Tony Martin (cyclist)
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Tony Martin (born 23 April 1985) is a German professional road bicycle racer riding for the UCI ProTeam Etixx–Quick-Step.[2] Martin is known as a time trial specialist, and is a three-time world champion in the discipline, having won the title in 2011, 2012 and 2013. He also won a silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, finishing runner-up to Sir Bradley Wiggins in the event.
Martin has also been a part of two world championship-winning team time trial squads with Omega Pharma–Quick-Step, in 2012 and 2013. Martin has also won five Grand Tour individual time trial stages; three at the Tour de France in 2011, 2013 and 2014, and two at the Vuelta a España in 2011 and the 2014. He has also won several stage races, including the Eneco Tour (2010), Paris–Nice (2011) and the first two editions of the Tour of Beijing in 2011 and 2012.
Early life
Born in Cottbus, East Germany, Martin and the rest of his family escaped from East Germany shortly before the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communist Eastern Europe. Later he returned to the Eastern part of Germany to attend sport school in Erfurt.
Career
2009
In 2009, Martin won time-trials in Critérium International and Bayern-Rundfahrt. He also featured strongly in week-long stage races, winning the mountain classifications at 2009 Paris-Nice and the 2009 Tour de Suisse, finishing second overall and winning a stage in the latter. Martin also made an impact at the Tour de France, wearing the Maillot blanc on stages 3–14, and winning the combativity award after finishing second on Stage 20 at the top of Mont Ventoux. He took the bronze medal in the time trial at the 2009 UCI Road World Championships at the end of the season.
2010
Martin enjoyed more success in time trials, winning the national championships as well as stages in the Tour of California and the Tour de Suisse. Martin finished second in both the prologue and ITT Stage 19 of the Tour de France, and again wore the Maillot blanc (stages 1–3). Following the Tour de France, Martin finished 1st overall in the 2010 Eneco Tour, as well as the time trial stage 7 and the young rider's classification. Martin again took the bronze medal at the time trial at the 2010 UCI Road World Championships.
2011
2011 saw Martin claim overall victories in the 2011 Volta ao Algarve and 2011 Paris-Nice,[3] having won time trials in both events. He also finished second overall in the 2011 Tour de Romandie, and won the time trial in the 2011 Critérium du Dauphiné.
Martin won his first Grand Tour stage by taking victory in the ITT Stage 20 of the 2011 Tour de France.[4] He also won the stage 10 time trial in the 2011 Vuelta a España.[5]
In September, Martin won the gold medal in the time trial at the 2011 UCI Road World Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark.[6] He then won the opening time trial of the inaugural 2011 Tour of Beijing,[7] and held the race lead for the rest of the event to claim overall victory.[8][9]
Following the announcement that HTC–Highroad would fold at the end of 2011, Martin signed with Omega Pharma–Quick-Step for the 2012 season.[10]
2012
Martin began 2012 with second overall in the Volta ao Algarve, finishing second to Bradley Wiggins by less than a second in the final time trial. In April, Martin lost consciousness after colliding with a car during training[11] and sustained injuries, wrecking his early season. Martin returned to action at the Tour of Belgium in May, winning the time trial on Stage 4 and taking the overall victory.
At the 2012 Tour de France, Martin's hopes of winning the prologue, were dashed by a mechanical problem that forced him to switch bikes on course. Martin then crashed the following day on Stage 1, suffering a broken wrist. After suffering more mechanical problems in the next time trial, Stage 9, he withdrew from the competition so that his wrist would have more time to heal before the time trial at the 2012 Summer Olympics three weeks later.[12] Martin was deemed fit enough to compete, and he claimed silver at the Olympics behind Bradley Wiggins.[13]
In September, Martin was part of the six man Omega Pharma-Quick Step team that won the inaugural UCI World Team Time Trial Championships. Three days later, he successfully defended his individual world title, beating Taylor Phinney by five seconds and passing Alberto Contador on course.
