Thor Hushovd

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Thor Hushovd
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Personal information
Full name Thor Hushovd
Nickname The God of Thunder
The Bull from Grimstad
Born (1978-01-18) 18 January 1978 (age 47)
Grimstad, Aust-Agder, Norway
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 79 kg (174 lb)
Team information
Current team BMC Racing Team
Discipline Road
Role Captain
Rider type Sprinter
Classic specialist
Professional team(s)
2000–2008 Crédit Agricole
2009–2010 Cervélo TestTeam
2011 Garmin–Cervélo
2012–2014 BMC Racing Team
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
Points classification (2005, 2009)
10 individual stages,[1] 2 TTT
Vuelta a España
Points classification (2006)
3 individual stages
Giro d'Italia
1 individual stage

Single-day races and Classics

World Road Race Championships (2010)
National Road Race Championships (2004, 2010, 2013)
National Time Trial Championships (2002, 2004, 2005)
Gent–Wevelgem (2006)
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (2009)
Under-23 World Time Trial Championships (1998)
Medal record
Road bicycle racing
Representing  Norway
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2010 Melbourne and Geelong Road race
Infobox last updated on
30 March 2014
Hushovd (in yellow) at the 2011 Tour de France. Hushovd held the overall lead of the race from the second to the ninth stage of the race.
Hushovd at the 2006 Tour de France; his win in the prologue was one of two stage wins during the race.

Thor Hushovd (born 18 January 1978) is a former Norwegian professional road bicycle racer riding for BMC Racing Team.[2] He is known for sprinting and time trialing; Hushovd is a three-time Norwegian national road race champion (2004, 2010, 2013),[3] and was the winner of the 2010 World Road Race Championships. He was the first Norwegian to lead the Tour de France, and first Scandinavian to win the road race in cycling world road championship. He is also the Scandinavian with the most stage wins in Grand Tours. He is widely considered the greatest Norwegian cyclist of all time. He retired in September 2014.[4]

Career

Born in Grimstad, Aust-Agder, Norway, Hushovd won the under-23 time trial world championship and the under-23 versions of Paris–Roubaix and Paris–Tours before turning professional in 1998. He was Norwegian time trial champion in 2004 and 2005 and road race champion in 2004 and 2010. In 2006, he won seven UCI ProTour races and two stages of the Tour de France. He won the prologue in Strasbourg and led after the first day despite a cut arm. He continued with stitches and regained the yellow jersey after stage 2 with a third place. He won the last stage, beating Robbie McEwen in a sprint. In the 2006 Vuelta a España he won stage 6, wore the golden jersey for three stages and won the points classification

At the 2008 Tour de France, Hushovd won stage 2 in a bunch finish.[5]

2009

In 2009, Hushovd rode for the Cervélo TestTeam.[6] He took one of the team's first victories of the season by winning Stage 3 of the Tour of California. At the Tour de France, he won green jersey for the points classification for the second time, ahead of Mark Cavendish. Typically the sprinter with the most stage victories wins the points classification, though Hushovd only won one stage, stage 6, while Cavendish won six. After a controversy on stage 14, where Cavendish was relegated to the back of the peloton for impeding Hushovd, Hushovd attacked alone on stage 17, a mountain stage, winning two intermediate sprints.[7][8] Hushovd won stage 3 at the Tour of Missouri – 114 mi (183 km) over rolling hills – in September 2009, in a sprint finish.

2010

On 9 May 2010, Hushovd broke his collarbone on a training ride after colliding with a young girl.[9] At the Tour de France, Hushovd won the third stage, which was an unusual one for the Tour since it featured 13 km (8.1 mi) of cobblestones. He prevailed in the sprint involving five other riders.[10] That victory netted him the Green jersey, but he ultimately lost it to Alessandro Petacchi of the Lampre–Farnese Vini team.

On 3 October 2010, Hushovd won the road world championship, which started in Melbourne and finished in Geelong, Australia. He was the first Norwegian to win the rainbow jersey.[11][12] VeloNews said: "Hushovd...dominated a bunch sprint at the end of a thrilling 267km race, beating Denmark’s Matti Breschel and Australia’s Allan Davis." The favorite, Philippe Gilbert, was caught with three kilometers to go.[13]

2011

During the 2011 Tour de France Hushovd claimed the Maillot Jaune and surprised many by keeping it through several hilly stages that were not expected to suit him and second placed Cadel Evans could not over turn the 1 second advantage that Hushovd held. Hushovd surprised his fans again on stage 13 by being one of the first riders over the Hors Categorie Col d'Aubisque and using his superior descending skills (he was clocked at 69 mph at one point) to catch and pass the leaders David Moncoutie and Jérémy Roy to take the stage. He used his descending skills again on stage 16 when he, Edvald Boasson Hagen and teammate Ryder Hesjedal went clear on the descent of the Col de Manse (a descent that overall runner up Andy Schleck deemed too dangerous for the tour) and beat Boasson Hagen in the final sprint to take his second stage of the tour.

