Adam Yates (cyclist)

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Adam Yates
File:Adam Yates 2015TOA.jpg
Personal information
Full name Adam Yates
Born (1992-08-07) 7 August 1992 (age 31)[1]
Bury, United Kingdom
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)[1]
Weight 58 kg (128 lb; 9.1 st)[1]
Team information
Current team Mitchelton–Scott
Discipline Road
Role Rider
Rider type Climber
Amateur team(s)
2013 CC Etupes
Professional team(s)
2014– Orica–GreenEDGE
Major wins
Stage races
Tour of Turkey (2014)

One-day races and Classics

Clásica de San Sebastián (2015)
Infobox last updated on
1 August 2015

Adam Yates (born 7 August 1992) is a British road and track racing cyclist and twin brother of Simon Yates.[2] He currently competes for the Mitchelton–Scott team.[3]

The brothers are not related to former cyclist Sean Yates.

Career

Amateur career

Adam and Simon 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, 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. Whilst Simon was selected for the British Cycling Olympic Academy programme, Adam pursued his road racing career in France with financial help from the Dave Rayner Fund.[4]

Yates finished second by just 55 seconds to Spanish rider Ruben Fernandez in the general classification of the 2013 Tour de l'Avenir whilst representing the British national team.

Professional career

Orica-GreenEDGE (2014–present)

Having spent a successful season with French amateur team CC Etupes, he joined the Australian UCI World Tour team Orica–GreenEDGE along with his brother in 2014.[3] In his first professional race, the Tour de San Luis in Argentina, Yates finished eleventh overall and first in the young rider classification.[5]

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Yates at the 2014 Tour of Turkey, where he achieved his first professional victories

Yates' breakthrough results came at the Tour of Turkey in late April and early May 2014. He had been one of the team's protected riders for the general classification, along with his brother.[6] On the third stage, he became the team's de facto team leader, after Simon crashed out of the race, resulting in a suspected broken clavicle.[7] Yates was the only person to follow an attack by Rein Taaramäe on the final climb to Elmalı, and ultimately finished the stage in second place, six seconds down on Taaramäe after he had attacked again in the closing metres.[8] After two stages that suited the sprinters, Yates achieved his first professional victory on the sixth stage, finishing at the House of the Virgin Mary in Selçuk. A reduced peloton had formed on the final climb from which Yates attacked with around a kilometre remaining. Yates held off the chasers – led home by Davide Formolo and Davide Rebellin, two seconds in arrears – and was able to take the leader's blue jersey from Taaramäe, who crossed the line seven seconds behind Yates.[9][10] Yates held the race lead until its conclusion in Istanbul two days later; he extended his lead by a further four seconds on the final stage, as there was a split on the run-in, with only a 28-rider group being given the same time as stage winner, Mark Cavendish.[11] He later described the victory – the first British overall win at the Tour – as "unexpected", having set out with the ambition of winning stages.[12]

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Yates riding at the 2015 Tour de France

Yates next competed at the Tour of California. After being passed on the road by Bradley Wiggins (Team Sky) on Stage 2, the 20 km individual time trial around Folsom, he finished fourth on Stage 3, which finished on Mount Diablo, and fourth on Stage 6, which finished on Mountain High.[13] Yates finished fifth overall in the general classification, 2 minutes and 14 seconds behind the winner, Wiggins.

Yates' impressive form continued at the Critérium du Dauphiné, where he placed eighth on the first mountain top finish on Stage 2.[14] He finished third on Stage 5 after launching a late attack with Wilco Kelderman (Belkin Pro Cycling), and again finished third on Stage 8, a mountain-top finish at Courchevel. Yates finished the UCI World Tour race sixth overall.[15]

Orica GreenEDGE decided not to select Yates for the Tour de France, and he instead was rested for a few weeks. He returned to racing at the GP Industria & Artigianato in July, which he won to take his first one-day professional victory.[16] Yates made the lead group at the Clásica de San Sebastián with Alejandro Valverde (Movistar Team), Bauke Mollema (Belkin), Joaquim Rodríguez (Team Katusha) and Mikel Nieve (Team Sky), but crashed heavily on a descent with 3.5 km remaining, missing out on the chance of his first World Tour victory.[17] He made his Grand Tour debut at the 2014 Vuelta a España,[18] which he managed to complete, finishing 82nd overall.

He was named in the start list for the 2015 Tour de France.[19] He finished seventh on Stage 8, which finished on the Mûr-de-Bretagne,[20] and seventh on the first mountain stage, Stage 10, which finished on the Col de la Pierre St Martin in the Pyrenees.[21]

On 1 August 2015, Yates took his biggest victory to date by winning the Clásica de San Sebastián after attacking on the final climb as leader Greg Van Avermaet of BMC was involved in a crash with a race motorcycle, and holding off the chasers on the descent into San Sebastián. In the confusion after Van Avermaet's crash Yates did not realise he had won, so did not initially celebrate when crossing the finishing line.[22]

Palmarès

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2011
3rd National Scratch Race Championships
2012
3rd National Scratch Race Championships
2013
2nd Overall Tour de l'Avenir
8th Paris–Troyes
2014
1st 20px Overall Tour of Turkey
1st Stage 6
1st GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano[23]
1st Jersey white.svg Young rider classification Tour de San Luis[5]
5th Overall Tour of California
5th Giro di Toscana
6th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné
6th National Road Race Championships
2015
1st Clásica de San Sebastián
2nd Overall Tour of Alberta
1st Jersey white.svg Young rider classification
2nd Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal
9th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
2016
4th Overall Tour of Yorkshire
6th La Drôme Classic
7th Classic Sud-Ardèche

Grand Tour General Classification results timeline

Grand Tour 2014 2015
Pink jersey Giro — —
Yellow jersey Tour — 50
red jersey Vuelta 82 —

Other major stage races

Race 2014 2015 2016
Paris–Nice  –  –  –
Tirreno–Adriatico  – 9 19
Volta a Catalunya 23  –  –
Tour of the Basque Country 76 WD 32
Tour de Romandie  –  –  –
Critérium du Dauphiné 6 20
Tour de Suisse  –  –

References

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  2. ↑ Cycling Weekly, Double vision of the future, 5 September 2013
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  20. ↑ http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/tour-de-france-2015/stage-8/results
  21. ↑ http://www.cyclingnews.com/races/tour-de-france-2015/stage-10/results
  22. ↑ http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/latest-news/adam-yates-wins-clasica-de-san-sebastian-without-knowing-it-185574
  23. ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

External links

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