Primož Roglič

Primož Roglič
Personal information
Full name Primož Roglič
Born (1989-10-29) 29 October 1989
Trbovlje, Slovenia
Team information
Current team Team LottoNL–Jumbo
Discipline Road
Role Rider
Rider type Climber, Time-trialist
Professional team(s)
2013–2015 Adria Mobil
2016– Team LottoNL–Jumbo
Major wins

Grand Tours

Giro d'Italia
1 individual stage (2016)

One-day races and Classics

National Time Trial Championships (2016)
Infobox last updated on
15 May 2016

Primož Roglič (born 29 October 1989 in Trbovlje) is a Slovenian racing cyclist currently riding for the Team LottoNL–Jumbo cycling team.[1] Roglič started his career as a ski jumper but then shifted to cycling.

Career

Ski jumping

Roglič is a former ski jumper who competed from 2003-2011, and was the Junior World Ski Jumping champion in 2007.[2] He set his personal best at 183 metres (600 ft) at Heini-Klopfer-Skiflugschanze flying hill in Oberstdorf, Germany in 2011. He had a horrible crash in front of his home crowd in 2007 at the Letalnica bratov Gorišek ski flying hill in Planica, Slovenia.[3][4]

Road cycling

Roglič started in the 2016 Giro d'Italia,[5] where he surprised with a second place in the opening time trial in Apeldoorn, being only one hundredth of a second slower than winner Tom Dumoulin.[6] He won the 9th stage, 40.5 km. individual time trial in Chianti.

Career achievements

Major results

2014
1st Croatia–Slovenia
1st Stage 2 Tour d'Azerbaïdjan
3rd Overall Sibiu Cycling Tour
1st Mountains classification
2015
1st Overall Tour d'Azerbaïdjan
1st Stage 2
1st Overall Tour of Slovenia
1st Stage 3
1st Mountains classification Settimana Coppi & Bartali
2nd Overall Tour of Croatia
4th Overall Tour of Qinghai Lake
1st Stage 5
2016
1st National Time Trial Championships
1st Stage 9 (ITT) Giro d'Italia
4th Overall Tour du Poitou Charentes
5th Overall Volta ao Algarve
7th European Time Trial Championships
10th Time trial, Olympic Games

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 2016
Pink jersey Giro 58
Yellow jersey Tour -
red jersey Vuelta -

WD = Withdrew; IP = In Progress

References

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