Svein Tuft
Tuft at the 2008 UCI Road World Championships.
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| Full name | Svein Tuft | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Sveino | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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May 9, 1977 Langley, Canada |
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| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 74 kg (163 lb; 11.7 st) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Orica–Scott | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Domestique Time trialist |
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| 2005–2008 | Symmetrics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2009–2010 | Garmin–Slipstream | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2011 | SpiderTech–C10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2012– | GreenEDGE | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Svein Tuft (born May 9, 1977) is a Canadian road bicycle racer and the 2006–07 UCI America Tour champion. Tuft currently races for UCI WorldTeam Orica–Scott. Tuft is a two-time national road race champion, and a nine-time national time trial champion.
He was born in Langley, British Columbia, Canada. His grandfather, Arne Tuft, was an Olympic cross-country skier from Norway.
Tuft dropped out of school at 15 to travel and camp with his dog named Bear. He spent the next several years mountain climbing and going on long bike trips, including a 4,000 mile trip to Alaska as a teenager.
While racing with the Symmetrics, Tuft lived in a trailer behind team owner Kevin Cunningham's house near Langley. In the adjacent trailer was Tuft's teammate Christian Meier. The team referred to the two as the trailer park boys.
Tuft first raced in 1999, at the British Columbia Provincial Championships. Strong results landed him a place on the Broadmark Capital team, followed by short stints on the Mercury and Prime Alliance teams. Tuft's career flourished when he rode for the Canadian Symmetrics team – a prominent team in North American Cycling from 2005–2008. He first captured the Canadian national time trial title in 2004 from his former teammate and three time Canadian Olympian Eric Wohlberg. Wohlberg held the title for eight consecutive years prior to Tuft. In 2007 Tuft conceded the Canadian National Time Trial title to Ryder Hesjedal.
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