In October, Martin went back to China to defend his title of Tour of Beijing champion, the last UCI World Tour race of the season. He accomplished his mission successfully, raking in the general classification when the dust settled.[14] He placed well in all the stages, but the win is to be attributed in large part to a solo victory on stage 2, where he decimated the field, won well clear of his nearest opponents and took his first stage (that is not a time trial) win in three years.[15]
2013
In February, Martin won the general classification of the Volta ao Algarve. He earned the leader's jersey on the fourth and last stage, a 34.8 km (21.6 mi) race against the clock which he dominated. The second rider of the day, Michał Kwiatkowski (Omega Pharma–Quick-Step), finished with a deficit of a little more than a minute. In the overall classification, he bested Kwiatkowski and Lieuwe Westra of Vacansoleil–DCM.[16] In the Tour de France he was involved in a crash on the 1st stage which left him with a concussion and a contusion on his left lung.[17] He recovered enough to win stage 11, an individual time trial.[18] With an average speed of 54.271 km/h (33.722 mph), Martin rode the third fastest ever ITT in the Tour.[19]
In the sixth stage of Vuelta a España Tony managed a 175 km (109 mi) solo breakaway, averaging 27.7 mph for over 100 miles (quite possibly — by a large margin — the fastest ever 100 mile solo standard road bicycle ride in history) which was only caught in the final meters of the stage.[20][21] This stage was ridden on a road bike, forming part of his preparation for the world championships. Martin would then go on to help his team Omega Pharma–Quick-Step to narrowly beat Orica–GreenEDGE in world team time trial championships before emerging victorious once more in the individual time trial, beating second placed Wiggins by 46 seconds, who was a further two seconds ahead of four-time winner Cancellara.[22]
In the off season Tony had surgery in Hamburg to resolve the scaphoid non-union resulting from his 2012 Tour de France stage 1 crash.[23] The Omega Pharma-Quick Step team said he would wear a special cast for six weeks which would allow him to resume training before the cast was removed.
2014
On the 1st of May he claimed his third consecutive Tour of Belgium and set a new record in doing so. 9 other riders managed to win the race two times before. Martin then won the two time trials of the Tour de Suisse, finishing fourth overall thanks to his ability to limit his losses in the mountains.[24] On 13 July 2014 Martin won his first mass start road stage of the Tour de France. He was in a breakaway for 155 km, the final 60 km in a solo effort to bring back memories of his famous Vuelta effort in 2013.[25] This time Martin won the stage and was able to begin his celebrations some distance before the line. He topped his Tour off by winning the 20th stage time trial by the margin of 1 minute 39 seconds over his nearest rival.[26] He went on to take another Grand Tour stage win at the Vuelta a España, clinching the individual time trial on stage 10.[27] However he missed out on victory in the time trials at the Road World Championships, taking the bronze alongside his Omega Pharma-Quick Step team-mates in the team event and the silver in the individual, trailing Bradley Wiggins by 26 seconds.[28]
2015
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Martin had his first victory of the season on the individual time trial of the Volta ao Algarve. The second one came in May, at the Tour de Romandie, where he bettered Simon Spilak by eleven seconds in the rainy streets of Lausanne.[29] At the end of June, he defended his German individual time trial title successfully.[30]
