Torkil Veyhe

Torkil Veyhe
Torkil Veyhe in 2017
Personal information
Full name Torkil Eyðfinsson Veyhe[1]
Born (1990-01-09) 9 January 1990
Tórshavn, Faroe Islands
Height 186 cm (6 ft 1 in)
Weight 80 kg (180 lb)
Team information
Current team Team ColoQuick–Cult
Discipline Road race
Role Rider
Amateur team(s)
2007–2012 Tórshavnar Súkklufelag
2012–2015 Odder Cykel Klub
2015–2016 Team WeBike-CK Aarhus
Professional team(s)
2017 Team ColoQuick–Cult
2018 Team Virtu Cycling

Torkil Veyhe (born 9 January 1990) is a Faroese road bicycle racer riding for the Danish UCI Continental team Team ColoQuick–Cult.[2] He has also been riding for the national cycling team of the Faroe Islands at the Island Games and in 2016 he rode for the Danish national team at the Danmark Rundt and in 2017 at the 2017 European Road Championships in the men's road race. Earlier he was cycling for the DCU team Team WeBike—CK Aarhus, the Danish club Odder Cykel Klub and the Faroese club Tórshavnar Súkklufelag. In 2016 he won his first A-race in Denmark and his first UCI points. He has won gold, silver and bronze at the Island Games for the Faroe Islands.

Background and education

Torkil Veyhe comes from the Faroe Islands, from the capital Tórshavn. He started as a cyclist there and soon became a multiple Faroese Champion[3] as well as multiple winner of Tour of Faroe Islands (Kring Føroyar) road race.[4][5][6] After finishing the Higher Commercial Examination Programme (HHX) in Tórshavn in 2010, Veyhe moved to Aarhus in Denmark to study for Engineer and to compete in Danish cycling competitions. First he took one year of preparation for the education he wanted to study, and the following year he started the education. He took the Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in Structural Engineering from the Aarhus University School of Engineering in 2014.[7] The same year he continued to study for the Master of Science in Engineering degree which he finished in 2016.[8] Veyhe defended his MS final thesis on the day after competing at the Danish Championships time trial, where he was number 9, and two days after the exam he competed at the Danish Championships road race, hitting an early break out together with three other cyclists Chris Anker Sørensen, Michael Reihs, and Mark Sehested Pedersen.[9] After the Danish Championships he was elected for the Danish national team.[10]

Career as a cyclist

He has won competitions like Island Games in 2015 and Kring Føroyar in 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014,[11] and 2015. He is Faroese champion in time trial[12] and in road race 2009.[13] Torkil Veyhe moved to live in Denmark to study and at the same time he continued to cycle on a high level. The first years in Denmark, he competed in lower class, but soon he won a 124-km race in Hjørring for license cyclists in the B class.[14] After competing in five races in Denmark in 2013 he was promoted to the A class.[15] In June 2015 he took bronze in the Nishiki Løbet 2015 (Nishiki Race 2015) in Randers.[16]

On 15 October 2015 Veyhe got a two-year agreement with Tryggingarfelagið Føroyar (a Faroese insurance company), which will support him financially until October 2017.[17]

After joining Team We-Bike CK Aarhus in November 2015 he sat two goals for 2016, he would win an A-race and he would win his first UCI points.[18] In April and May 2016 both goals were achieved, he won his first 3 UCI points when finishing as number eight at the Himmerland Rundt UCI category 1.2 on 29 April 2016 and two weeks later he won the A-race JE.DK in Herning.[19] After the Danish Championships in June 2016 he was elected to ride for the Danish national team at the Danmark Rundt,[20] along with teammate Niklas Pedersen.[21] At the third stage he won the combativity award.[22]

Results in 2017

UCI category 2.HC

6th overall in 2017 Danmark Rundt

  • 30th in stage 1
  • 21st in stage 3
  • 9th in stage 4
  • 23rd in stage 5

UCI category 2.2

8th overall in Ronde van Midden-Nederland

  • 2nd in stage 1 (TTT)

56th overall in Tour de Normandie 20–26 March 2017.[23]

UCI category 2.1

UCI kategori 1.2

DCU-A races in Denmark

  • Winner of Rødekro on 9 April 2017.[29]
  • 6th in GP Herning on 22 April 2017.
  • 7th in Edlund Løbet on 2 April 2017.

