Grégory Rast

Grégory Rast
Personal information
Rast at the 2007 Tour de France
Full name	Grégory Rast
Born	(1980-01-17) 17 January 1980 (age 44) Cham, Switzerland
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	80 kg (176 lb)
Team information
Current team	Lidl–Trek
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider (retired) Directeur sportif
Rider type	Classics specialist
Amateur teams
2000	Post Swiss Team (stagiaire)
2002	Phonak (stagiaire)

Professional teams
2001	Post Swiss Team
2003–2006	Phonak
2007–2009	Astana
2010–2011	Team RadioShack
2012–2018	RadioShack–Nissan^[1]

Managerial team
2019–	Trek–Segafredo (directeur sportif)

Major wins
Grand Tours Tour de France 1 Team time trial stage (2009) Stage races Tour of Luxembourg (2007) Single-day races and Classics National Road Race Championships (2004, 2006)

Grégory Rast (born 17 January 1980 in Cham) is a Swiss former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2001 and 2018 for the Post Swiss Team, Phonak, Astana, Team RadioShack and Trek–Segafredo teams.^[2] He was the winner of the Swiss National Road Race Championships in 2004 and 2006.^[3] Rast now works as a directeur sportif for the Lidl–Trek team.^[4] His sporting career began with RMV Cham-Hagendorn.^[5]

Major results

2002

1st

Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships

3rd Overall Grand Prix Guillaume Tell

1st Stage 4

3rd La Côte Picarde

4th Grand Prix de Waregem

2003

8th Trofeo Alcudia

8th Stausee-Rundfahrt Klingnau

2004

1st

Road race, National Road Championships

4th Rund um den Henninger Turm

2005

3rd Paris–Bourges

7th Stausee-Rundfahrt Klingnau

2006

1st

Road race, National Road Championships

2nd Giro del Piemonte

3rd Grand Prix of Aargau Canton

6th Vattenfall Cyclassics

9th GP Ouest France-Plouay

2007

1st

Overall Tour de Luxembourg

1st Stage 4

7th Trofeo Calvia

2008

1st Grand Prix Istanbul

5th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk

6th Overall Tour of Poland

7th Trofeo Sóller

9th Brabantse Pijl

2009

1st Stage 4 (Team time trial) Tour de France

1st Prologue Tour de Luxembourg

1st

Sprints classification Tour de Romandie

2010

9th Overall Tour de Luxembourg

9th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne

2011

4th Paris–Roubaix

2012

8th Road race, Olympic Games

2013

1st Stage 6 Tour de Suisse

5th Road race, National Road Championships

2014

5th Road race, National Road Championships

2015

1st Stage 1 (Team time trial) Tour of Alberta

References

^ "RadioShack-Nissan-Trek announces lineup for 2012". VeloNews. Competitor Group, Inc. 5 December 2011. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
^ "Gregory Rast to retire at the end of the season". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 6 August 2018. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
^ "National Championship, Road, Elite, Switzerland (Men)". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
^ "Trek-Segafredo Men". Trek Bicycle Corporation. Intrepid Corporation. Archived from the original on 6 January 2019. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
^ Post Swiss Team 2001. Däniken: Impressio AG. 2001. p. 23.

External links

Media related to Grégory Rast at Wikimedia Commons
Profile at Team Radioshack official website
Grégory Rast at trap-friis.dk
Palmares at Cycling Base Archived 15 February 2012 at the Wayback Machine

v t e Swiss National Road Race Champions (men)
1880–1899	Edouard Wicky (1892–1893) Henri Favre (1894–1895) Jean Viarret (1896–1897) Albert Furrer (1898) Fritz Ryser (1899)
1900–1919	Charles Lugon (1900) Ernst Dubach (1902) Alexandre Castellino (1904) Henri Rheinwald (1908) Charles Guyot (1909–1910) Marcel Perrière (1911) Henri Rheinwald (1912) Otto Wiedmer (1913) Oscar Egg (1914) Marcel Perrière (1915–1916) Ernst Kaufmann (1917–1918) Henri Rheinwald (1919)
1920–1939	Heiri Suter (1920–1922) Henri Guillod (1923) Kastor Notter (1924–1925) Heiri Suter (1926) Kastor Notter (1927) Albert Blattmann (1928) Heiri Suter (1929) Georges Antenen (1930) Albert Büchi (1931) August Erne (1932) Georges Antenen (1933) Hans Gilgen (1934) Paul Egli (1935–1936) Leo Amberg (1937–1938) Karl Litschi (1939)
1940–1959	Edgar Buchwalder (1940) Karl Litschi (1941) Edgar Buchwalder (1942) Hans Knecht (1943) Ernst Näf (1944) Ernst Wüthrich (1945) Hans Knecht (1946–1947) Ferdinand Kübler (1948–1951) Gottfried Weilenmann (1952) Fritz Schär (1953) Ferdinand Kübler (1954) Hugo Koblet (1955) Rolf Graf (1956) Hans Hollenstein (1957) Jean-Claude Grèt (1958) Rolf Graf (1959)
1960–1979	René Strehler (1960) Ernst Fuchs (1961) Rolf Graf (1962) Attilio Moresi (1963) Rudolf Hauser (1964) Robert Hagmann (1965) Paul Zollinger (1966) Alfred Rüegg (1967) Karl Brand (1968) Bernard Vifian (1969) Kurt Rub (1970) Louis Pfenninger (1971) Josef Fuchs (1972–1973) Roland Salm (1974–1977) Gottfried Schmutz (1978) Hansjörg Aemisegger (1979)
1980–1999	Gottfried Schmutz (1980) Stefan Mutter (1981) Gilbert Glaus (1982) Serge Demierre (1983) Erich Maechler (1984) Gottfried Schmutz (1985) Urs Zimmermann (1986) Jörg Müller (1987) Hubert Seiz (1988) Pascal Richard (1989) Rolf Järmann (1990) Laurent Dufaux (1991) Thomas Wegmüller (1992) Pascal Richard (1993) Felice Puttini (1994–1995) Armin Meier (1996) Oscar Camenzind (1997) Niki Aebersold (1998) Armin Meier (1999)
2000–2019	Markus Zberg (2000) Martin Elmiger (2001) Alexandre Moos (2002) Daniel Schnider (2003) Grégory Rast (2004) Martin Elmiger (2005) Grégory Rast (2006) Beat Zberg (2007) Markus Zberg (2008) Fabian Cancellara (2009) Martin Elmiger (2010) Fabian Cancellara (2011) Martin Kohler (2012) Michael Schär (2013) Martin Elmiger (2014) Danilo Wyss (2015) Jonathan Fumeaux (2016) Silvan Dillier (2017) Steve Morabito (2018) Sébastien Reichenbach (2019)
2020–2039	Stefan Küng (2020) Silvan Dillier (2021) Robin Froidevaux (2022) Marc Hirschi (2023) Mauro Schmid (2024)

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