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Froome was born on 20 May 1985 in [[Nairobi]], Kenya,<ref name="sky-profile">{{cite web|title=Chris Froome profile|url=http://www.teamsky.com/profile/0,27291,17543_8326906,00.html|work={{ct|SKY|2013}}|publisher=[[BSkyB]]|location=London|accessdate=30 June 2013}}</ref> to mother Jane and father Clive, a former hockey player who represented England at under-19 level.<ref name="rise">{{cite news|last=Chadband|first=Ian|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/cycling/tour-de-france/10144509/Tour-de-France-2013-the-incredible-rise-of-Chris-Froome-and-how-he-was-almost-killed-by-a-hippo.html|title=The incredible rise of Chris Froome – and how he was almost killed by a hippo|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|location=London|date=27 June 2013|accessdate=28 June 2013}}</ref> His mother's parents emigrated from [[Tetbury]], Gloucestershire, England to [[Kenya]] to run a crop farm.<ref name="at-the-top">{{cite news|title=Chris Froome at the top as the race hits high notes in cruel mountain stages|last=Gallagher|first=Brendan|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/cycling/tour-de-france/9390834/Tour-de-France-2012-Chris-Froome-at-the-top-as-the-race-hits-high-notes-in-cruel-mountain-stages.html|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|location=London|date=11 July 2012|accessdate=24 August 2012}}</ref><ref name="underdog">{{cite news|url=http://velonews.competitor.com/2011/11/news/underdog-no-more-chris-froome-hopes-for-a-bit-more-liberty-in-2012_198493 |title=Underdog no more, Chris Froome hopes for a bit more liberty in 2012|work=VeloNews|publisher=[[Competitor Group, Inc.]]|location=San Diego, California|date=23 November 2011|accessdate=23 November 2011}}</ref><ref name="zooms">{{cite news|last=Fotheringham|first=Alasdair|authorlink=Alasdair Fotheringham|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/others/tour-de-france-chris-froome-zooms-from-riding-with-lions-to-pride-of-pack-7939534.html|title=Chris Froome zooms from riding with lions to pride of pack|newspaper=[[The Independent]]|publisher=Independent Print|location=London|accessdate=30 June 2013|date=13 July 2012}}</ref> Froome has two older brothers, Jonathan and Jeremy, who went to [[Rugby School]] in Warwickshire, England.<ref name="rise" /> At the age of 13,<!-- or 12 as in the Independent Online article --> his mother took him to his first organised bike race, a charity race which he won despite being knocked off by his mother. There he met professional cyclist David Kinjah |
Froome was born on 20 May 1985 in [[Nairobi]], Kenya,<ref name="sky-profile">{{cite web|title=Chris Froome profile|url=http://www.teamsky.com/profile/0,27291,17543_8326906,00.html|work={{ct|SKY|2013}}|publisher=[[BSkyB]]|location=London|accessdate=30 June 2013}}</ref> to mother Jane and father Clive, a former hockey player who represented England at under-19 level.<ref name="rise">{{cite news|last=Chadband|first=Ian|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/cycling/tour-de-france/10144509/Tour-de-France-2013-the-incredible-rise-of-Chris-Froome-and-how-he-was-almost-killed-by-a-hippo.html|title=The incredible rise of Chris Froome – and how he was almost killed by a hippo|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|location=London|date=27 June 2013|accessdate=28 June 2013}}</ref> His mother's parents emigrated from [[Tetbury]], Gloucestershire, England to [[Kenya]] to run a crop farm.<ref name="at-the-top">{{cite news|title=Chris Froome at the top as the race hits high notes in cruel mountain stages|last=Gallagher|first=Brendan|url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/cycling/tour-de-france/9390834/Tour-de-France-2012-Chris-Froome-at-the-top-as-the-race-hits-high-notes-in-cruel-mountain-stages.html|newspaper=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|location=London|date=11 July 2012|accessdate=24 August 2012}}</ref><ref name="underdog">{{cite news|url=http://velonews.competitor.com/2011/11/news/underdog-no-more-chris-froome-hopes-for-a-bit-more-liberty-in-2012_198493 |title=Underdog no more, Chris Froome hopes for a bit more liberty in 2012|work=VeloNews|publisher=[[Competitor Group, Inc.]]