Lawson Craddock

Lawson Craddock
	Craddock at the 2014 Grand Prix d'Isbergues
Personal information
Full name	Gregory Craddock
Nickname	Lawson
Born	February 20, 1992 (age 32); Houston, Texas, United States
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	68 kg (150 lb)
Team information
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Discipline	Road, track
Role	Rider
Rider type	All-rounder
Professional teams
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Gregory "Lawson" Craddock (born February 20, 1992) is an American professional road and track racing cyclist.

Cycling career

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Miscellaneous

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Craddock raced in the 2018 Tour de France. He crashed during the first stage, causing a hairline fracture in his scapula, but continued racing.^[4] After that crash, he took to social media announcing he was donating $100 for every stage he finished to the Greater Houston Cycling Association in the rebuild of the Alkek Velodrome, where Craddock got his start in cycling and was damaged by Hurricane Harvey. A GoFundMe page was also set up for people to make direct donations to the cause. Craddock finished the race as the "lanterne rouge", becoming the first rider in Tour history to hold last place after every stage^[5] and earning nearly US$200,000 for his cause.^[6]

Career achievements

Major results

2008

National Novice Track Championships

1st

Scratch

1st

Points race

2009

1st Stage 1 (ITT) Edgar Soto Memorial

1st Stage 2b (ITT) Tour du Pays de Vaud

2nd

Time trial, UCI World Road Junior Championships

4th Overall Trofeo Karlsberg

2010

National Junior Road Championships

1st

Road race

1st

Time trial

1st

Overall Trofeo Karlsberg

1st Stages 2 & 3 (ITT)

1st Stage 1 Tour de New Braunfels

1st Stage 1 (TTT) Regio Tour

2nd Overall Trophée Centre Morbihan

1st Stage 2 (ITT)

3rd

Time trial, UCI World Road Junior Championships

3rd Overall Tour du Pays de Vaud

1st Prologue & Stage 4 (ITT)

3rd Paris–Roubaix Juniors

2011

1st Stage 2 (ITT) Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux

1st Stage 10 Tour de la Guadeloupe

1st Stage 2 Hotter'N Hell Hundred

2nd Time trial, National Road Under–23 Championships

4th Overall Tour de Berlin

4th Overall Tulsa Tough

2012

2nd Time trial, National Road Under–23 Championships

3rd Time trial, Pan–American Road Under–23 Championships

3rd Overall Cascade Classic

3rd Copperas Cove Classic

5th Overall Tour of the Gila

1st Stage 5

2013

2nd Overall Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux

1st Stage 2

7th Overall USA Pro Cycling Challenge

8th Overall Tour of California

1st

Young rider classification

2014

3rd Overall Tour of California

1st

Young rider classification

2016: 5th Overall Tour of California; 6th Overall Critérium International; 9th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
2018: 1st Mountains classification Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali; 9th Amstel Gold Race

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
Giro d'Italia	—	—	—	—	—
Tour de France	—	—	124	—	145
Vuelta a España	DNF	42	—	—	—

Legend
DSQ	Disqualified
DNF	Did not finish
IP	In progress

References

^ http://www.procyclingstats.com/rider/Lawson_Craddock
^ "Craddock joins Cannondale-Garmin in 2016". cyclingnews.com. 17 September 2015. Retrieved 20 November 2015.
^ "Meet Lawson Craddock, a rising star of American cycling and the first Texan to race the Tour de France since you-know-who". Business Insider. Retrieved 2017-06-01.
^ Ford, Bonnie D. (July 14, 2018). "Injured Lawson Craddock rides on for team, Houston, at Tour de France". ESPN.
^ Ingle, Sean (6 August 2018). "Last but not least: Craddock wears Tour's red lantern as badge of courage". theguardian.com. Retrieved 6 August 2018.
^ Scott, Roxanna (July 29, 2018). "American cyclist Lawson Craddock is last in Tour de France, raises $192K for velodrome". USA TODAY. Retrieved July 29, 2018.

External links

Lawson Craddock at Cycling Archives
Lawson Craddock at ProCyclingStats

[1] ttp://www.procyclingstats.com/rider/Lawson_Craddock

[2] "Craddock joins Cannondale-Garmin in 2016". cyclingnews.com. 17 September 2015. Retrieved 20 November 2015.

