![]() Yates in the King of the Mountains jersey of the 2014 Tour of Alberta | |||||||||||||||
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Full name | Simon Philip Yates | ||||||||||||||
Born | [1] Bury, Greater Manchester, England | 7 August 1992||||||||||||||
Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in)[1] | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 59 kg (130 lb; 9 st 4 lb)[1] | ||||||||||||||
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Current team | Team Jayco–AlUla | ||||||||||||||
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Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
Rider type | Climber All-rounder (road)[2] Endurance (track) | ||||||||||||||
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2013 | 100% me[3] | ||||||||||||||
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2014– | Orica–GreenEDGE[4][5] | ||||||||||||||
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Simon Philip Yates (born 7 August 1992) is a British professional road and track racing cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam Team Jayco–AlUla.[6] His twin brother is Adam Yates, who is also a professional cyclist. He won the gold medal in the points race at the 2013 Track Cycling World Championships. Following a doping ban in 2016, he won the young rider classification in the 2017 Tour de France and the general classification in the 2018 Vuelta a España. Yates has taken more than thirty professional victories, including ten Grand Tour stage victories – six at the Giro d'Italia and two each at the Tour de France and the Vuelta a España. Simon has been a resident of Andorra since 2015.[7]