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Peter Sagan

Peter Sagan
Gent - Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, 27 februari 2016 (E11) (cropped).JPG
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
Professional team(s)
2009 Dukla Trenčín–Merida
2010–2014 Liquigas–Doimo
2015–2016 Tinkoff
2017– Bora–Hansgrohe
Major wins

Grand Tours

Tour de France
Points classification (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016)
7 individual stages (2012, 2013, 2016)
Super-combativity award (2016)
Vuelta a España
4 individual stages (2011, 2015)

Stage races

Giro di Sardegna (2011)
Tour de Pologne (2011)
Tour of California (2015)

One-day races and Classics

World Road Race Championships (2015, 2016)
European Road Race Championships (2016)
National Road Race Championships (20112015)
National Time Trial Championships (2015)
Tour of Flanders (2016)
Gent–Wevelgem (2013, 2016)
GP de Montréal (2013)
GP de Québec (2016)
E3 Harelbeke (2014)
Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne (2017)
Brabantse Pijl (2013)

Other

UCI World Tour (2016)
UCI World Ranking (2016)
Velo d'Or (2016)

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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