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2013 Clásica De San Sebastián
The 2013 Clásica de San Sebastián was the 33rd edition of the Clásica de San Sebastián, a single-day cycling race. It was held on 27 July 2013, over a distance of , starting and finishing in San Sebastián, in the Basque Country, Spain. It was the nineteenth event of the 2013 UCI World Tour season. The race was won by 's Tony Gallopin, after he made a solo attack on the race's final climb – the Alto de Arkale – and was able to hold off the remainder of the field, to take the biggest win of his career. Second place went to 's Alejandro Valverde, 28 seconds behind Gallopin, while the podium was completed by rider Roman Kreuziger. Teams As the Clásica de San Sebastián was a UCI World Tour event, all 19 UCI ProTeam UCI most commonly refers to: * University of California, Irvine, a public university in Irvine, California, United States * Union Cycliste Internationale, the world governing body for the sport of cycling UCI may also refer to: * Uganda Cancer In .. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2013 UCI World Tour
The 2013 UCI World Tour is the fifth edition of the ranking system launched by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) in 2009. The series started with the 2013 Tour Down Under, Tour Down Under on 22 January. __TOC__ Teams The UCI ProTeams compete in the World Tour, with UCI Professional Continental teams, or national squads, able to enter at the discretion of the organisers of each event. Events All events from the 2012 UCI World Tour are included. For the second successive year, the Tour of Hangzhou was scheduled originally as part of the tour, but later withdrawn. ;Notes Final standings Individual Source: Riders tied with the same number of points were classified by number of victories, then number of second places, third places, and so on, in World Tour events and stages. * 228 riders scored points. 30 other riders finished in positions that would have earned them points, but they were ineligible as members of non-ProTour teams. Team Source: Team rankings are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BSkyB
Sky UK Limited (formerly British Sky Broadcasting Limited (BSkyB)), trading as Sky, is a British broadcaster and telecommunications company that provides television, broadband internet, fixed line and mobile telephone services to consumers and businesses in the United Kingdom. It is a subsidiary of Sky Group (currently owned by Comcast) and is headquartered at the Sky Studios in Isleworth. Sky is a major media company and the largest British broadcaster by revenue. It operates the Sky News news media organisation, Sky Sports which is the largest sports TV broadcaster in the UK, and the Sky Studios film and TV production company. Sky is also the country's leading provider of pay-TV services (12.7 million customers as of the end of 2019) through its satellite TV platform Sky Q as well as the IPTV-based Sky Glass and Sky Stream products. Its flagship channels include Sky Showcase, Sky Max, Sky Witness, Sky Documentaries, Sky Atlantic, and Sky Cinema. Sky is also one ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arnold Jeannesson
Arnold Jeannesson (born 15 January 1986 in Challans) is a French former road bicycle racer who competed professionally between 2008 and 2017. He previously specialised in cyclo-cross and mountain biking. Jeannesson wore the white jersey of the highest placed rider under the age of 26 for two days in the 2011 Tour de France. In October 2015, announced that Jeannesson would be part of their squad for 2016. Jeannesson announced in August 2017 that he would end his professional career on the road at the end of the season 2017. Major results Road ;2007 : 1st Stage 4 Tour de la Manche ;2008 : 1st Stage 3b Tour de la Manche : 3rd Overall Tour de l'Avenir ::1st Stage 8 : 6th Tour du Finistère : 6th Boucles de l'Aulne : 8th Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan ;2011 : 3rd Tro-Bro Léon : Tour de France ::Held after Stages 12–13 ;2012 : 5th Overall Tour of Oman : 6th Overall Paris–Nice ;2013 : 5th Tour du Finistère : 10th Clásica de San Sebastián ;2016 : 4th Overall Critérium Int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bauke Mollema