|location=San Diego, California|date=23 November 2011|accessdate=23 November 2011}}</ref><ref name="zooms">{{cite news|last=Fotheringham|first=Alasdair|authorlink=Alasdair Fotheringham|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/general/others/tour-de-france-chris-froome-zooms-from-riding-with-lions-to-pride-of-pack-7939534.html|title=Chris Froome zooms from riding with lions to pride of pack|newspaper=[[The Independent]]|publisher=Independent Print|location=London|accessdate=30 June 2013|date=13 July 2012}}</ref> Froome has two older brothers, Jonathan and Jeremy, who went to [[Rugby School]] in Warwickshire, England.<ref name="rise" /> At the age of 13,<!-- or 12 as in the Independent Online article --> his mother took him to his first organised bike race, a charity race which he won despite being knocked off by his mother. There he met professional cyclist [[David Kinjah]], who became Froome's mentor and training partner.<ref name=Fordyce>{{cite news|url=http://www.bbc.com/sport/0/cycling/24951818|title=Chris Froome: The making of a Tour de France champion|last=Fordyce|first=Tom |authorlink=Tom Fordyce|work=[[BBC Sport]]|accessdate=6 June 2014}}</ref><ref name="rise" /><ref>{{cite news|last=McCallum|first=Kevin|title=Froome goes from St John's to Sky|url=http://www.iol.co.za/sport/cycling/froome-goes-from-st-john-s-to-sky-1.1538918|work=[[Independent Online (South Africa)|Independent Online]]|publisher=[[Independent News & Media]]|accessdate=1 July 2013|location=Dublin|date=28 June 2013}}</ref><ref name="confident">{{cite news|last=Ingle|first=Sean|authorlink= Sean Ingle|title=Chris Froome confident he can pull off victory in the Tour de France|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2013/jun/29/chris-froome-favourite-tour-de-france|work=[[The Guardian]]|location=London|accessdate=30 June 2013|date=29 June 2013}}</ref> |
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After finishing primary school at the Banda School in Nairobi,<ref>{{cite news|last=Dickson|first=M. D.|title=Weekly Circular|url=http://www.bandaschool.com/pdf/No.2-16th-September-2011.pdf|publisher=The Banda School|accessdate=22 July 2013|page=1|date=16 September 2011}}</ref> Froome moved to South Africa as a 14-year-old to attend [[St John's College (Johannesburg, South Africa)|St John's College]] in Johannesburg.<ref name="confident" /><ref name="shaped">{{cite news|last=McRae|first=Donald|authorlink=Donald McRae (author)|title=Chris Froome: Shaped in Africa and ripe for Tour de France win|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2013/jun/22/chris-froome-tour-de-france|newspaper=[[The Observer]]|location=London|accessdate=30 June 2013|date=22 June 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Newsletter|url=http://www.oja.co.za/OJ%20NEWSLETTER%20-%20DEC%202011%20%282%29.pdf|work=St John's College|accessdate=17 August 2012|format=PDF|date=December 2011}}</ref> He then studied economics for two years at the [[University of Johannesburg]].<ref name="out-of-africa">{{cite news|last=Hood|first=Andrew|url=http://velonews.competitor.com/2011/09/news/chris-froome-out-of-africa-and-onto-the-vuelta-podium_192373|title=Chris Froome: Out of Africa and onto the Vuelta podium|work=[[VeloNews]]|publisher=[[Competitor Group, Inc.]]