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2011 Tour de France
Cycling raceThe 2011 Tour de France was the 98th edition of the race. It started on 2 July at the Passage du Gois and ended on the Champs-Élysées in Paris on 24 July. The cyclists competed in 21 stages over 23 days, covering a distance of 3,430.5 kilometres (2,131.6 mi).[1] The route entered Italy for part of two stages. The emphasis of the route was on the Alps, commemorating the 100th anniversary of the mountain range first being visited in the Tour. Cadel Evans of the BMC Racing Team won the overall general classification. Andy Schleck of Leopard Trek was second, with his brother and teammate Fränk third.
The general classification leader's yellow jersey was worn first by Philippe Gilbert of Omega Pharma–Lotto, who won the opening stage. In the following stage, Garmin–Cervélo's victory in the team time trial put their rider Thor Hushovd into the overall lead. He held the yellow jersey until the end of the ninth stage when it was taken by Thomas Voeckler (Team Europcar), who went on to hold it throughout the stages in the Pyrenees and up until the end of the final Alpine stage. Andy Schleck, who had won the previous stage (the 18th), held it for the following individual time trial; Evans took enough time in this stage to take the yellow jersey. He then held the lead into the finish in Paris.
The race saw Yohann Gène become the first black rider in the history of the Tour.[2] Evans became the first Australian to win the Tour, and the second non-European to have officially done so. At 34, he was also the oldest post-World War II winner being almost a year older than Joop Zoetemelk was when he won the 1980 edition. HTC–Highroad's Mark Cavendish was the first British winner of the points classification, Samuel Sánchez (Euskaltel–Euskadi) won the mountains classification and Pierre Rolland of Team Europcar won the young rider classification. The team classification was won by Garmin–Cervélo and the overall super-combativity award was given to Jérémy Roy (FDJ).
- ^ "Tour de France 2011 – The Tour 2011". Tour de France. Amaury Sport Organisation. Archived from the original on 1 August 2011. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
- ^ "Meet Yohann Gène, the First Black Cyclist Ever in the Tour de France". Time. 9 July 2011. Archived from the original on 11 July 2011.
Cadel Evans
Australian road bicycle racer
Cadel Lee Evans AM (/kəˈdɛl/;[3] born 14 February 1977) is an Australian former professional racing cyclist who competed professionally in both mountain biking and road bicycle racing. A four-time Olympian,[4] Evans is one of three non-Europeans – along with Greg LeMond and Egan Bernal – to have won the Tour de France, winning the race in 2011.
Early in his career, he was a champion mountain biker, winning the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup in 1998 and 1999 and placing seventh in the men's cross-country mountain bike race at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. Evans is a four-time Olympian. Evans turned to full-time road cycling in 2001, and gradually progressed through the ranks. He finished second in the Tour de France in 2007 and 2008. Both of these 2nd place finishes are in the top 10 of the closest Tours in history. He became the first Australian to win the UCI ProTour (2007) and the UCI Road World Championships in 2009.
After finishing outside the top twenty in 2009 and 2010, Evans became the first Australian rider to win the Tour de France in 2011, riding for the BMC Racing Team.[5] He took the race lead on the penultimate day, after completing a 42.5-kilometre (26.4-mile) individual time trial some two-and-a-half minutes quicker than his closest rivals, Andy Schleck and Fränk Schleck.[6] At age 34, he was among the five oldest winners in the race's history. He also made the podium in the 2009 Vuelta a España and the 2013 Giro d'Italia.
Evans retired on 1 February 2015, after completing a race named in his honour.[7]
- ^ Evans, Cadel. "About Cadel". Official site. Cadel Evans. Archived from the original on 15 May 2010. Retrieved 7 May 2011.
- ^ a b "profile Cadel Evans". Archived from the original on 27 December 2013. Retrieved 26 December 2013.
- ^ "Cadel Evans". The Name Engine.
- ^ "Australian Olympic Committee". Cadel Evans. Retrieved 6 February 2015.
- ^ Matt Price (2 August 2011). "Will Cadel Evans finally win the Tour?". BigPond sport. Archived from the original on 5 September 2011.
- ^ "Evans blows Schleck away in final TT and takes yellow to Paris". Cycling Weekly. IPC Media. 23 July 2011. Retrieved 27 November 2020.
- ^ "Cadel Evans competes in final competitive race before retirement". Sky Sports. 1 February 2015.
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