Marco Haller (cyclist)

Marco Haller

Marco Haller at 2015 Tour de France in his Austrian National champions jersey
Personal information
Full name Marco Haller
Born (1991-04-01) 1 April 1991
Sankt Veit an der Glan, Austria
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 72 kg (159 lb)
Team information
Current team Team Katusha
Discipline Road
Role Rider
Rider type Sprinter
One-day races
Amateur team(s)
RLM Kostel's Radshop
Grafenstein
Professional team(s)
2010 Tyrol Team
2011 Adria Mobil
2012– Team Katusha
Major wins

One-Day Races and Classics

National Road Race Championship (2015)
Infobox last updated on
28 June 2015

Marco Haller (born 1 April 1991 in Sankt Veit an der Glan, lives in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee[1]) is an Austrian professional road bicycling racer who currently rides for Team Katusha.[2] He took his first win in the World Tour classified race Tour of Beijing, in a massive sprint where he had the upper hand on established sprinters such as Alessandro Petacchi (Lampre–ISD) and Elia Viviani (Liquigas–Cannondale).[3] In 2015, he was the surprise winner of the Tour des Fjords after featuring in the last stage's breakaway.[4] He was named in the start list for the 2015 Tour de France for the first time[5] where he got into the breakaway of the day on stage 16 and was caught by the bunch before the last climb of the day together with Adam Hansen.[6]

Career highlights

2011
2nd Porec Trophy
2012
1st Stage 4 Tour of Beijing
2013
1st Mountains classification Three Days of De Panne
7th Overall Tour des Fjords
1st Stage 3 (TTT)
7th Overall Arctic Race of Norway
10th Le Samyn
2014
1st Stage 8 Tour of Austria
2015
1st Overall Tour des Fjords
1st National Road Race Championship
3rd Gran Premio Nobili Rubinetterie

References

  1. "Marco Haller ¦ Humanomed". www.humanomed.at. Retrieved 2016-03-22.
  2. "Team Katusha (KAT) – RUS". UCI World Tour. Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 2 January 2014.
  3. Ben Atkins (12 October 2012). "Tour of Beijing: Marco Haller takes first professional win on stage four to Chang Ping". Velo Nation (Velo Nation LLC). Retrieved 13 October 2012.
  4. Jean-François Quénet (31 May 2015). "Tour des Fjords: Boasson Hagen wins final stage". Cyclingnews.com (Future plc). Retrieved 4 June 2015.
  5. "2015 Tour de France start list". Velo News. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  6. "Five talking points from stage 16 of the Tour de France - Cycling Weekly". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 2016-03-22.

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