|location=San Diego, California|date=15 September 2011|accessdate=29 June 2013}}</ref><ref name="emulate">{{cite web|last=Slater|first=Matt|title=Tour de France: Chris Froome on bid to emulate Bradley Wiggins|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/22960925|publisher=[[BBC Sport]]|accessdate=1 July 2013|location=London|date=19 June 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://mg.co.za/article/2013-02-15-00-chris-froome-aims-to-sweep-clean-at-tour|title=Chris Froome aims to sweep clean at Tour|last=Shapshak|first=Toby|date=15 February 2013|newspaper=[[Mail & Guardian]]|publisher=Anastacia Martin|location=Johannesburg|accessdate=21 April 2013}}</ref> It was in South Africa that Froome started to participate in road cycling. It was not until he was 22 that he turned professional.<ref name="out-of-africa" /> Froome started road racing in South Africa, specialising as a climber.<ref name="big-interview">{{cite news|title=The Big Interview: Chris Froome|url=http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest/346898/the-big-interview-chris-froome.html|work=[[Cycling Weekly]]|location=London|accessdate=28 June 2013|date=3 June 2008}}</ref> Froome competed in the road time trial at the [[Cycling at the 2006 Commonwealth Games|2006 Commonwealth Games]] in [[Melbourne]], where he finished 17th, catching the attention of future Team Sky principal [[Dave Brailsford]]: "The performance he did, on the equipment he was on, that takes some doing... We always thought he was a bit of a diamond in the rough, who had a huge potential."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://velonews.competitor.com/2013/07/news/the-story-of-brailsfords-froome-discovery-dates-back-to-2006_294574 |title=The story of Brailsford’s Froome discovery dates back to 2006 |last1=Hood |first1=Andrew |date=10 June 2013 |website=[[VeloNews]] |access-date=28 February 2015}}</ref> Whilst representing Kenya at the [[2006 UCI Road World Championships|2006 Road World Championships]] in the under-23 category in Salzburg, Austria, Froome crashed into an official just after the start of the [[2006 UCI Road World Championships – Men's under-23 time trial|time trial]],<ref name="Sky profile"/> causing both men to fall; although neither was injured,<ref>{{cite news|last=Farrand|first=Stephen|url=http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/chris-froome-from-cycling-slum-dog-to-monte-carlo-millionaire|title=Chris Froome: From cycling slum dog to Monte Carlo millionaire|publisher=[[Cyclingnews.com]]|location=Bath, UK|date=26 June 2013|accessdate=30 June 2013}}</ref> he finished in 36th place.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2006/worlds06/?id=results/worlds062|title=2006 UCI Road World Championships, Salzburg, Austria|publisher=[[Cyclingnews.com]]|location=Bath, UK|date=September 2006 |accessdate=4 July 2012}}</ref> |
After finishing primary school at the Banda School in Nairobi,<ref>{{cite news|last=Dickson|first=M. D.|title=Weekly Circular|url=http://www.bandaschool.com/pdf/No.2-16th-September-2011.pdf|publisher=The Banda School|accessdate=22 July 2013|page=1|date=16 September 2011}}</ref> Froome moved to South Africa as a 14-year-old to attend [[St John's College (Johannesburg, South Africa)|St John's College]] in Johannesburg.<ref name="confident" /><ref name="shaped">{{cite news|last=McRae|first=Donald|authorlink=Donald McRae (author)|title=Chris Froome: Shaped in Africa and ripe for Tour de France win|url=http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2013/jun/22/chris-froome-tour-de-france|newspaper=[[The Observer]]|location=London|accessdate=30 June 2013|date=22 June 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Newsletter|url=http://www.oja.co.za/OJ%20NEWSLETTER%20-%20DEC%202011%20%282%29.pdf|work=St John's College|accessdate=17 August 2012|format=PDF|date=December 2011}}</ref> He then studied economics for two years at the [[University of Johannesburg]].<ref name="out-of-africa">{{cite news|last=Hood|first=Andrew|url=http://velonews.competitor.com/2011/09/news/chris-froome-out-of-africa-and-onto-the-vuelta-podium_192373|title=Chris Froome: Out of Africa and onto the Vuelta podium|work=[[VeloNews]]|publisher=[[Competitor Group, Inc.]]