Robert Hunter (cyclist)

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Robert Hunter

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Hunter at the 2010 Tour de Romandie
Personal information
Full name Robert Hunter
Nickname Robbie [1]
Born (1977-04-22) 22 April 1977 (age 41)
Johannesburg, Gauteng,
South Africa
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 72 kg (159 lb)
Team information
Current team EF Education First–Drapac p/b Cannondale
Discipline Road
Role Rider (retired)
Directeur sportif
Rider type Sprinter
Professional team(s)
1999–2001 Lampre–Daikin
2002 Mapei–Quick-Step
2003–2004 Rabobank
2005–2006 Phonak
2007–2009 Barloworld
2010 Garmin–Transitions
2011 Team RadioShack
2012–2013 Garmin–Barracuda
Managerial team(s)
2014–2015 Garmin–Sharp
Major wins

Grand Tours

Tour de France
1 individual stage (2007)
Giro d'Italia
1 TTT (2012)
Vuelta a España
2 individual stages (1999, 2001)

One-Day races and Classics

National Time Trial Championships (2000)
National Road Race Championships (2012)

Robert "Robbie" Hunter (born 22 April 1977) is a retired South African professional road racing cyclist who competed professionally between 1999 and 2013. Hunter competed with UCI ProTeam Garmin–Sharp during his final professional season. [1] [2]

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Career

Hunter became the first South African to compete in the Tour de France, when he did so in 2001. [3] In 2006, Hunter rode for Phonak in the UCI ProTour, but after their disbandment he signed for UCI Continental Circuits side Barloworld for 2007. His achievements include winning stages at the 1999 and 2001 Vuelta a Españas, the 2007 Tour de France, and the overall title at the 2004 Tour of Qatar, as well as the points classification at the 2004 Tour de Suisse.

Tour de France Cycling competition

The Tour de France is an annual men's multiple stage bicycle race primarily held in France, while also occasionally passing through nearby countries. Like the other Grand Tours, it consists of 21 day-long stages over the course of 23 days.

2001 Tour de France

The 2001 Tour de France was a multiple-stage bicycle race held from 7 to 29 July, and the 88th edition of the Tour de France. It has no overall winner—although American cyclist Lance Armstrong originally won the event, the United States Anti-Doping Agency announced in August 2012 that they had disqualified Armstrong from all his results since 1998, including his seven Tour de France wins from 1999 to 2005. The verdict was subsequently confirmed by the Union Cycliste Internationale.

Phonak was a Swiss professional cycling team from 2000 until 2006. The team was one of 20 teams in the first UCI ProTour in 2005. It won one race - Santiago Botero's victory in the Tour de Romandie - and came second in the team ranking on the 2005 ProTour circuit.

In 2007, Hunter returned to the Tour de France as team captain of Barloworld. Hunter subsequently won sprint stage 11, which was the first stage won by a South African.

Barloworld (cycling team) cycling team

Barloworld was a UCI Professional Continental cycling team that competed between 2003 and 2009. Its sponsor company was South African and the team maintained a South African identity, but it was first registered in Italy and then, from 2007, in Great Britain.

In 2008, Hunter was allowed by the Tour de France's doping controllers to fly to Switzerland on 4 July, the day before the start, to be at his wife Claudia's side for the birth of his daughter, Mandy Inga Hunter. [4]

Switzerland federal republic in Western Europe

Switzerland, officially the Swiss Confederation, is a country situated in western, central and southern Europe. It consists of 26 cantons, and the city of Bern is the seat of the federal authorities. The sovereign state is a federal republic bordered by Italy to the south, France to the west, Germany to the north, and Austria and Liechtenstein to the east. Switzerland is a landlocked country geographically divided between the Alps, the Swiss Plateau and the Jura, spanning a total area of 41,285 km2 (15,940 sq mi). While the Alps occupy the greater part of the territory, the Swiss population of approximately 8.5 million people is concentrated mostly on the plateau, where the largest cities are to be found: among them are the two global cities and economic centres Zürich and Geneva.

Following the 2013 season, Hunter announced his retirement from professional cycling. [5] [6] Hunter was a directeur sportif for Garmin–Sharp in 2014 and 2015. In November 2015 he announced that he was leaving the team in order to spend more time with his family and concentrate on his role as a rider agent for a number of African cyclists, including Louis Meintjes. [7]

A directeur sportif is a person directing a cycling team during a road bicycle racing event. It is seen as the equivalent to a field manager in baseball, or a head coach in football. At professional level, a directeur sportif follows the team in a car and communicates with riders, personnel and race officials by radio.