At the 2015 Tour de France, Martin finished second behind Rohan Dennis (BMC) in the opening time trial in Utrecht. Martin looked set to take the yellow jersey on Stage 2 when Dennis was dropped when the peloton split in cross winds, but Fabian Cancellara outsprinted Martin's teammate Mark Cavendish to take third on the stage, and jump ahead of Martin into first place due to time bonueses. On Stage 3 Cancellara was involved in a large accident and lost time, but Martin again missed out on taking the yellow jersey, as Chris Froome (Team Sky) came home second at the finish on the Mur de Huy, and took the lead by one second over Martin due to the time bonus. On July 7, 2015, Martin won Stage 4 of the Tour after a short escape 3 km (1.9 mi) before the finish, taking the yellow jersey for the first time in his career. He was riding on a bike borrowed from teammate Matteo Trentin, having had mechanical problems earlier in the race, which featured 13 km (8.1 mi) of cobbles.[31] On Stage 6, Martin crashed in the final kilometre on an uphill section while he was still in yellow and had to abandon the Tour because of a broken collarbone.[32]
One month later, Martin returned to racing with style. Although he fell short in the individual time trial in stage 4, he gained time over his main competitors and eventually won the overall of Tour du Poitou-Charentes.[33] This was Martin's first stage race win of the season. However he missed out on a World Championship gold for the second year running, with Etixx-Quick Step finishing second after being defeated by BMC by 11 seconds in the team time trial[34] and Martin struggling to a seventh place in the individual event - his worst performance in the event since he finished in the same position at the 2008 Worlds.[35]
Palmarès
- 2003
- 1st
National Under-19 Time Trial Championships - 2004
- 1st National Team Pursuit Championships
- 2005
- Giro delle Regione U-23
- 1st Stages 4 & 6
- 1st Stage 4 Regio-Tour
- 2006
- 1st National Under-23 Time Trial Championships
- 1st
Overall Internationale Thüringen-Rundfahrt U-23 - 2007
- 1st Overall FBD Insurance Rás
- 1st Coppa Citta' di Asti
- 1st Stage 3 Circuit des Ardennes
- 2nd Overall Tour de l'Avenir
- 2008
- 1st Hel van het Mergelland
- 1st Stage 3b (ITT) Tour de l'Ain
- 1st Stage 8 (ITT) Deutschland Tour
- 1st Prologue Ster Elektrotoer
- 3rd Overall Sachsen-Tour International
- 2009
- 1st
Mountains classification, Paris–Nice - 1st Stage 3 (ITT) Critérium International
- 1st Stage 4 (ITT) Bayern-Rundfahrt
- 2nd Overall Tour de Suisse
- 1st Stage 8
- 1st
Mountains classification
- 3rd
World Time Trial Championships - 8th Overall Tour de Romandie
- Tour de France
- Held White Jersey
from Stages 3–14 - Combativity award
Stage 20
- Held White Jersey
- 2010
- 1st National Time Trial Championships
- 1st Overall Eneco Tour
- 1st Stage 7 (ITT)
- 1st
Young rider classification
- 1st Stage 7 (ITT) Tour of California
- 3rd World Time Trial Championships
- 6th Overall Tour de Suisse
- 1st Stage 9 (ITT)
- Tour de France
- Held Maillot blanc from Stages 1–3.
- Held Maillot blanc
- 2011
- 1st
World Time Trial Championships - 1st Overall Volta ao Algarve
- 1st Stage 5 (ITT)
- 1st Overall Paris-Nice
- 1st Stage 6 (ITT)
- 1st
Overall Tour of Beijing
- 1st Stage 1 (ITT)
- 1st Chrono des Nations
- 1st Stage 6 (ITT) Tour of the Basque Country
- 1st Stage 20 (ITT) Tour de France
- 1st Stage 10 (ITT) Vuelta a España
- 1st Stage 3 (ITT) Critérium du Dauphiné
- 2nd Overall Tour de Romandie
- 2012
- 1st World Time Trial Championships
- 1st World Team Time Trial Championships
- 1st National Time Trial Championships
- 1st Overall Tour of Belgium
- 1st Stage 4 (ITT)
- 1st Overall Tour of Beijing
- 1st Stage 2
- 1st Chrono des Nations
- 2nd
Time trial, Olympic Games - 2nd Overall Volta ao Algarve
- 5th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
- 2013
