Juraj Sagan

Juraj Sagan

Sagan at the 2013 Tour of the Basque Country
Personal information
Full name	Juraj Sagan
Born	(1988-12-23) 23 December 1988 (age 36) Žilina, Czechoslovakia (now Slovakia)
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight	65 kg (143 lb)[1]
Team information
Current team	Pierre Baguette Cycling
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider (retired) Directeur sportif
Rider type	Puncheur Domestique[2]
Amateur team
2007–2009	Dukla Trenčín–Merida
Professional teams
2010–2014	Liquigas–Doimo[3]
2015–2016	Tinkoff–Saxo
2017–2021	Bora–Hansgrohe[4][5][6]
2022	Team TotalEnergies[7][8]
Managerial team
2023–	RRK Group–Pierre Baguette–Benzinol
Major wins
One-day races and Classics National Road Race Championships (2016, 2017, 2019, 2020)

Juraj Sagan (born 23 December 1988 in Žilina) is a Slovak former professional road bicycle racer, who competed as a professional from 2010 to 2022, for the Cannondale, Tinkoff, Bora–Hansgrohe and Team TotalEnergies teams. During his professional career, Sagan took four victories – all of which were at the Slovak National Road Race Championships,^[2] in 2016, 2017, 2019 and 2020.

Following his retirement, Sagan now works as a directeur sportif for UCI Continental team Pierre Baguette Cycling.^[9]

Personal life

His younger brother, Peter Sagan, has also competed professionally as a cyclist, winning more than 100 races,^[2] including three consecutive world titles between 2015 and 2017.

Major results

Source: ^[10]

2006

1st Stage 1 La Coupe du Président de la Ville de Grudziądz

9th Road race, UCI Junior World Championships

2007

9th Overall Grand Prix Cycliste de Gemenc

2008

5th Road race, National Road Championships

8th Grand Prix Bradlo

2009

1st GP Boka

4th Road race, National Road Championships

7th Rund um den Finanzplatz Eschborn-Frankfurt U23

8th Trofeo Banca Popolare di Vicenza

2010

5th Rund um den Finanzplatz Eschborn-Frankfurt U23

6th Giro del Veneto

2011

4th Road race, National Road Championships

2015

2nd Road race, National Road Championships

2016

1st Road race, National Road Championships

1st Stage 5 (TTT) Tour of Croatia

2017

1st Road race, National Road Championships

2018

2nd Road race, National Road Championships

10th Grand Prix of Aargau Canton

2019

1st Road race, National Road Championships

2020

1st Road race, National Road Championships

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour	2017
Giro d'Italia	—
Tour de France	DNF
Vuelta a España	—

Legend

—	Did not compete
DNF	Did not finish

References

1. "Team Liquigas Cannondale – Athletes File". Archived from the original on 2012-05-25. Retrieved 2012-06-10.
2. Treloar, Iain (30 September 2022). "The last ride of Juraj Sagan". CyclingTips. CyclingTips Media Pty Ltd. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
3. "Cannondale (CAN) – ITA". UCI World Tour. Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 4 January 2013.
4. "With Christoph Pfingsten, BORA – hansgrohe completes its roster for 2019". Bora–Hansgrohe. Denk Pro Cycling GmbH & Co. KG. 12 October 2018. Archived from the original on 23 April 2019. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
5. Ryan, Barry (28 December 2019). "2020 Team Preview: Bora-Hansgrohe". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
6. "Bora - Hansgrohe". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 1 January 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
7. "TotalEnergies". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 4 February 2022.
8. "Updated: Professional Cycling Transfers 2021-2022". Cyclist. 13 January 2022. Retrieved 30 March 2022.
9. Gauthier, Nicolas (7 December 2022). "Route - Juraj Sagan rejoindra le staff technique d'une équipe slovaque" [Road - Juraj Sagan will join the technical staff of a Slovak team]. Cyclism'Actu (in French). Swar Agency. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
10. "Juraj Sagan". FirstCycling.com. FirstCycling AS. Retrieved 25 February 2023.

External links

Media related to Juraj Sagan at Wikimedia Commons

• Juraj Sagan at UCI
• Juraj Sagan at Cycling Archives (archived)
• Juraj Sagan at ProCyclingStats
• Juraj Sagan at Cycling Quotient
• Juraj Sagan at CycleBase
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