Nicholas Dlamini

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Nicholas Dlamini
2018 Tour of Britain stage 8 - King of the Mountains Nick Dlamini.JPG
Dlamini at the 2018 Tour of Britain, where he won the mountains classification
Personal information
Born (1995-08-12) 12 August 1995 (age 29)
Cape Town, South Africa
Height1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight66 kg (146 lb)
Team information
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Amateur teams
2016–2017 Dimension Data for Qhubeka
2017 Team Dimension Data (stagiaire)
Professional teams
2018–2021 Team Dimension Data [1] [2] [3]
2022 Team Qhubeka

Nicholas Dlamini (born 12 August 1995) is a South African cyclist, who most recently rode for UCI Continental team Q36.5 Continental Team.

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Career

Growing up in Capricorn Park, Cape Town, Dlamini's first sport was running, which he took up in 2009 along with his twin sister Nikita. In 2011 he took up cycling, initially alongside his running career. He pursued his development at the World Cycling Centre. Dlamini turned professional in 2018: at that year's Tour Down Under, the first UCI World Tour race of his career, he won the King of the Mountains jersey, becoming the first black South African to win a major classification in a World Tour race. [4] In August 2019, he was named in the startlist for the 2019 Vuelta a España. [5]

On 27 December 2019, Dlamini was assaulted by rangers at the Table Mountain National Park where he was training and suffered a broken arm during an altercation. [6]

He was selected to represent South Africa at the 2020 Summer Olympics. [7] He rode in the 2021 Tour de France, becoming the first black South African cyclist to ride the Tour, but was eliminated after finishing outside the time limit on the ninth stage. [8]

Personal life

He is an ambassador for the Elton John AIDS Foundation. [9]

Major results

2013
African Junior Road Championships
1st Gold medal africa.svg Team time trial
10th Road race
2014
1st Cape Rouleur [9]
2015
KZN Autumn Series
1st Mayday Classic
3rd PMB Road Classic
African Road Championships
2nd Silver medal africa.svg Team time trial
7th Under-23 road race
2nd Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships
2016
9th Piccolo Giro di Lombardia
2017
1st Jersey green.svg Mountains classification, Giro Ciclistico d'Italia
2nd Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships
5th Overall Tour de Hongrie
6th Gran Premio Industrie del Marmo
2018
1st Jersey blackdots.png Mountains classification, Tour Down Under
1st Jersey black.svg Mountains classification, Tour of Britain
2019
5th Road race, National Road Championships
2021
3rd Road race, National Road Championships

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 201920202021
Jersey pink.svg Giro d'Italia ———
Jersey yellow.svg Tour de France —— DNF
Jersey red.svg Vuelta a España 107 DNF —
Legend
—Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

Notes

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    2. ↑ "NTT Pro Cycling Team". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 3 January 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
    3. ↑ "Team Qhubeka Assos". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 2 January 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
    4. ↑ Muller, Antoinette (7 September 2018). "Nic Dlamini: Capricorn King of the Mountains". Daily Maverick . Retrieved 29 June 2021.
    5. ↑ "2019: 74th La Vuelta ciclista a España". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 23 August 2019.
    6. ↑ Mabuza, Ernest (27 December 2019). "Top SA cyclist Nic Dlamini suffers broken arm in permit dispute with Table Mountain park rangers". The Times . Tiso Blackstar Group . Retrieved 3 January 2020.
    7. ↑ "Cyclist Nic Dlamini makes SA Olympic team". SowetanLIVE. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
    8. ↑ "From gangs and guns to Tour de France for South Africa's Dlamini". france24.com . 27 June 2021. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
    9. 1 2 Collins, Farren (28 November 2016). "Nic likely to score historic Tour de France ride". TimesLIVE . Retrieved 29 June 2021.
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