David Zabriskie, Tour de France 2009, stage 19

DAVID ZABRISKIE

Date of Birth: 12/01/1979

From: Salt Lake City

Team: Retired

Previous teams: Garmin-Cervelo (2008-2013), Team CSC (2005-2007); US Postal (2001-2004); 7UP/Colorado cyclists (1999-2000)

Career profile

David Zabriskie has won stages in all three Grand Tours and won the US National Time Trial Championship six times. In 2005, he became the third American to wear the leader's jersey at the Tour de France.

Making his professional debut in 1999, Zabriskie's early career was plagued with injury as a member of the US Postal team.  In 2004 he returned to form winning the Elite US National Time Trial Championships emphatically.

Despite success on the international cycling scene Zabriskie did not receive much attention in his native USA. This all changed at the 2005 Tour de France when he won the stage one time trial, beating Lance Armstrong by two seconds and setting the record for the fastest time trial in the Tour de France, clocking an average speed of 54.676 km/h. Zabriskie describes this as one of his proudest racing moments.

Zabriskie was honoured in the American state of Utah by the declaration of "Dave Zabriskie Day" by the mayor of Salt Lake City. In 2008 he was selected to ride both the road race and time trial for the US Olympic team in Beijing.

The later years of Zabriskie's career were highlighted with both individual and team time trial victories, as well as podium places in smaller stage races. Off the bike, however, they were blighted by revelations about his use of performance enhancing drugs while with US Postal, and Zabriskie subsequently served a six month ban which ran between September 2012 and March 2013.

He announced his retirement at the beginning of Il Lombardia, in October 2013.

Race results

2012

National Time Trial Championships

Tour de Langkawi; stage one TT

Tour of Utah; stage two TTT

2011

Tour de Romandie; stage four ITT

Tour of California; stage six ITT

National time trial championships

2010

Tour of California; stage three

2009

Tour of Missouri; stage five

Tour of Missouri; overall

National time trial championships

2008

Giro d'Italia, team time trial

Tour de Georgia, team time trial

National time trial championships

2007

National time trial championships

2006

Dauphine Libere, prologue

Dauphine Libere, stage three

National time trial championships

2005

Tour de France, Prologue

Giro d'Italia, stage eight

2004

Vuelta a Espana, stage 11

National time trial championships

2002

Sea Otter Classic, stage one

David Zabriskie, Tour of Missouri 2009, stage 5 tt

David Zabriskie, Tour of Catalonia 2010, stage three

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