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Born | Middelburg, Netherlands | 18 February 1996||||||||||||||
Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 63 kg (139 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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Current team | Visma–Lease a Bike | ||||||||||||||
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Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
Professional teams | |||||||||||||||
2018 | Habitat Mountain Bike Team | ||||||||||||||
2019–2021 | KMC–Ekoi–Orbea[1][2] | ||||||||||||||
2022– | Team Jumbo–Visma | ||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Milan Vader (born 18 February 1996) is a Dutch cross-country mountain biker and road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Visma–Lease a Bike.[3]
Career
[edit]Vader originally competed in cross-country mountain biking, where he was a two time elite national champion and a bronze medalist at the 2019 European Championships. In 2020, he finished second overall at the Olympic Cross-country World Cup, before going on to place 10th in the cross-country race at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[4]
In 2022, Vader joined Team Jumbo–Visma to focus on road racing.
On stage five of the 2022 Tour of the Basque Country, he suffered a terrible crash, having run into a guardrail during a descent, causing him to fall down a steep dropoff. He fractured his spine in 1 places, eight ribs as well as his shoulder, collarbone, eye socket, and cheekbone in addition to rupturing his carotid artery and perforating his lung. He was placed into an induced coma for 12 days.[5] After five months, Vader returned to racing in September at the CRO Race.
Despite this setback, Vader returned to form, finishing third overall in the Okolo Slovenska in September 2023.[5] A month later, he won the fourth stage of the Tour of Guangxi, his first professional road win, also taking the race lead in the process. He held onto the overall lead for the remainder of the race, winning the race by a margin of six seconds to Rémy Rochas.[6]
Major results
[edit]Mountain bike
[edit]- 2013
- 1st
Cross-country, National Junior Championships
- 2014
- 2nd Cross-country, National Junior Championships
- 3rd
Cross-country, UEC European Junior Championships
- UCI Junior XCO World Cup
- 3rd Nové Město
- 4th Cross-country, UCI World Junior Championships
- 2015
- 1st
Cross-country, National Under-23 Championships
- 2016
- 1st
Cross-country, National Under-23 Championships
- 2017
- 5th Cross-country, UCI World Under-23 Championships
- 2019
- 1st
Cross-country, National Championships
- 3rd
Cross-country, UEC European Championships
- 2020
- 1st
Cross-country, National Championships
- French Cup
- 1st Alpe d'Huez
- 2nd Overall UCI XCO World Cup
- 2nd Nové Město II
- 3rd Nové Město I
- Copa Catalana Internacional
- 2nd Barcelona
- 2021
- UCI XCC World Cup
- 3rd Leogang
- Internazionali d’Italia Series
- 3rd Andora
Road
[edit]- 2023 (2 pro wins)
- 1st
Overall Tour of Guangxi
- 1st Stage 4
- 3rd Overall Okolo Slovenska
- 1st
Mountains classification
- 1st
References
[edit]- ^ "Interview with Milan Vader, the current number 3 in the UCI XCO ranking: "I haven't had a TV for 6 years"". Brujulabike.com. 8 November 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
- ^ "Milan Vader". UCI.org. Union Cycliste International. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
- ^ "Team Jumbo–Visma". UCI. Archived from the original on 7 January 2022. Retrieved 7 January 2022.
- ^ "Race Analysis" (PDF). 2020 Summer Olympics. Omega SA. 26 July 2021. Archived from the original (PDF) on 26 July 2021. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
- ^ a b "Milan Vader Tops Victory Podium 18 Months After Almost Losing His Life". velo.outsideonline.com. 16 October 2023. Retrieved 28 April 2024.
- ^ Ryan, Barry (15 October 2023). "'I didn't know if I'd ride a bike again' – Milan Vader caps comeback with Guangxi win". Cycling News. Retrieved 28 April 2024.
External links
[edit]- Milan Vader at UCI
- Milan Vader at Cycling Archives
- Milan Vader at ProCyclingStats
- Milan Vader at Cycling Quotient
- Milan Vader at CycleBase
- Milan Vader at TeamNL (archive) (in Dutch)