Bauke Mollema (; born 26 November 1986) is a Dutch professional cycle sport, cyclist, who rides for UCI WorldTeam . He has finished in the top 10 in all three Grand Tours, with stage wins in the 2021 Tour de France, 2017 Tour de France, and the 2013 Vuelta a España. His best result in the general classification in the Tour de France came in 2013 when he finished in 6th place. He won the Clásica de San Sebastián in 2016 and finished on the podium on three other occasions at the race. In 2019, he achieved the biggest win of his career in 2019 Il Lombardia, Il Lombardia. Career Amateur career In 2007 Mollema won the prestigious stage race for upcoming talents Tour de l'Avenir and the Circuito Montañés. Rabobank (2008–2014) 2008–2010 He joined the ProTeam in 2008, signing his first contract as a professional. His first notable result was a 6th position in the final classification of the 2008 Vuelta a Castilla y León. He made his ProTour debut in the 2008 Tour de Romandie, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pieter Serry
Pieter Serry (born 21 November 1988) is a professional Belgian road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Major results ;2010 : 4th Overall Cinturó de l'Empordà : 5th Overall Tour des Pyrénées ;2011 : 2nd De Vlaamse Pijl : 9th Overall Bayern–Rundfahrt ::1st Mountains classification : 9th Kattekoers ;2012 : 1st Young rider classification, Tour of Belgium : 3rd Brabantse Pijl : 4th Volta Limburg Classic : 6th Overall Tour of Norway : 7th Grand Prix de la Somme : 9th Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise ;2013 : 7th Giro di Lombardia : 8th Clásica de San Sebastián ;2014 : 3rd Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships : 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships : 6th Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana : 10th Classic Sud-Ardèche ;2015 : 4th Overall Czech Cycling Tour ::1st Stage 1 ( TTT) : 7th Classic Sud-Ardèche ;2016 : 4th Overall Tour La Provence : 4th Classic Sud-Ardèche : 5th La Drôme Classic ;2017 : 9th Bruges Cycling Classic : 10th Overall Vu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moreno Moser
Moreno Moser (born 25 December 1990) is an Italian former professional road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2012 and 2019 for the , , and the teams. Born in Trento, Moser comes from a family of professional cyclists; his uncles Francesco Moser, Francesco and Aldo both finished in the top five overall placings of Grand Tour (cycling), Grand Tour events, with Francesco winning the Giro d'Italia in 1984 Giro d'Italia, 1984, and another uncle, Enzo Moser, Enzo, also wore the leader's jersey in the Giro. His father Diego, brothers Leonardo and Matteo and cousin Ignazio Moser, Ignazio also competed professionally. He was named in the start list for the 2015 Vuelta a España. Career Early career Having competed for U.S. Montecorona as a junior and Arvedi Lucchini Unidelta as an amateur, Moser joined professional team in the second half of 2011 as a Internship, stagiaire. Moser remained with after his stint as a stagiaire, having signed a two-year professional deal f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikel Landa
Mikel Landa Meana (born 13 December 1989) is a Spanish Basques, Basque professional road bicycle racing, road cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam . His career breakthrough came at the 2015 Giro d'Italia where he won two stages and finished third overall. Career Early career Landa was born in Murgia (Álava), in the Basque Country (autonomous community), Basque Country in northern Spain. Like many Basque cyclists he began his career at the development team, in 2009, before graduating to the professional team in 2011. After three years with the squad, Landa left the team at the end of the 2013 season – due to its disestablishment – to join . In 2018, as president of the Euskadi Cycling Foundation, a new UCI Continental squad was established, with expectations of returning to the top races. Astana (2014–2015) Landa won a stage of the 2014 Giro del Trentino before riding the 2014 Giro d'Italia, Giro d'Italia as one of Fabio Aru's mountain domestiques. He hel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolas Roche
Nicolas Roche (; born 3 July 1984) is an Ireland, Irish cyclist, who competes in gravel cycling for his own NR GRVL team. He is also a former professional Road bicycle racing, road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2005 and 2021 for seven different teams. During his professional road racing career, Roche took twelve victories, including four titles at the Irish National Cycling Championships – two each in the road race and the time trial – and stage victories at the Vuelta a España in 2013 Vuelta a España, 2013 and 2015 Vuelta a España, 2015. He started a total of 24 Grand Tour (cycling), Grand Tours, finishing 22, and he took a total of 65 top-10 finishes in Grand Tour stages, including 43 at the Vuelta a España (where he recorded a pair of top-10 overall finishes). He represented Ireland at the Olympics on four occasions between Ireland at the 2008 Summer Olympics, 2008 and Ireland at the 2020 Summer Olympics, 2020, and represented Ireland at the UCI Road W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikel Nieve