|location=San Diego, California|date=15 September 2011|accessdate=29 June 2013}}</ref><ref name="emulate">{{cite web|last=Slater|first=Matt|title=Tour de France: Chris Froome on bid to emulate Bradley Wiggins|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/cycling/22960925|publisher=[[BBC Sport]]|accessdate=1 July 2013|location=London|date=19 June 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://mg.co.za/article/2013-02-15-00-chris-froome-aims-to-sweep-clean-at-tour|title=Chris Froome aims to sweep clean at Tour|last=Shapshak|first=Toby|date=15 February 2013|newspaper=[[Mail & Guardian]]|publisher=Anastacia Martin|location=Johannesburg|accessdate=21 April 2013}}</ref> It was in South Africa that Froome started to participate in road cycling. It was not until he was 22 that he turned professional.<ref name="out-of-africa" /> Froome started road racing in South Africa, specialising as a climber.<ref name="big-interview">{{cite news|title=The Big Interview: Chris Froome|url=http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest/346898/the-big-interview-chris-froome.html|work=[[Cycling Weekly]]|location=London|accessdate=28 June 2013|date=3 June 2008}}</ref> Froome competed in the road time trial at the [[Cycling at the 2006 Commonwealth Games|2006 Commonwealth Games]] in [[Melbourne]], where he finished 17th, catching the attention of future Team Sky principal [[Dave Brailsford]]: "The performance he did, on the equipment he was on, that takes some doing... We always thought he was a bit of a diamond in the rough, who had a huge potential."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://velonews.competitor.com/2013/07/news/the-story-of-brailsfords-froome-discovery-dates-back-to-2006_294574 |title=The story of Brailsford’s Froome discovery dates back to 2006 |last1=Hood |first1=Andrew |date=10 June 2013 |website=[[VeloNews]] |access-date=28 February 2015}}</ref> Whilst representing Kenya at the [[2006 UCI Road World Championships|2006 Road World Championships]] in the under-23 category in Salzburg, Austria, Froome crashed into an official just after the start of the [[2006 UCI Road World Championships – Men's under-23 time trial|time trial]],<ref name="Sky profile"/> causing both men to fall; although neither was injured,<ref>{{cite news|last=Farrand|first=Stephen|url=http://www.cyclingnews.com/features/chris-froome-from-cycling-slum-dog-to-monte-carlo-millionaire|title=Chris Froome: From cycling slum dog to Monte Carlo millionaire|publisher=[[Cyclingnews.com]]|location=Bath, UK|date=26 June 2013|accessdate=30 June 2013}}</ref> he finished in 36th place.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/road/2006/worlds06/?id=results/worlds062|title=2006 UCI Road World Championships, Salzburg, Austria|publisher=[[Cyclingnews.com]]|location=Bath, UK|date=September 2006 |accessdate=4 July 2012}}</ref> |
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In 2007 Froome turned professional at the age of 22 with Team Konica Minolta. He moved to Europe to further his career, joining the British-based team, You have called {{Contentious topics}}
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At the 2012 Tour de France, riding as a super domestique for Bradley Wiggins, Froome won stage seven and finished second overall, behind only Wiggins in the same race as the best British performance in the race's history. In the same year he also won the bronze medal in the time trial event at the Olympic Games and finished fourth in the Vuelta a España. His first stage race win came in 2013, in the Tour of Oman, followed by wins in the Critérium International, the Tour de Romandie, the Critérium du Dauphiné and the Tour de France.
As a defending champion, he began 2014 by again winning the Tour of Oman, followed by a repeat victory in the Tour de Romandie. After retiring from the 2014 Tour de France, he came back to place second in the Vuelta a España.
