Pieter Weening

Pieter Weening
	File:Pieter Weening, Tour de Pologne 2013 (4).jpg Weening at the 2013 Tour de Pologne
Personal information
Full name	Pieter Weening
Born	5 April 1981 (age 43); Harkema, the Netherlands
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	68 kg (150 lb; 10.7 st)
Team information
Current team	Mitchelton–Scott
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Climber
Amateur team(s)
2003	Rabobank (stagiaire)
Professional team(s)
2004–2011	Rabobank
2012–2015	REDIRECT Template:Cycling data MTS men;
2016–	Roompot–Oranje Peloton
Major wins
	Grand Tours; Tour de France 1 individual stage (2005) Giro d'Italia 2 individual stages (2011, 2014) 2 TTT stages (2014, 2015) Stage races; Tour de Pologne (2013)
	Infobox last updated on; 6 January 2015

Pieter Weening (born 5 April 1981) is a road bicycle racer from Harkema, Friesland, the Netherlands, currently riding for Mitchelton–Scott. From 2004 to 2011, he rode for Rabobank.^[2] In August 2015, it was announced that Weening had signed for Team Roompot for the 2016 season.^[3]

Career

2005

In 2005 Weening won a stage in the Tour de France. After one of the closest finishes in the Tour ever, Weening won the eighth stage just ahead of Andreas Klöden. In the same year he also won a stage in the Tour de Pologne and finished second overall, five seconds behind winner Kim Kirchen. He was named Dutch cyclist of 2005.^[4]^[5]

2011

With only a stage win in the Tour of Austria, Weening had to wait six years before a next big victory. In the 2011 Giro d'Italia, just one day after the neutralised stage due to the death of Wouter Weylandt, Weening won stage 5. Analysts described this stage as a 'Mini Tour of Lombardy'.^[6] The stage had an uphill finish and several unpaved stretches (strade bianche). Weening was the strongest on the uphill finish of a small break away and stayed just in front of the peloton. After the stage win, he was awarded the Pink leaders jersey. He gave the physical jersey awarded to him on the podium to Wouter Weylandt's family.^[7]

On 10 August 2011, and after eight seasons with Rabobank, Weening left the team to join the new GreenEDGE squad for its inaugural season in 2012.^[1]

2013

In 2013, Weening won the Tour de Pologne after starting the time trial fifth overall, and 27 seconds down. He managed to take the lead by placing a solid performance.

2014

In 2014, Weening again won a stage in the Giro d'Italia, after also being part of the team that won the first-stage team time trial. On stage 10, he took part in the day's main breakaway and, along with Davide Malacarne (Team Europcar), was able to stay away to the end of the stage. He outsprinted Malacarne in the closing metres, to take the third individual stage win of his career.^[8] Weening also won the 2014 Giro della Toscana from a solo attack.^[9]