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Thor Hushovd

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Hushovd at the 2011 Tour of California

Personal information
Full name Thor Hushovd
Nickname The God of Thunder
The Bull from Grimstad
Born
(1978-01-18) 18 January 1978 (age 40)
Grimstad, Norway
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 79 kg (174 lb)
Team information
Current team Retired
Discipline Road
Role Captain
Rider type Sprinter
Classic specialist
Professional team(s)
2000–2008 Crédit Agricole
2009–2010 Cervélo TestTeam
2011 Garmin–Cervélo
2012–2014 BMC Racing Team

Major wins

Grand Tours


Tour de France


Points classification (2005, 2009)

10 individual stages (2002, 2004, 2006–2011)

2 TTT stages (2005, 2011)




Giro d'Italia
1 individual stage (2007)



Vuelta a España


Points classification (2006)

3 individual stages (2005, 2006, 2010)




Single-day races and Classics




World Road Race Championships (2010)


National Road Race Championships
(2004, 2010, 2013)


National Time Trial Championships
(2002, 2004, 2005)


Gent–Wevelgem (2006)


Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (2009)






Hushovd (in yellow) at the 2011 Tour de France. Hushovd held the overall lead of the race from the second to the ninth stage of the race.




Hushovd at the 2006 Tour de France; his win in the prologue was one of two stage wins during the race.


Thor Hushovd (born 18 January 1978) is a Norwegian former professional road bicycle racer.[1] He is known for sprinting and time trialing; Hushovd is a three-time Norwegian national road race champion (2004, 2010, 2013),[2] and was the winner of the 2010 World Road Race Championships. He was the first Norwegian to lead the Tour de France, and first Scandinavian to win the road race in cycling world road championship. He is also the Scandinavian with the most stage wins in Grand Tours. He is widely considered the greatest Norwegian cyclist of all time. He retired in September 2014.[3]




Contents






  • 1 Career


    • 1.1 2009


    • 1.2 2010


    • 1.3 2011


    • 1.4 2012


    • 1.5 2013


    • 1.6 Retirement




  • 2 Personal life


  • 3 Career achievements


    • 3.1 Major results


    • 3.2 Grand Tour general classification results timeline


    • 3.3 Monuments results timeline




  • 4 References


  • 5 External links





Career


Born in Grimstad, Aust-Agder, Norway, Thor won the under-23 time trial world championship and the under-23 versions of Paris–Roubaix and Paris–Tours before turning professional in 1998. He was Norwegian time trial champion in 2004 and 2005 and road race champion in 2004 and 2010. In 2006, he won seven UCI ProTour races and two stages of the Tour de France. He won the prologue in Strasbourg and led after the first day despite a cut arm. He continued with stitches and regained the yellow jersey after stage 2 with a third place. He won the last stage, beating Robbie McEwen in a sprint, thus making him the only person to win the first stage or prologue and the last stage of the Tour de France in the same year. In the 2006 Vuelta a España he won stage 6, wore the golden jersey for three stages and won the points classification


At the 2008 Tour de France, Hushovd won stage 2 in a bunch finish.[4]



2009


In 2009, Hushovd rode for the Cervélo TestTeam.[5] He took one of the team's first victories of the season by winning Stage 3 of the Tour of California. At the Tour de France, he won green jersey for the points classification for the second time, ahead of Mark Cavendish. Typically the sprinter with the most stage victories wins the points classification, though Thor only won one stage, stage 6, while Cavendish won six. After a controversy on stage 14, where Cavendish was relegated to the back of the peloton for impeding Hushovd, Hushovd attacked alone on stage 17, a mountain stage, winning two intermediate sprints.[6][7] Hushovd won stage 3 at the Tour of Missouri – 114 mi (183 km) over rolling hills – in September 2009, in a sprint finish.



2010


On 9 May 2010, Hushovd broke his collarbone on a training ride after colliding with a young girl.[8] At the Tour de France, Hushovd won the third stage, which was an unusual one for the Tour since it featured 13 km (8.1 mi) of cobblestones. He prevailed in the sprint involving five other riders.[9] That victory netted him the Green jersey, but he ultimately lost it to Alessandro Petacchi of the Lampre–Farnese Vini team.


