Feng Chun-kai

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Feng Chun-kai
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Personal information
Full name Feng Chun-kai
Born (1988-11-02) 2 November 1988 (age 35)
Miaoli County, Taiwan
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Weight 68 kg (150 lb)
Team information
Current team UAE Team Emirates
Discipline Road, track
Role Rider
Rider type All-rounder
Professional team(s)
2010–2012 Action Cycling Team
2013 Champion System
2014 Team Gusto
2015 UAE Team Emirates
Infobox last updated on
6 April 2014

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Feng Chun-kai (Chinese: 馮俊凱; pinyin: Féng Jùnjiā; born November 2, 1988 in Miaoli County) is a Taiwanese professional road and track cyclist.[1] He represented his nation Taiwan, as a 19-year-old junior, at the 2008 Summer Olympics and later won numerous medals in track cycling, specifically in the men's points race and individual pursuit, at the Asian Championships. Feng has also claimed five Taiwanese national titles in road cycling, and a prestigious gold medal at the 2013 East Asian Games in Tianjin, China.

Racing career

Considered as one of Taiwan's most promising cyclists in his generation, Feng sought headlines on the international scene as he outsprinted Japanese duo Kazuhiro Mori and defending champion Makoto Iijima for the gold medal in men's point race at the 2007 Asian Cycling Championships in Bangkok, Thailand.[2]

Signifying an official start of his cycling career, Feng qualified for the Chinese Taipei squad in the men's points race at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing by receiving a wild card invitation from the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI).[2][3] Feng dropped out of a grueling 25-km sprint race in a field of twenty-three cyclists after he slowed down his own pace on the track with only one extra lap needed to complete and a deduction of twenty points.[4][5]

Feng slowly emerged as a solid, all-around road and track rider, when he earned his first ever Taiwanese national road race title in 2009, and eventually mounted a fifth-place finish at the East Asian Games. By the following year, he joined with the Action Cycling Team as a professional and signed for three seasons in an exclusive contract.[6]

In 2011, Feng established a historic milestone in pro cycling as the first ever Asian rider to score three consecutive stage triumphs and grab the yellow jersey and a prestigious tournament title at the International Cycling Classic in the Midwest region of the United States.[7][8]

While still competing for the Action Cycling Team on his final season in the road race, Feng redrafted his efforts to chase for another medal again in the track cycling scene. At the 2012 Asian Cycling Championships in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Feng ended his five-year drought by edging out Thailand's Turakit Boonratanathanakorn and home favorite Mohamed Harrif Salleh on a sprint ride for the gold in the men's elite 10 km scratch race.[9]

In early 2013, Feng joined his fellow Olympic riders Zachary Bell of Canada and Wu Kin San of Hong Kong for the Champion System pro cycling team. Feng started his initial season by participating in the Tour de Taiwan, where he took top honors in the mountain classification to secure the jersey.[10][11] Feng also reclaimed his fourth Taiwanese national road race title, and added the time trial title to his resume for the first time, since he won three straight championships from 2009 to 2011.[12] In October 2013, Feng picked up his gold medal on the strength of an early lead in the men's road race at the East Asian Games in Tianjin, China.[13][14]

In November 2014 Feng was announced as a signing for the Lampre–Merida team for the 2015 season, becoming the first Taiwanese rider to race on the UCI World Tour.[15]

Career highlights

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2007
1st Asian Championships (Points race), Bangkok (THA)
2009
1st NC Taipei Taiwan.jpg National Road Race Championships
1st Stage 2Giant Cup, Taiwan
1st Stage 2 Tour of East Taiwan, Taiwan
3rd Asian Championships (Pursuit), Tenggarong (INA)
5th East Asian Games, Macau (CHN)
2010
1st NC Taipei Taiwan.jpg National Road Race Championships
1st Overall Giant Cup, Taiwan
2nd Asian Championships (Pursuit), Sharjah (UAE)
7th Asian Championships (Road), Sharjah (UAE)
7th Overall Tour de Taiwan, Taiwan
8th Tour of East Java, Indonesia
9th Asian Games (Pursuit), Guangzhou (CHN)
9th Overall Tour de Hokkaido, Japan
10th Tour of Singkarak, Indonesia
2011
1st NC Taipei Taiwan.jpg National Road Race Championships
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall International Cycling Classic, United States
1st Stages 1, 5 & 13
3rd Taiwan Cup, Taiwan
9th Tour of Singkarak, Indonesia
2012
1st Stage 3 Giant Cup, Taiwan
2nd Asian Championships (Scratch), Kuala Lumpur (MAS)
3rd Overall, Tour of Singkarak, Indonesia
7th Overall, Tour de Taiwan, Taiwan
1st Jersey polkadot.svg Mountains classification
10th Asian Championships (Road), Kuala Lumpur (MAS)
16th Overall, Tour of Fuzhou, China
1st Jersey polkadot.svg Mountains classification
16th Overall, Tour of the Philippines, Philippines
1st Jersey polkadot.svg Mountains classification
2013
1st East Asian Games, Tianjin (CHN)
1st NC Taipei Taiwan.jpg National Road Race Championships
1st NC Taipei Taiwan.jpg National Time Trial Championships
1st Jersey polkadot.svg Mountain classification, Tour de Taiwan, Taiwan
1st Stage 1, Tour of East Taiwan, Taiwan
2014
1st NC Taipei Taiwan.jpg National Road Race Championships
1st NC Taipei Taiwan.jpg National Time Trial Championships
1st Jersey polkadot.svg Mountains classification Tour de Taiwan
6th Overall Tour of Thailand
1st Stage 3

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