Greg Henderson

Road   1996 National Champion in the time trial 2009 Vuelta a España stage train   2004 World Champion Scratch

Gregory Henderson ( born September 10, 1976 in Dunedin ) is a New Zealand racing cyclist. It runs both on the road and on the track. He was a total of seventeen times New Zealand champion and he was elected three times to the athlete of the year.

Train

1999 Greg Henderson won his first two World Cups in the team pursuit. A year later, and in the following two years he won two World Cups for again. In 2002 he won then also the points race of the Commonwealth Games after 1998, he was third in the same discipline. In the web - Cycling World Championships 2003 he gets together with his compatriot Hayden Roulston the silver medal in Madison. He celebrated his biggest success then in 2004 when he became world champion in Scratch. He managed not to defend this title, but he was runner-up in the subsequent discharge. At the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, he just missed a medal. In the points race, he finished fourth and seventh in Madison.

Road

1996 Henderson was New Zealand time trial champion. He made it though all the years repeatedly stages at the Tour of Southland, the Tour of Wellington or the Tour de Toona to win, but he recorded in 2005 at the Wachovia Invitational his first major success. He was also the fourth time New Zealand Criterium Champion. The UCI Oceania Tour 2006 Henderson finished in eighth place and at the Commonwealth Games, he finished sixth in the road race. In the summer he was able to win two of the three Philadelphia Triple Crown races. Despite this, the overall went to Sergey Lagutin. Also in 2006, Henderson was able to achieve his hitherto greatest success of his career in which he won the Philadelphia International Championship.

In 2007, he went for the German T- Mobile team at the start and was also adopted in the follow- Team Team High Road 2008. In 2009 he was able to record the most biggest success of his career when he won a stage of the Vuelta a España. Since the 2010 season, he rides for Team Sky in his home country.

Private

Greg Henderson is married to the Australian cyclist Katie Mactier. He lives in Girona.

Achievements

Road

1996

  • New Zealand Champion - Individual Time Trial
  • Two stages of the Tour of Wellington
  • A stage Tour of Wellington
  • Tour of Ohio
  • Jayco Bay Cycling Classic, a stage
  • A stage Gateway Cup
  • A stage in the Tour of Southland
  • Tour of Botany
  • Three stages Tour of Southland
  • Wachovia Invitational
  • Four stages of the Tour of Southland
  • Jayco Bay Cycling Classic, a stage
  • A stage Tour of Wellington
  • Reading Classic
  • Philadelphia International Championship
  • A stage in the Tour of Southland
  • Two stages of the Tour de Georgia
  • Clasica de Almeria
  • A stage of Vuelta a Murcia
  • A stage Tour of Catalonia
  • A stage in the Vuelta a España
  • Jayco Bay Cycling Classic, a stage
  • A stage of Paris-Nice
  • A stage Ster Elektrotoer
  • A stage of Eneco Tour
  • A stage in the Tour of Britain
  • A stage of Paris-Nice
  • A stage in the Tour of California

Placement in the Grand Tours

Train

  • 1st Commonwealth Games points race
  • National Champion at Madison ( with Anthony Chapman )
  • World Champion - Scratch
  • Oceanic Champion Scratch
  • Oceanic champion in the points race
  • Oceanic champion Madison
2002 Commonwealth Games Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics 2005–06 UCI Oceania Tour Cycling at the 2006 Commonwealth Games 2008 Tour de Georgia Volta a Catalunya 2010 Paris–Nice 2011 Paris–Nice General classification in the Giro d'Italia General classification in the Tour de France 2012 Tour de France UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's points race 2004 UCI Track Cycling World Championships UCI Track Cycling World Championships – Men's scratch Franco Marvulli Alex Rasmussen Ben Swift Martyn Irvine
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