.JPG) Laengen at the 2014 Tour de l'Eurométropole | |||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Vegard Stake Laengen | ||||||||||||||
| Born | (1989-02-07) 7 February 1989 (age 35) Oslo, Norway | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 79 kg (174 lb; 12 st 6 lb) | ||||||||||||||
| Team information | |||||||||||||||
| Current team | UAE Team Emirates XRG | ||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
| Rider type |
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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 | ||||||||||||||
| 2015 | Team Joker | ||||||||||||||
| 2016 | IAM Cycling | ||||||||||||||
| 2017– | UAE Abu Dhabi | ||||||||||||||
| Major wins | |||||||||||||||
| One-day races and Classics | |||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Vegard Stake Laengen (born 7 February 1989) is a Norwegian professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam UAE Team Emirates XRG.
Career
Born in Oslo, Laengen competed for Norway at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics. In August 2015 Team Joker confirmed that Laengen would be leaving the team to join IAM Cycling for 2016. He has competed in ten Grand Tours in his career. In 2018, he was crowned the Norwegian national road race champion.
Personal life
Laengen currently resides in Fredrikstad, Norway.
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 (1 pro win)
- 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 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Giro d'Italia
|
83 | — | 102 | — | — | — | — | — | 75 |
| Tour de France
|
— | 127 | — | 107 | 82 | 112 | DNF | 102 | |
 Vuelta a España
|
81 | — | 107 | — | — | — | — |
| — | Did not compete |
|---|---|
| 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.
- "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
- Vegard Stake Laengen at UCI
- Vegard Stake Laengen at Cycling Archives (archived)
- Vegard Stake Laengen at ProCyclingStats
- Vegard Stake Laengen at CQ Ranking
- Vegard Stake Laengen at CycleBase
- Vegard Stake Laengen at Olympedia (archive)
- Vegard Stake Laengen at Olympics.com
- Vegard Stake Laengen at Bretagne-Séché Environnement
- Vegard Stake Laengen at Cycling Base
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