Vegard Stake Laengen
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.JPG) Laengen at the 2014 Tour de l'Eurométropole | |||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Vegard Stake Laengen | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 7 February 1989 Oslo, Norway | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 79 kg (174 lb; 12 st 6 lb)[1] | ||||||||||||||
| Team information | |||||||||||||||
| Current team | UAE Team Emirates | ||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
| Rider type |
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| Amateur team | |||||||||||||||
| 2008 | Team Trek Adecco | ||||||||||||||
| Professional teams | |||||||||||||||
| 2009–2011 | Joker–Bianchi | ||||||||||||||
| 2012 | Team Type 1–Sanofi | ||||||||||||||
| 2013–2014 | Bretagne–Séché Environnement[2] | ||||||||||||||
| 2015 | Team Joker[3] | ||||||||||||||
| 2016 | IAM Cycling | ||||||||||||||
| 2017– | UAE Abu Dhabi[4][5] | ||||||||||||||
| Major wins | |||||||||||||||
| One-day races and Classics | |||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Vegard Stake Laengen (born 7 February 1989) is a Norwegian professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam UAE Team Emirates.[6]
Career
[edit]Born in Oslo, Laengen competed for Norway at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics.[7] In August 2015 Team Joker confirmed that Laengen would be leaving the team to join IAM Cycling for 2016.[8] He has competed in ten Grand Tours in his career. In 2018, he was crowned the Norwegian national road race champion.
Personal life
[edit]Laengen currently resides in Fredrikstad, Norway.[9][10]
Major results
[edit]- 2009
- 10th Rogaland GP
- 2010
- 1st
Overall Giro della Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia - 4th Road race, National Road Championships
- 9th Overall Tour Alsace
- 2011
- National Road Championships
- 2nd Road race
- 4th Time trial
- 3rd
Time trial, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships - 3rd Overall Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux
- 4th Overall Tour de l'Avenir
- 5th Overall Tour Alsace
- 7th Ronde van Vlaanderen Beloften
- 2012
- 1st Stage 5 Tour de Beauce
- 5th Road race, National Road Championships
- 2013
- 2nd Overall Kreiz Breizh Elites
- 3rd Tour du Doubs
- 2014
- 9th Boucles de l'Aulne
- 2015
- 1st
Overall Tour Alsace
- 1st Stage 3
- 2nd Overall Ronde de l'Oise
- 1st Stage 3
- 2nd Chrono Champenois
- National Road Championships
- 3rd Road race
- 4th Time trial
- 3rd Hadeland GP
- 4th Ringerike GP
- 2016
- 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
- 2017
- 6th Overall Tour of California
- 8th Gran Premio di Lugano
- 9th Overall Colorado Classic
Combativity award Stage 6 Tour de France- 2018 (1 pro win)
- 1st
Road race, National Road Championships - 10th Overall Tour of Slovenia
- 2021
- 2nd Trofeo Andratx–Mirador d'Es Colomer
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
[edit]| Grand Tour | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Giro d'Italia
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83 | — | 102 | — | — | — | — | — | 75 |
 Tour de France
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— | 127 | — | 107 | 82 | 112 | DNF | 102 | |
 Vuelta a España
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81 | — | 107 | — | — | — | — |
| — | Did not compete |
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| DNF | Did not finish |
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Vegard Stake Laengen - UAE team Emirates". Retrieved 4 July 2019.
- ^ "Bretagne – Seche Environnement (BSE) – FRA". UCI Continental Circuits. Aigle, Vaud: Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
- ^ Wedervang, Mads (28 October 2014). "Stake Laengen klar for hardtsatsende Joker". TV 2 (in Norwegian). TV 2 Group. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
- ^ "UAE Team Emirates". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. Archived from the original on 6 January 2019. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
- ^ "UAE Team Emirates complete 2020 roster with re-signing of former world champion Rui Costa". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 8 October 2019. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
- ^ "UAE Team Emirates". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 2 January 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
- ^ "Vegard Stake Laengen Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
- ^ "News shorts: Vuillermoz wins Rio Olympics test event". cyclingnews.com. 17 August 2015. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
- ^ "Vegard Stake Laengen at Bretagne-Séché Environnement". Bretagne–Séché Environnement. Rennes, Brittany: Emmanuel Hubert. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
- ^ "Vegard Stake Laengen at Sports Reference". Sports Reference. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Sports Reference, LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Vegard Stake Laengen.
- Vegard Stake Laengen at UCI
- Vegard Stake Laengen at Cycling Archives (archive)
- Vegard Stake Laengen at ProCyclingStats
- Vegard Stake Laengen at CQ Ranking
- Vegard Stake Laengen at CycleBase
- Vegard Stake Laengen at Olympedia
- Vegard Stake Laengen at Olympics.com
- Vegard Stake Laengen at Bretagne-Séché Environnement
- Vegard Stake Laengen at Cycling Base
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