Daryl Impey

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Daryl Impey
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Impey at the 2014 Tour of Alberta
Personal information
Full nameDaryl Impey
Born (1984-12-06) 6 December 1984 (age 39)
Johannesburg, South Africa
Height1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight70 kg (154 lb; 11 st 0 lb)
Team information
Current teamRetired
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
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]
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
1 individual stage (2019)
1 TTT stage (2013)

Stage races

Tour of Turkey (2009)
Tour of Alberta (2014)
Tour Down Under (2018, 2019)

One-day races and Classics

National Road Race Championships
(2018, 2019)
National Time Trial Championships
(2011, 2013–2020)
Medal record
Representing Orica–GreenEDGE (2013)
Orica–BikeExchange (2016)
Men's road bicycle racing
World Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2013 Tuscany Team time trial
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2016 Doha Team time trial
Representing Flag of South Africa.svg  South Africa
Commonwealth Games
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2022 Birmingham Men's Road Race

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]

Contents

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

Impey wearing the yellow jersey at the 2013 Tour de France Daryl Impey TDF 2013.jpg
Impey wearing the yellow jersey at the 2013 Tour de France

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

2003
1st MaillotSudafrica.PNG Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships
2004
National Under-23 Road Championships
1st MaillotSudafrica.PNG Time trial
2nd Road race
1st Stage 5 Giro del Capo
6th Overall Tour de Tunisie
2006
African Road Championships
3rd Bronze medal africa.svg Time trial
4th Road race
2007
1st Gold medal blank.svg 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 MaillotCyan.PNG Overall Tour of Turkey
1st Jersey red.svg Points classification
1st Stage 4
2nd Road race, National Road Championships
3rd Giro del Capo II
7th Giro del Capo IV
2011
1st MaillotSudafrica.PNG 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 MaillotSudafrica.PNG Time trial, National Road Championships
Tour de France
1st Stage 4 (TTT)
Held Jersey yellow.svg after Stages 6–7
1st Stage 2 Tour of the Basque Country
1st Stage 2 Bayern–Rundfahrt
2nd Silver medal uci.svg Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships
5th Overall Eneco Tour
5th Vuelta a La Rioja
2014
National Road Championships
1st MaillotSudafrica.PNG Time trial
2nd Road race
1st Jersey yellow.svg 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 MaillotSudafrica.PNG Time trial
2nd Road race
2nd Vuelta a La Rioja
3rd 947 Cycle Challenge
6th Overall Tour des Fjords
6th Classic Sud-Ardèche
7th Overall Tour Down Under
1st Jersey red.svg Sprints classification
2016
1st MaillotSudafrica.PNG Time trial, National Road Championships
3rd Bronze medal uci.svg Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships
2017
1st MaillotSudafrica.PNG Time trial, National Road Championships
1st 947 Cycle Challenge
1st Stage 6 Volta a Catalunya
2018
National Road Championships
1st MaillotSudafrica.PNG Road race
1st MaillotSudafrica.PNG Time trial
1st Jersey orange.svg Overall Tour Down Under
Critérium du Dauphiné
1st Jersey green.svg Points classification
1st Stage 1
3rd Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
8th GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano
10th Brabantse Pijl
2019
National Road Championships
1st MaillotSudafrica.PNG Road race
1st MaillotSudafrica.PNG Time trial
1st Jersey orange.svg Overall Tour Down Under
1st Stage 4
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Czech Cycling Tour
1st Jersey green.svg Points classification
1st Stage 1 (TTT)
1st Stage 9 Tour de France
3rd Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
2020
National Road Championships
1st MaillotSudafrica.PNG Time trial
2nd Road race
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 Silver medal blank.svg Road race, Commonwealth Games

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 20122013201420152016201720182019202020212022
Jersey pink.svg Giro d'Italia DNF
Jersey yellow.svg Tour de France 111 74 DNF 38 47 46 72 97
Jersey red.svg Vuelta a España 84 101
Legend
Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

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