Early life and amateur career
Froome was born on 20 May 1985 in Nairobi, Kenya,[6] to mother Jane and father Clive, a former hockey player who represented England at under-19 level.[7] His mother's parents emigrated from Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England to Kenya to run a crop farm.[3][8][9] Froome has two older brothers, Jonathan and Jeremy, who went to Rugby School in Warwickshire, England.[7] At the age of 13, his mother took him to his first organised bike race, a charity race which he won despite being knocked off by his mother. There he met professional cyclist David Kinjah, who became Froome's mentor and training partner.[10][7][11][12]
After finishing primary school at the Banda School in Nairobi,[13] Froome moved to South Africa as a 14-year-old to attend St John's College in Johannesburg.[12][14][15] He then studied economics for two years at the University of Johannesburg.[16][17][18] It was in South Africa that Froome started to participate in road cycling. It was not until he was 22 that he turned professional.[16] Froome started road racing in South Africa, specialising as a climber.[19] Froome competed in the road time trial at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, where he finished 17th, catching the attention of future Team Sky principal Dave Brailsford: "The performance he did, on the equipment he was on, that takes some doing... We always thought he was a bit of a diamond in the rough, who had a huge potential."[20] Whilst representing Kenya at the 2006 Road World Championships in the under-23 category in Salzburg, Austria, Froome crashed into an official just after the start of the time trial,[2] causing both men to fall; although neither was injured,[21] he finished in 36th place.[22]
Professional career
2007–2010: Early years
Froome turned professional in 2007, aged 22, with the South African team, Konica Minolta, withdrawing from university two years into his degree in economics.[23] He competed from April to September for the Union Cycliste Internationale's World Cycling Centre (WCC) team based in Aigle, Switzerland, in the U23 Nations Cup.[24] In May he rode his first stage race, the Giro delle Regioni, winning stage five, riding for WCC.[23][25] In late-May he won stage six of the Tour of Japan, attacking from a breakaway in the 14 lap circuit in Shuzenji.[26] In June he competed at the "B" world championships in Cape Town, placing second to China's Haijun Ma in the 26.8 km (16.7 mi)-long time trial.[27][28] In July he claimed a bronze medal in the road race at the All-Africa Games in Algiers, Algeria.[29] On 26 September, he placed 41st in the under-23 time trial at the world championships in Stuttgart, three minutes and 30 seconds behind the gold medalist, Lars Boom (Netherlands).[30]
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Froome claimed his first professional win in March 2009, with the second stage of the Giro del Capo in Durbanville, South Africa, attacking a ten-strong breakaway with 30 km (18.6 mi) and finishing four minutes ahead.[35] He then participated in the Giro d'Italia, in which he came 36th overall, and seventh young rider classification.[36] In July he won a minor one day race, Anatomic Jock Race, in Barberton South Africa.[37]
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The early highlights of Froome's 2011 season were top 15 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.[44]
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 20 overall.[45] The following day in stage ten, however, Froome out-rode Wiggins to finish second in the time-trial behind You have called {{Contentious topics}}
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On stage 17, Froome attacked Cobo 1 km (0.6 mi) from the summit finish, but Cobo fought back, catching Froome in the final 300 metres, only for Froome to attack again to win the stage and arrive one second in front of Cobo.[51] As a result of time bonuses, Froome reduced Cobo's lead to 13 seconds. Froome was unable to reduce Cobo's lead any further and finished second overall in the Vuelta, equalling Robert Millar's second places in the 1985 and 1986 editions of the Vuelta and the 1987 Giro d'Italia, as the best finish by a British rider in the Vuelta and the highest finish by a British rider in a Grand Tour.[52]
There was an inconsistency about him. The question wasn't why he was good, the question was why we'd only seen glimpses. Why isn't he like that all the time? When the illness was discovered, retrospectively, it made a lot of sense."
