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Robert "Robbie" Hunter (born 22 April 1977) is a retired South African professional
road racing cyclist Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and spectators. The two most common ...
who competed professionally between 1999 and 2013. Hunter competed with UCI ProTeam during his final professional season.


Career

Hunter became the first South African to compete in the Tour de France, when he did so in
2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...
. In 2006, Hunter rode for in the UCI ProTour, but after their disbandment he signed for UCI Continental Circuits team for 2007. His achievements include winning stages at the
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and
2001 Vuelta a España The 56th edition of the ''Vuelta a España'' (Tour of Spain), a long-distance stage race and one of the three Grand Tours, was held from 8 September to 30 September 2001. It consisted of 21 stages covering a total of , and was won by Ángel Caser ...
s, the
2007 Tour de France The 2007 Tour de France the 94th running of the race, took place from 7 to 29 July. The Tour began with a prologue in London, and ended with the traditional finish in Paris. Along the way, the route also passed through Belgium and Spain. It was ...
, and the overall title at the 2004 Tour of Qatar, as well as the points classification at the 2004 Tour de Suisse. In 2007, Hunter returned to the Tour de France as team captain of . Hunter won sprint stage 11, the first stage won by a South African. Following the 2013 season, Hunter retired from professional cycling. Hunter was a directeur sportif for 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. Hunter worked as the video assistant commissaire at the
2018 Tour de France The 2018 Tour de France was the 105th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's three Grand Tours. The -long race consisted of 21 stages, starting on 7 July in Noirmoutier-en-l'Île, in western France, and concluding on 29 July with the ...
.


Personal life

Hunter resides in Arth, Schwyz, Switzerland.


