Kurt Asle Arvesen
Arvesen at the 2005 HEW Cyclassics
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| Personal information | |
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| Full name | Kurt Asle Arvesen |
| Born |
9 February 1975 Molde, Norway |
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) |
| Weight | 70 kg (150 lb; 11 st) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Uno-X Hydrogen Development Team |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Directeur sportif |
| Rider type | Sprinter/Classics (retired) |
| Professional team(s) | |
| 1998 | Asics |
| 1999–2000 | Riso Scotti |
| 2001–2003 | Team Fakta |
| 2004–2009 | Team CSC |
| 2010–2011 | Team Sky |
| Managerial team(s) | |
| 2012–2016 | Team Sky |
| 2017– | Uno-X Hydrogen Development Team |
| Major wins | |
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Kurt Asle Arvesen (born 9 February 1975) is a former Norwegian professional road bicycle racer, who competed as a professional between 1998 and 2011. Arvesen is from Eresfjord, Nesset. After retiring as a rider, Arvesen became a coach with Team Sky. He won the Norwegian National Road Race Championship five times, as well as stages in each of the three Grand Tours.
After winning the gold medal at the 1997 Under-23 World Championship as an amateur, Arvesen turned pro with Italian team Asics in 1998, where later Team CSC teammate Ivan Basso rode as a stagiare. The two riders moved on to Davide Boifava's team, Riso Scotti-Vinavil in 1999, which was renamed Amica Chips-Tacconi Sport in 2000, but Arvesen's three years in Italy did not get him the results his World Under-23 Championships win had foretold. In 2001 Arvesen and Basso split up, as Arvesen moved on to Danish Team Fakta, where he experienced his most successful years culminating in a stage win in the 2003 Giro d'Italia.
In 2004, Team Fakta closed, and Arvesen and sports director Kim Andersen both moved on to Team CSC. At Team CSC, Arvesen has been riding mostly as a domestique, but he managed to win the stage race Danmark Rundt as well as CSC Classic in 2004. For the 2004 Tour de France, Arvesen helped team captain Basso finish second overall, and he was named the toughest rider in the peloton when he managed to finish the three-weeks long race after crashing severely on several stages.
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