Svein Tuft

Svein Tuft
Personal information
Full nameSvein Tuft
NicknameSveino
Born (1977-05-09) May 9, 1977 (age 47)
Langley, British Columbia, Canada
Height1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight74 kg (163 lb; 11.7 st)
Team information
Current teamRetired
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeDomestique
Time trialist
Amateur teams
2001Mercury–Viatel (stagiaire)
2004Symmetrics
Professional teams
2002–2003Prime Alliance Cycling Team
2005–2008Symmetrics
2009–2010Garmin–Slipstream
2011SpiderTech–C10
2012–2018GreenEDGE[1][2]
2019Rally UHC Cycling[3]
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
1 TTT stage (2013)
Giro d'Italia
1 TTT stage (2014)

One-day races and Classics

National Road Race Championships
(2011, 2014)
National Time Trial Championships
(11 times)[N 1]

Other

UCI America Tour (2006–07)
Medal record
Men's road bicycle racing
Representing  Canada
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2008 Varese Time trial
Pan American Championships
Gold medal – first place 2008 Montevideo Time trial
Representing Orica–GreenEDGE
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2013 Tuscany Team time trial
Silver medal – second place 2014 Ponferrada Team time trial
Bronze medal – third place 2012 Valkenburg Team time trial
Representing Orica–BikeExchange
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Doha Team time trial

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.

  1. ^ Aubrey, Jane (August 24, 2011). "Tuft heads back to the WorldTour with GreenEdge". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. Retrieved January 1, 2012.
  2. ^ "Orica-GreenEDGE (OGE) - AUS". UCI World Tour. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on January 2, 2014. Retrieved January 3, 2014.
  3. ^ 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.
  4. ^ 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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