Rafał Majka
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Majka at the 2012 Japan Cup
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| Personal information | |
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| Full name | Rafał Majka |
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12 September 1989 Zegartowice, Poland |
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) |
| Weight | 58 kg (128 lb) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Bora–Hansgrohe |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | Climber |
| Amateur team(s) | |
| 2008–2009 | Gragnano S.C. |
| 2009 | Miche–Silver Cross–Selle Italia (stagiaire) |
| 2010 | Petroli Firenze |
| Professional team(s) | |
| 2011–2016 | Saxo Bank–SunGard |
| 2017– | Bora–Hansgrohe |
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Rafał Majka (Polish pronunciation: [ˈrafaw ˈmajka]; born 12 September 1989) is a Polish professional road bicycle racer for UCI WorldTeam Bora–Hansgrohe. 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.
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 rider classification, which eventually fell to Betancur in the penultimate stage. In the general classification, he ended up seventh, eight minutes behind winner Vincenzo Nibali.
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