[3] "Meet Lawson Craddock, a rising star of American cycling and the first Texan to race the Tour de France since you-know-who". Business Insider. Retrieved 2017-06-01.

[4] Ford, Bonnie D. (July 14, 2018). "Injured Lawson Craddock rides on for team, Houston, at Tour de France". ESPN.

[5] Ingle, Sean (6 August 2018). "Last but not least: Craddock wears Tour's red lantern as badge of courage". theguardian.com. Retrieved 6 August 2018.

[6] Scott, Roxanna (July 29, 2018). "American cyclist Lawson Craddock is last in Tour de France, raises $192K for velodrome". USA TODAY. Retrieved July 29, 2018.

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v t e Lanternes rouges of the Tour de France
1903–1919	1903: Arsène Millocheau 1904: Antoine Deflotrière 1905: Clovis Lacroix 1906: Georges Bronchard 1907: Albert Chartier 1908: Henri Anthoine 1909: Georges Devilly 1910: Constant Collet 1911: Lucien Roquebert 1912: Maurice Lartigue 1913: Henri Alavoine 1914: Henri Leclerc 1915–1918 World War I 1919: Jules Nempon
1920–1939	1920: Charles Raboisson 1921: Henri Catelan 1922–23: Daniel Masson 1924: Victor Lafosse 1925: Fernand Besnier 1926: André Drobecq 1927: Jacques Pfister 1928: Édouard Persin 1929: André Léger 1930: Marcel Ilpide 1931: Richard Lamb 1932: Rudolf Risch 1933: Ernest Neuhard 1934: Antonio Folco 1935: Willy Kutschbach 1936: Aldo Bertocco 1937: Aloyse Klensch 1938: Janus Hellemons 1939: Armand Le Moal
1940–1959	1940–1946 World War II 1947: Pietro Tarchini 1948: Vittorio Seghezzi 1949: Guido De Santi 1950: Fritz Zbinden 1951: Abdel-Kader Zaaf 1952: Henri Paret 1953: Claude Rouer 1954: Marcel Dierkens 1955: Tony Hoar 1956: Roger Chaussabel 1957: Guy Million 1958: Walter Favre 1959: Louis Bisilliat
1960–1978	1960: José Herrero Berrendero 1961: André Geneste 1962: Augusto Marcaletti 1963: Willy Derboven 1964: Anatole Novak 1965: Joseph Groussard 1966: Paolo Mannucci 1967: Jean-Pierre Genet 1968: John Clarey 1969: André Wilhelm 1970: Frits Hoogerheide 1971: Georges Chappe 1972: Alain Bellouis 1973: Jacques-André Hochart 1974: Lorenzo Alaimo 1975: Jacques Boulas 1976: Aad van den Hoek 1977: Roger Loysch 1978: Philippe Tesnière
1979–1999	1979–80: Gerhard Schönbacher 1981: Faustino Cueli 1982: Werner Devos 1983: Marcel Laurens 1984: Gilbert Glaus 1985: Manrico Ronchiato 1986: Ennio Salvador 1987: Mathieu Hermans 1988: Dirk Wayenberg 1989: Mathieu Hermans 1990: Rodolfo Massi 1991: Rob Harmeling 1992: Fernando Quevedo 1993: Edwig Van Hooydonck 1994: John Talen 1995: Bruno Cornillet 1996: Jean-Luc Masdupuy 1997: Philippe Gaumont 1998: Damien Nazon 1999: Jacky Durand
2000–2019	2000: Olivier Perraudeau 2001: Jimmy Casper 2002: Igor Flores 2003: Hans De Clercq 2004: Jimmy Casper 2005: Iker Flores 2006–2008: Wim Vansevenant 2009: Yauheni Hutarovich 2010: Adriano Malori 2011: Fabio Sabatini 2012: Jimmy Engoulvent 2013: Svein Tuft 2014: Ji Cheng 2015: Sébastien Chavanel 2016: Sam Bennett 2017: Luke Rowe 2018: Lawson Craddock 2019: Sebastian Langeveld
2020–2039	2020: Roger Kluge 2021: Tim Declercq 2022: Caleb Ewan 2023: Michael Mørkøv