Thor Hushovd (born Grimstad, Aust-Agder, Norway, January 18, 1978) is a Norwegian professional road bicycle racer, riding forCervélo TestTeam. Hushovd is known for his sprinting and time trialing abilities and is the 2010 Norwegian and world road race champion. He is the first Norwegian to ever wear the yellow jersey as leader of the Tour de France.
Hushovd won the under-23 time trial world championship and the under-23 versions of Paris–Roubaix and Paris–Tours, before turning professional in 1998. He was Norwegian time trial champion in 2004 and 2005 and road race champion in 2004. In 2006, Hushovd won seven UCI ProTour races and two stages of the Tour de France. He won the prologue in Strasbourg and wore the yellow jersey as leader after the first day despite a cut arm. He continued with stitches and regained the yellow jersey after stage 2 with a third place finish. He won the last stage, beating Robbie McEwen in a sprint. In the 2006 Vuelta a España he won stage 6, wore the golden jersey for three stages and won the points classification.
Biography
At the 2008 Tour de France, Hushovd won stage 2 in a bunched sprint finish.
In 2009, Hushovd rode for the Cervélo TestTeam. He took one of the team's first victories of the season by winning Stage 3 of theTour of California. At the Tour de France, he won green jersey for the points classification for the second time, placing ahead ofMark Cavendish in unique fashion. Typically the sprinter with the most stage victories wins the points classification, though Hushovd only won one stage, stage 6, while Cavendish won six. After a controversy on stage 14, where Cavendish was relegated to the back of the peloton for being judged to have impeded Hushovd, Hushovd was praised for launching a "bold" solo attack on stage 17, a mountain stage, winning two intermediate sprints in the process.At the Tour of Missouri in September 2009, Hushovd won stage 3, a 114 mi (183 km) course over rolling hills, in a sprint at the finish. On May 9, 2010, Hushovd broke his collarbone on a training ride after colliding with a little girl.On October 3, 2010, Hushovd won the UCI Road World Championships Road Race.
[edit]Major achievements
- 1998
- 1st
U-23 World Time Trial Champion - 1st U-23 Paris–Roubaix
- 2000
- 7th Summer Olympics ITT
- 2001
- 1st Stage 5 TTT Tour de France
- 1st
Overall Tour de Normandie
- 1st Points Classification
- 1st Overall Tour of Sweden
- 1st Overall Paris–Corrèze
- 2002
- 1st Stage 18 Tour de France
- 1st Stage 2 Tour de l'Ain
- 2003
- 1st Stage 2 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
- 1st Stage 1 Vuelta a Castilla y León
- 2004
- 1st
National Time Trial Cycling Champion - 1st National Road Race Cycling Champion
- 1st Stage 8 Tour de France
- Held maillot jaune for Stage 2
- Held
- 1st Stage 1 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
- 1st Overall Coupe de France de cyclisme sur route
- 1st Classic Haribo
- 1st Grand Prix de Denain
- 1st Tour de Vendée
- 2005
- 1st National Time Trial Cycling Champion
- 1st Stage 7 Volta a Catalunya
- 1st Points Classification
- 1st
Points Classification Tour de France - 1st Stage 5 Vuelta a España
- 1st Stage 2 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
- 3rd Milan – San Remo
- 2006
- 1st Prologue Tour de France
- 1st Stage 20 Tour de France
- Held maillot jaune for Stages 1 & 3
- Held
- 1st Stage 6 Vuelta a España
- 1st
Points Classification
- 1st
- 1st Gent–Wevelgem
- 1st Stage 7 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
- 1st Stage 4 Tirreno–Adriatico
- 1st Stage 3 Volta a Catalunya
- 1st Points Classification
- 1st Points Classification Four Days of Dunkirk
- 2007
- 1st Stage 7 Giro d'Italia
- 1st Stage 4 Tour de France
- 2008
- 1st Prologue Volta a Catalunya
- 1st Stage 1 Volta a Catalunya
- 1st Points classification
- 1st Prologue Paris–Nice
- 1st Points classification
- 1st
- 1st Stage 1 Tour Méditerranéen
- 1st Stage 6 Four Days of Dunkirk
- 1st Stage 2 Tour de France
- 2009
- 1st Stage 6 Tour de France
- 1st Points Classification
Stage 17 Combativity award
- 1st
- 1st Stage 3 Tour of Missouri
- 1st Points Classification
- 1st
- 1st Stage 3 Tour of California
- 1st Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
- 1st Stage 1 Volta a Catalunya
- 1st Stage 6 Volta a Catalunya
- 1st Na Tour Broker Criterium
- 1st Intersport Oslo Grand Prix
- 1st Stage 4 Tour du Poitou Charentes et de la Vienne
- 3rd Paris–Roubaix
- 3rd Milan – San Remo
- 2010
- 1st National Road Race Champion
- 1st Stage 3 Tour de France
- 1st Stage 6 Vuelta a España
- 1st Natourcriterium Roeselare
- 2nd Paris–Roubaix
1st World Cycling Championships
| 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tour | DNF | 112 | 118 | 104 | 116 | 120 | 138 | 96 | 106 | 111 |
| Stages won | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| Mountains classification | — | 36 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 28 | 80 |
| Points classification | — | 7 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Giro | DNE | DNE | DNE | DNE | DNE | DNE | DNF | DNE | DNE | DNE |
| Stages won | — | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — |
| Mountains classification | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Points classification | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Vuelta | DNE | DNE | DNE | DNE | DNF | 82 | DNE | DNE | DNE | |
| Stages won | — | — | — | — | 1 | 1 | — | — | — | 1 |
| Mountains classification | — | — | — | — | — | 26 | — | — | — | |
| Points classification | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | — | — | — |
| 1 | Winner |
| 2–3 | Top three-finish |
| 4–10 | Top ten-finish |
| 11– | Other finish |
| DNE | Did Not Enter |
| DNF-x | Did Not Finish (retired on stage x) |
| DSQ | Disqualified |
| N/A | Race/classification not held |
| NR | Not Ranked in this classification |
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