Career achievements


Major results

Sources: ;1999 : Vuelta a España ::1st Sprints classification ::1st Stage 1 ;2000 : 1st Time trial, National Road Championships : 2nd Overall Ronde van Nederland ::1st Points classification ::1st Young rider classification ::1st Stages 2 & 3 : 2nd EnBW Grand Prix (with Oscar Camenzind) : 3rd Overall
Four Days of Dunkirk The Four Days of Dunkirk (french: Quatre Jours de Dunkerque) is road bicycle race around the Nord-Pas de Calais region of northern France. Despite the name of the race, since the addition of an individual time trial in 1963, the race has been h ...
: 3rd Memorial Rik Van Steenbergen ;2001 : 1st
Tour de Rijke Tour de Rijke is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in June in Spijkenisse, Netherlands. Since 2005, the race is organized as a 1.1 1.1 may refer to: * 1.1.1.1, a Domain Name System service * 1.1-inch/75-caliber gun * Falcon 9 v1.1 or ...
: 1st Stage 17 Vuelta a España : 9th Overall Ronde van Nederland ::1st Young rider classification ;2002 : 1st Stage 1 Tour de Pologne : 2nd Overall Tour de Langkawi ::1st Points classification ::1st Stages 1 (
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), 2 & 5 : 2nd
Grote Prijs Jef Scherens Grote Prijs Jef Scherens is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in September in Leuven, Belgium. Since 2005, the race is organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. The race is named after the seven-time professional sprint world ...
: 5th Overall Three Days of De Panne : 6th Gent–Wevelgem : 7th Road race, Commonwealth Games ;2003 : 4th Tour de Picardie : 10th
Trofeo Cala Millor The Challenge Vuelta Ciclista a Mallorca ( en, Tour of Majorca, ca, Challenge Volta Ciclista a Mallorca) is a series of four (five until 2012) professional one day road bicycle races held on the Spanish island of Mallorca in late January or ear ...
;2004 : 1st Overall Tour of Qatar ::1st Stages 3 & 5 : Tour de Suisse ::1st Stages 3 & 5 : Uniqa Classic ::1st Points classification ::1st Stages 1 & 3 : 1st Stage 4b Sachsen-Tour : 5th
International Grand Prix Doha The International Grand Prix Doha was a one day road cycling race held in Qatar. It was part of UCI Asia Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in 2005 by the Union Cycliste Intern ...
;2005 : 1st
International Grand Prix Doha The International Grand Prix Doha was a one day road cycling race held in Qatar. It was part of UCI Asia Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in 2005 by the Union Cycliste Intern ...
: 1st Stage 1 ( TTT) Volta a Catalunya : 1st Stage 1
Tour de Georgia The Tour de Georgia was a U.S. professional road cycling stage race across the state of Georgia. The race began in 2003 and was contested six times until 2008. It was one of the three events in North America ranked as Hors Classe (2.HC) stage rac ...
: 1st Stage 4
Setmana Catalana The Catalan Cycling Week (''Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme'' in Catalan) was a multi-stage road bicycle race held in Catalonia, Spain. Held annually from 1963 until 2005, it was run as a 2.HC race on the UCI Europe Tour in the second half of March. ...
: 1st Stage 5 Tour Méditerranéen : 8th Trofeo Luis Puig ;2006 : African Road Championships ::1st Time trial ::3rd Road race : 4th Overall Tour of Qatar ;2007 : 1st Overall Volta ao Distrito de Santarém ::1st Stage 2 : 1st Overall Tour de Picardie ::1st Stage 1 : 1st Stage 11 Tour de France : 1st Stage 2 Clasica Alcobendas : 1st Stage 5 Giro del Capo : 3rd Coppa Bernocchi : 4th Gran Premio della Costa Etruschi : 10th
Milan–San Remo Milan–San Remo (in Italian ''Milano-Sanremo''), also called "''The Spring classic''" or "''La Classicissima''", is an annual road cycling race between Milan and Sanremo, in Northwest Italy. With a distance of 298 km (~185.2 miles) it is t ...
: 10th Grand Prix Pino Cerami ;2008 : 1st Stage 4
GP CTT Correios de Portugal The GP CTT Correios de Portugal is a road bicycle racing stage race held annually in Portugal. Since 2005, it has been organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions ...
: 1st
Cape Argus Cycle Tour The Cape Town Cycle Tour is an annual cycle race hosted in Cape Town, South Africa, usually long. It is the first event outside Europe to be included in the Union Cycliste Internationale's Golden Bike Series. South Africa hosts some of the l ...
: 4th
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: 8th Overall
Giro della Provincia di Grosseto Giro della Provincia di Grosseto is a three-day cycling race in the Province of Grosseto, Italy. The stage race was established in 2008 as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. In 2008, the second stage had to be annulled following protests by riders ...
;2009 : 1st Stage 3
Giro del Trentino The Tour of the Alps is an annual professional cycling stage race in Italy and Austria. First held in 1962, it was named Giro del Trentino ( en, Tour of Trentino) until 2016, and run over four stages in the Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol region o ...
: 1st Stage 4 Tour Méditerranéen : 3rd Gran Premio della Costa Etruschi : 9th Overall
Delta Tour Zeeland Delta Tour Zeeland was a road bicycle stage race held annually in June in Zeeland, Netherlands. In 2008, the race was organized as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour as the organizers of the one-day race Delta Profronde and of the OZ Wielerweekend ...
;2010 : Vuelta a Murcia ::1st Stages 1 & 2 : 9th Overall Tour Down Under ;2011 : 1st Mumbai Cyclothon II : 1st Stage 1
Tour of Austria The Tour of Austria (german: Internationale Österreich Rundfahrt) is a stage cycling race held in Austria. From 1949 to 1995 it was a race for amateur cyclists, turning into a professional event in 1996. In 2005 and 2006 it was organised as a 2 ...
: 4th Mumbai Cyclothon I : 7th
Grand Prix de Denain Grand Prix de Denain is a professional cycle road race held in Denain, France. For 10 years from 2005 the race was organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour, before becoming a 1.HC The UCI 1.HC and UCI 2.HC are the second tier classifica ...
;2012 : National Road Championships ::1st Road race ::4th Time trial : 1st Stage 4 ( TTT) Giro d'Italia : 1st Stage 2 ( TTT) Tour of Qatar ;2013 : 1st Overall
Mzansi Tour The Mzansi Tour is a staged cycling race held annually in South Africa. It is part of UCI Africa Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in 2005 by the Union Cycliste International ...
::1st Points classification ::1st Stage 2 : 8th Trofeo Platja de Muro


Grand Tour general classification results timeline


References


External links

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Cycling Base: Robert Hunter
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hunter, Robert 1977 births Living people South African male cyclists South African Tour de France stage winners Olympic cyclists of South Africa Cyclists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2006 Commonwealth Games Cyclists from Johannesburg White South African people South African people of English descent South African Vuelta a España stage winners Tour de Suisse stage winners Commonwealth Games competitors for South Africa