Primož Roglič
Roglič at the 2018 Tour of Britain | ||||||||||||||
Personal information | ||||||||||||||
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Full name | Primož Roglič | |||||||||||||
Born |
Trbovlje, SR Slovenia, SFR Yugoslavia | 29 October 1989|||||||||||||
Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||||
Weight | 65 kg (143 lb) | |||||||||||||
Team information | ||||||||||||||
Current team | LottoNL–Jumbo | |||||||||||||
Discipline | Road | |||||||||||||
Role | Rider | |||||||||||||
Rider type | All Rounder | |||||||||||||
Professional team(s) | ||||||||||||||
2013–2015 | Adria Mobil | |||||||||||||
2016– | LottoNL–Jumbo | |||||||||||||
Major wins | ||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Primož Roglič (born 29 October 1989 in Trbovlje) is a Slovenian racing cyclist currently riding for LottoNL–Jumbo.[1] Roglič started his career as a ski jumper but then shifted to cycling.
Career
Ski jumping
Roglič is a former ski jumper who competed from 2003–2011, and was the Junior World Ski Jumping champion in 2007.[2] He set his personal best at 183 metres (600 ft) at Heini-Klopfer-Skiflugschanze flying hill in Oberstdorf, Germany in 2011. He suffered a crash in front of his home crowd in 2007 at the Letalnica bratov Gorišek ski flying hill in Planica, Slovenia.[3][4]
Adria Mobil (2013-2015)
Roglič took up cycling in 2012, after quitting ski jumping, because he felt it was too hard to be at the highest level of the sport. Roglič quickly made the jump to paid levels for the 2013 season with the continental Adria Mobil team. After three seasons with the team his successful 2015 season, including a win at the 2015 Tour of Slovenia, got him a contract to ride with LottoNL–Jumbo for the next season. [5]
LottoNL-Jumbo (2016-present)
2016
At his first year at World Tour level, Roglič showed his talent straight away when placing 5th overall at Volta ao Algarve. Just one month later he finished 2nd on stage 7 at Volta a Catalunya, when he lost the sprint to Alexei Tsatevich. Roglič started in the 2016 Giro d'Italia,[6] where he surprised with a second place in the opening time trial in Apeldoorn, being only one hundredth of a second slower than winner Tom Dumoulin.[7] He won the 9th stage, 40.5 km. individual time trial in Chianti. That came as a surprise for many as Roglič had to use his spare bike because his bike didn't meet the UCI Requirements. This meant he didn't managed to get his Cycling GPS Computer over on his spare bike in time for the Time trial to start. It was therefore hard for Roglič to know how much time he had left of the stage, and what his watt numbers were. Just two weeks after finishing the Giro d'Italia, Roglič won the Slovenian National Time Trial Championships. In 2016 he finished 10th in the Time trial at Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
2017
In the 2017 season Roglič started out by winning the Volta ao Algarve overall. One month later he finished 4th overall in Tirreno-Adriatico. At Tour of the Basque Country, Roglič won two stages, stage 4 and stage 6 which was an individual time trial. Not only did he get two stage wins but he also finished 5th overall at that race. It didn't take long before he got another win. Just at the end of April, Roglič participated in Tour de Romandie, where he won the individual time trial on stage 5. This saw him finishing 3rd overall. As his last preparation race for the Tour de France, he won the prologue of Ster ZLM Toer, and finished 2nd overall.
