Tom Danielson
General Classification Tour de Georgia 2005 7 Vuelta a España 2005 Appreciation Appreciation Tour of Austria 2006 Stage win and 6 Vuelta a España 2006 Appreciation
Tom Danielson ( born March 13, 1978 in East Lyme, Connecticut) is an American professional road bicycle racer. He currently lives in Durango, Colorado.
Career
Tom Danielson was able to win as an amateur, the Tour of Qinghai Lake and the Tour de Langkawi. In 2004, he signed his first professional contract with Italian team Fassa Bortolo, but where he could barely put in scene. The following year he moved to Discovery Channel, the team of the then already six times Tour winner Lance Armstrong. Here he was able for the first time to draw attention to itself as a professional cyclist, as he was able to decide the overall standings of the Tour de Georgia in April of 2005 and in designated mountain riders like Levi Leipheimer and Floyd Landis referred to the courts. In the rest of the season he reached the seventh overall in the Vuelta a España and placed there his acquired skills both on hilly terrain, as well as in the time trial once again. In 2006, he secured the overall victory of the Tour of Austria. In the Vuelta he celebrated his biggest success when he won a difficult mountain stage through a successful breakaway. In addition, he finished at the end of the tour the sixth overall. As a result, Tom Danielson was many times already acted as a potential successor to Armstrong. However, he could this role in the subsequent years not do justice to said success he was not able. So only a 2nd place in the mountains classification at Paris- Nice 2007 is available to book. 2008 Tom Danielson joined the Professional Continental Team Slipstream - Chipotle, which has since the 2009 season under the name of Garmin - Slipstream a ProTour license. At the Giro d' Italia 2009 Danielson finished in 78th place overall. At its recent good performance in the Tour of Spain, he was able to build in 2010, when he showed consistent and good and the tour finished in ninth place.
2011 Danielson drove a strong season. He finished the star-studded Tour of California in third place, behind the RadioShack duo Chris Horner and Levi Leipheimer. Due to further good performances as the ninth overall at the Tour de Suisse appointed team manager Vaughters, other than originally planned, Danielson in the squad for the Tour de France. He was originally supposed to support Christian Vande Velde as a helper and Ryder Hesjedal. As both because of fall injuries on the first mountain stage lost much time, Danielson took over the captaincy and drove through consistent performances in the mountains in the top 10 overall. At the end of Danielson belegete in his Tour debut at the age of 33 years overall in ninth place and won with his team the team standings.
On 10 October 2012 Danielson has been banned for doping by the USADA for 6 months, as he has testified as a witness in the course of the investigation of his former teammate Lance Armstrong against this.
Achievements
- A stage and General Classification Tour de Georgia
- Seventh overall Vuelta a España
- A stage and second overall Tour de Georgia
- Appreciation Tour of Austria revoked
- A stage and sixth overall Vuelta a España
- Second in the mountains classification Paris-Nice
- A stage in the Vuelta a Burgos ( ECF )
- Ninth position overall Vuelta a España
- Third overall Tour of California
- Team time trial Tour de France
- Eighth in the General Classification Tour de France
- Third overall Tour of California
- Team time trial Tour of Utah
- A stage of USA Pro Cycling Challenge
- General Classification Tour of Utah
Rankings in the Grand Tours
DNF = Task