Alexander Kristoff

Alexander Kristoff
Kristoff at the 2023 UCI Road World Championships
Personal information
Full nameAlexander Kristoff
NicknameThe Stavanger Stallion[1]
Born (1987-07-05) 5 July 1987 (age 37)
Oslo, Norway
Height1.81 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in)[2]
Weight78 kg (172 lb; 12 st 4 lb)[2]
Team information
Current teamUno-X Mobility
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider type
  • Sprinter
  • Classics specialist
Professional teams
2006Glud & Marstrand–Horsens
2007–2009Maxbo–Bianchi
2010–2011BMC Racing Team
2012–2017Team Katusha
2018–2021UAE Team Emirates[3][4]
2022Intermarché–Wanty–Gobert Matériaux[5]
2023–Uno-X Pro Cycling Team
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
4 individual stages (2014, 2018, 2020)

Stage races

Three Days of De Panne (2015)
Tour of Norway (2019)

One-day races and Classics

European Road Race Championships (2017)
National Road Race Championships (2007, 2011)
Milan–San Remo (2014)
Tour of Flanders (2015)
Gent–Wevelgem (2019)
Hamburg Cyclassics (2014)
GP Ouest-France (2015)
Eschborn–Frankfurt (2014, 2016, 2017, 2018)
Scheldeprijs (2015, 2022)
London–Surrey Classic (2017)
Grand Prix of Aargau Canton (2015, 2018, 2019)
Clásica de Almería (2022)
Circuit Franco-Belge (2022)
Medal record
Representing  Norway
Men's road bicycle racing
Olympic Games
Bronze medal – third place 2012 London Road race
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2017 Bergen Road race
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2017 Herning Road race

Alexander Kristoff (born 5 July 1987[6]) is a Norwegian professional road bicycle racer, who rides for UCI ProTeam Uno-X Mobility.[7]

A sprinter and classics rider, Kristoff is the most successful Norwegian cyclist by number of wins, having taken almost 100 victories during his professional career. He has won four Tour de France stages, the 2014 Milan–San Remo and 2015 Tour of Flanders one-day races – as a result, becoming the only Norwegian rider, as of 2024, to win a cycling monument – and has won medals in the road race at the Olympic Games (2012; bronze), the UCI Road World Championships (2017; silver), and the European Road Cycling Championships (2017; gold). He also holds the record for most wins at the one-day races Eschborn–Frankfurt (four) and the Grand Prix of Aargau Canton (three), and most stage wins at the Tour of Oman (nine), the Tour of Norway (eleven), and the Arctic Race of Norway (seven).

  1. ^ Treloar, Iain (17 July 2022). "Alexander Kristoff is yelling at the heat". Velo. Outside Inc. Retrieved 1 November 2024.
  2. ^ a b "Alexander Kristoff – UAE team Emirates". Archived from the original on 30 January 2018. Retrieved 4 July 2019.
  3. ^ "UAE Team Emirates complete 2020 roster with re-signing of former world champion Rui Costa". Cyclingnews.com. 8 October 2019. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
  4. ^ "UAE Team Emirates". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 2 January 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  5. ^ Ryan, Barry (26 October 2021). "Intermarché-Wanty bank on Kristoff's experience in 2022". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 23 December 2021.
  6. ^ Alexander Kristoff at ProCyclingStats
  7. ^ "Uno – X Pro Cycling Team". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 19 January 2023.