Edvald Boasson Hagen: Rider Profile

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EDVALD BOASSON HAGEN
Date of birth: 17/05/1987
From: Rudsbygd, Norway
Team: Sky
Previous teams: Columbia-HTC (2008-2009); Maxbo Bianchi (2006-2007)

Edvald Boasson Hagen career profile
Edvald Boasson Hagen is perhaps one of the most formidable young cycling talents to have emerged in many years.

The Norwegian burst onto the scene in 2006, taking three stages of the Tour de l'Avenir, a race generally regarded as a crystal ball for future stars.

In 2007, he was the most successful cyclist in the entire peloton, with fifteen wins to his credit. By this point, he was already being talked about in reverential terms and was snapped up by High Road/Columbia in 2008.

It was in 2008 that Boasson Hagen really began to shine. He beat some of the worlds top time triallists at Critérium International and went on to take three stages in the Tour of Britain.

Well-suited to short stage races, time trials and the Classics, he won the 2009 Gent-Wevelgem and took fourth in the Eroica.

Along with a team time trial victory, Boasson Hagen took his first Grand Tour stage in the 2009 Giro d'Italia, and took four stage victories on the way to a crushing overall victory in the Tour of Britain.

The Team Sky rider has been tipped by Bradley Wiggins to be a Grand Tour champion in the future, something which he came closer to in 2011 by winning two stages of the Tour de France.

Edvald Boasson Hagen results
2012
Tour Down Under; points classification

2011
Tour of Oman; points classification
Bayern Rundfahrt; stage one
Tour de France; stage six
Tour de France; stage 17
Eneco Tour; stage six
Eneco Tour; points classification
Eneco Tour; young riders' classification
Eneco Tour; overall classification

2010
Tirreno-Adriatico; stage seven
Tour of Qatar; stage one TTT
Tour of Oman; stage three
Tour of Oman; stage six ITT
Tour of Oman; young riders' classification
Tour of Oman; points classification
Criterium du Dauphine; stage seven

2009
Giro d'Italia; stage one (TTT)
Giro d'Italia; stage seven
ENECO Tour; stage six
ENECO Tour; stage seven
ENECO Tour; overall
Tour of Poland; stage four
Tour of Poland; stage six
Tour of Britain; overall
Tour of Britain; stage three
Tour of Britain; stage four
Tour of Britain; stage five
Tour of Britain; stage six
Tour of Britain; points classification
Ghent-Wevelgem
National time trial champion

2008
Critérium International; stage three
ENECO Tour; stage six
Tour of Britain; stage four
Tour of Britain; stage five
Tour of Britain; stage seven
Tour of Britain; stage sprints classification
Grand Prix de Denain
National time trial champion

2007
Paris-Corrèze; overall
Paris-Corrèze; stage one
Paris-Corrèze; stage two
Paris-Corrèze; points classification
Tour of Ireland; stage four
Tour de Bretagne; stage two
Tour de Bretagne; stage seven

Tour de Normandie; stage eight
Ringerike GP; overall
Ringerike GP; stage one
Ringerike GP; stage two
Ringerike GP; stage three
Ringerike GP; stage five
Istrian Spring Trophee; overall
Istrian Spring Trophee; prologue
National time trial champion

2006
Tour de l'Avenir; stage two
Tour de l'Avenir; stage five
Tour de l'Avenir; stage seven
Rhône-Alpes Isère Tour; stage four
Ringerike GP; stage three
Scandinavian Open Road Race

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