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

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

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. After graduating with a degree in

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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 Namibian National Road Race Championships 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, African Road Championships : 2nd GP Demy–Cars ;2007 : 2nd

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, National Road Championships : 2nd Giro delle Valli Aretine : 3rd GP Folignano : 7th Time trial, UCI B World Championships ;2008 : African Road Championships ::1st Gold medal blank

Road race ::3rd Bronze medal blank

Time trial : 1st MaillotNamibiaChampion

Road race, National Road Championships : 1st Grand Prix Cristal Energie : 2nd Trofeo Salvatore Morucci : 3rd Giro del Cigno : 3rd GP Inda–Trofeo Aras Frattini : 5th GP Folignano : 6th Coppa della Pace ;2009 : 1st UCI Africa Tour : 1st Chas Messenger Road Race : 1st Shay Elliott Memorial Race : 1st Stage 4 Tour of Rwanda : 1st Clayton Velo Spring Classic : 2nd Shay Elliott Memorial Race ;2010 : 1st Clayton Velo Spring Classic : 1st Stage 4 Tour of Rwanda : 2nd East Midlands Classic : African Road Championships ::3rd Bronze medal blank

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 La Tropicale Amissa Bongo ::1st Mountains classification : 8th Overall

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

::2nd Road race : 7th Lincoln Grand Prix ;2013 : African Road Championships ::2nd Silver medal blank

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

Overall Tour du Cameroun ::1st Mountains classification : 5th Overall Tour du Maroc : 9th Road race,

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;2015 : 1st MaillotNamibiaChampion

Road race, National Road Championships : 4th Overall La Tropicale Amissa Bongo : 9th Time trial, African Games ;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, African Road Championships ;2020 : 1st MaillotNamibiaChampion

Road race, National Road Championships

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