Lars Bak
 Bak at the 2012 Giro d'Italia. | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Lars Ytting Bak |
| Born |
16 January 1980 Silkeborg, Denmark |
| Height | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) |
| Weight | 76 kg (168 lb; 12.0 st) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Lotto–Soudal |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | All-rounder |
| Amateur team(s) | |
| 1996–1999 | Silkeborg CR |
| 2000–2001 | Hammel CK |
| 2001 | CCI Differdange |
| 2001 | UC Trevigiani-Mapei |
| Professional team(s) | |
| 2002–2003 | Team Fakta |
| 2004 | BankGiroLoterij |
| 2005–2009 | Team CSC |
| 2010–2011 | Team HTC–Columbia |
| 2012– | Lotto–Belisol[1] |
| Major wins | |
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Infobox last updated on 4 August 2013 | |
Lars Ytting Bak (born 16 January 1980) is a Danish professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour team Lotto–Soudal.[2]
Career
Born in Silkeborg, Bak became a professional in 2002 for Team Fakta where he rode with fellow Dane Allan Johansen. In 2004 they both switched to BankGiroLoterij where Lars Bak would gain his first professional win, but as the BankGiroLoterij team stopped after the 2004 season, both Bak and Johansen went to Team CSC in 2005.
Here, Bak won the Danish Road Racing Championship, and in the later half of the season he showed his strength and talent as a good upcoming rider, as he won the respected ten stage Under 25 race, the Tour de l'Avenir. He won the leader's jersey by sprinting to the win in a group of four riders on the first stage, a position he defended through the following nine stages bar one, including a time trial and a number of hilly stages.
In 2011 he finally made his Tour de France debut where he worked hard for Mark Cavendish's sprint train and finished off by taking part in a breakaway on the last stage. Bak joined Lotto–Belisol for the 2012 season.[1]
In 2012, he won stage 12 of Giro d'Italia.
Major results
- 2004
- 1st Stage 1, Tour de Luxembourg
- 2005
- 1st
National Road Race Championships - 1st
Overall Tour de l'Avenir
- 1st Stage 1
- 1st Paris–Bourges
- 2006
- 1st Eindhoven Team Time Trial
- 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Vuelta a España
- 4th Overall Bayern-Rundfahrt
- 2007
- 1st National Time Trial Championships
- 1st Stage 5 Tour de Wallonie
- 2008
- 1st National Time Trial Championships
- 2nd Overall Tour de Pologne
- 1st Stage 1 TTT
- 2009
- 1st National Time Trial Championships
- 6th Overall Tour de Romandie
- 7th Overall Eneco Tour of Benelux
- 1st Stage 5
- 2010
- 1st Stage 1 TTT Vuelta a España
- 2011
- 1st Stage 1 TTT Giro d'Italia
- 3rd GP Herning
- 5th Paris–Roubaix
- 2012
- 1st Grand Prix de Fourmies
- 1st Stage 12 Giro d'Italia
- 10th Overall Ster ZLM Toer
- 2013
- 2nd Overall Danmark Rundt
- 2014
- 2nd Overall Danmark Rundt
- 2015
- 2nd Overall Danmark Rundt
- 6th Overall Three Days of De Panne
References
- 1 2 "Bak looking forward to finally having his chance at Lotto-Ridley". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. 2 October 2011. Retrieved 5 January 2012.
- ↑ "Lotto Belisol (LTB) – BEL". UCI World Tour. Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 3 January 2014.
External links
Media related to Lars Bak at Wikimedia Commons
- Official website (Danish)
- Profile at Team Saxo Bank (source for this article)
- Lars Bak profile at Cycling Archives