st Stage 2 Tour of Mauritius
2006
1st Overall Tour of Mauritius
1st Stages 2 & 3
2nd Anatomic Jock Race
2007
1st Overall Mi-Août Bretonne
1st Stage 5 Giro delle Regioni (Under 23s)
1st Stage 6 Tour of Japan
2nd Berg en Dale Classic
2nd Time trial, B World Championships
3rd Road race, All-Africa Games
2008
2nd Overall Giro del Capo
2009
1st Stage 2 Giro del Capo
1st Anatomic Jock Race
2010
2nd National Time Trial Championship
5th Time trial, Commonwealth Games
2011
2nd Overall Vuelta a España
1st Stage 17
Held Red Jersey for Stage 11
3rd Overall Tour of Beijing
2012
2nd Overall Tour de France
1st Stage 7
Held Polka Dot Jersey for Stage 8
3rd Time trial, Olympic Games
4th Overall Vuelta a España
4th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné
2013
1st Overall Tour of Oman
1st Points classification
1st Stage 5
1st Overall Critérium International
1st Stage 3
1st Overall Tour de Romandie
1st Prologue
1st Overall Critérium du Dauphiné
1st Stage 5
2nd Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
1st Stage 4

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Sources:[59][60]

Grand Tour 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012
Pink jersey Giro d'Italia — 36 DQ — —
Yellow jersey Tour de France 84 — — — 2
golden jersey Vuelta a España — — — 2 4

DQ = Disqualified
WD = Withdrew
— = Did not compete

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