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It is catalogued under topics including 1980 births, 2014 Vuelta a España stage winners and 21st-century Canadian sportsmen.
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Key facts
- 2006
- Phonak
- 2007
- Health Net–Maxxis
- 2016
- Trek–Segafredo
- Full name
- Eric Ryder Hesjedal
- Born
- ( 1980-12-09 ) December 9, 1980 (age 45) , Victoria, British Columbia , Canada
- Height
- 1.87 m (6 ft 1 + 1 ⁄ 2 in)
- Weight
- 73 kg (161 lb; 11 st 7 lb)
- Discipline
- Road
- Role
- Rider
- Rider type
- All-rounder
- 1999 2004
- Gary Fisher (MTB)
- 2002 2003
- Rabobank GS3
- 2004 2005
- U.S. Postal Service
- 2008 2015
- Slipstream–Chipotle
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Canada
- Place of birth
- Victoria
- Occupation
- sport cyclist
- Participant in
- 2006 UCI ProTour
- Sport
- cycle sport
- Member of team
- EF Education-EasyPost
- Mass
- 71
- Official website
- ryderhesjedal.com
- Image
- Ryder Hesjedal 2013 Liege.jpg
- Height
- 190
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- Commons category
- Ryder Hesjedal
- date of birth
- 1980-12-09
- social media followers
- 91041
- sports discipline competed in
- road bicycle racing
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Encyclopedic overview
Eric Ryder Hesjedal (/ˈraɪdər ˈhɛʃədɑːl/; born December 9, 1980) is a Canadian retired professional racing cyclist who competed in mountain biking and road racing between 1998 and 2016. Hesjedal won a silver medal at the 1998 Junior, 2001 Under-23, and Elite world championship in mountain biking. He turned professional with U.S. Postal Service in 2004 after several years with the Rabobank continental team. Having previously finished in fifth place at the 2010 Tour de France, Hesjedal won his first and only Grand Tour at the 2012 Giro d'Italia, the first Grand Tour win by a Canadian. Other major wins include two stages at the Vuelta a España, the first such stage wins by a Canadian.
Danish cyclist Michael Rasmussen asserted in his autobiography that he taught Hesjedal how to take erythropoietin (EPO). Hesjedal later admitted that this doping allegation was "the truth" and that he "chose the wrong path". Hesjedal has not served a ban as a result of his confession to USADA, and has publicly expressed a desire to be honest and transparent. VeloNews reported in 2014 that "The 33-year-old Canadian, however, stopped short of explaining what drugs he took, and when".
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ryder Hesjedal” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.