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Full name | Daryl Impey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Johannesburg, South Africa | 6 December 1984||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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.
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]
Grand Tour | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
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Giro d'Italia | DNF | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Tour de France | 111 | 74 | — | DNF | 38 | 47 | 46 | 72 | 97 | — | — |
Vuelta a España | — | — | — | 84 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 101 |
— | Did not compete |
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DNF | Did not finish |
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