Danish National Championships

Faroese National Championships

  • Gold in road race[32] in the time 3:07.41. He won in front of Helgi W. Olsen 3:08.01 and Jan Hjaltalin 3:15.38.[33]
  • Gold in criterium[34]
  • Gold in time trial in the time 27 minutes and 25 seconds. The route was 10 km, the route started in the valley of Kollafjørður and ended up on the mountain of Sornfelli. Torkil Veyhe won with more than 3 minutes in front of Helgi Winther Olsen who finished second and more than five minutes in front of Gunnar Dahl-Olsen who finished third.[35]

PostNord Danmark Rundt

National Championships Denmark

  • Number 9 in the ITT on 23 June 2016, distance: 43 km[36][37]
  • Number 51 in the road race on 26 June, distance: 201 km. Hit an early breakout.[9]

UCI category 1.2

  • Number 8 in Himmerland Rundt, 29 April 2016, distance: 188,3 km[38]
  • Number 9 in GP Horsens Posten, 12 June 2016[39]
    • Winner of the mountain classification in GP Horsens, 12 June 2016.[40]
  • Number 31 in Fyen Rundt. 11 June 2016, distance: 215 km
  • Number 77 in Rent Liv Løbet Skive, 1 May 2016, distance: 177,7 km

DCU-A races in Denmark

  • Winner of JE.DK Løbet Herning, one of three stages of the Marcello Bergamo Cup.[41]
  • Winner of the Danish road Marcello Bergamo Cup, also known as Pinsecuppen, on 15 May 2016.[42]
  • Number 2 in Sønderborg-Post Cup[43]
  • Number 2 in Designa løbet in Silkeborg[44]
  • Number 2 in Post Cup on Bornholm, 5 June 2016.[45][46]
  • Number 4 in Hjørring-Sparekassen Vendsyssel[47]
  • Number 5 in Grenaa CC on 8 May 2016[48]
  • Number 8 in Kolding BC on 19 June 2016[49]
  • Number 16 in HAC-løbet (HAC-race)[50]
  • Number 23 in Aalborg Cykle-Ring
  • Number 51 in GP Herning, distance: 186.0 km

2017 Island Games

  • Gold in the Men's Individual Time Trial, 37 km.[51]
  • Silver in city criterium.[52]
  • Bronze in road race team.
  • Bronze in team time trial.[53]
  • No. 5 in road race.

2015 Island Games

Torkil Veyhe won the first Faroese gold medal at the 2015 Island Games, when he took gold in the men's individual time trial on 28 June 2015.[54] He also won bronze in the men's road race at the 2015 Island Games.[55]

  • Gold in the Men's Individual Time Trial, 35 km in the time 47 min 30 sec[56][57]
  • Bronze in the Men's Road Race, 112 km with the time 2:51.20,076[58][59]
  • Bronze in the Men's Time Trial Team Award.[60][61]

2013 Island Games

Torkil Veyhe competed at the 2013 Island Games in Bermuda where he took two silver medals.

  • Silver in the Men's Individual Time Trial[62]
  • Silver in the Men's Road Race

2009 Island Games

  • Silver in Men's Team Road Race, together with Eli Christiansen, Gunnar Dahl-Olsen, Bogi Kristiansen, Sigmund Olsson.[63]

Winner of Tour of Faroe Islands

Torkil Veyhe has won the main Faroese cycling event, the annual Tour of Faroe Islands (Kring Føroyar) six times: 2009, 2010, 2012, 2014, 2015 and 2017. Kring Føroyar is for sponsor reasons called Volvo Kring Føroyar since 2014, before that it was called Effo Kring Føroyar and Statoil Kring Føroyar respectively.[64][65]

Island Games 2007

Torkil Veyhe competed at several events at the 2007 Island Games in Rhodes. His best result was silver in the Men's Team Road Race. He was number 8 in the Men's Individual Time Trial.[66]

  • Silver in the Men's Team Road Race

References

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  2. ↑ Berg, Christian (4 November 2016). "Torkil Veyhe til coloQuick-CULT". Feltet.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 4 November 2016.
  3. ↑ "FM 2015: Torkil gjørdist stóri vinnarin" (in Faroese). Tórshavnar Súkklufelag. 2015. Retrieved 30 June 2016.
  4. ↑ Nielsen, Jóanis (28 July 2014). "VOLVO Kring Føroyar: Torkil Veyhe stóri sigursharrin" (in Faroese). jn.fo. Retrieved 30 June 2016.
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  7. ↑ "Profile on Linkedin". Linkedin. Archived from the original on 5 June 2016. Retrieved 21 June 2016.
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  12. ↑ tsf.fo - Úrslit: FM 2012
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  14. ↑ cykelmagasinet.dk
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  55. ↑ kvf.fo, Torkil Veyhe bronsu í landavegssúkkling.
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