Lars Bak

Lars Bak

Bak at the 2012 Giro d'Italia.
Personal information
Full name	Lars Ytting Bak
Born	(1980-01-16) 16 January 1980 Silkeborg, Denmark
Height	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight	80 kg (176 lb; 12 st 8 lb)
Team information
Current team	Lotto–Soudal
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	All-rounder
Amateur team(s)
1996–1999	Silkeborg CR
2000–2001	Hammel CK
2001	CCI Differdange
2001	UC Trevigiani-Mapei
Professional team(s)
2002–2003	Team Fakta
2004	BankGiroLoterij
2005–2009	Team CSC
2010–2011	Team HTC–Columbia
2012–	Lotto–Belisol[1]
Major wins
Grand Tours Giro d'Italia 1 individual stage (2012), 1 TTT stage (2011) Vuelta a España 1 TTT stage (2010) Single-day races and Classics National Road Race Championships (2005) National Time Trial Championships (2007, 2008, 2009) Grand Prix de Fourmies (2012)

Lars Ytting Bak (born 16 January 1980) is a Danish professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour team Lotto–Soudal.^[2]

Background

Born in Silkeborg, Bak became a professional in 2002 for Team Fakta where he rode with fellow Dane Allan Johansen. In 2004 they both switched to BankGiroLoterij where Lars Bak would gain his first professional win, but as the BankGiroLoterij team stopped after the 2004 season, both Bak and Johansen went to Team CSC in 2005.

Here, Bak won the Danish Road Racing Championship, and in the later half of the season he showed his strength and talent as a good upcoming rider, as he won the respected ten stage Under 25 race, the Tour de l'Avenir. He won the leader's jersey by sprinting to the win in a group of four riders on the first stage, a position he defended through the following nine stages bar one, including a time trial and a number of hilly stages.

In 2011 he finally made his Tour de France debut where he worked hard for Mark Cavendish's sprint train and finished off by taking part in a breakaway on the last stage. Bak joined Lotto–Belisol for the 2012 season.^[1]

In 2012, he won stage 12 of Giro d'Italia.

Major results

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018
Giro d'Italia	DNF	—	—	—	—	—	16	—	126	72	94	56	90	DNF	118	106
Tour de France	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	152	96	108	82	37	173	123	—
Vuelta a España	—	—	—	21	—	—	—	154	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—

Legend

—	Did not compete
DNF	Did not finish

References

External links

Media related to Lars Bak at Wikimedia Commons

• Official website (in Danish)
• Profile at Team Saxo Bank (source for this article)
• Lars Bak at Cycling Archives