Alexander Kristoff
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Kristoff at the 2015 Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne
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| Full name | Alexander Kristoff | ||||||||||||
| Born | 5 July 1987 Oslo, Norway |
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| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 78 kg (172 lb) | ||||||||||||
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| Current team | Team Katusha–Alpecin | ||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||
| Rider type | Sprinter/Classics specialist | ||||||||||||
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| 2006 | Glud & Marstrand–Horsens | ||||||||||||
| 2007–2009 | Maxbo–Bianchi | ||||||||||||
| 2010–2011 | BMC Racing Team | ||||||||||||
| 2012– | Team Katusha | ||||||||||||
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| Infobox last updated on 30 August 2015 |
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Alexander Kristoff (born 5 July 1987) is a Norwegian professional road bicycle racer with the UCI ProTeam Team Katusha–Alpecin.[1] He won the Norwegian National Road Race Championship in 2007 and 2011.[2]
Contents
Career
Early career
At six, he moved from Oslo to Stavanger. His stepfather got him interested in cycling rather than football. He started riding for Stavanger SK. At 16 he won the Norwegian youth championship, and finished fourth in the Youth Olympics.[3] He turned professional in 2006 for Glud & Marstrand Horsens. In 2007, he became Norwegian road champion at 19, beating Thor Hushovd in a sprint of four riders.[4]
Katusha (2012-)
He won a bronze medal in the road race at the 2012 London Olympic Games.[5]
In 2014 Kristoff won the Milan–San Remo beating Fabian Cancellara in the sprint. Later the same year Kristoff conceded two stage wins in the Tour the France making him runner up behind Peter Sagan in the Green Jersey Competition. Later this season Kristoff took another victory when he claimed the first place in the Vattenfall Cyclassics such as the Eschborn-Frankfurt City Loop in May. In total Kristoff took 14 victories in the 2014 season ranking him eight on the UCI World Tour.
In 2015, Kristoff had a very good start to his campaign by getting three stage victories on the Tour of Qatar, grabbing the sprints jersey in the process. He celebrated another stage victory soon afterward at the Tour of Oman. On March 1, he was outsprinted by Mark Cavendish and grabbed the second position of Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne.[6] He earned another sprint victory at Paris–Nice, while he was preparing himself for Milan–San Remo. He was looking for a repeat victory at that race, but John Degenkolb had the better of him in the sprint finish and he settled for a still prestigious second position.[7] Still in the month of March, he went on to finish just shy of the podium in E3 Harelbeke, taking a fourth placing.[8] He then participated to Three Days of De Panne, where he was part of a six-man breakaway on the first stage and won the sprint of the small group, while being lead-out by his teammate Sven Erik Bystrom.[9] He reapeated the next day, this time using a bunch sprint to propel himself to victory.[10] Kristoff also won stage 3a, a bunch sprint where he very slightly edged Andre Greipel by 3/10,000th of a second. With the bonus seconds awarded to him, he won the general classification too after finishing third of stage 3b, a short individual time trial.[11] In April, Kristoff won the cobbled monument Tour of Flanders, the main goal of his spring season. With some 30 kilometers remaining Niki Terpstra attacked and only Kristoff went with him. The duo got a lead of 30 seconds with the remains of the lead group unable to catch them. Kristoff beat Terpstra in the two-man sprint, to take his biggest win so far.[12] Three days later Kristoff won the sprinters semi-classic Scheldeprijs,[13] becoming the first ever to win the Three Days of De Panne, Tour of Flanders and Scheldeprijs in the same season. Kristoff came in tenth at Paris–Roubaix, then took a break from racing.
He came back at the Tour of Norway, where he finished eighth overall while taking two stage successes.[14] Shortly after, he participated to the Tour des Fjords where he dominated the sprints again by amassing three stage victories, the points classification jersey and a ninth overall position.[15] He also won the seventh stage of the Tour de Suisse by a whisker over Peter Sagan. Sagan got out of Kristoff's slipstream to try to out-sprint him in the final meters, but to no avail.[16]
Palmarès
- 2006
- Grenland GP
- 1st Stages 1 & 2
- 2007
- 1st
National Road Race Championships - 2008
- 1st National Criterium Championships
- 1st Stage 4 Ringerike GP
- 2nd Rogaland Grand Prix
- 2nd Porec Trophy
- 2009
- 1st Under-23 National Road Race Championships
- 1st Stage 3 Ringerike GP
- 2nd Sandefjord Grand Prix
- 5th Overall Le Tour de Bretagne Cycliste
- 5th La Côte Picarde
- 7th Druivenkoers Overijse
- 7th European Under 23 Road Race Championships
- 9th ZLM Tour
- 9th Porec Trophy
- 2010
- 3rd Philadelphia International Championship
- 4th Vattenfall Cyclassics
- 5th Grand Prix de Fourmies
- 7th Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen
- 8th Grote Prijs Jef Scherens
- 9th Paris–Bruxelles
- 10th Scheldeprijs
- 10th Memorial Rik Van Steenbergen
- 2011
- 1st National Road Race Championships
- 2nd Grand Prix de Fourmies
- 5th Grand Prix d'Isbergues
- 7th Scheldeprijs
- 7th Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen
- 7th Paris–Bruxelles
- 7th London – Surrey Cycle Classic
- 2012
- Three Days of De Panne
- 1st Stage 3a
- 1st
Points classification
- 2nd Grand Prix de Fourmies
- 3rd
Summer Olympics: Men's Road Race - 3rd Overall World Ports Classic
- 1st
Young rider classification
- 1st
- 3rd National Road Race Championships
- 4th Overall Danmark Rundt
- 1st Stage 4
- 1st Points classification
