Rafał Majka

Rafał Majka
	Majka at the 2012 Japan Cup
Personal information
Full name	Rafał Majka
Born	12 September 1989 (age 34); Zegartowice, Poland
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight	59 kg (130 lb)
Team information
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Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Climber
Amateur teams
2008–2009	Gragnano S.C.
2009	Miche (stagiaire)
2010	Petroli Firenze
Professional team
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Major wins
	Grand Tours Tour de France Mountains classification (2014, 2016) 3 individual stages (2014, 2015) Stage races Tour de Pologne (2014) One-day races and Classics National Road Race Championships (2016)
Medal record
Representing Poland
Road bicycle racing
Olympic Games

Rafał Majka (Polish pronunciation: [ˈrafaw ˈmajka]; born 12 September 1989) is a Polish professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam You have called {{Contentious topics}}. You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:

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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..^[1] He is known as a strong climber, and rose to prominence at the 2013 Giro d'Italia, where he finished 7th overall, and 6th one year later. Other major achievements are three mountainous stage wins in the Tour de France as well as the Mountains classification in the 2014 and 2016 edition, two stages and the overall victory at the 2014 Tour de Pologne. He achieved his first Grand Tour podium finish at the 2015 Vuelta a España, where he finished third. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal for Poland in the road race.

Career

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 seventh, eight minutes behind winner Vincenzo Nibali.

A year later, he improved on his Giro d'Italia result from 2013 by finishing sixth overall.

Majka was a last-minute inclusion in Tinkoff-Saxo's 2014 Tour de France squad, after Roman Kreuziger was 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.^[2] Four days later he claimed another victory on Stage 17, soloing to the mountaintop finish atop Pla d'Adet.^[3] These successes, as well as some other strong performances in mountain stages, earned Majka the polka dot jersey as winner of the mountains classification. Thus he became the first Pole to win a jersey in the Tour de France. A couple of weeks after the Tour de France he won stages five and six of the 2014 Tour de Pologne as well as the general classification.^[4] Majka was the first Pole to win the Tour de Pologne since it became part of the UCI World Tour.

In contrast to the previous two years, Majka did not ride the Giro d'Italia in 2015 where Alberto Contador made the first step in trying to do a Giro-Tour double but started in the Tour de France. He achieved top ten finishes at the Tour of Oman, the Tour de Romandie and the Tour de Suisse in preparation for the Tour. Majka won the 11th stage of the Tour de France to Cauterets from a breakaway to take his third Tour stage victory. Majka then prepared to race his season target, the 2015 Vuelta a España, attempting to gain a top 5 or podium finish in the GC. He performed well throughout the entire race, being able to stay at the top of the general classification with Nairo Quintana and Fabio Aru. On the penultimate stage, stage 20, Majka managed to advance himself from fourth place to third place, finishing the Vuelta in third, achieving his goal of being on the podium of a Grand Tour.

At the 2016 Giro d'Italia, Majka raced as the leader of the Tinkoff team and finished fifth overall, four minutes behind winner Vincenzo Nibali, his best result in that race.^[5] Following the Giro, Majka won the Polish National Road Race Championships for the first time in his career, breaking away at the front over the last climb and holding his advantage to the finish line.^[6] During the 2016 Tour de France, team leader Contador dropped out, leaving Majka as one of his team's chances for success. Through multiple breakaways, he was able to repeat his 2014 accomplishment and win the mountain classification, albeit falling short of a stage win.^[7]

At the 2016 Rio Olympics, Majka finished third in the individual road race to win the Bronze medal. He was part of a late breakaway group also containing Vincenzo Nibali and Sergio Henao. On the final descent, both Nibali and Henao crashed, leaving Majka alone in front, unable to preserve his advantage over the chase group to the finish. He was caught by eventual winner Greg Van Avermaet and Jakob Fuglsang within two kilometres of the finish line and did not participate in the final sprint, settling for third.^[8] Majka's medal was the first for Poland at the Rio Olympics, and the first medal won by a Polish cyclist in an individual event since Czesław Lang's silver at the 1980 Summer Olympics.^[9] Subsequently in August 2016 You have called {{Contentious topics}}. You probably meant to call one of these templates instead:

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