Odd Christian Eiking

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Odd Christian Eiking
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Eiking at the 2018 Deutschland Tour
Personal information
Full nameOdd Christian Eiking
Born (1994-12-28) 28 December 1994 (age 30)
Stord, Norway
Height1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight75 kg (165 lb; 11.8 st)
Team information
Current team Unibet Tietema Rockets
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typePuncheur
Amateur team
2010–2013Bergen CK
Professional teams
2014–2015 Team Joker [1]
2016–2017 FDJ [2]
2018–2021 Wanty–Groupe Gobert [3] [4] [5]
2022–2023 EF Education–EasyPost [6] [7]
2024 Uno-X Mobility [8]
2025– Unibet Tietema Rockets

Odd Christian Eiking (born 28 December 1994) is a Norwegian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Unibet Tietema Rockets. [9]

Contents

Career

Born in Stord, Eiking was named in the startlist for the 2016 Vuelta a España. [10]

In August 2017, Eiking signed a contract with Wanty–Groupe Gobert and joined them ahead of the 2018 season. [11] In July 2019, he was named in the startlist for the Tour de France. [12]

At the 2021 Vuelta a España, Eiking was part of a 31-rider breakaway group on the tenth stage, [13] from which he was the highest-placed rider in the general classification, trailing race leader Primož Roglič (Team Jumbo–Visma) by just over nine minutes overnight. The group's advantage over the peloton reached over thirteen minutes at its maximum, with Eiking ultimately finishing almost eleven-and-a-half minutes clear of Roglič, to take the race leader's red jersey. He held the race lead until the final week, [14] ceding the jersey on stage 17, when he was dropped on the second of four categorised climbs to be ascented during the stage. [15] He lost 9' 23" by the end of the stage, dropping to eleventh overall, where he would ultimately finish in the general classification. [16] A few days after the race, Eiking signed a contract with the EF Education–EasyPost team for the 2022 season. [6]

Major results

Source: [17]

2013
10th Overall Tour de Berlin
2014
2nd Overall Giro della Valle d'Aosta
3rd Road race, National Road Championships
4th Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships
4th Hadeland GP
5th Ringerike GP
2015
1st MaillotNoruega.PNG Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships
1st Jersey white.svg Young rider classification, Tour of Norway
1st Stage 2 Giro della Valle d'Aosta
2nd Road race, National Road Championships
3rd Overall Peace Race U23
3rd Ringerike GP
5th Hadeland GP
6th Overall Arctic Race of Norway
2016
1st Stage 1 (TTT) La Méditerranéenne
4th Overall Tour of Norway
1st Jersey white.svg Young rider classification
5th Overall Arctic Race of Norway
2017
1st Boucles de l'Aulne
10th Classic Loire-Atlantique
2018
1st Stage 3 Tour de Wallonie
2nd Grand Prix La Marseillaise
8th Overall Tour of Oman
8th Paris–Chauny
2019
Arctic Race of Norway
1st Jersey Arctic Race Climber 2019.svg Mountains classification
1st Stage 3
3rd Ardèche Classic
3rd Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan
6th Overall Tour of Guangxi
8th Grand Prix de Wallonie
2021
2nd Overall Arctic Race of Norway
7th Clásica de San Sebastián
10th Overall Étoile de Bessèges
10th Grand Prix La Marseillaise
Vuelta a España
Held Jersey red.svg after Stages 10–16
2022
2nd Coppa Sabatini
2024
8th Grand Prix du Morbihan

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 201620172018201920202021202220232024
Jersey pink.svg Giro d'Italia Has not contested during his career
Jersey yellow.svg Tour de France ——— 111 ———— 34
Jersey red.svg Vuelta a España 77 DNF ——— 11 ———
Legend
—Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

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References

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  2. ↑ "FDJ: Odd Christian Eiking arrive en 2016" [FDJ: Odd Christian Eiking arrives in 2016]. L'Équipe (in French). 30 June 2015. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
  3. ↑ Almeida, Giampaolo (6 January 2019). "Wanty-Groupe Gobert, il rinnovo di Backaert completa il roster 2019" [Wanty-Groupe Gobert, the renewal of Backaert completes the 2019 roster]. SpazioCiclismo – Cyclingpro.net (in Italian). Gravatar. Retrieved 31 January 2019.
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  5. ↑ "Intermarché - Wanty - Gobert Matériaux". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 3 January 2021. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
  6. 1 2 "Eiking signs with EF Education-Nippo". Cyclingnews.com . Future plc. 8 September 2021. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
  7. ↑ "Odd Christian Eiking". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale . Retrieved 13 March 2022.
  8. ↑ "Uno-X Mobility". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale . Retrieved 14 January 2024.
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