Daryl Impey
 Impey at the 2014 Tour of Alberta | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Daryl Impey |
| Born |
6 December 1984 Johannesburg, South Africa |
| Height | 183 cm (6 ft 0 in) |
| Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Mitchelton–Scott |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type |
All-rounder Super-domestique[1] |
| Professional team(s) | |
| 2008–2009 | Barloworld |
| 2010 | Team RadioShack |
| 2011 | MTN–Qhubeka |
| 2011 | Team NetApp |
| 2012– | Mitchelton–Scott[2] |
| Major wins | |
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Medal record
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Daryl Impey (born 6 December 1984) is a South African professional road cyclist riding for UCI ProTeam Mitchelton–Scott.[3] Impey is an all-rounder, acting as a domestique for puncheur Simon Gerrans, and as a lead-out man for pure sprinters, in his own right, he generally comes to the fore on tough uphill sprints.[4][5] Until January, 2018, his biggest win to date was the 2009 Tour of Turkey, despite a controversial incident where he was pushed into the barriers by Theo Bos.[6] He won the overall in the 2018 Santos Tour Down Under, a World Tour race.[7]
Career
After riding for the South African team Barloworld in 2008 and 2009, in 2010 Impey joined Team RadioShack.[8] Impey had originally signed for 2011 with the Australian team called Pegasus, but was forced to seek employment elsewhere after that team failed to secure a UCI license.[9] After riding for MTN–Qhubeka and Team NetApp in 2011, Impey joined GreenEDGE for the squad's inaugural season in 2012.[2] He won a stage of the Tour of the Basque Country in April of that year, before making his Grand Tour debut at the Giro d'Italia in May.[10] In 2013, he became the first South African ever to lead theTour de France.[11]
In July 2014 Impey announced that he had tested positive for the banned substance Probenecid at the South African road championships in February, though he denied any wrongdoing.[12] Impey was subsequently cleared of the doping charges at a hearing in August 2014, which accepted his explanation that the Probenecid had entered his system after ingesting contaminated gel capsules he had bought at a pharmacist.[13] Upon his return, he won the Tour of Alberta by a single second thanks to his victory in the last stage, which gave him enough bonus seconds to overtake Tom Dumoulin.[14] Impey confirmed his good form a couple of days later by taking the fourth place on the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec.[15]
In 2015, Impey had to abandon the Tour de France after being involved in a massive crash on the third stage.[16] He was named in the start list for the 2015 Vuelta a España.[17]
Career achievements
Major results
- 2004
- 1st Stage 5 Giro del Capo
- 6th Overall Tour de Tunisie
- 2006
- 3rd
- 2007
- Giro del Capo
- 1st Prologue & Stage 2
- 1st Stage 10 Tour du Maroc
- 2008
- 1st Stage 6 Herald Sun Tour
- 6th Memorial Viviana Manservisi
- 9th World's View Challenge 1
- 9th World's View Challenge 2
- 2009
- 1st
- 1st
- 1st Stage 4
- 1st
- 2nd Road race, National Road Championships
- 3rd Giro del Capo II
- 7th Giro del Capo IV
- 2011
- 1st
- 2nd Overall Tour du Maroc
- 1st Stage 7
- 3rd Overall Tour of South Africa
- 9th Overall Azerbaijan Tour
- 2012
- 1st Stage 2 Tour of the Basque Country
- 1st Stage 2 Tour of Slovenia
- 2013
- 1st
- Tour de France
- 1st Stage 4 (TTT)
- Held
- 1st Stage 2 Tour of the Basque Country
- 1st Stage 2 Bayern–Rundfahrt
- 2nd
- 5th Overall Eneco Tour
- 5th Vuelta a La Rioja
- 2014
- National Road Championships
- 1st
- 2nd Road race
- 1st
- 1st
- 1st Stage 5
- 4th Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec
- 7th Overall Bayern–Rundfahrt
- 1st Stage 3
- 7th Overall Tour Down Under
- 2015
- 1st
- 2nd Vuelta a La Rioja
- 3rd 94.7 Cycle Challenge
- 7th Overall Tour Down Under
- 1st
- 1st
- 6th Classic Sud-Ardèche
- 2016
- 1st
- 3rd
- 2017
- 1st
- 1st Stage 6 Volta a Catalunya
- 1st 94.7 Cycle Challenge
- 2018
- National Road Championships
- 1st
- 1st
- 1st
- 1st
- Critérium du Dauphiné
- 1st
- 1st Stage 1
- 1st
- 3rd Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
- 8th GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano
- 10th Brabantse Pijl
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
| Grand Tour | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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DNF | — | — | — | — | — | — |
|
111 | 74 | — | DNF | 38 | 47 | 46 |
|
— | — | — | 84 | — | — | — |
| — | Did not compete |
|---|---|
| DNF | Did not finish |
References
- ↑ http://www.cyclingweekly.co.uk/news/racing/tour-de-france/super-domestiques-the-unsung-heroes-of-the-tour-de-france-263143
- 1 2 "GreenEdge adds Impey, Meier". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. 11 October 2011. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
- ↑ "Orica-GreenEDGE (OGE) - AUS". UCI World Tour. Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 3 January 2014.
- ↑ "ORICA GreenEDGE Cycling Australia : News : In His Own Words: Daryl Impey on Tour of Oman Stage 4". Orica GreenEdge Cycling Australia.
- ↑ "CyclingQuotes.com Bonus seconds a goal for Impey". cyclingquotes.com.
- ↑ "UCI bans Theo Bos over Impey crash". road.cc.
- ↑ "Daryl Impey wins Santos Tour Down Under, Andre Greipel claims final stage | CyclingTips". CyclingTips. 2018-01-21. Retrieved 2018-01-23.
- ↑ "Impey joins Armstrong at RadioShack". Cyclingnews.com.
- ↑ "Impey and Van Goolen find new teams". Velonation.com. 25 January 2011.
- ↑ Decaluwe, Brecht (23 April 2012). "Goss spearheads GreenEDGE at Giro". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. Retrieved 12 May 2012.
- ↑ becomes first South African in yellow jersey, cyclingnews.com
- ↑ "Daryl Impey: South African cyclist fails drugs test". bbc.co.uk. 2 July 2014. Retrieved 2 July 2014.
- ↑ "Daryl Impey: South African cleared of doping charges". bbc.co.uk. 29 August 2014. Retrieved 30 August 2014.
- ↑ Pat Malach (7 September 2014). "Impey wins Tour of Alberta". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 11 September 2014.
- ↑ "Gerrans wins Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 12 September 2014. Retrieved 12 September 2014.
- ↑ O'Shea, Sadhbh (6 July 2015). "Disastrous day for Orica-GreenEdge at Tour de France". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. Retrieved 6 July 2015.
- ↑ "Vuelta a España 2015". Cycling Fever. Retrieved 21 August 2015.
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