Dan Craven (born 1 February 1983) is a Namibian

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, who last rode for Namibian amateur team NCCS Cycling Team. He is the grandson of

Danie Craven Daniël Hartman Craven (11 October 1910 – 4 January 1993) was a South African rugby union player (1931–1938), national coach, national and international rugby administrator, academic, and author. Popularly known as Danie, Doc, or Mr R ...

, the South African rugby union icon. Craven started cycling seriously when he studied at

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. After graduating with a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics he moved to Switzerland in 2005 in order to pursue a cycling career. A strong time trialist, Craven was a runner up in the 2006 African Championships, and boasts a 7th place in the time trial at the 2007 B World Championships in Cape Town. Craven joined the team for the 2009 season. Craven was the 2008 African Road Race champion, having taken the crown in Casablanca in November just two days after he had picked up a Bronze in the African Time Trial Championships. He joined for the 2012 season. He spent 2013 riding for before joining the German-based squad for 2014. In May 2014 it was announced that Craven had been signed to

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team, , with effect from July. His first major goal was the last grand tour of 2014, the

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. In 2015 he won the

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for the fourth time.

Major results

;2005 : 1st MaillotNamibiaChampion

Road race, National Road Championships ;2006 : 1st MaillotNamibiaChampion

Road race, National Road Championships : 2nd Silver medal blank

Time trial,

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: 2nd GP Demy–Cars ;2007 : 2nd

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, National Road Championships : 2nd Giro delle Valli Aretine : 3rd GP Folignano : 7th Time trial,

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;2008 :

::1st

Road race ::3rd Bronze medal blank

Time trial : 1st MaillotNamibiaChampion

Road race, National Road Championships : 1st

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: 2nd Trofeo Salvatore Morucci : 3rd Giro del Cigno : 3rd GP Inda–Trofeo Aras Frattini : 5th GP Folignano : 6th

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;2009 : 1st

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: 1st Chas Messenger Road Race : 1st

Shay Elliott Memorial Race The Shay Elliott Memorial race is a one-day road cycling race held in spring in Ireland. It is run in honour of Ireland's first professional cyclist, Seamus Shay Elliott. The race was previously known as the ''Route de Chill Mhantain'' ("Wickl ...

: 1st Stage 4 Tour of Rwanda : 1st Clayton Velo Spring Classic : 2nd

;2010 : 1st Clayton Velo Spring Classic : 1st Stage 4 Tour of Rwanda : 2nd East Midlands Classic :

::3rd

Road race ::5th Time trial : 3rd Overall Rás Tailteann ::1st Stage 1 ;2011 : 4th Jock Wadley Memorial : 5th Overall

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::1st Stage 3 : 5th East Yorkshire Classic : 7th Overall

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::1st Mountains classification : 8th Overall

Ronde de l'Oise The Ronde de l'Oise is a cycling stage race held annually in the department of Oise in France. It was founded in 1954 and in 2007 became part of the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions whi ...

: 8th Ryedale Grand Prix ;2012 : National Road Championships ::2nd

::2nd Road race : 7th Lincoln Grand Prix ;2013 :

::2nd

Road race ::6th Individual time trial ;2014 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

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::1st Mountains classification : 5th Overall

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: 9th Road race,

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;2015 : 1st MaillotNamibiaChampion

Road race, National Road Championships : 4th Overall

: 9th Time trial,

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;2016 : National Road Championships ::1st MaillotNamibiaChampion

Road race ::2nd

;2017 : 2nd Road race, National Road Championships ;2018 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall Tour du Sénégal ::1st Stage 6 : 3rd Road race, National Road Championships ;2019 : 2nd Road race, National Road Championships : 7th Overall Tour of Good Hope : 9th Road race,

;2020 : 1st MaillotNamibiaChampion

Road race, National Road Championships

References

External links

* * * http://bikepure.org/riders-and-teams/pro-riders/dan-craven-ralpha-condor/ * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Craven, Dan 1983 births Living people People from Otjiwarongo Namibian male cyclists White Namibian people Cyclists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games Cyclists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists of Namibia Commonwealth Games competitors for Namibia Cyclists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Cyclists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games Competitors at the 2015 African Games African Games competitors for Namibia