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| Full name | Svein Tuft | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Sveino | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | May 9, 1977 Langley, British Columbia, Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 74 kg (163 lb; 11.7 st) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Retired | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Domestique Time trialist | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Amateur teams | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2001 | Mercury–Viatel (stagiaire) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2004 | Symmetrics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Professional teams | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2002–2003 | Prime Alliance Cycling Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2005–2008 | Symmetrics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2009–2010 | Garmin–Slipstream | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2011 | SpiderTech–C10 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2012–2018 | GreenEDGE[1][2] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2019 | Rally UHC Cycling[3] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Svein Tuft (born May 9, 1977) is a Canadian former road bicycle racer,[4] who rode professionally between 2005 and 2019 for the Symmetrics, Garmin–Transitions, SpiderTech–C10, Mitchelton–Scott and Rally UHC Cycling teams. Tuft was the winner of the 2006–07 UCI America Tour, and was a thirteen-time champion at the Canadian road cycling championships: twice in the road race, and eleven times in the time trial.
- ^ Aubrey, Jane (August 24, 2011). "Tuft heads back to the WorldTour with GreenEdge". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. Retrieved January 1, 2012.
- ^ "Orica-GreenEDGE (OGE) - AUS". UCI World Tour. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on January 2, 2014. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
- ^ Soladay, Tom. "2019 men's and women's rosters". Rally UHC Cycling. Circuit Sport. Archived from the original on January 22, 2019. Retrieved January 23, 2019.
- ^ Hood, Andrew (October 21, 2019). "Retirements in 2019 — goodbye to the peloton's working class heroes". VeloNews. Pocket Outdoor Media, LLC. Retrieved January 9, 2020.
Canadian Svein Tuft, 42, says goodbye to a long and unconventional career that saw him emerge as one of the hardest working and dependable team riders in the peloton.
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