Vegard Stake Laengen

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Vegard Stake Laengen
La Louviere - Eurometropole Tour, etape 1, 2 octobre 2014, depart (B034).JPG
Laengen at the 2014 Tour de l'Eurométropole
Personal information
Full nameVegard Stake Laengen
Born (1989-02-07) 7 February 1989 (age 35)
Oslo, Norway
Height1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) [1]
Weight79 kg (174 lb; 12 st 6 lb) [1]
Team information
Current team UAE Team Emirates
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider type
  • Classics specialist
  • Time-trialist
Amateur team
2008Team 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
National Road Race Championships (2018)
Medal record
Representing Flag of Norway.svg  Norway
Men's road bicycle racing
European Road Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2011 Offida Under-23 time trial

Vegard Stake Laengen (born 7 February 1989) is a Norwegian professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam UAE Team Emirates. [6]

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Career

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

Laengen currently resides in Fredrikstad, Norway. [9] [10]

Major results

2009
10th Rogaland GP
2010
1st Jersey yellow.svg 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 Bronze medal europe.svg 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 Jersey whiteyellow.svg 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
Jersey red number.svg Combativity award Stage 6 Tour de France
2018 (1 pro win)
1st MaillotNoruega.PNG Road race, National Road Championships
10th Overall Tour of Slovenia
2021
2nd Trofeo Andratx–Mirador d'Es Colomer

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 201620172018201920202021202220232024
Jersey pink.svg Giro d'Italia 83 102 75
Jersey yellow.svg Tour de France 127 107 82 112 DNF 102
Jersey red.svg Vuelta a España 81 107
Legend
Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

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