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Alexander Kristoff
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Key facts
- 2006
- Glud & Marstrand–Horsens
- 2022
- Intermarché–Wanty–Gobert Matériaux
- Full name
- Alexander Kristoff
- Nickname
- The Stavanger Stallion
- Born
- ( 1987-07-05 ) 5 July 1987 (age 38) , Oslo , Norway
- Height
- 1.81 m (5 ft 11 + 1 ⁄ 2 in)
- Weight
- 78 kg (172 lb; 12 st 4 lb)
- Discipline
- Road
- Role
- Rider (retired)
- Rider type
- Sprinter Classics specialist
- 2007 2009
- Maxbo–Bianchi
- 2010 2011
- BMC Racing Team
- 2012 2017
- Team Katusha
- 2018 2021
- UAE Team Emirates
- 2023 2025
- Uno-X Pro Cycling Team
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Alexander
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Norway
- Place of birth
- Stavanger
- Sibling
- Felix Ørn-Kristoff
- Occupation
- sport cyclist
- Languages spoken
- Norwegian
- Participant in
- 2025 UCI Europe Tour
- Sport
- road bicycle racing
- Country for sport
- Norway
- Mass
- 78
- Image
- Alexander Kristoff - 2023 UCI Road World Championships (Men's road race).jpg
- Height
- 181
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- Alexander Kristoff
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Encyclopedic overview
Alexander Kristoff (born 5 July 1987) is a Norwegian former road bicycle racer, who last rode for UCI ProTeam Uno-X Mobility and competed professionally from 2006 to 2025.
A sprinter and classics rider, Kristoff is the most successful Norwegian cyclist by number of wins, having taken almost 100 victories during his professional career. He has won four Tour de France stages, the 2014 Milan–San Remo and 2015 Tour of Flanders one-day races – as a result, becoming the only Norwegian rider, as of 2026, to win a cycling monument – and has won medals in the road race at the Olympic Games (2012; bronze), the UCI Road World Championships (2017; silver), and the European Road Cycling Championships (2017; gold). He also holds the record for most wins at the one-day races Eschborn–Frankfurt (four) and the Grand Prix of Aargau Canton (three), and most stage wins at the Tour of Oman (nine), the Tour of Norway (eleven), and the Arctic Race of Norway (seven).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alexander Kristoff” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.