Louis Meintjes South African cyclist

Louis Meintjes is a South African cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Team Dimension Data. He won the South African National Road Race Championships in 2014, and has finished 8th overall in the Tour de France, on 2 occasions in 2016 and 2017. He has also finished 10th overall at the 2015 Vuelta a España.

Personal life

Hunter resides in Arth, Schwyz, Switzerland. [1]

Career achievements

Major results

Sources: [1] [8] [9]

1999
1st, Stage 1, Vuelta a España
2000
1st, MaillotSudafrica.PNG National Time Trial Championships
2nd, Overall, Ronde van Nederland
1st, Stages 3 & 4
3rd, Overall, Four Days of Dunkirk
3rd, Memorial Rik Van Steenbergen
2001
1st, Tour de Rijke
1st, Stage 17, Vuelta a España
9th, Overall, Ronde van Nederland
2002
1st, Stage 1, Tour de Pologne
2nd, Overall, Tour de Langkawi
1st, Jersey green.svg Points classification
1st, Stages 1, 2 & 5
2nd, Grote Prijs Jef Scherens
5th, Overall, Three Days of De Panne
6th, Gent–Wevelgem
2003
4th, Tour de Picardie
2004
Tour de Suisse
1st, Jersey green.svg Points classification
1st, Stages 3 & 5
1st, Overall, Jersey yellow.svg Tour of Qatar
1st, Stages 3 & 5
1st, Stage 4, Sachsen-Tour
2005
1st, Stage 1 (TTT), Volta a Catalunya
1st, Stage 1 Tour de Georgia
1st, Stage 4, Setmana Catalana
1st, Stage 5, Tour Méditerranéen
8th, Trofeo Luis Puig
2006
4th, Overall, Tour of Qatar
2007
1st, Overall, Jersey yellow.svg Volta ao Distrito de Santarém
1st, Stage 2
1st, Overall, Jersey yellow.svg Tour de Picardie
1st, Stage 1
1st, Stage 2, Clasica Alcobendas
1st Stage 5, Giro del Capo
1st, Stage 11, Tour de France
3rd, Coppa Bernocchi
10th, Grand Prix Pino Cerami
10th, Milan-San Remo
2008
1st, Stage 4, GP CTT Correios de Portugal
1st, Cape Argus Cycle Tour
8th, Giro della Provincia di Grosseto
2009
1st, Stage 3, Giro del Trentino
1st, Stage 4, Tour Méditerranéen
3rd, Gran Premio della Costa Etruschi
2010
1st, Stages, 1 & 2, Tour of Murcia
9th, Overall, Tour Down Under
2011
1st, Mumbai Cyclothon II
1st, Stage 1, Österreich Rundfahrt
4th, Mumbai Cyclothon I
7th, Grand Prix de Denain
2012
1st, MaillotSudafrica.PNG National Road Race Championships
1st, Stage 2 (TTT), Tour of Qatar
1st, Stage 4 (TTT), Giro d'Italia
4th, National Time Trial Championships
2013
1st Overall Mzansi Tour
1st Stage 2
8th, Trofeo Platja de Muro

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
Jersey pink.svg Giro d'Italia —————————— 154 — DNF DNF 141
Jersey yellow.svg Tour de France —— DNF 97 DNF — DNF DNF 118 106 — DNF — DNF —
Jersey red.svg Vuelta a España 72 —— 118 — DNF —————————
Legend
— Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Robert Hunter at Garmin-Sharp". Garmin–Sharp . Boulder, Colorado: Slipstream Sports LLC. 28 December 2012. Archived from the original on 20 September 2012. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
  2. ↑ "Team Garmin-Sharp-Barracuda Unveils 2013 Roster". Garmin–Sharp . Boulder, Colorado: Slipstream Sports LLC. 28 December 2012. Archived from the original on 2 January 2013. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
  3. ↑ Jean-Francois Quenet (28 November 2003). "An interview with Robert Hunter: Refocusing after a bad hunting season". Cycling News.
  4. ↑ Kevin McCallum (4 July 2008). "Hunter's baby wins the sprint". Independent Online.
  5. ↑ Staff writer (16 September 2013). "Hunter to retire after 16-year career". VeloNews. Competitor Group, Inc. Retrieved 24 October 2013.
  6. ↑ Andrew Hood (7 October 2013). "Retirements sweeping cycling world". Cyclingnews.com . Future plc . Retrieved 24 October 2013.
  7. ↑ Benson, Daniel (6 November 2015). "Hunter leaves Cannondale Garmin to pursue new projects". cyclingnews.com . Retrieved 7 November 2015.
  8. ↑ "Robert Hunter at Cycling Base". Cycling Base. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
  9. ↑ "Robert Hunter at Cycling Archives". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 7 March 2013.
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