Simon Clarke (cyclist)

Simon Clarke
Clarke at the 2009 Tour Down Under
Personal information
Full name Simon Clarke
Nickname Simo
Born (1986-07-18) 18 July 1986
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight 63 kg (139 lb)
Team information
Current team EF Education First–Drapac p/b Cannondale
Discipline Road
Role Rider
Rider type All-rounder
Amateur team(s)
2006–2008 SouthAustralia.com-AIS
Professional team(s)
2009 Amica Chips–Knauf
2009–2010 ISD–NERI
2011 Astana
2012–2015 GreenEDGE[1]
2016– Cannondale
Major wins

Grand Tours

Tour de France
1 stage, TTT (2013)
Giro d'Italia
1 stage, TTT (2015)
Vuelta a España
Mountains classification (2012)
2 individual stages (2012, 2018)

Stage races

Herald Sun Tour (2014)

One-Day Races and Classics

GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano (2016)

Simon Clarke (born 18 July 1986) is an Australian professional road racing cyclist who currently rides for EF Education First–Drapac p/b Cannondale in the UCI World Tour. He previously rode for the Astana (2011) and Orica–GreenEDGE (2012–2015) teams in the UCI World Tour.[2] Before turning professional, Clarke competed in track cycling as an Australian Institute of Sport scholarship holder.[3] He is not related to fellow Australian cyclist and teammate Will Clarke.

Professional career

At the 2012 Vuelta a España, Clarke won the fourth stage of the race, after being a part of an early breakaway that made it home on the mountainous race. The only other survivor of the break was Omega Pharma–Quick-Step's Tony Martin, whom Clarke out sprinted to claim his first professional victory.[4] During the twentieth stage, Clarke placed first at the first three of five categorised climbs, to win the most combative rider for the stage and to secure himself the blue polka-dot jersey, as winner of the mountains classification.[5]

In September 2015, it was announced that Clarke would join Cannondale for the 2016 season.[6] He was added to Australia's roster for the 2016 Summer Olympics, replacing Simon Gerrans (Orica–GreenEDGE), who had crashed out of the Tour de France.[7]

Career achievements

Major results

2004
1st Team pursuit, UCI Junior Track World Championships
2005
5th Gran Premio Industrie del Marmo
8th Melbourne to Warrnambool Classic
10th Overall Giro delle Regioni
2006
1st Madison, National Junior Track Championships
1st Stage 4 Vuelta a Navarra
8th Overall Herald Sun Tour
8th Overall Tour Down Under
2007
2nd Gran Premio Palio del Recioto
3rd Down Under Classic
3rd GP Liberazione
6th Overall Tour of Britain
7th Overall Herald Sun Tour
1st Young rider classification
7th Overall Circuito Montañés
8th Giro del Mendrisiotto
8th GP Capodarco
10th Overall Tour Down Under
1st Young rider classification
2008
1st Road race, National Under–23 Road Championships
1st Trofeo Città di San Vendemiano
1st Stage 4 Tour of Japan
2nd GP Capodarco
2nd La Côte Picarde
2nd Trofeo Alcide Degasperi
4th Ronde Van Vlaanderen Beloften
6th Overall Tour of Ireland
7th Trofeo Città di Castelfidardo
2009
8th Overall Tour of Britain
8th Gran Premio dell'Insubria
8th Trofeo Laigueglia
10th Memorial Cimurri
2010
4th GP Industria & Artigianato
2011
5th Coppa Agostoni
5th Tre Valli Varesine
7th Giro del Friuli
7th Vattenfall Cyclassics
10th Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec
2012
Vuelta a España
1st Mountains classification
1st Stage 4
2nd Overall Tour of Norway
2nd Japan Cup
2nd Rogaland GP
5th Overall Tour du Haut-Var
2013
1st Stage 4 (TTT) Tour de France
7th Road race, UCI Road World Championships
2014
1st Overall Herald Sun Tour
1st Stage 2
4th Gran Premio Città di Camaiore
2015
Giro d'Italia
Held after Stage 4
1st Stage 1 (TTT)
2nd Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
4th Overall Herald Sun Tour
10th International Road Cycling Challenge
10th Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia
2016
1st GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano
2017
6th GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano
2018
1st Stage 5 Vuelta a España
8th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
A pink jersey Giro d'Italia — — — 63 67 — —
A yellow jersey Tour de France — 68 113 — — 86 100
A red jersey Vuelta a España 77 69 70 — DNF 74 46
Legend
DSQDisqualified
DNFDid not finish
IPIn progress

References

  1. ↑ "Orica-GreenEDGE (OGE) - AUS". UCI World Tour. Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 3 January 2014.
  2. ↑ "Clarke bound for GreenEdge". cyclingnews.com. 2011-08-23.
  3. ↑ Cycling Australian road cycling team announced for world championships
  4. ↑ Atkins, Ben (21 August 2012). "Vuelta a España: Simon Clarke wins in stage four breakaway as Valverde loses to a crash". VeloNation. VeloNation LLC. Retrieved 23 August 2012.
  5. ↑ "Clarke: I'm not a climber, I'm an opportunist". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. 9 September 2012. Retrieved 9 September 2012.
  6. ↑ Windsor, Richard (24 September 2015). "Simon Clarke swaps Orica-GreenEdge for Cannondale-Garmin for 2016". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 24 September 2015.
  7. ↑ "Australian Simon Clarke called up for Olympic Road Race". cyclingnews.com. 23 July 2016. Retrieved 24 July 2016.
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