David Brailsford on Froome's bilharzia infection.[53]
After the Vuelta it was revealed Froome had suffered throughout the year from the parasitic disease bilharzia (schistosomiasis), having been diagnosed in 2010.[54] It has since been speculated that Froome may have had the parasitic infection for much of his adult life and during his early cycling career.[7][55] The discovery and subsequent treatment of the illness has been used to explain Froome's rapid rise to form during 2011.[14][53] On 16 September 2011, Froome signed a new three-year contract with Sky.[56] He was part of the Great Britain team that helped Mark Cavendish win the world road race championship.[57] In October, Froome finished third overall in the first edition of the Tour of Beijing, 26 seconds behind overall winner, Tony Martin.[58]
2012: Super-domestique
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.[54][59] In March, Froome was involved in a collision with a 72-year-old pedestrian on a training ride.[60] He returned to racing in May, for the Tour de Romandie, where he helped Wiggins win the race overall,[61] before participating in a training camp on Mount Teide in Tenerife with several of his team-mates.[62]
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Froome was selected in the Sky squad for the Tour de France. After placing 11th in the opening prologue,[63] he suffered a punctured tyre 9 mi (14.5 km) from the end of stage one and lost over a minute to overall leader Fabian Cancellara (You have called {{Contentious topics}}
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On stage 11 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.[69] For his efforts in assisting Wiggins, Froome was lauded in the media as a super-domestique.[70] On stage 17, Froome and Wiggins finished second and third respectively on the final mountain stage to further cement their general classification positions,[71] although Froome repeatedly waited for Wiggins on the final climb, costing him the chance of winning the stage.[72] On stage 19, a time trial, Froome finished second to Wiggins, mirroring the overall standings.[73] 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.[74]
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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.[84] He finished the race taking the overall classification, his first stage race win of his career, 27 seconds ahead of Contador, with Cadel Evans 12 seconds further back. He also won the points classification.[85] Froome then led You have called {{Contentious topics}}
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Froome's final warm up race before the Tour de France, for which he was favourite, was the Critérium du Dauphiné at the beginning of June.[93] He sat second overall behind You have called {{Contentious topics}}
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Froome's Tour de France got off to a nervy start as he crashed in the neutralised section of the first stage on the isle of Corsica, but he was unharmed and avoided going down in the large crash towards the end of the stage.[99] After staying out of trouble for the rest of the first week, Froome won stage eight, the first mountain stage of the race, finishing on Ax 3 Domaines, by launching an attack after team-mates Peter Kennaugh and Porte had brought back an earlier attack by You have called {{Contentious topics}}
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Froome won stage 15 finishing on Mont Ventoux. Kennaugh and Porte dropped all of the leading contenders except Contador on the early part of the climb, before Froome surged clear of Contador with 7 km (4.3 mi) remaining and caught Quintana, who had attacked earlier in the climb. The pair worked together to put time into their rivals, before Froome dropped Quintana with 1.2 km (0.7 mi) remaining and soloed to the finish. This gave Froome a lead of four minutes and 14 seconds over Mollema in second place, with Contador a further 11 seconds back. Froome also regained the lead in the mountains classification.[105][106] He won the stage 17 time trial, finishing the 32 km (20 mi) course from Embrun to Chorges in 51 minutes 33 seconds, with Contador coming in nine seconds behind him, in second place.[107] Froome defended his lead during the Alpine stages, extending his overall league as Mollema and Contador dropped back.[108]
