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Rafal Majka

Rafał Majka
Rafał Majka, Japan Cup 2012 (cropped).jpg
Majka at the 2012 Japan Cup
Personal information
Full name Rafał Majka
Born (1989-09-12) 12 September 1989 (age 27)
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
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)

Grand Tours

Stage races

One-day races and Classics

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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