- 1st World Time Trial Championships
- 1st World Team Time Trial Championships
- 1st National Time Trial Championships
- 1st Overall Volta ao Algarve
- 1st Stage 4 (ITT)
- 1st Overall Tour of Belgium
- 1st Stage 3 (ITT)
- 1st Chrono des Nations
- Tirreno–Adriatico
- 1st Stages 1 TTT & 7 (ITT)
- 1st Stage 6 (ITT) Tour of the Basque Country
- 1st Stage 5 (ITT) Tour de Romandie
- 1st Stage 4 (ITT) Critérium du Dauphiné
- 1st Stage 11 (ITT) Tour de France
- Combativity award Stage 6 Vuelta a España
- 6th Overall Tour of Beijing
- 8th Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana
- 2014
- 1st National Time Trial Championships
- 1st Overall Tour of Belgium
- 1st Stage 3 (ITT)
- Tour of the Basque Country
- 1st Stages 2 & 6 (ITT)
- Tour de France
- 1st Stages 9 & 20 (ITT)
- Held after Stage 9
- Combativity award Stages 9 & 10
- Vuelta a España
- 1st Stage 10 (ITT)
- Combativity award Stage 10
- 2nd
World Time Trial Championships - 3rd World Team Time Trial Championships
- 4th Overall Dubai Tour
- 4th Overall Tour de Suisse
- 1st Stages 1 (ITT) & 7 (ITT)
- 2015
- 1st National Time Trial Championships
- 1st Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes
- 1st Stage 3 (ITT) Volta ao Algarve
- 1st Stage 6 (ITT) Tour de Romandie
- Tour de France
- 1st Stage 4
- Held after Stages 4–6
- 2nd World Team Time Trial Championships
Grand Tour General Classification results timeline
| Grand Tour | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Giro |
128 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Tour |
— | 35 | 137 | 44 | WD | 106 | 47 | WD |
| Vuelta |
— | — | — | WD | WD | WD | WD | — |
WD = Withdrew
Other major stage races
| Race | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Paris–Nice | – | 85 | DNF | 1 | 62 | – | – | 38 | – |
| Tirreno–Adriatico | – | – | – | – | – | 29 | 75 | – | 117 |
| Volta a Catalunya | – | – | 92 | – | – | – | – | – | – |
| Tour of the Basque Country | - | – | – | 107 | 5 | 60 | 30 | 32 | – |
| Tour de Romandie | 94 | 8 | – | 2 | – | 11 | 83 | 30 | |
| Critérium du Dauphiné | 98 | – | – | 37 | 23 | DNS | – | DNF | |
| Tour de Suisse | – | 2 | 6 | – | – | – | 4 | – |
Time Trial Championships Timeline
| Year | World TTT | World ITT | National TT |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | - | 7th | - |
| 2008 | - | 7th | 3rd |
| 2009 | - | 3rd | 2nd |
| 2010 | - | 3rd | 1st |
| 2011 | - | 1st | 2nd |
| 2012 | 1st | 1st | 1st |
| 2013 | 1st | 1st | 1st |
| 2014 | 3rd | 2nd | 1st |
| 2015 | 2nd | 7th | 1st |
References
- 1 2 3 4 "Tony Martin". Omega Pharma–Quick-Step. Decolef. Retrieved 3 January 2014.
- ↑ "Omega Pharma-Quick-Step Cycling Team (OPQ) – BEL". UCI World Tour. Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 9 January 2013.
- ↑ Cycling (13 March 2011). "Paris-Nice 2011: Tony Martin wins 'race to the sun' after Thomas Voeckler claims second stage on Côte d'Azur". London: Telegraph. Retrieved 5 January 2012.
- ↑ "Tony Martin wins stage-20 ITT as Cadel Evans takes lead in 2011 Tour de France". Velonews.competitor.com. 27 July 2011. Retrieved 5 January 2012.
- ↑ "Tony Martin Wins Vuelta Stage 10, Froome in Red | This Just In". Bicycling.com. 29 August 2011. Retrieved 5 January 2012.
- ↑ Williams, Ollie (21 September 2011). "BBC Sport – World Road Cycling: Bradley Wiggins wins time trial silver". BBC News. Retrieved 5 January 2012.
- ↑ "AFP: Time-trial world champ Martin wins Beijing first stage". Google.com. 5 October 2011. Retrieved 5 January 2012.
- ↑ "Martin the inaugural Beijing champion". Cycling News. 9 October 2011. Retrieved 12 October 2011.
- ↑ "Martin wins inaugural Tour of Beijing". The Times of India.
- ↑ Atkins, Ben (19 September 2011). "Fabian Cancellara tips Tony Martin and Bert Grabsch for time trial gold". VeloNation (VeloNation LLC). Retrieved 5 January 2012.
