Daryl Impey
 Impey at the 2014 Tour of Alberta | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Daryl Impey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 6 December 1984 Johannesburg, South Africa | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 70 kg (154 lb; 11 st 0 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Retired | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | All-rounder Super-domestique[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Professional teams | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2008–2009 | Barloworld | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2010 | Team RadioShack | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2011 | MTN–Qhubeka | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2011 | Team NetApp | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2012–2020 | GreenEDGE[2][3] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2021–2023 | Israel Start-Up Nation[4] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Daryl Impey (born 6 December 1984) is a South African former professional road cyclist, who competed as a professional from 2008 to 2023. Impey is an all-rounder; he generally comes to the fore on tough uphill sprints.[5][6]
Impey is a two-time winner of the Tour Down Under, and the only rider to have won the race in consecutive years, winning in 2018,[7] and 2019. He has won the South African National Road Race Championships twice, and is a nine-time winner of the South African National Time Trial Championships, including eight consecutive titles between 2013 and 2020. In 2013, Impey became the first African rider to wear the yellow jersey at the Tour de France, doing so for two days; six years later, he won his first individual stage at the race, winning the ninth stage in Brioude.
Career
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After riding for the South African team Barloworld in 2008 and 2009, in 2010 Impey joined Team RadioShack.[8] Impey had originally signed for 2011 with the Australian team called Pegasus, but was forced to seek employment elsewhere after that team failed to secure a UCI license.[9] After riding for MTN–Qhubeka and Team NetApp in 2011, Impey joined GreenEDGE for the squad's inaugural season in 2012.[10] He won a stage of the Tour of the Basque Country in April of that year, before making his Grand Tour debut at the Giro d'Italia in May.[11] In 2013, he became the first South African ever to lead the Tour de France.[12]
He won the Tour of Alberta in 2014 by a single second thanks to his victory in the last stage, which gave him enough bonus seconds to overtake Tom Dumoulin.[13] Impey confirmed his good form a couple of days later by taking the fourth place on the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec.[14]
In 2015, Impey had to abandon the Tour de France after being involved in a massive crash on the third stage.[15] He was named in the start list for the 2015 Vuelta a España.[16]
In August 2020, it was announced that Impey was to join Israel Start-Up Nation from the 2021 season – alongside his former Barloworld teammate Chris Froome – on a two-year contract.[4]
Major results
[edit]- 2003
- 1st
Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships - 2004
- National Under-23 Road Championships
- 1st Time trial
- 2nd Road race
- 1st
- 1st Stage 5 Giro del Capo
- 6th Overall Tour de Tunisie
- 2006
- African Road Championships
- 3rd
Time trial - 4th Road race
- 3rd
- 2007
- 1st
Road race, All-Africa Games - Giro del Capo
- 1st Points classification
- 1st Prologue & Stage 2
- 1st Stage 10 Tour du Maroc
- 2008
- 1st Stage 6 Herald Sun Tour
- 6th Memorial Viviana Manservisi
- 9th World's View Challenge 1
- 9th World's View Challenge 2
- 2009
- 1st
Overall Tour of Turkey
- 1st
Points classification - 1st Stage 4
- 1st
- 2nd Road race, National Road Championships
- 3rd Giro del Capo II
- 7th Giro del Capo IV
- 2011
- 1st Time trial, National Road Championships
- 2nd Overall Tour du Maroc
- 1st Stage 7
- 3rd Overall Tour of South Africa
- 9th Overall Tour of Azerbaijan (Iran)
- 2012
- 1st Stage 2 Tour of the Basque Country
- 1st Stage 2 Tour of Slovenia
- 2013
- 1st Time trial, National Road Championships
- Tour de France
- 1st Stage 4 (TTT)
- Held
after Stages 6–7
- 1st Stage 2 Tour of the Basque Country
- 1st Stage 2 Bayern–Rundfahrt
- 2nd
Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships - 5th Overall Eneco Tour
- 5th Vuelta a La Rioja
- 2014
- National Road Championships
- 1st Time trial
- 2nd Road race
- 1st
- 1st Overall Tour of Alberta
- 1st Stage 5
- 4th Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec
- 7th Overall Bayern–Rundfahrt
- 1st Stage 3
- 7th Overall Tour Down Under
- 2015
- National Road Championships
- 1st Time trial
- 2nd Road race
- 1st
- 2nd Vuelta a La Rioja
- 3rd 947 Cycle Challenge
- 6th Overall Tour des Fjords
- 6th Classic Sud-Ardèche
- 7th Overall Tour Down Under
- 1st Sprints classification
- 1st
