Luke Rowe
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Personal information | |
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Full name | Luke Rowe |
Born | Cardiff, Wales | 10 March 1990
Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) |
Weight | 72 kg (159 lb; 11 st 5 lb) |
Team information | |
Current team | Ineos Grenadiers |
Disciplines |
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Role | Rider |
Rider type |
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Amateur teams | |
Maindy Flyers | |
Cardiff Ajax CC | |
2006 | Glendene CC / Bike Trax |
2007–2011 | Recycling.co.uk |
Professional team | |
2012– | Team Sky[1][2] |
Luke Rowe (born 10 March 1990) is a Welsh racing cyclist, who rides for UCI WorldTeam Ineos Grenadiers.[3]
Biography
[edit]Born in Cardiff, Rowe began racing at a young age, initially riding with his parents on a tandem. He began to enjoy cycling and became a member of the Maindy Flyers, based at Maindy Centre. As a junior, he was a member of British Cycling's Olympic Development Programme,[4] His father, Courtney Rowe, coaches the Paralympian Simon Richardson,[citation needed] while his brother Matthew Rowe and his sister-in-law Dani Rowe also competed professionally.
Track career
[edit]Rowe made his European debut as a member of the team pursuit squad who took the gold medal at the 2007 UEC European Track Championships. He finished second in the 2008 European Road Race Championships, and won the Madison, along with Mark Christian, and the silver in the team pursuit at the 2008 European Track Championships.[5]
Team Sky / INEOS Grenadiers (2012–2024)
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Rowe joined Team Sky for the 2012 season as a neo-pro, having signed a two-year deal.[6][7] He took his first professional victory in September 2012 by winning the opening stage of the Tour of Britain. Rowe made his Grand Tour debut at the 2013 Vuelta a España.[8]
Rowe represented Wales at the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, 2014,[9] and finished sixth in the road race, which was won by teammate Geraint Thomas. Rowe rode the 2014 Vuelta a España, and helped Chris Froome to finish second overall.[citation needed]
Rowe enjoyed a strong start to the 2015 season with fourth place at the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race and seventh overall at the Tour of Qatar.[10] Rowe then had a breakthrough classics campaign, placing ninth in Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (which was won by teammate Ian Stannard, thirteenth in E3 Harelbeke (won by teammate Geraint Thomas) and an impressive eighth in Paris–Roubaix, ahead of Bradley Wiggins (18th) who was riding his final race for Sky.[11] He was selected in Sky's team for the Tour de France,[12][13] becoming the third Welsh rider to compete in the Tour after Colin Lewis and Geraint Thomas.[14]
By finishing in 167th place in the 2017 Tour de France, Rowe earned the unofficial "lanterne rouge", a recognition reserved for the last rider to finish. In August 2017, Rowe fractured the tibia and fibula in his right leg, when he jumped into shallow water while whitewater rafting at his brother's stag party in Prague.[15] Having feared he would be unlikely to race for up to a year,[16] Rowe returned to racing earlier than expected, in late February at the 2018 Abu Dhabi Tour,[17] having originally planned to return for the Commonwealth Games.
In February 2020, Rowe signed a new contract with Team Ineos, extending his contract with the team until the end of the 2023 season.[18]
In May 2024, Rowe announced his retirement from professional cycling. He had signed new two-year contract with the Ineos Grenadiers in October 2023, but had not raced since suffering a concussion in a crash at the E3 Saxo Classic in March and said that had been a factor in his decision. . Rowe hopes to end career at tour of britain in September 2024.
Major results
[edit]Road
[edit]- 2007
- 1st
Points classification, Junior Tour of Wales
- 2008
- 2nd
Road race, UEC European Junior Championships
- 2009
- 1st ZLM Tour
- 6th Coppa Colli Briantei Internazionale
- 2010
- 1st Gran Premio di Poggiana
- 3rd Gran Premio Industrie del Marmo
- 4th Gran Premio Palio del Recioto
- 5th Tour of Flanders U23
- 6th Overall Tour de Berlin
- 8th Trofeo Franco Balestra Memorial Metelli
- 9th Road race, Commonwealth Games
- 2011
- 1st ZLM Tour
- 1st Stage 7 Thüringen Rundfahrt der U23
- 5th Overall Tour de Normandie
- 8th La Côte Picarde
- 9th Overall Olympia's Tour
- 2012 (1 pro win)
- 1st Stage 1 Tour of Britain
- 2nd Duo Normand (with Alex Dowsett)
- 2013
- National Championships
- 5th Road race
- 5th Time trial
- 9th Overall Tour of Qatar
- 2014
- National Championships
- 4th Road race
- 4th Time trial
- 6th Road race, Commonwealth Games
- 2015
- 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Tour de Romandie
- 4th Road race, National Championships
- 4th Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
- 7th Overall Tour of Qatar
- 8th Paris–Roubaix
- 9th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
- 2016
- 4th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
- 5th Tour of Flanders
- 2017 (1)
- 1st Stage 2 Herald Sun Tour
- 3rd Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne
- 5th Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
- 6th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
