Vegard Stake Laengen

Vegard Stake Laengen
Laengen at the 2014 Tour de l'Eurométropole
Personal information
Full nameVegard Stake Laengen
Born (1989-02-07) 7 February 1989 (age 35)
Oslo, Norway
Height1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)[1]
Weight79 kg (174 lb; 12 st 6 lb)[1]
Team information
Current teamUAE Team Emirates
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider type
  • Classics specialist
  • Time-trialist
Amateur team
2008Team Trek Adecco
Professional teams
2009–2011Joker–Bianchi
2012Team Type 1–Sanofi
2013–2014Bretagne–Séché Environnement[2]
2015Team Joker[3]
2016IAM Cycling
2017–UAE Abu Dhabi[4][5]
Major wins
One-day races and Classics
National Road Race Championships (2018)
Medal record
Representing  Norway
Men's road bicycle racing
European Road Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2011 Offida Under-23 time trial

Vegard Stake Laengen (born 7 February 1989) is a Norwegian professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam UAE Team Emirates.[6]

Career

Born in Oslo, Laengen competed for Norway at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics.[7] In August 2015 Team Joker confirmed that Laengen would be leaving the team to join IAM Cycling for 2016.[8] He has competed in ten Grand Tours in his career. In 2018, he was crowned the Norwegian national road race champion.

Personal life

Laengen currently resides in Fredrikstad, Norway.[9][10]

Major results

2009
10th Rogaland GP
2010
1st Overall Giro della Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia
4th Road race, National Road Championships
9th Overall Tour Alsace
2011
National Road Championships
2nd Road race
4th Time trial
3rd Time trial, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships
3rd Overall Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux
4th Overall Tour de l'Avenir
5th Overall Tour Alsace
7th Ronde van Vlaanderen Beloften
2012
1st Stage 5 Tour de Beauce
5th Road race, National Road Championships
2013
2nd Overall Kreiz Breizh Elites
3rd Tour du Doubs
2014
9th Boucles de l'Aulne
2015
1st Overall Tour Alsace
1st Stage 3
2nd Overall Ronde de l'Oise
1st Stage 3
2nd Chrono Champenois
National Road Championships
3rd Road race
4th Time trial
3rd Hadeland GP
4th Ringerike GP
2016
2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
2017
6th Overall Tour of California
8th Gran Premio di Lugano
9th Overall Colorado Classic
Combativity award Stage 6 Tour de France
2018 (1 pro win)
1st Road race, National Road Championships
10th Overall Tour of Slovenia
2021
2nd Trofeo Andratx–Mirador d'Es Colomer

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024
A pink jersey Giro d'Italia 83 — 102 — — — — — 75
A yellow jersey Tour de France — 127 — 107 82 112 DNF 102
A red jersey Vuelta a España 81 — 107 — — — —
Legend
— Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

References

  1. ^ a b "Vegard Stake Laengen - UAE team Emirates". Retrieved 4 July 2019.
  2. ^ "Bretagne – Seche Environnement (BSE) – FRA". UCI Continental Circuits. Aigle, Vaud: Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
  3. ^ Wedervang, Mads (28 October 2014). "Stake Laengen klar for hardtsatsende Joker". TV 2 (in Norwegian). TV 2 Group. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
  4. ^ "UAE Team Emirates". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. Archived from the original on 6 January 2019. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
  5. ^ "UAE Team Emirates complete 2020 roster with re-signing of former world champion Rui Costa". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 8 October 2019. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
  6. ^ "UAE Team Emirates". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 2 January 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  7. ^ "Vegard Stake Laengen Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
  8. ^ "News shorts: Vuillermoz wins Rio Olympics test event". cyclingnews.com. 17 August 2015. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
  9. ^ "Vegard Stake Laengen at Bretagne-Séché Environnement". Bretagne–Séché Environnement. Rennes, Brittany: Emmanuel Hubert. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
  10. ^ "Vegard Stake Laengen at Sports Reference". Sports Reference. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Sports Reference, LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
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