- 6th Rund um den Finanzplatz Eschborn-Frankfurt
- 9th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne
- 2013
- Tour of Norway
- 1st Stages 1, 2 & 5
- 1st Stage 5 Tour de Suisse
- 2nd National Road Race Championships
- 2nd Overall Three Days of De Panne
- 1st Stage 3a
- 1st Points classification
- 3rd Vattenfall Cyclassics
- 4th Overall Tour des Fjords
- 1st Stages 2 & 3 (TTT)
- 1st Points classification
- 4th Tour of Flanders
- 4th Brussels Cycling Classic
- 5th Scheldeprijs
- 8th Milan–San Remo
- 9th Paris–Roubaix
- 2014
- 1st Milan–San Remo
- 1st Eschborn-Frankfurt City Loop
- 1st Vattenfall Cyclassics
- Tour of Norway
- 1st Stages 1 & 5
- 1st Points classification
- 1st Stage 2 Tour of Oman
- 1st
Overall Tour des Fjords
- 1st Stages 2, 4 & 5
- 1st Points classification
- Tour de France
- 1st Stages 12 & 15
- 2nd Overall Arctic Race of Norway
- 5th Tour of Flanders
- 8th UCI World Tour
- 8th World Road Race Championships
- 8th GP Ouest-France
- 2015
- 1st Stage 7 Tour de Suisse
- 1st Stage 3 Tour of Oman
- 1st Stage 1 Paris–Nice
- 1st Overall Three Days of De Panne
- 1st Stages 1, 2 & 3a
- 1st Points classification
- 1st Tour of Flanders
- 1st Scheldeprijs
- 1st Grand Prix of Aargau Canton
- Arctic Race of Norway
- 1st Stage 1
- 1st Points classification
- 1st GP Ouest-France
- 2nd Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne[19]
- 2nd Milan–San Remo
- 2nd Vattenfall Cyclassics
- 3rd Overall Tour of Qatar
- 1st Stages 2, 4 & 5
- 1st 20px Points classification
- 3rd Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec
- 4th World Road Race Championships
- 4th E3 Harelbeke
- 8th Overall Tour of Norway
- 1st Stages 1 & 2
- 1st Points classification[20]
- 9th Gent–Wevelgem
- 9th Overall Tour des Fjords
- 1st Stages 1, 2 & 3
- 1st
Points classification
- 10th Paris–Roubaix
Monuments results timeline
| Monument | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
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| Milan–San Remo | — | — | 131 | 8 | 1 | 2 |
| Tour of Flanders | — | — | 15 | 4 | 5 | 1 |
| Paris–Roubaix | DNF | DNF | 57 | 9 | DNF | 10 |
| Liège–Bastogne–Liège | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Giro di Lombardia | — | — | — | — | — | |
| UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race | 69 | — | — | — | 8 | 4 |
DNF = Did not finish
— = Did not compete
References
- ↑ "Kristoff signs for Katusha". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. 20 August 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2012.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "National Championship, Road, Elite, Norway". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 6 April 2015.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Dagbladet Sportsmagasinet 29 August 2008. Alexander Kristoff. Page 8
- ↑ Yngstemann ble bestemann BT.no
- ↑ "Mark Cavendish's Olympic bid fails as Alexandre Vinokourov wins gold". Retrieved 2012-07-28.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Benson, Daniel. "Cavendish sprints to Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne win". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 6 March 2015.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Results: 2015 Milano-Sanremo". VeloNews. Competitor Group, Inc. 22 March 2015. Retrieved 31 March 2015.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Thomas solos away from Stybar to win E3 Harelbeke". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 27 March 2015. Retrieved 27 March 2015.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Kristoff wins Driedaagse De Panne opener in Zottegem". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 31 March 2015. Retrieved 31 March 2015.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Emil Axelgaard (1 April 2015). "Kristoff makes it two in a row in De Panne". Cycling Quotes. CyclingQuotes.com 2013. Retrieved 1 April 2015.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Kristoff strikes again at Driedaagse de Panne". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 2 April 2015. Retrieved 2 April 2015.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Nigel Wynn (5 April 2015). "Alexander Kristoff wins Tour of Flanders". Cycling Weekly. IPC Media Sports & Leisure network. Retrieved 5 April 2015.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Emil Axelgaard (8 April 2015). "Unstoppable Kristoff conquers Scheldeprijs". Cycling Quotes. CyclingQuotes.com 2013. Retrieved 9 April 2015.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Jean-François Quénet (25 May 2015). "Tour of Norway: Kristoff wins stage 2". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 2 June 2015.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Jean-François Quénet (29 May 2015). "Three in a row for Kristoff at Tour des Fjords". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 2 June 2015.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Kristoff claims Tour de Suisse stage 7 in long-range sprint". VeloNews. Competitor Group, Inc. 19 June 2015. Retrieved 19 June 2015.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ O'Shea, Sadhbh (15 August 2014). "Kristoff wins sprint in Alta". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 17 August 2014.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Kruijswijk wins the Arctic Race of Norway". cyclingnews.com. 17 August 2014. Retrieved 17 August 2014.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ "Cavendish sprints to Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne win". cyclingnews.com. 1 March 2015. Retrieved 1 March 2015.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Quénet, Jean-François (25 May 2015). "Tour of Norway: Vangstad solos to victory on final day". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 26 May 2015.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
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- Norwegian male cyclists
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