2012

In 2012, Hushovd joined BMC Racing Team on a three-year contract.[14] Suffering from a then unknown medical condition, he had to abandon the Giro d'Italia and cancelled his scheduled participation to the Tour de France and Olympic road race.[15] The medical impairment was later identified as a "virus and muscle inflammation" by team doctors.[16] Hushovd hardly achieved any notable result in the season except fourteenth at Paris-Roubaix. In October, he said that he hoped to put the bad year and the virus that ruined it behind him and that he was optimistic and motivated about the 2013 season.[17]

2013

Hushovd earned his first win since the 2011 Tour of Britain with a sprint victory over Tom-Jelte Slagter of Blanco Pro Cycling on stage 1 of the Tour du Haut Var in February. It was also his first victory with BMC Racing Team.[18]

Retirement

In June 2014 Hushovd announced that he would retire after the 2014 UCI Road World Championships after struggling with Infectious mononucleosis since 2012.[19][20] However, after a hard crash suffered at the Tour du Poitou-Charentes, Hushovd said he would not participate in the World Championships.[21] His last race was the GP Impanis-Van Petegem in September.[4]

2015 Hushovd announced that he had started working on organising an all-Norwegian UCI WorldTeam, with a plan to launch in the 2017 season to coincide with the hosting of the 2017 UCI Road World Championships in the Norwegian city of Bergen.[22]

Personal life

Hushovd currently resides in Monte Carlo,[23][24] with his wife Susanne,[25] and their daughter Isabel (b. 2009).[26] The Hushovds also maintain an offseason residency in Grimstad, Aust-Agder, Norway.[27]

Palmares

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1998
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Under-23 World Time Trial Championships
1st Paris–Roubaix Espoirs
2000
6th Summer Olympics ITT
2001
1st Stage 5 TTT Tour de France
1st Overall Tour de Normandie
1st Jersey green.svg Points classification
1st Overall Tour of Sweden
1st Overall Paris–Corrèze
2002
1st Stage 18 Tour de France
1st Stage 2 Tour de l'Ain
2003
1st Stage 2 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
1st Stage 1 Vuelta a Castilla y León
2004
1st MaillotNoruega.PNGNational Time Trial Championships
1st MaillotNoruega.PNG National Road Race Championships
1st Stage 8 Tour de France
1st Stage 1 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
1st Overall Coupe de France de cyclisme sur route
1st Classic Haribo
1st Grand Prix de Denain
1st Tour de Vendée
2005
1st MaillotNoruega.PNG National Time Trial Championships
Volta a Catalunya
1st Stage 7
1st Jersey green.svg Points classification
1st Jersey green.svg Points classification Tour de France
1st Stage 5 Vuelta a España
1st Stage 2 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
3rd Milan–San Remo
2006
Tour de France
1st Prologue & Stage 20
Vuelta a España
1st Stage 6
1st Jersey blue.svg Points classification
1st Gent–Wevelgem
1st Stage 7 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
1st Stage 4 Tirreno–Adriatico
Volta a Catalunya
1st Stage 3
1st Jersey green.svg Points classification
1st Jersey green.svg Points classification Four Days of Dunkirk
2007
1st Stage 7 Giro d'Italia
1st Stage 4 Tour de France
2008
Volta a Catalunya
1st Prologue & Stage 1
1st Jersey green.svg Points classification
Paris–Nice
1st Prologue
1st Jersey green.svg Points classification
1st Stage 1 Tour Méditerranéen
1st Stage 6 Four Days of Dunkirk
1st Stage 2 Tour de France
2009
Tour de France
1st Stage 6
1st Jersey green.svg Points classification
Stage 17 Combativity award
Tour of Missouri
1st Stage 3
1st Jersey green.svg Points classification
1st Stage 3 Tour of California
1st Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
Volta a Catalunya
1st Stages 1 & 6
1st Stage 4 Tour du Poitou Charentes et de la Vienne
3rd Paris–Roubaix
3rd Milan–San Remo
2010
1st Jersey rainbow.svg UCI Road Race World Championship
1st MaillotNoruega.PNG National Road Race Championships
1st Stage 3 Tour de France
1st Stage 6 Vuelta a España
2nd Paris–Roubaix
2011
Tour de France
1st Stages 2 (TTT), 13 & 16
Held Maillot Jaune Jersey yellow.svg from Stage 2 to Stage 9
1st Stage 4 Tour de Suisse
1st Stage 4 Tour of Britain
8th Paris–Roubaix
2013
1st MaillotNoruega.PNG National Road Race Championships
1st Jersey blue.svg Overall Arctic Race of Norway
1st Jersey green.svg Points classification
1st Stages 2 & 4
Tour de Pologne
1st Stages 3 & 5
1st Stage 3 Tour of Austria
1st Stage 1 Tour of Beijing
2nd National Time Trial Championships
4th Grand Prix d'Isbergues
5th Overall Tour du Haut Var
1st Stage 1
6th GP Ouest-France
8th Vattenfall Cyclassics
2014
9th Gent–Wevelgem

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Pink jersey Giro — — — — — — WD — — — — WD — —
Yellow jersey Tour WD 112 118 104 116 120 138 96 106 111 68 — — —
red jersey Vuelta — — — — WD 82 — — — WD — — — —

WD = Withdrew; In Progress = IP

References

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  • Palmares at Cycling Base
Awards
Preceded by Norwegian Sportsperson of the Year
2010		 Succeeded by
Alexander Dale Oen

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  5. ↑ Hushovd happy after Tour de France win, Aftenposten 7 July 2008
  6. ↑ "Thor Hushovd has signed with the new Cervelo TestTeam" (9 Sep. 2008) VeloNews.com. Retrieved 10 March 2010
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  11. ↑ "Thor Hushovd wins world road racing title" (3 Oct. 2010) VeloNews.com. Retrieved 10 March 2010
  12. ↑ King Thor roars to Worlds victory CyclingNews.com. Retrieved 10 March 2010.
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  23. ↑ NBC athlete profile
  24. ↑ Hushovd frustrert over Contador-avgjørelse
  25. ↑ Hushovd flytter til Monaco
  26. ↑ A daughter for Hushovd
  27. ↑ Susanne Hushovd har alltid akseptert at syklingen er førsteprioritet for ektemannen.
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