On 3 October 2010, Thor won the road world championship, which started in Melbourne and finished in Geelong, Australia. He was the first Norwegian to win the rainbow jersey.[10][11]VeloNews said: "Hushovd...dominated a bunch sprint at the end of a thrilling 267km race, beating Denmark’s Matti Breschel and Australia’s Allan Davis." The favorite, Philippe Gilbert, was caught with three kilometers to go.[12]



2011


During the 2011 Tour de France Hushovd claimed the Maillot Jaune and surprised many by keeping it through several hilly stages that were not expected to suit him and second placed Cadel Evans could not over turn the 1 second advantage that Hushovd held. Thor surprised his fans again on stage 13 by being one of the first riders over the Hors Categorie Col d'Aubisque and using his superior descending skills (he was clocked at 69 mph at one point) to catch and pass the leaders David Moncoutie and Jérémy Roy to take the stage. He used his descending skills again on stage 16 when he, Edvald Boasson Hagen and teammate Ryder Hesjedal went clear on the descent of the Col de Manse (a descent that overall runner up Andy Schleck deemed too dangerous for the tour) and beat Boasson Hagen in the final sprint to take his second stage of the tour.



2012


In 2012, Hushovd joined BMC Racing Team on a three-year contract.[13] Suffering from a then unknown medical condition, he had to abandon the Giro d'Italia and cancelled his scheduled participation to the Tour de France and Olympic road race.[14] The medical impairment was later identified as a "virus and muscle inflammation" by team doctors.[15] Thor hardly achieved any notable result in the season except fourteenth at Paris-Roubaix. In October, he said that he hoped to put the bad year and the virus that ruined it behind him and that he was optimistic and motivated about the 2013 season.[16]



2013


Hushovd earned his first win since the 2011 Tour of Britain with a sprint victory over Tom-Jelte Slagter of Blanco Pro Cycling on stage 1 of the Tour du Haut Var in February. It was also his first victory with BMC Racing Team.[17]



Retirement


In June 2014 Thor announced that he would retire after the 2014 UCI Road World Championships after struggling with Infectious mononucleosis since 2012.[18][19] However, after a hard crash suffered at the Tour du Poitou-Charentes, Hushovd said he would not participate in the World Championships.[20] His last race was the GP Impanis-Van Petegem in September.[3]


2015 Thor announced that he had started working on organizing an all-Norwegian UCI WorldTeam, with a plan to launch in the 2017 season to coincide with the hosting of the 2017 UCI Road World Championships in the Norwegian city of Bergen.[21]



Personal life


Thor currently resides in Monte Carlo, Monaco,[22][23] with his wife Susanne,[24] and their daughter Isabel (b. 2009).[25] The Hushovds also maintain an offseason residency in Grimstad, Aust-Agder, Norway.[26]



Career achievements



Major results




1998

1st Jersey rainbow chrono.svg Time trial, UCI Road World Under–23 Championships

1st Paris–Roubaix Espoirs

1st Paris–Tours Espoirs

2000

6th Time trial, Olympic Games

2001

1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Tour de Normandie
1st Jersey green.svg Points classification


