Rafał Majka

Rafał Majka

Majka at the 2012 Japan Cup
Personal information
Full name	Rafał Majka
Born	(1989-09-26) 26 September 1989 Zegartowice, Poland
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight	62 kg (137 lb)
Team information
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Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	All-rounder
Major wins
Grand Tours Tour de France 2 individual stages (2014)

Rafał Majka (born 12 September 1989) is a Polish professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam

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• {{Contentious topics/list}} and {{Contentious topics/table}} show which topics are currently designated as contentious topics. They are used by a number of templates and pages on Wikipedia.. In 2013, he competed in the Giro D'Italia for the first time, where he had a long battle with Carlos Betancur over the lead in the Young riders classification, which eventually fell to the Colombian in the penultimate stage. In the final classification, he ended up 7th, eight minutes behind winner Vincenzo Nibali. A year later, he improved on his result from 2013 by finishing 6th.

Majka was a last-minute inclusion in Tinkoff-Saxo's 2014 Tour de France squad, after Roman Kreuziger was being temporarily suspended from racing due to irregular biological passport values. On Stage 14, he earned his first professional victory after going solo on the final climb to Risoul. 4 days later he claimed another victory on Stage 17, soloing to mountaintop finish atop Pla d'Adet.

Palmarès

2008

1st Trofeo Enzo Sacchi

3rd GP Città di Monsummano

4th Trofeo S.C. Corsanico

2009

1st Firenze–Viareggio

3rd Bologna–Raticosa

4th Gran Premio Città di Empoli

5th Trofeo Nesti & Nelli

8th GP Capodarco

8th Trofeo Pedalata Elettrica

9th Trofeo S.C. Corsanico

9th Coppa Caduti

2010

2nd GP Chianti Colline d'Elsa

3rd Overall Giro delle Pesche Nettarine

3rd Bologna–Raticosa

3rd Trofeo Città di Lastra a Signa

5th Coppa Sportivi Malvesi

7th GP Brogio

9th GP Palio del Recioto

9th Firenze–Viareggio

10th Overall Karpacki Wyścig Kurierów

1st Stage 2 (ITT)

10th Trofeo Matteotti

2012

3rd Japan Cup

7th Overall Tour of Beijing

1st Young rider classification

2013

2nd Milano–Torino

3rd Giro di Lombardia

4th Overall Tour de Pologne

1st Points classification

7th Overall Giro d'Italia

Held after Stages 7, 10–14, 18–19

2014

Tour de France

1st Stages 14 & 17

Held after Stages 16–17

4th Overall Critérium International

1st Young rider classification

6th Overall Giro d'Italia

Held after Stages 8–15

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour	2011	2012	2013	2014
Giro	—	—	7	6
Tour	—	—	—	IP
Vuelta	WD	32	19

WD = Withdrew; In Progress = IP

External links

Media related to Rafał Majka at Wikimedia Commons

• Rafal Majka profile at Saxo Bank-SunGard
• Rafał Majka at Cycling Archives (archive)
• Rafal Majka cycling stats at Pro Cycling Stats