- 2018
- 1st Stage 3 (TTT) Critérium du Dauphiné
- 1st Stage 1b (TTT) Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
- 2019
- 6th Dwars door Vlaanderen
- 6th Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
[edit]Grand Tour | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
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Has not contested during his career | |||||||||
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— | — | 136 | 151 | 167 | 128 | DSQ | 129 | DNF | 106 |
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DNF | 141 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Classics results timeline
[edit]Monument | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
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Milan–San Remo | — | — | — | 130 | 91 | 98 | 146 | 103 | — | 118 | 85 | 148 |
Tour of Flanders | — | 93 | 62 | 50 | 5 | 120 | DSQ | 27 | 50 | DNF | — | 95 |
Paris–Roubaix | — | 109 | 31 | 8 | 14 | DNF | DNF | 32 | NH | 66 | 102 | 127 |
Liège–Bastogne–Liège | DNF | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 134 | — | — |
Giro di Lombardia | Has not contested during his career | |||||||||||
Classic | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad | — | 53 | 11 | 9 | 4 | 6 | — | — | DNF | — | — | 122 |
Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne | — | — | 120 | 51 | 84 | 3 | — | — | 63 | — | — | DNF |
E3 Harelbeke | — | 70 | DNF | 13 | 23 | 15 | — | 54 | NH | — | 78 | — |
Gent–Wevelgem | — | 56 | DNF | DNF | 22 | DNF | — | 18 | 12 | — | DNF | — |
Dwars door Vlaanderen | 64 | 36 | 66 | — | — | — | 22 | 6 | NH | — | — | — |
— | Did not compete |
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DNF | Did not finish |
DSQ | Disqualified |
IP | In progress |
NH | Not held |
Track
[edit]- 2007
- 1st
Team pursuit, UEC European Junior Championships
- 1st
Madison, National Championships (with Adam Blythe)
- 2008
- UEC European Junior Championships
- 1st
Madison (with Mark Christian)
- 2nd
Team pursuit
- 1st
- 1st
Derny, National Championships
- 2009
- 2nd Madison, National Championships (with Geraint Thomas)
- 2010
- 1st
Madison, National Championships (with Mark Christian)
- 2011
- 1st
Madison, National Championships (with Peter Kennaugh)
- 2012
- Revolution Series, Manchester
- 1st Australian pursuit
- 1st Scratch
References
[edit]- ^ "Team Sky". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. Archived from the original on 5 January 2019. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
- ^ "Team Ineos". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 2 January 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
- ^ "Ineos Grenadiers". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 2 January 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
- ^ "Luke Rowe Bio". British Cycling. Retrieved 10 September 2008. [dead link]
- ^ Andy Howell (16 September 2008). "Cycling: Young guns shine in Poland". Wales Online. Archived from the original on 6 October 2008. Retrieved 22 December 2008.
- ^ Owen, Gareth Rhys (5 September 2011). "Welshman Luke Rowe makes Team Sky switch". BBC Sport Wales. BBC. Retrieved 6 January 2012.
- ^ "Team Sky signs Rowe". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. 5 September 2011. Archived from the original on 27 December 2011. Retrieved 6 September 2011.
- ^ "Vuelta a Espana: Luke Rowe sole Brit in Team Sky squad". BBC. 20 August 2013. Retrieved 3 February 2017.
- ^ "Commonwealth Games 2014: Olympic champion Geraint Thomas and world sprint star Becky James head up Welsh cycling team for Glasgow". Wales Online. 9 July 2014. Archived from the original on 8 August 2014.
- ^ Griffiths, Gareth (13 February 2015). "Cardiff cyclist Luke Rowe claims seventh place final finish on Tour of Qatar for Team Sky". Retrieved 3 February 2017.
- ^ "Luke Rowe: 8th in Roubaix a sign of things to come". 12 April 2015. Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 3 February 2017.
- ^ Fotheringham, William (29 June 2015). "Tour de France: Luke Rowe among Froome's chaperones in Team Sky line-up". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 4 February 2017. Retrieved 3 February 2017.
- ^ "2015 Tour de France start list". Velo News. Archived from the original on 29 June 2015. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
- ^ "Tour de France 2015: Luke Rowe ecstatic at Tour selection". BBC. 29 June 2015. Archived from the original on 2 July 2015. Retrieved 10 September 2015.
- ^ "Luke Rowe: Team Sky rider breaks leg on brother's stag party". BBC Sport. 8 August 2017. Archived from the original on 11 August 2017. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
- ^ "Team Sky's Luke Rowe 'could miss a year' after rafting leg break". BBC Sport. 9 August 2017. Archived from the original on 11 August 2017. Retrieved 11 August 2017.
- ^ "Rowe will return to racing with Team Sky at Abu Dhabi Tour". Archived from the original on 12 February 2018. Retrieved 11 February 2018.
- ^ "Luke Rowe: Welsh cyclist signs Team Ineos contract extension". BBC Sport. BBC. 20 February 2020. Retrieved 6 July 2020.
External links
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- Official website
- Luke Rowe profile at Team Sky
- Luke Rowe at UCI
- Luke Rowe at ProCyclingStats
- Luke Rowe at Cycling Archives
- Luke Rowe at Team Wales
- Luke Rowe at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Luke Rowe on X