Peter Sagan
Peter Sagan
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Personal information |
Full name |
Peter Sagan |
Nickname |
"Tourminator"
"Hulk" |
Born |
(1990-01-26) 26 January 1990 (age 27) Žilina, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia) |
Height |
1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) |
Weight |
73 kg (161 lb; 11.5 st) |
Team information |
Current team |
Bora–Hansgrohe |
Discipline |
Road |
Role |
Rider |
Rider type |
Puncheur Sprinter Classics specialist
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Professional team(s) |
2009 |
Dukla Trenčín–Merida |
2010–2014 |
Liquigas–Doimo |
2015–2016 |
Tinkoff |
2017– |
Bora–Hansgrohe |
Major wins |
Grand Tours
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Tour de France
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Points classification (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016)
- 7 individual stages (2012, 2013, 2016)
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Super-combativity award (2016)
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Vuelta a España
- 4 individual stages (2011, 2015)
Stage races
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Giro di Sardegna (2011)
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Tour de Pologne (2011)
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Tour of California (2015)
One-day races and Classics
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World Road Race Championships (2015, 2016)
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European Road Race Championships (2016)
- National Road Race Championships (2011 – 2015)
- National Time Trial Championships (2015)
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Tour of Flanders (2016)
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Gent–Wevelgem (2013, 2016)
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GP de Montréal (2013)
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GP de Québec (2016)
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E3 Harelbeke (2014)
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Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne (2017)
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Brabantse Pijl (2013)
Other
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UCI World Tour (2016)
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UCI World Ranking (2016)
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Velo d'Or (2016)
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Grand Tours
Stage races
One-day races and Classics
Other
Peter Sagan (born 26 January 1990) is a Slovak professional road bicycle racer for UCI WorldTeam Bora–Hansgrohe. Sagan had a successful junior cyclo-cross and mountain bike racing career, winning the Junior Mountain Bike World Championship in 2008, before moving to road racing.
Sagan is considered one of cycling's greatest talents, having earned many prestigious victories., including two World Championships, two Paris–Nice stages, three Tirreno–Adriatico stages, one in the Tour de Romandie, two and the overall classification in the Tour de Pologne, a record fifteen stages and the overall in the Tour of California, and another record thirteen in the Tour de Suisse. He has won a number of Classics, including the Monument race Tour of Flanders, two Gent–Wevelgem races and E3 Harelbeke, together with eleven stages in Grand Tours: four in the Vuelta a España and seven in the Tour de France. He was also the winner of the points classification in the Tour de France, in 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016; as a result, Sagan became the first rider to win the classification in all of his first five attempts and is only 1 win behind the record of six of Erik Zabel.
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