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Full name | Vegard Stake Laengen | ||||||||||||||
Born | Oslo, Norway | 7 February 1989||||||||||||||
Height | 1.95 m (6 ft 5 in) [1] | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 79 kg (174 lb; 12 st 6 lb) [1] | ||||||||||||||
Team information | |||||||||||||||
Current team | UAE Team Emirates | ||||||||||||||
Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
Rider type |
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Amateur team | |||||||||||||||
2008 | Team Trek Adecco | ||||||||||||||
Professional teams | |||||||||||||||
2009–2011 | Joker–Bianchi | ||||||||||||||
2012 | Team Type 1–Sanofi | ||||||||||||||
2013–2014 | Bretagne–Séché Environnement [2] | ||||||||||||||
2015 | Team Joker [3] | ||||||||||||||
2016 | IAM Cycling | ||||||||||||||
2017– | UAE Abu Dhabi [4] [5] | ||||||||||||||
Major wins | |||||||||||||||
One-day races and Classics | |||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Vegard Stake Laengen (born 7 February 1989) is a Norwegian professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam UAE Team Emirates. [6]
Born in Oslo, Laengen competed for Norway at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics. [7] In August 2015 Team Joker confirmed that Laengen would be leaving the team to join IAM Cycling for 2016. [8] He has competed in ten Grand Tours in his career. In 2018, he was crowned the Norwegian national road race champion.
Laengen currently resides in Fredrikstad, Norway. [9] [10]
Grand Tour | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
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Giro d'Italia | 83 | — | 102 | — | — | — | — | — |
Tour de France | — | 127 | — | 107 | 82 | 112 | DNF | 102 |
Vuelta a España | 81 | — | 107 | — | — | — | — |
— | Did not compete |
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DNF | Did not finish |