Vegard Stake Laengen
Vegard Stake Laengen (born 7 February 1989) is a Norwegian professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam UAE Team Emirates.[6]
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| Full name | Vegard Stake Laengen | |||||||||||||
| Born | 7 February 1989 Oslo, Norway | |||||||||||||
| Height | 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)[1] | |||||||||||||
| Weight | 79 kg (174 lb; 12 st 6 lb)[1] | |||||||||||||
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| Current team | UAE Team Emirates | |||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | |||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||
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| Amateur team | ||||||||||||||
| 2008 | Team Trek Adecco | |||||||||||||
| Professional teams | ||||||||||||||
| 2009–2011 | Joker–Bianchi | |||||||||||||
| 2012 | Team Type 1–Sanofi | |||||||||||||
| 2013–2014 | Bretagne–Séché Environnement[2] | |||||||||||||
| 2015 | Team Joker[3] | |||||||||||||
| 2016 | IAM Cycling | |||||||||||||
| 2017– | UAE Abu Dhabi[4][5] | |||||||||||||
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Medal record
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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 was named in the start list for the 2016 Giro d'Italia[9] and the 2016 Vuelta a España.[10] In June 2017, he was named in the startlist for the Tour de France.[11]
Personal life
Laengen currently resides in Fredrikstad, Norway.[12][13]
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
- 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 |
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 Giro d'Italia |
83 | — | 102 | — | — | — |
| Tour de France |
— | 127 | — | 107 | 82 | 112 |
 Vuelta a España |
81 | — | 107 | — | — | — |
| — | Did not compete |
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| DNF | Did not finish |
References
- "Vegard Stake Laengen - UAE team Emirates". Retrieved 4 July 2019.
- "Bretagne – Seche Environnement (BSE) – FRA". UCI Continental Circuits. Aigle, Vaud: Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 2 February 2014.
- Wedervang, Mads (28 October 2014). "Stake Laengen klar for hardtsatsende Joker". TV 2 (in Norwegian). TV 2 Group. Retrieved 18 February 2015.
- "UAE Team Emirates". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. Archived from the original on 6 January 2019. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
- "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.
- "UAE Team Emirates". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 2 January 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
- "Vegard Stake Laengen Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
- "News shorts: Vuillermoz wins Rio Olympics test event". cyclingnews.com. 17 August 2015. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
- "99th Giro d'Italia Startlist". Pro Cycling Stats. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
- "71st Vuelta a España". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
- "2017: 104th Tour de France: Start List". Pro Cycling Stats. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
- "Vegard Stake Laengen at Bretagne-Séché Environnement". Bretagne–Séché Environnement. Rennes, Brittany: Emmanuel Hubert. Retrieved 6 January 2013.
- "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.
External links
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- Vegard Stake Laengen at Cycling Archives
- Vegard Stake Laengen at ProCyclingStats
- Vegard Stake Laengen at Cycling Quotient
- Vegard Stake Laengen at CycleBase
- Vegard Stake Laengen at Olympedia
- Bretagne-Séché Environnement: Vegard Stake Laengen
- Cycling Base: Vegard Stake Laengen
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