1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Tour of Sweden

1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Paris–Corrèze

1st Stage 5 (TTT) Tour de France

2002

1st Stage 18 Tour de France

1st Stage 2 Tour de l'Ain

2003

1st Stage 2 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré

1st Stage 1 Vuelta a Castilla y León

2004

National Road Championships

1st MaillotNoruega.PNG Road race

1st MaillotNoruega.PNGTime trial



1st Overall French Road Cycling Cup

1st Stage 8 Tour de France

1st Stage 1 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré

1st Grand Prix de Denain

1st Classic Haribo

1st Tour de Vendée

2005

1st MaillotNoruega.PNG Time trial, National Road Championships

1st Jersey green.svg Points classification Tour de France


Volta a Catalunya

1st Jersey green.svg Points classification

1st Stage 7



1st Stage 5 Vuelta a España

1st Stage 2 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré

3rd Milan–San Remo

2006


Tour de France

1st Prologue & Stage 20

Held Jersey yellow.svg after Stage 1 & 3




Vuelta a España

1st Jersey blue.svg Points classification

1st Stage 6



1st Gent–Wevelgem

1st Stage 7 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré

1st Stage 4 Tirreno–Adriatico


Volta a Catalunya

1st Jersey green.svg Points classification

1st Stage 3



1st Jersey green.svg Points classification Four Days of Dunkirk

2007

1st Stage 4 Tour de France

1st Stage 7 Giro d'Italia

2008


Volta a Catalunya

1st Jersey green.svg Points classification

1st Prologue & Stage 1




Paris–Nice

1st Jersey green.svg Points classification

1st Prologue



1st Stage 2 Tour de France

1st Stage 1 Tour Méditerranéen

1st Stage 6 Four Days of Dunkirk

2009


Tour de France

1st Jersey green.svg Points classification

1st Stage 6


Jersey red number.svg Combativity award Stage 17




Tour of Missouri

1st Jersey green.svg Points classification

1st Stage 3




Volta a Catalunya
1st Stages 1 & 6


1st Omloop Het Nieuwsblad

1st Stage 3 Tour of California

1st Stage 4 Tour du Poitou Charentes et de la Vienne

3rd Paris–Roubaix

3rd Milan–San Remo

2010

1st Jersey rainbow.svg Road race, UCI Road World Championships

1st MaillotNoruega.PNG Road race, National Road Championships

1st Stage 3 Tour de France

1st Stage 6 Vuelta a España

2nd Paris–Roubaix

2011


Tour de France

1st Stages 2 (TTT), 13 & 16

Held Jersey yellow.svg from Stage 2–9



1st Stage 4 Tour de Suisse

1st Stage 4 Tour of Britain

8th Paris–Roubaix

2013

National Road Championships

1st MaillotNoruega.PNG Road race

2nd Time trial



1st Jersey blue.svg Overall Arctic Race of Norway

1st Jersey green.svg Points classification

1st Stages 2 & 4




Tour de Pologne
1st Stages 3 & 5


1st Stage 3 Tour of Austria

1st Stage 1 Tour of Beijing

4th Grand Prix d'Isbergues

5th Overall Tour du Haut Var
1st Stage 1


6th GP Ouest–France

8th Vattenfall Cyclassics

2014

9th Gent–Wevelgem




Grand Tour general classification results timeline







































































Grand Tour
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014

A pink jerseyGiro d'Italia







DNF





DNF



A yellow jerseyTour de France

DNF

112

118

104

116

120

138

96

106

111

68




A red jerseyVuelta a España





DNF

82




DNF






Monuments results timeline















































































































Monument
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014

Milan–San Remo


48

73



3

13


9

3

6

127


DNF

56

Tour of Flanders


46

81


38

31

14

60

27


57

53

55

DNF

90

Paris–Roubaix

63

DNF

33


17

9


43

DNF

3

2

8

14

35

19

Liège–Bastogne–Liège
















Giro di Lombardia











DNF

















Legend

Did not compete

DNF
Did not finish


References





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  8. ^ Hushovd sidelined with broken collarbone VeloNews.


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  11. ^ King Thor roars to Worlds victory CyclingNews.com. Retrieved 10 March 2010.


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  14. ^ "London 2012 Olympics: Thor Hushovd ruled out of Games". Daily Telegraph. 16 July 2012. Retrieved 21 July 2012.


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  17. ^ "Hushovd wins Tour du Haut Var opener". Cyclingnews. Future Publishing Limited. 16 February 2013. Retrieved 17 February 2013.


  18. ^ "Hushovd, winner of 10 Tour de France stages, quits". Yahoo! Sports. 27 June 2014. Retrieved 30 June 2014.


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  21. ^ "News shorts: Hushovd aiming to create Norwegian WorldTour team". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 25 July 2015. Retrieved 14 August 2015.


  22. ^ "Page not found - NBC Olympics".


  23. ^ Tingve, Pål Marius (3 June 2011). "Hushovd frustrert over Contador-avgjørelse".


  24. ^ Hushovd flytter til Monaco Archived 2 November 2013 at the Wayback Machine.


  25. ^ "A daughter for Hushovd - Cyclingnews.com".


  26. ^ "Sykkelfrue og hjelperytter - mamma". Archived from the original on 3 March 2014.




External links








  • Thor Hushovd at ProCyclingStats Edit this at Wikidata


  • Thor Hushovd at Cycling Archives


  • Thor Hushovd at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com Edit this at Wikidata









Awards
Preceded by
Petter Northug

Norwegian Sportsperson of the Year
2010
Succeeded by
Alexander Dale Oen












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