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Key facts
- 2013
- CC Etupes
- 2023
- UAE Team Emirates
- Full name
- Adam Richard Yates
- Nickname
- The Shadow
- Born
- ( 1992-08-07 ) 7 August 1992 (age 33) , Bury , England
- Height
- 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
- Weight
- 58 kg (128 lb; 9 st 2 lb)
- Current team
- UAE Team Emirates XRG
- Discipline
- Road
- Role
- Rider
- Rider type
- Climber
- 2011 2012
- UVCA Troyes
- 2014 2020
- Orica–GreenEDGE
- 2021 2022
- INEOS Grenadiers
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Adam
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- Bury
- Sibling
- Simon Yates
- Occupation
- sport cyclist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Sport
- cycle sport
- Country for sport
- United Kingdom
- Mass
- 58
- Image
- TDF32019 adam yates (53062217834).jpg
- Height
- 172
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- date of birth
- 1992-08-07
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- Adam Yates (cyclist)
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- road bicycle racing
- social media followers
- 32176
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Encyclopedic overview
Adam Richard Yates (born 7 August 1992) is a British professional road and track racing cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam UAE Team Emirates XRG. Yates placed third overall at the 2023 Tour de France. In 2016 he became the first British rider to win the young rider classification, one year ahead of his twin brother Simon Yates.
Yates has taken more than twenty wins during his professional career, including overall victories at the 2021 Volta a Catalunya, the 2023 Tour de Romandie and the 2024 Tour de Suisse. He has also won a stage at the Tour de France, in 2023, and the one-day races Clásica de San Sebastián (2015) and the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal (2023).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Adam Yates” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.