Froome won the general classification on 21 July with a final time of 83 hours, 56 minutes and 40 seconds, four minutes and 20 seconds ahead of second-placed Quintana. He was also King of the Mountains for six stages, however he ultimately finished second to Quintana in that classification.[109] Froome's overall win and stage victories in the Tour win put him at the top of the UCI World Tour ranking, with 587, ahead of Sagan on 409.[110] Partly because the 2013 Tour was the first since Lance Armstrong's admission of doping, such questions were asked of Froome. He insisted that he and his team were clean and stated that the questioning saddened him.[111] Froome was drug tested 19 times during the Tour[109] and Team Sky principal Dave Brailsford offered the World Anti-Doping Agency all performance data they had on Froome as evidence.[112]
In October Froome was named winner of the prestigious Vélo d'Or award for the best rider of the year.[113]
2014: Defending champion
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As defending champion for the first time, Froome started his 2014 season by again winning the Tour of Oman.[114] After some minor illnesses and back problems, which meant he missed Tirreno–Adriatico,[115] his next stage race was the Tour de Romandie, again as defending champion, which he won by 28 seconds ahead of Špilak, with the two riders placing first and second in that race for the second consecutive year.[116] He also won the final stage of the race, an 18.5 km (11.5 mi) individual time trial, finishing a second faster than three-time time trial world champion Martin. To celebrate the Tour de France moving from Britain to France in July, Froome rode a bicycle through the Channel Tunnel, becoming the first solo rider to do so, and one of few cyclists ever to have done the journey.[117][118] The Crossing took under an hour at a top speed of 40 mph — faster than most cross-channel ferries.[119]
Froome crashed out on the 5th stage of the Tour de France after falling three times over two days, putting an end to his defence of his Tour de France crown.[120] He came back in time to duel with Alberto Contador on the Vuelta a Espana, being very competitive in the mountains but losing some time on the first individual time trial.[121] Before the last stage, a short (10 km) flat time trial, Froome was in second place with a deficit of 1:37 on the Spaniard.[122] He finally finished second.[123]
2015: Another winning start
Froome decided to begin his 2015 racing season in February at the Ruta del Sol in Spain, after winning the previous two years of the Tour of Oman. He was joined there by Contador, both riders competing in this race for the first time. Having lost eight seconds to Contador in the first day's individual time trial,[124] Froome ceded even more time to him on the third stage, when the Spaniard broke away from the peloton during the uphill finish to win the stage. Now 27 seconds behind Contador, with only one mountain stage remaining, Froome seemed likely to end up second.[125] But on the penultimate fourth stage, which had a steep uphill finish, Team Sky worked hard and dropped all of Condator's Tinkoff-Saxo teammates as the leaders reached the final climb. After some punchy moves by his support riders, Froome began a solo attack. For a short time Contador was able to follow, but he soon fell away. Froome won the stage and was able to open a 29-second gap on second-place Contador by the finish line, enough to overcome his deficit and take the overall race lead by two seconds.[126] The final fifth stage was relatively flat, with no likely chance for Contador to make up his deficit, allowing Froome to collect his first stage race victory since May 2014.[127][128] This was the third year in a row that Froome won his season opener stage race.[128] For a second year in a row, Froome did not start Tirreno–Adriatico, due to a chest infection.[115] He participated in the La Flèche Wallonne but crashed badly, ruling him out of a victory. Still, after some time to regain his wits, he remounted and soldiered on to finish 123rd, at 12:19.[129] He later participated in the Tour de Romandie in hopes of winning it for the third year in a row, but had to settle for third place in the general classification after winner Ilnur Zakarin and second-place Simon Spilak, both of You have called {{Contentious topics}}
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In June, he was in full preparation for the Tour de France as he participated to the Critérium du Dauphiné. He won stage seven, the queen stage, thanks to two consecutive attacks on the last climb of the day, one to shed the leading group and another one to get rid of Tejay van Garderen, who had resisted to the first one.[131] On the very next day (the last stage), he repeated the exploit of winning solo while putting enough time into van Garderen to award himself the overall classification as well.[132]
