Tao Geoghegan Hart

Tao Geoghegan Hart
Personal information
Full name Tao Geoghegan Hart
Born (1995-03-30) March 30, 1995
Hackney, London[1]
Height 182 cm (6 ft 0 in)[1]
Team information
Current team Axeon Hagens Berman
Discipline Road, track
Role Rider
Rider type Climber[1]
Amateur team(s)
Cycling Club Hackney
Professional team(s)
2014 Bissell Development Team
→ 2015 Team Sky (Stagiaire)
2015– Axeon Cycling Team
Infobox last updated on
2 August 2015

Tao Geoghegan Hart (born March 30, 1995) is a British cyclist. He rode for Team Sky as a stagiaire as of August 2015,[2] having spent the previous two years at the Axeon Cycling Team managed by Axel Merckx.[3]

Early life

As well as a cyclist he was a keen swimmer as a teenager. On 28th July 2008 he was part of a cross channel swimming relay [4] with Clissold Swimming Club. The team of 6 completed the crossing in 11 hours 34 minutes.

Palmares

2013
1st Tour of Istria
1st Stage 2
1st Overall Giro della Lunigiana
1st Mountains classification
1st Points classification
1st Stage 1[5]
1st Loughborough University Junior Road Race[6]
Ghent International Junior Track Meeting
1st Team pusuit (with Christopher Lawless, Jacob Ragan and Oliver Wood)
4th Madison (with Christopher Lawless)
4th Omnium[7]
3rd Paris-Roubaix Juniors[8]
3rd British National Junior Road Race Championships[9]
5th Overall Course de la Paix
8th Overall Keizer der Juniores
9th Overall Int. Junioren Driedaagse van Axel
2014
3rd U23 Liège–Bastogne–Liège[1]
10th Overall Tour de l'Avenir[10]
2015
3rd U23 Liège–Bastogne–Liège
3rd National Under-23 Time Trial Championships[11]
6th Trofeo PIVA
7th Overall USA Pro Cycling Challenge
1st Young rider classification
8th Overall Tour of the Gila
9th Beaumont Trophy
2016
1st Trofeo PIVA
6th Overall Volta ao Alentejo
7th G.P. Palio del Recioto
8th Giro del Belvedere

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Macleary, John (25 September 2014). "Tao Geoghegan Hart answers twenty questions ahead of the UCI Road World Championships under-23 road race". telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  2. ↑ http://www.teamsky.com/teamsky/home/article/61771#iMMtAibg3OUJgvAA.97. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ↑ "Tao Geoghegan Hart » Bissell Development Team". Retrieved 4 November 2014.
  4. ↑ "Successful Relay Swim by Clissold Swimming Club". Retrieved 2 February 2015.
  5. ↑ "Tao Geoghegan Hart dominates Giro della Lunigiana to take overall win". Cycling Weekly. 9 September 2013. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  6. ↑ Swarbrick, Guy (28 April 2013). "Tao Geoghegan Hart wins Loughborough University Junior Road Race". British Cycling. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
  7. ↑ "Gent International Junior Track Meeting". British Cycling. 5 January 2013. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
  8. ↑ MacLeary, John (22 December 2014). "Fabian Cancellara wins Paris-Roubaix, beating Sep Vanmarcke in cobblestone classic". telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  9. ↑ "Laura Trott and Tom Scully win IG London Nocturne". Cycling Weekly. 9 June 2013. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  10. ↑ "Four Scottish athletes selected in the long list for UCI Road World Championships". Sportscotland. 16 September 2014. Retrieved 22 December 2014.
  11. ↑ Allen, Eddie (25 June 2015). "Dowsett, Simmonds and Davies take British time trial titles". British Cycling. Retrieved 25 June 2015.


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