Daniel Teklehaimanot Girmazion (Tigrinya: ዳንኤል ተክለሃይማኖት ግርማጽዮን, Tigrinya pronunciation: [tɐklɐhaymanot]; born 10 November 1988)[3] is a professional road racing cyclist from Eritrea,[4] who last rode for UCI Professional Continental team Cofidis.[5]
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| Full name | Daniel Teklehaimanot Girmazion | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 10 November 1988 Geza Lamza, Ethiopia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 71 kg (157 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Breakaway specialist | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2009–2011 | World Cycling Centre | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2008 | Amore & Vita–McDonald's (stagiaire) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2010 | Cervélo TestTeam (stagiaire) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2012–2013 | GreenEDGE | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2014–2017 | MTN–Qhubeka[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2018 | Cofidis[2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Career
editDaniel was a member of the UCI's World Cycling Centre training program before signing for the new Australian cycling team GreenEDGE in 2012.[6] Whilst at the World Cycling Centre he was diagnosed with tachycardia, which was corrected by surgery in early 2009. He returned to riding in May of that year and went on to finish sixth overall in that year's Tour de l'Avenir.[7] In 2010 he rode as a trainee for Cervélo TestTeam. The same year, he won the African Championships in the road race, individual time trial and team time trial, at both senior and under-23 levels. On the 2010–11 UCI Africa Tour, he won the Tour du Rwanda and the Kwita Izina Cycling Tour.[8]
He participated in the 2012 Summer Olympics being the first Eritrean competing in a sport other than athletics; he finished the road race in the 73rd position. In 2012, he became the first Eritrean to ride in the Vuelta a España, one of the 3 grand tours; he finished the race 146th overall.
MTN–Qhubeka (2014–17)
editDaniel joined MTN–Qhubeka for the 2014 season, on a two-year contract.[1] In 2015, at the Critérium du Dauphiné, he won the first World Tour jersey in MTN–Qhubeka's history by taking the mountains competition.[9] He was named in the start list for the 2015 Tour de France.[10] In July of the year, Daniel also became the first rider from an African team to wear the polka dot jersey at the Tour de France.[11] In 2016, he again won the mountains classification at the Critérium du Dauphiné.[12]
He was named in the start list for the 2017 Giro d'Italia where he briefly held the Mountains Classification jersey.[13] His final race with Dimension Data was the 2017 Tour of Guangxi.[14]
Major results
edit- 2007
- 8th Road race, All-Africa Games
- 9th Road race, African Road Championships
- 2008 (1 pro win)
- 1st
Road race, National Road Championships
- African Road Championships
- 5th Time trial
- 8th Road race
- 5th Overall Tour Ivoirien de la Paix
- 2009
- 2nd Overall Tour of Eritrea
- 1st Stages 1 & 3
- 6th Overall Tour de l'Avenir
- 2010 (2)
- African Road Championships
- 1st
Road race
- 1st
- 1st
Team time trial
- 1st
- 1st
Overall Tour du Rwanda
- 1st Stage 2
- 1st Stage 2 Coupe des nations Ville Saguenay
- 2011 (3)
- African Road Championships
- 1st
- 1st
- 1st
- National Road Championships
- 1st
- 2nd Road race
- 1st
- 1st
- 1st Stages 1, 2 & 3
- 1st Stage 5 Tour d'Algérie
- 5th Overall La Tropicale Amissa Bongo
- 1st Stage 4
- 2012 (3)
- African Road Championships
- 1st
- 1st
- 1st
- National Road Championships
- 1st
- 1st
- 1st
- 2013 (2)
- African Road Championships
- 1st
- 1st
- 1st
- 1st Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia
- 2014
- 4th Overall Mzansi Tour
- 2015 (1)
- African Road Championships
- 1st
- 2nd
Time trial
- 1st
- 1st
- 1st
Mountains classification, Critérium du Dauphiné
- Tour de France
- Held
after Stages 6–9
- Held
- 2016 (2)
- National Road Championships
- 1st
- 1st
- 1st
- 1st
- 3rd
Time trial, African Road Championships
- 2017
- 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
- 7th Overall Tour of Austria
- Giro d'Italia
- Held
after Stages 2–3
- Held
- 2018 (1)
- 1st
- 2019
- 9th Overall La Tropicale Amissa Bongo
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
edit| Grand Tour | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
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| — | — | — | — | — | 111 | |
| — | — | — | 49 | 85 | — | |
| 146 | — | 47 | — | — | — |
| — | Did not compete |
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| DNF | Did not finish |
References
edit- ^ a b "Teklehaimanot moves to MTN-Qhubeka". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 10 October 2013. Retrieved 14 December 2013.
- ^ "Teklehaimanot signs late deal with Cofidis". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 2 February 2018. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
- ^ "Daniel Teklehaimanot". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 1 April 2012.
- ^ CQ Ranking
- ^ "Cofidis sign Berhane and release Teklehaimanot". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 7 November 2018. Retrieved 11 January 2019.
- ^ Carrey, Pierre (4 August 2011). "Teklehaymanot [sic] signs for GreenEdge". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 5 August 2011.
- ^ Lee, Sean (17 August 2012). "Teklehaimanot is a stage racer in the making". theroar.com. Retrieved 8 June 2015.
- ^ Arinaitwe, Ostine (13 June 2011). "Rwanda: Teklehaimanot Wins Kwita Izina". allafrica.com. Retrieved 5 August 2011.
- ^ "MTN-Qhubeka celebrate maiden WorldTour jersey at Critérium du Dauphiné". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 15 June 2015. Retrieved 15 June 2015.
- ^ "2015 Tour de France start list". Velo News. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
- ^ "Eritrea's Daniel Teklehaimanot 1st African to wear the King of the Mountains jersey at the Tour de France". Caperi. 9 July 2015. Archived from the original on 12 October 2016. Retrieved 25 June 2016.
- ^ Clarke, Stuart (12 June 2016). "Chris Froome wins Critérium du Dauphiné as Cummings takes long solo stage win". Cycling Weekly. Time Inc. UK. Retrieved 6 June 2022.
His demise handed Daniel Teklehaimanot (Dimension Data) his second successive mountains classification victory at the Dauphiné having got himself into the early breakaway.
- ^ "2017: 100th Giro d'Italia: Start List". Pro Cycling Stats. Retrieved 2 May 2017.
- ^ Woodpower, Zeb (21 October 2017). "Teklehaimanot looking for new team in final race of the season". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 5 April 2019.
External links
edit- Daniel Teklehaymanot at UCI
- Daniel Teklehaymanot at Cycling Archives (archived)
- Daniel Teklehaymanot at ProCyclingStats
- Daniel Teklehaymanot at Cycling Quotient
- Daniel Teklehaymanot at CycleBase
- Daniel Teklehaimanot at UCI