Ryder Hesjedal
Ryder Hesjedal ( born December 9, 1980 in Victoria, British Columbia) is a Canadian racing driver.
Career
Ryder Hesjedal began his cycling career as a very successful mountain bikers. He was Vice Junior World Champion 1998 U23 Vizeweltmesiter in 2001 and third in 2002 and runner-up in the men's 2003.
In 2002 and 2003 he was already in the junior team of road cycling team Rabobank under contract. In 2004 he became a professional road cycling and moved permanently to the road. He got a place in the U.S. Postal team of Lance Armstrong. In 2006, he joined the Swiss team Phonak. He drove his best result to date in a Tour of Catalonia in 2006, where he was a good fourth of a stage and the overall classification.
In 2008 he moved to the U.S. team Garmin - Slipstream. In his second year he was able to retract his first victory for the team. He won the 12th stage of the Vuelta a Espana in 2009 as an outlier.
2010 saw Hesjedal been the strongest year of his career. In the spring he won a stage of the Tour of California and was second in the Amstel Gold Race, when he was only the Belgian Philippe Gilbert was beaten. At the Tour de France he took over after the fall of etamäßigen captain Christian Vande Velde, this role and achieved a surprisingly good seventh place overall. In the autumn he again showed good performance in the newly introduced UCI ProTour race in his Canadian homeland, the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec and Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal, and finished this fourth or third parties.
In 2012 he succeeded the overall victory at the Giro d' Italia. After losing the pink jersey twice to Joaquim Rodriguez, he could be saved in the final time trial in Milan and thus win the first Canadian to a Grand Tour.
After the due doping offenses already punished Michael Rasmussen in a book stated that he had been instructed in 2003 Hesjedal in the use of EPO in the year, admitted Hesjedal end of October 2013, a publicly that he had used EPO in 2003 as doping. The Canadian Anti-Doping Agency CCES advisers indicated that Hejedal had admitted in the spring of 2013, before the accusation by Rasmussen, opposite the CCES and the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency USADA and cooperates with these institutions. The CCES however, expressed disappointment that Hesjedal took off the confession only ten years after the offense. A lock Hesjedal had no fear, because the granted Dopinggebaruch of 2003 was outside the eight-year statute of limitations of the WADA Code.
Achievements
- Canada Canadian Champion - Individual Time Trial
- A stage in the Vuelta a España
- A stage in the Tour of California
- Team time trial Tour de France
- Appreciation and team time trial Giro d' Italia
Grand Tours- Appreciation
Team
- 2002 Rabobank TT3
- 2003 Rabobank TT3
- 2004 U.S. Postal Service - Berry Floor
- 2005 Discovery Channel
- 2006 Phonak
- 2007 Health Net - Maxxis
- 2008 Garmin - Chipotle
- 2009 Garmin - Slipstream
- 2010 Garmin -Transitions
- 2011 Team Garmin - Cervélo
- 2012 Garmin - Barracuda
- 2013 Garmin -Sharp