Mikel Nieve Iturralde (born 26 May 1984) is a Spanish former professional Road bicycle racing, road bicycle racer, who competed as a professional from 2008 to 2022. Career Euskaltel–Euskadi (2009–2013) Born in Leitza, Nieve won the sixteenth stage of the 2010 Vuelta a España, shaking off four riders to win solo in the mountain finish at the Alto de Cotobello. He earned another prestigious victory in the fifteenth stage of the 2011 Giro d'Italia, the Glossary of cycling#queen stage, queen stage of that year's edition, which Alberto Contador later described as the most difficult stage of his life. Nieve had broken away early, and crested the penultimate climb of the day, the Passo Fedaia, with only Stefano Garzelli in front of him. On the lower slope of the final climb to Fassa Valley, Gardeccia-Val di Fassa, Nieve passed Garzelli, and held on to win the stage after having spent a little less than 7 hours and a half in the saddle. He finished 10th twice in the Giro d'Itali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Union Cycliste Internationale
The Union Cycliste Internationale (; UCI; ) is the world governing body for sports cycling and oversees international competitive cycling events. The UCI is based in Aigle, Switzerland. The UCI issues racing licenses to riders and enforces disciplinary rules, such as in matters of doping. The UCI also manages the classification of races and the points ranking system in various cycling disciplines including road and track cycling, mountain biking, cyclo-cross, Gravel, and BMX, for both men and women, amateur and professional. It also oversees the World Championships. After the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, the UCI said that Russian and Belarusian teams were forbidden from competing in international events. It also stripped both Russia and Belarus of scheduled events. History The UCI was founded on 14 April 1900 in Paris by the national cycling sports organisations of Belgium, the United States, France, Italy, and Switzerland. It replaced the International Cycl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UCI ProTour
The UCI ProTour was a series of road bicycle racing, road bicycle races in Europe, Australia and Canada organised by the Union Cycliste Internationale, UCI (International Cycling Union). Created by Hein Verbruggen, former president of the UCI, it comprises a number of 'ProTour' cycling teams, each of whom are required to compete in every round of the series. It was initially the basis of a season long competition for rankings points, created for 2005 UCI ProTour, 2005 to replace the UCI Road World Cup series, which ended at the end of the 2004 season (although the World Cup did not include any stage races). The ProTour was the subject of continuing disputes involving the UCI, cycling teams, and the organizers of the world's most prominent bicycle races (most notably, the Grand Tour (cycling), Grand Tours), and in 2009 and 2010 the ranking element of the ProTour was superseded by the UCI World Ranking. For 2011, the ProTour and World Ranking were fully merged into the UCI World Tou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sky Sports
Sky Sports is a group of British broadcasting of sports events, subscription sports channels operated by the satellite television, satellite pay television company Sky Group (a division of Comcast), and is the dominant subscription television sports brand in the United Kingdom and Ireland. It has played a major role in the increased commercialisation of British sport since 1991, and has sometimes played a large role inducing organisational changes in the sports it broadcasts, most notably when it encouraged the Football League First Division, First Division to break away from the English Football League, Football League to form the Premier League in 1992. Sky Sports Main Event, Premier League, Football, Cricket, Golf, F1, Action and Tennis are available as a premium package on top of the basic Sky package. These services are also available as premium channels on nearly every satellite, cable television, cable and IPTV broadcasting system in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Sky ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