Personal life
Froome met Welsh-born South African Michelle Cound in 2009, through South African rider Daryl Impey. In 2011 they moved to Monaco together and she became his fiancée in March 2013.[133][134] The couple married in November 2014.[135] In June 2015 Froome announced that the couple were expecting their first child, a boy, at the end of the year.[136] Froome dedicated his Tour de France win to his mother, who died of cancer five weeks before his Tour debut in 2008.[32][109]
Career achievements
Major results
- 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-23)
- 1st Stage 6 Tour of Japan
- 2nd Berg en Dale Classic
- 2nd Time trial, B World Championships
- 3rd Road race, All-Africa Games
- 8th Tour du Doubs
- 2008
- 2nd Overall Giro del Capo
- 3rd Giro dell'Appennino
- 4th Overall Herald Sun Tour
- 6th Overall Volta ao Distrito de Santarém
- 2009
- 1st Stage 2 Giro del Capo
- 1st Anatomic Jock Race
- 4th National Road Race Championships
- 9th GP Nobili Rubinetterie
- 2010
- 5th Time trial, Commonwealth Games
- 9th Overall Tour du Haut Var
- 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
- 1st
Overall Critérium International
- 1st Stage 3
- 1st
Overall Tour de Romandie
- 1st Prologue
- 1st
Overall Critérium du Dauphiné
- 1st Stage 5
- 1st
Overall Tour de France
- 1st Stages 8, 15 & 17 (ITT)
- Held
Yellow Jersey for Stages 8–21
- Held
Polka Dot Jersey for Stages 9 & 16–20
- 2nd Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
- 1st Stage 4
- 2nd UCI World Tour
- 3rd
Team time trial, Road World Championships
- 2014
- 1st
Overall Tour of Oman
- 1st Stage 5
- 1st
Overall Tour de Romandie
- 1st Stage 5 (ITT)
- Critérium du Dauphiné
- 2nd Overall Vuelta a España
- 6th Overall Volta a Catalunya
- 7th UCI World Tour
- 2015
- 1st
Overall Vuelta a Andalucía
- 1st
Overall Critérium du Dauphiné
- 1st Stages 7 & 8
- 3rd Overall Tour de Romandie
- 1st Stage 1 (TTT)
- Tour de France
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
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— | Did not compete |
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DNF | Did not finish |
DSQ | Disqualified |
Major stage race general classification results timeline
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DNF | 15 | 123 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
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— | 47 | — | — | — | — |
— | Did not compete |
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DNF | Did not finish |
Awards
- Vélo d'Or: 2013[113]
- Velo Magazine International Cyclist of the Year: 2013[139]
- International Flandrien of the Year: 2013[140]
See also
- List of British cyclists
- List of Grand Tour general classification winners
- List of Olympic medalists in cycling (men)
References
- ^ a b "Chris Froome leads Tour of Oman after second place in stage". London: BBC Sport. 14 February 2013. Retrieved 21 February 2013.
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Bibliography
- Froome, Chris (2014). The Climb: The Autobiography. Penguin Books. ISBN 0-241-00418-7.
Further reading
- Brailsford, Dave; Froome, Chris (2013). The Pain and the Glory: The Official Team Sky Diary of the Giro Campaign and Tour Victory. London: HarperCollins UK. ISBN 978-0-00-754471-4.
- Sharp, David (2013). Va Va Froome: The Remarkable Rise of Chris Froome. Edinburgh: Birlinn. ISBN 978-1-78027-166-8.
- Walsh, David (2013). Inside Team Sky: The Inside Story of Team Sky and their Challenge for the 2013 Tour de France. New York City: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4711-3331-2.
- Vlismas, Michael (2013). Froome: The Ride of his Life. Johannesburg: Jonathan Ball Publishers. ISBN 978-1-86842-604-1.
External links
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- Official website
- Chris Froome profile at Team Sky
- Chris Froome at ProCyclingStats
- Chris Froome at Cycling Archives
- 1985 births
- Alumni of St John's College, Johannesburg
- British cyclists
- British expatriates in Monaco
- British Tour de France stage winners
- British Vuelta a España stage winners
- Cyclists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
- Cyclists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Kenyan people of British descent
- Kenyan male cyclists
- Living people
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medallists for Great Britain
- Olympic cyclists of Great Britain
- Olympic medalists in cycling
- Sportspeople from Nairobi
- Tour de France winners
- Tour de France cyclists
- 2013 Tour de France stage winners
- 2012 Tour de France stage winners
- Vuelta a España cyclists
- Giro d'Italia cyclists