Simon Yates (cyclist)

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Simon Yates
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Yates in the King of the Mountains jersey of the 2014 Tour of Alberta
Personal information
Full name Simon Yates
Born (1992-08-07) 7 August 1992 (age 32)[1]
Bury, Greater Manchester, England, UK
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)[1]
Weight 58 kg (128 lb; 9.1 st)[1]
Team information
Current team Mitchelton–Scott
Discipline Track and road
Role Rider
Rider type All-rounder (road),[2] Endurance (track)
Amateur team(s)
2013 100% Me
Professional team(s)
2014– Orica–GreenEDGE
Medal record
Track cycling
Representing  Great Britain
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2013 Minsk Points race
Infobox last updated on
3 January 2014

Simon Yates (born 7 August 1992) is a British road and track racing cyclist and twin brother of Adam Yates. He currently competes for the Mitchelton–Scott team.[3]

Career

Early career

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Yates in 2012

Simon and Adam took up cycling after their father John was injured in a collision with a car while riding – during his recovery he took the twins to Manchester Velodrome to track sessions run by his cycling club, Bury Clarion,[4] to keep in touch with the other members. Both brothers soon started riding on the road for Bury Clarion and on the track for Eastlands Velo. At the age of 18 Simon was selected by British Cycling for its Olympic Academy programme. He was also selected for the England team for the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi, where his room-mate was Chris Froome.[5]

He won the gold medal in the points race at the 2013 Track World Championships.[6]

Simon made his breakthrough on the road in 2013 riding for the British national team. Along with brother Adam, he competed at the 2013 Tour de l'Avenir for the Great Britain national team, where Simon won the race's fifth stage, ahead of Adam.[7] Simon added another stage victory the following day,[8] and finished the race tenth overall.

He was then selected as part of the British national team to take part in the Tour of Britain. He competed well throughout the race and on stage six he took his biggest win to date, sprinting clear of a nine-man group at the finish, which included Bradley Wiggins and Nairo Quintana.[9][10] Yates finished third overall in the Tour of Britain, and was the best rider in the under-23 classification.[11]

The brothers are not related to retired British cyclist Sean Yates.

Orica Greenedge (2014–)

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Yates at the 2014 Tour de France

Yates along with his brother joined the Australian UCI World Tour team Orica–GreenEDGE in 2014.[3] He finished 12th Overall in one of his first World Tour races, the Tour of the Basque Country. Yates suffered a broken collarbone on Stage 3 of the Tour of Turkey.[12] He recovered to take seventh overall and the Young Riders Classification in the Tour of Slovenia in June. He was a surprise selection for the Orica Greenedge team for the 2014 Tour de France, with only 5 days notice, and was one of only 4 British riders to take to the Grand Depart startline in Leeds.[13] Yates featured in two breakaways during his Grand Tour debut, before being withdrawn by his team on the second rest day.[14]

In April 2015 Yates finished fifth overall in the Tour of the Basque Country.[15] Later that month he rode the Tour de Romandie and placed sixth overall. In June 2015 Yates finished fifth overall in the Critérium du Dauphiné after finishing second behind Chris Froome on the final stage, a summit finish at Modane. By doing so Yates also won the White Jersey as best young rider.[16]

He was again selected for the 2015 Tour de France, this time alongside his brother Adam.[17] Simon placed eighth on Stage 3, which finished on the Mur de Huy, and eleventh on Stage 20, the queen stage of the race finishing on Alpe d'Huez.[18]

In April 2016 it emerged that Yates had tested positive for the banned substance terbutaline in an in-competition test during Paris–Nice the previous month,[19] where he finished seventh overall.[20] In a statement Orica-GreenEDGE took full responsibility for the test result, saying that the team's doctor had failed to apply for a therapeutic use exemption for an asthma inhaler used by Yates which triggered the positive test.[19] Subsequently the UCI issued a statement indicating that Yates would not be provisionally suspended from competition due to the substance he had tested positive for.[21]

Palmarès

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2009
1st Future Stars competition, Revolution series[22]
2010
Junior Track World Championships
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Madison (with Daniel McLay)
2nd Team pursuit
2011
1st Overall Twinings Pro-Am Tour
1st Stage 6 Tour de l'Avenir
9th Overall Thüringen Rundfahrt der U23
2013
1st Jersey rainbow.svg Points race, UCI Track World Championships
1st Under-23 National Road Race Championships
3rd Overall Tour of Britain
1st Stage 6
3rd La Côte Picarde
4th Ryedale Grand Prix[23]
9th Overall An Post Rás
1st Jersey white.svg Young rider classification
10th Overall Tour de l'Avenir
1st Stages 5 & 6
10th Overall Thüringen Rundfahrt der U23
10th Overall Czech Cycling Tour
2014
1st Jersey polkadot.svg Mountains classification Tour of Alberta
3rd National Road Race Championships
7th Overall Tour of Slovenia
1st Jersey white.svg Young rider classification[24]
2015
5th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
5th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné
1st Jersey white.svg Young rider classification
6th Overall Tour de Romandie
2016
7th Overall Paris–Nice

Grand Tour General Classification results timeline

Grand Tour 2014 2015
Pink jersey Giro — —
Yellow jersey Tour WD 89
red jersey Vuelta — —

Other major stage races

Race 2014 2015 2016
Paris–Nice 44 29 7
Tirreno–Adriatico  –  –  –
Volta a Catalunya  –  –  –
Tour of the Basque Country 11 5 DNF
Tour de Romandie  – 6  –
Critérium du Dauphiné  – 5
Tour de Suisse  –  –

References

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  17. ↑ http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/jun/27/tour-de-france-2015-yates-twins-orica
  18. ↑ http://www.velon.cc/teamnews/yates-brothers-show-strength-on-alpe-dhuez/
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External links

  • Simon Yates at Cycling ArchivesLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
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