(1980-12-09) December 9, 1980 (age 43) Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Height
1.87 m (6 ft 1+1⁄2 in)[1]
Weight
73 kg (161 lb; 11 st 7 lb)[1]
Team information
Current team
Retired
Discipline
Road
Role
Rider
Rider type
All-rounder
Amateur teams
1999–2004
Gary Fisher (MTB)
2002–2003
Rabobank GS3
Professional teams
2004–2005
U.S. Postal Service
2006
Phonak
2007
Health Net–Maxxis
2008–2015
Slipstream–Chipotle[2]
2016
Trek–Segafredo
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
1 TTT stage (2011)
Giro d'Italia
General classification (2012)
2 TTT stages (2008, 2012)
Vuelta a España
2 individual stages (2009, 2014)
One-day races and Classics
National Time Trial Championships (2007)
Medal record
Representing Canada
Men's mountain bike racing
World Championships
2003 Lugano
Cross country
Eric Ryder Hesjedal[3] (/ˈraɪdərˈhɛʃədɑːl/;[4] born December 9, 1980) is a Canadian retired professional racing cyclist who competed in mountain biking and road racing between 1998 and 2016. Hesjedal won a silver medal at the 1998 Junior, 2001 Under-23, and Elite world championship in mountain biking. He turned professional with U.S. Postal Service in 2004 after several years with the Rabobank continental team. Having previously finished in fifth place at the 2010 Tour de France, Hesjedal won his first and only Grand Tour at the 2012 Giro d'Italia, the first Grand Tour win by a Canadian. Other major wins include two stages at the Vuelta a España, the first such stage wins by a Canadian.
Danish cyclist Michael Rasmussen asserted in his autobiography that he taught Hesjedal how to take erythropoietin (EPO). Hesjedal later admitted that this doping allegation was "the truth" and that he "chose the wrong path".[5] Hesjedal has not served a ban as a result of his confession to USADA, and has publicly expressed a desire to be honest and transparent. VeloNews reported in 2014 that "The 33-year-old Canadian, however, stopped short of explaining what drugs he took, and when".[5]
^ ab"Ryder Hesjedal". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved July 30, 2019.
^"Team Garmin-Sharp-Barracuda Unveils 2013 Roster". Garmin–Sharp. Boulder, Colorado: Slipstream Sports LLC. December 28, 2012. Archived from the original on January 2, 2013. Retrieved January 6, 2013.
^"Eye of the Ryder". Impactmagazine.ca. Archived from the original on March 4, 2016. Retrieved February 3, 2016.
^Giro d'Italia (May 3, 2018). "A great Giro's friend visits us in Jerusalem: @ryder_hesjedal! #Giro #Giro101". Twitter. Retrieved April 16, 2019.
^ ab"Hesjedal admits to doping: 'I chose the wrong path'". October 30, 2013.
Eric RyderHesjedal (/ˈraɪdər ˈhɛʃədɑːl/; born December 9, 1980) is a Canadian retired professional racing cyclist who competed in mountain biking and...
hoping to assist teammate RyderHesjedal in a repeat victory, however, Hesjedal withdrew following stage twelve. After Hesjedal's departure, Vande Velde...
the final, Cima Coppi hors catégorie Stelvio Pass. On the Stelvio, RyderHesjedal set a pace that only Joaquim Rodríguez and Scarponi could follow. In...
have been part of the Kona Team including 2012 Giro D'Italia winner RyderHesjedal (CAN),Two time World Champion cross country mountain biker 2001,2002...
was raised again when RyderHesjedal was the subject of allegations of mechanical doping during the 2014 Vuelta a España: Hesjedal crashed on stage seven...
only Canadian to win an individual stage of the Tour de France (both RyderHesjedal and Svein Tuft and Alex Stieda had been part of winning team time trial...
iconic quote "If you draw your sword and you drop it, you die", from RyderHesjedal. Schleck lost 39 seconds on that stage in the mountains, the same number...
signed, among others Alberto Contador, John Degenkolb, Ivan Basso and RyderHesjedal. In 2016, Segafredo Zanetti became the main sponsor of Virtus Bologna...
and low visibility, Quintana joined an attack with Pierre Rolland and RyderHesjedal, eventually winning the stage and gaining 4' 11" on Urán. In stage 19...
on Maui, Hawaii. The record however has been unofficially beaten by RyderHesjedal in 2010, who climbed the volcano in 2:32. During 2003 Vaughters launched...
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