Vegard Stake Laengen

Vegard Stake Laengen

Laengen at the 2014 Tour de l'Eurométropole
Personal information
Full name	Vegard Stake Laengen
Born	(1989-02-07) 7 February 1989 (age 36) Oslo, Norway
Height	1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) [1]
Weight	79 kg (174 lb; 12 st 6 lb) [1]
Team information
Current team	UAE Team Emirates XRG
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Classics specialist Time-trialist
Amateur team
2008	Team Trek Adecco
Professional teams
2009–2011	Joker–Bianchi
2012	Team Type 1–Sanofi
2013–2014	Bretagne–Séché Environnement [2]
2015	Team Joker [3]
2016	IAM Cycling
2017–	UAE Abu Dhabi [4] [5]
Major wins
One-day races and Classics National Road Race Championships (2018)
Medal record Representing   Norway Men's road bicycle racing European Road Championships 2011 Offida Under-23 time trial

Vegard Stake Laengen (born 7 February 1989) is a Norwegian professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam UAE Team Emirates XRG. ^[6]

Career

Born in Oslo, Laengen competed for Norway at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics. ^[7] In August 2015 Team Joker confirmed that Laengen would be leaving the team to join IAM Cycling for 2016. ^[8] He has competed in ten Grand Tours in his career. In 2018, he was crowned the Norwegian national road race champion.

Personal life

Laengen currently resides in Fredrikstad, Norway. ^{[9] [10]}

Major results

2009

10th Rogaland GP

2010

1st Overall Giro della Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia

4th Road race, National Road Championships

9th Overall Tour Alsace

2011

National Road Championships

2nd Road race

4th Time trial

3rd Time trial, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships

3rd Overall Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux

4th Overall Tour de l'Avenir

5th Overall Tour Alsace

7th Ronde van Vlaanderen Beloften

2012

1st Stage 5 Tour de Beauce

5th Road race, National Road Championships

2013

2nd Overall Kreiz Breizh Elites

3rd Tour du Doubs

2014

9th Boucles de l'Aulne

2015

1st Overall Tour Alsace

1st Stage 3

2nd Overall Ronde de l'Oise

1st Stage 3

2nd Chrono Champenois

National Road Championships

3rd Road race

4th Time trial

3rd Hadeland GP

4th Ringerike GP

2016

2nd Time trial, National Road Championships

2017

6th Overall Tour of California

8th Gran Premio di Lugano

9th Overall Colorado Classic

Combativity award Stage 6 Tour de France

2018 (1 pro win)

1st Road race, National Road Championships

10th Overall Tour of Slovenia

2021

2nd Trofeo Andratx–Mirador d'Es Colomer

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
Giro d'Italia	83	—	102	—	—	—	—	—	75
Tour de France	—	127	—	107	82	112	DNF	102
Vuelta a España	81	—	107	—	—	—	—

Legend

—	Did not compete
DNF	Did not finish

References

1. "Vegard Stake Laengen - UAE team Emirates" . Retrieved 4 July 2019.
2. "Bretagne – Seche Environnement (BSE) – FRA". UCI Continental Circuits . Aigle, Vaud: Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 19 January 2014. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
3. Wedervang, Mads (28 October 2014). "Stake Laengen klar for hardtsatsende Joker". TV 2 (in Norwegian). TV 2 Group . Retrieved 18 February 2015.
4. "UAE Team Emirates". Cyclingnews.com . Immediate Media Company. Archived from the original on 6 January 2019. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
5. "UAE Team Emirates complete 2020 roster with re-signing of former world champion Rui Costa". Cyclingnews.com . Future plc. 8 October 2019. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
6. "UAE Team Emirates". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 2 January 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
7. "Vegard Stake Laengen Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
8. "News shorts: Vuillermoz wins Rio Olympics test event". cyclingnews.com . 17 August 2015. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
9. "Vegard Stake Laengen at Bretagne-Séché Environnement". Bretagne–Séché Environnement . Rennes, Brittany: Emmanuel Hubert. Archived from the original on 6 June 2014. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
10. "Vegard Stake Laengen at Sports Reference". Sports Reference . Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Sports Reference, LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 6 January 2013.

External links

• Vegard Stake Laengen at UCI
• Vegard Stake Laengen at Cycling Archives ( archive )
• Vegard Stake Laengen at ProCyclingStats
• Vegard Stake Laengen at CQ Ranking
• Vegard Stake Laengen at CycleBase
• Vegard Stake Laengen at Olympedia
• Vegard Stake Laengen at Olympics.com
• Vegard Stake Laengen at Bretagne-Séché Environnement Archived 6 June 2014 at the Wayback Machine
• Vegard Stake Laengen at Cycling Base