Among his challengers, Cancellara himself has picked out two Germans as the main competition, according to Sporza; both of whom currently ride for HTC–Highroad, and both of whom will be transferring to Omega Pharma–Quick-Step in 2012.
- ↑ "World time-trial champion Tony Martin loses consciousness after colliding with car during training". The Daily Telegraph (London). 12 April 2012.
- ↑ "Tony Martin quits Tour de France to prepare for London 2012". BBC Sport. BBC. 10 July 2012. Retrieved 2 August 2012.
- ↑ Wynn, Nigel (1 August 2012). "Wiggins wins gold in men's time trial, bronze for Froome". Cycling Weekly. IPC Media Limited. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
- ↑ Wynn, Nigel (13 October 2012). "Cummings takes final Tour of Beijing stage as Martin wins overall". Cycling Weekly (IPC Media Limited). Retrieved 13 October 2012.
- ↑ Stokes, Shane (10 October 2012). "Tony Martin seizes Tour of Beijing lead with first road race stage win in three years". VeloNation (VeloNation LLC). Retrieved 10 October 2012.
- ↑ Shane Stokes (17 February 2013). "Martin repeats 2011 time trial win to scoop Volta ao Algarve victory". VeloNation (VeloNation LLC). Retrieved 17 February 2013.
- ↑ Cycling News. "Crash in Tour de France opener leaves Martin battered once again". Cyclingnews.com.
- ↑ Patrick Fletcher. "Tour de France 2015: Stage 11 Results - Cyclingnews.com". Cyclingnews.com.
- ↑ The Times Of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/more-sports/cycling/Martin-third-quickest-of-Tour-de-Frances-time-triallists/articleshow/21008584.cms. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ "Vuelta a Espana 2013: Tony Martin beaten in final 20m". Retrieved 7 September 2013.
- ↑ "Tony Martin agonisingly close to solo Vuelta stage win". Retrieved 7 September 2013.
- ↑ "Tony Martin wins world time trial title as Bradley Wiggins pips Fabian Cancellara to silver". Sky Sports. Retrieved 25 September 2013.
- ↑ Stephen Farrand. "Tony Martin undergoes surgery on scaphoid". Cyclingnews.com.
- ↑ "Results: 2014 Tour de Suisse, stage 9". VeloNews (Competitor Group, Inc.). 22 June 2014. Retrieved 10 September 2014.
- ↑ Barry Ryan (13 July 2014). "Tour de France: Tony Martin wins in Mulhouse". Cyclingnews.com (Future plc). Retrieved 26 July 2014.
- ↑ Stephen Farrand (26 July 2014). "Tony Martin wins stage 20 time trial at the Tour de France". Cyclingnews.com (Future plc). Retrieved 26 July 2014.
- ↑ Benson, Daniel (4 September 2014). "Vuelta a España: Quintana crashes out of race lead in time trial". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
- ↑ Fotheringham, Alasdair (24 September 2014). "Tony Martin's streak as time trial world champion ends". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
- ↑ Sadhbh O'Shea (3 May 2015). "Zakarin wins Tour de Romandie". Cyclingnews.com (Future plc). Retrieved 3 May 2015.
- ↑ Westemeyer, Susan (26 June 2015). "Tony Martin crushes German time trial championships". Cyclingnews.com (Immediate Media Company). Retrieved 27 June 2015.
- ↑ MacMichael, Simon (7 July 2015). "Tour de France Stage 4: Tony Martin attacks to finally get into yellow". RoadCC (Farrelly Atkinson Ltd). Retrieved 7 July 2015.
- ↑ "Martin abandons Tour de France due to fractured collarbone". Cyclingnews.com (Immediate Media Company). 9 July 2015. Retrieved 9 July 2015.
- ↑ "Tour du Poitou-Charentes: Tony Martin wins the overall". Cyclingnews.com (Immediate Media Company). 28 August 2015. Retrieved 28 August 2015.
- ↑ "BMC repeat as team time trial World Champions". cyclingnews.com. 20 September 2015. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
- ↑ Benson, Daniel (24 September 2015). "Tony Martin left with no answers after Worlds time trial disappointment". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
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