- 2016
- 1st Time trial, National Road Championships
- 3rd
Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships - 2017
- 1st Time trial, National Road Championships
- 1st 947 Cycle Challenge
- 1st Stage 6 Volta a Catalunya
- 2018
- National Road Championships
- 1st Road race
- 1st Time trial
- 1st
- 1st
Overall Tour Down Under - Critérium du Dauphiné
- 1st
Points classification - 1st Stage 1
- 1st
- 3rd Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
- 8th GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano
- 10th Brabantse Pijl
- 2019
- National Road Championships
- 1st Road race
- 1st Time trial
- 1st
- 1st Overall Tour Down Under
- 1st Stage 4
- 1st Overall Czech Cycling Tour
- 1st Points classification
- 1st Stage 1 (TTT)
- 1st
- 1st Stage 9 Tour de France
- 3rd Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
- 2020
- National Road Championships
- 1st Time trial
- 2nd Road race
- 1st
- 3rd Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
- 6th Overall Tour Down Under
- 2021
- 2nd La Drôme Classic
- 2022
- 1st Stage 4 Tour de Suisse
- 2nd
Road race, Commonwealth Games
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
[edit]| Grand Tour | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
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 Giro d'Italia
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DNF | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
 Tour de France
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111 | 74 | — | DNF | 38 | 47 | 46 | 72 | 97 | — | — |
 Vuelta a España
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— | — | — | 84 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 101 |
| — | Did not compete |
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| DNF | Did not finish |
References
[edit]- ^ Puddicombe, Stephen (21 July 2016). "Super-domestiques: Five unsung heroes of the Tour de France". Cycling Weekly.
- ^ "Mitchelton-Scott finalise 25-rider roster for 2019". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 15 November 2018. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
- ^ "Wins from January to October: Mitchelton-Scott men confirm roster and goals for 2020". Mitchelton–Scott. New Global Cycling Services. 11 December 2019. Archived from the original on 2 January 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
- ^ a b Benson, Daniel (5 August 2020). "Impey joins Chris Froome at Israel Start-Up Nation as Tour de France road captain". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
- ^ "ORICA GreenEDGE Cycling Australia : News : In His Own Words: Daryl Impey on Tour of Oman Stage 4". Orica GreenEdge Cycling Australia. Archived from the original on 23 January 2018. Retrieved 24 January 2015.
- ^ "CyclingQuotes.com Bonus seconds a goal for Impey". cyclingquotes.com.
- ^ "Daryl Impey wins Santos Tour Down Under, Andre Greipel claims final stage". CyclingTips. 21 January 2018. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
- ^ "Impey joins Armstrong at RadioShack". Cyclingnews.com. 22 September 2009.
- ^ "Impey and Van Goolen find new teams". Velonation.com. 25 January 2011.
- ^ "GreenEdge adds Impey, Meier". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. 11 October 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
- ^ Decaluwe, Brecht (23 April 2012). "Goss spearheads GreenEDGE at Giro". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. Retrieved 12 May 2012.
- ^ becomes first South African in yellow jersey Archived 4 January 2019 at the Wayback Machine, cyclingnews.com
- ^ Pat Malach (7 September 2014). "Impey wins Tour of Alberta". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 11 September 2014.
- ^ "Gerrans wins Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 12 September 2014. Retrieved 12 September 2014.
- ^ O'Shea, Sadhbh (6 July 2015). "Disastrous day for Orica-GreenEdge at Tour de France". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
- ^ "Vuelta a España 2015". Cycling Fever. Retrieved 21 August 2015.
External links
[edit]
- Official website
- Daryl Impey at UCI
- Daryl Impey at Cycling Archives
- Daryl Impey at ProCyclingStats
- Daryl Impey at Cycling Quotient
- Daryl Impey at CycleBase
- 1984 births
- Living people
- Cyclists from Johannesburg
- South African male cyclists
- South African Tour de France stage winners
- Cyclists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic cyclists for South Africa
- Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey winners
- Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey stage winners
- African Games gold medalists for South Africa
- African Games medalists in cycling
- Competitors at the 2007 All-Africa Games
- White South African people
- Tour de Suisse stage winners
- Commonwealth Games silver medallists for South Africa
- Commonwealth Games medallists in cycling
- Cyclists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games
- South African expatriate sportspeople in Germany