In June 2017, he was named in the startlist for the 2017 Tour de France.[8] He won stage 17 of the race[9] becoming the first Slovenian to win a stage of the Tour de France. He had also collected so many points on the climbs that he finished 2nd in the Mountains classification. At the World Championships in Bergen, he targeted the individual time trial, which finished on Mount Floyen, a 3 km climb averaging 9 %. He finished 2nd in the UCI Road World Championships time trial behind Tom Dumoulin.[10]
2018
The 2018 season showed Roglič potential in the stage races and grand tours. He managed to win Tour of the Basque Country, Tour de Romandie and Tour of Slovenia overall. During the early stages of the 2018 Tour de France Roglič managed to avoid the crashes and mechanical issues that many other GC riders fell victim to putting him in position to compete with the elite riders of Geraint Thomas, Tom Dumoulin, Chris Froome, Nairo Quintana and Richie Porte among others. He was able to stay with the elites through the high mountains answering nearly every attack to the point that after he attacked on the descent and won stage 19 of the 2018 TDF he was in a podium position in 3rd place overall, behind only Thomas and Dumoulin. Roglič finished the Tour with an impressive 4th place finish.
Career achievements
Major results
- 2014
- 1st Croatia–Slovenia
- 1st Stage 2 Tour d'Azerbaïdjan
- 3rd Overall Sibiu Cycling Tour
- 1st
Mountains classification
- 1st
- 2015
- 1st
Overall Tour d'Azerbaïdjan - 1st Stage 2
- 1st
Overall Tour of Slovenia - 1st Stage 3
- 1st
Mountains classification Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali - 2nd Overall Tour of Croatia
- 4th Overall Tour of Qinghai Lake
- 1st Stage 5
- 2016
- 1st
Time trial, National Road Championships - 1st Stage 9 (ITT) Giro d'Italia
- 4th Overall Tour du Poitou Charentes
- 5th Overall Volta ao Algarve
- 7th Time trial, UEC European Road Championships
- 10th Time trial, Olympic Games
- 2017
- 1st
Overall Volta ao Algarve - 1st Stage 17 Tour de France
- 2nd
Time trial, UCI Road World Championships - 2nd Overall Ster ZLM Toer
- 1st Prologue
- 3rd Overall Tour de Romandie
- 1st Stage 5 (ITT)
- 4th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
- 5th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
- 1st Stages 4 & 6 (ITT)
- 5th Road race, National Road Championships
- 2018
- 1st
Overall Tour of the Basque Country - 1st
Points classification - 1st Stage 4 (ITT)
- 1st
- 1st
Overall Tour de Romandie - 1st
Overall Tour of Slovenia - 1st Stages 4 & 5 (ITT)
- 1st Stage 3 Tirreno–Adriatico
- 3rd Overall Tour of Britain
- 1st Stage 5 (TTT)
- 4th Overall Tour de France
- 1st Stage 19
- 6th Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
- 7th Giro dell'Emilia
General classification results timeline
Grand Tour general classification results | |||
Grand Tour | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
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58 | — | — | |
— | 38 | 4 | |
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Major stage race general classification results | |||
Race | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
— | — | — | |
52 | 4 | 29 | |
44 | — | — | |
— | 5 | 1 | |
— | 3 | 1 | |
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References
- ↑ "Primož Roglič". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 7 May 2015.
- ↑ Woodpower, Zeb (20 January 2016). "Former ski jumper Primož Roglič on domestique duty at Tour Down Under". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 7 May 2016.
- ↑ Primoz Roglic - Planica 2007 (upadek) on YouTube
- ↑ Primoz Roglic-Planica 2007 HORRIBLE CRASH (Better qualitty) on YouTube
- ↑ http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/former-ski-jumper-primo-rogli-on-domestique-duty-at-tour-down-under/%5Bfull+citation+needed%5D
- ↑ "99th Giro d'Italia Startlist". Pro Cycling Stats. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
- ↑ "Giro d'Italia: Tom Dumoulin wins Apeldoorn time trial". BBC News. Retrieved 10 May 2016.
- ↑ "2017: 104th Tour de France: Start List". Pro Cycling Stats. Retrieved 28 June 2017.
- ↑ "2017: 104th Tour de France: Stage 17". Pro Cycling Stats. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
- ↑ http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/first-worlds-medal-for-roglic/%5Bfull+citation+needed%5D
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