Caleb Ewan
Caleb Ewan (born 11 July 1994) is an Australian road and track bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Lotto–Soudal.[3] A sprinter, Ewan has a style similar to that of Mark Cavendish, with an extremely low position[4] giving him a significant aerodynamic advantage.[5]
Ewan at the 2018 Tour of Britain | |
Personal information | |
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Full name | Caleb Ewan |
Nickname | The Pocket Rocket |
Born | Sydney, Australia | 11 July 1994
Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in)[1] |
Weight | 67 kg (148 lb; 10 st 8 lb)[1] |
Team information | |
Current team | Lotto–Soudal |
Disciplines |
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Role | Rider |
Rider type | Sprinter |
Amateur teams | |
2013–2014 | Jayco-AIS World Tour Academy |
2014 | Orica–GreenEDGE (stagiaire) |
Professional teams | |
2014–2018 | Orica–GreenEDGE |
2019– | Lotto–Soudal[2] |
Major wins | |
Grand Tours
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Medal record
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Biography
Caleb Ewan was born in New South Wales. At the age of eight he started bicycle racing, inspired by his father, who was also a competitive cyclist.[6] He started competitive cycling at the age of ten. In 2010 he became the Junior National Road Race Champion. The next year he won multiple disciplines at the Junior National Track Championships and he became World Champion omnium at the Junior Track World Championships.
In 2013 Ewan started racing for Jayco-AIS World Tour Academy. That year he won the first stage as well as the general classification of the Mitchelton Wines Bay Cycling Classic. He also won the La Côte Picarde instalment of the UCI Nations Cup U23, the Gran Premio Palio del Recioto, and stages in the Tour Alsace, Thüringen Rundfahrt der U23 and the Tour de l'Avenir. At the end of the year he finished fourth in the Men's under-23 road race at the 2013 UCI Road World Championships.
Ewan signed pre-contract terms with Orica–GreenEDGE in October 2013, joining the World Tour team as a stagiaire in August 2014 and as a professional in October.[7][8] At the beginning of August, before joining Orica–GreenEDGE, Ewan took part in the road race at the 2014 Commonwealth Games, competing for Australia. The Australian team tried to control the race for Ewan's sprint, but were unable to do so. After attempting a solo chase of the three leaders, he fell back and was the last man to finish: he finished in 12th place out of 140 who started, over 11 minutes behind the gold medallist Geraint Thomas (Wales).[9]
His first professional wins came in the second and third stages of the 2015 Herald Sun Tour. A month later, in the Tour de Langkawi he then took his second professional win and the lead in general classification. Though he lost the overall lead of the race, Ewan won a second stage (the third victory of his career) and the points classification.[10] He was named in the start list for the 2015 Vuelta a España,[11] where he won stage 5,[12] but he withdrew from the race during stage 10.[13]
In 2016, Ewan participated in the Tour Down Under and won the first stage in a mass sprint.[14] He made it a duo of wins by taking the sixth stage as well.[15] He also was the victor of Stage 2 of the Herald Sun Tour, another race held on Australian soil.[16] He was named in the start list for the 2016 Giro d'Italia.[17] He raced in the 2017 Giro, winning stage seven[4] in a field sprint.
In July 2019, he participated in the Tour de France, and in Stage 11 he beat Dylan Groenewegen in a tight sprint finish in Toulouse.[18][19] He won stage 16 in Nîmes, narrowly beating Elia Viviani, as well as the final stage, narrowly beating Groenewegen on the Champs-Élysées.
Major results
- 2010
- 1st
Road race, National Junior Road Championships - 2011
- 1st
Omnium, UCI Junior Track World Championships - National Junior Track Championships
- 1st
Omnium - 1st
Points race - 1st
Madison - 2nd
Team pursuit - 3rd
Scratch
- 1st
- 3rd Time trial, National Junior Road Championships
- 2012
- National Junior Road Championships
- 1st
Time trial - 2nd Road race
- 1st
- 1st Gent–Menen
- 1st Stage 4 Regio-Tour Juniors
- 1st Stage 2b Liège–La Gleize
- 2nd
Road race, UCI Junior Road World Championships - 2nd
Individual pursuit, Oceania Track Championships - National Junior Track Championships
- 2nd
Madison - 2nd
Points race - 3rd
Scratch - 3rd
Team pursuit
- 2nd
- 2nd Overall Mitchelton Wines Bay Classic
- 1st Stages 2 & 4
- 2nd Trofeo Comune di Vertova
- 2nd Trofeo Emilio Paganessi
- 3rd Overall Keizer der Juniores
- 2013
- 1st
Overall Mitchelton Wines Bay Classic - 1st Stage 1
- 1st Gran Premio Palio del Recioto
- 1st La Côte Picarde
- Thüringen Rundfahrt der U23
- 1st
Points classification - 1st Stages 4 & 7
- 1st
- Tour de l'Avenir
- 1st Stages 1 & 2
- 1st Stage 2 Tour Alsace
- 2nd
Team pursuit, National Track Championships - 3rd Gran Premio Industrie del Marmo
- 4th Road race, UCI Under-23 Road World Championships
- 8th Trofeo Piva
- 2014
- 1st
Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships - 1st Stage 2 Tour de l'Avenir
- 2nd
Road race, UCI Under-23 Road World Championships - 2nd Trofeo Città di San Vendemiano
- 3rd Overall Mitchelton Wines Bay Classic
- 1st Stage 4
- 3rd Down Under Classic
- 6th Trofeo Piva
- 2015
- 1st
Overall Tour de Korea - 1st Points classification
- 1st Young rider classification
- 1st Stages 2, 3, 5 & 7
- 1st
Overall Mitchelton Wines Bay Classic - 1st Stages 1, 2 & 3
- 1st Vuelta a La Rioja
- Tour de Langkawi
- 1st
Points classification - 1st Stages 3 & 6
- 1st
- Herald Sun Tour
- 1st Stages 2 & 3
- 1st Stage 5 Vuelta a España
- National Road Championships
- 2016
- 1st
Criterium, National Road Championships - 1st
Overall Mitchelton Wines Bay Classic - 1st Stages 1, 2 & 4
- 1st EuroEyes Cyclassics
- 1st Down Under Classic
- Tour Down Under
- 1st Stages 1 & 6
- 1st Stage 8 Tour of Britain
- 1st Stage 2 Herald Sun Tour
- 2017
- 1st
Criterium, National Road Championships - 1st Down Under Classic
- Tour Down Under
- 1st
Sprints classification - 1st Stage 1, 3, 4 & 6
- 1st
- Tour of Britain
- 1st Stages 1, 3 & 6
- 1st Stage 7 Giro d'Italia
- 1st Stage 4 Tour de Pologne
- 1st Stage 4 Abu Dhabi Tour
- 1st
Points classification Tour de Yorkshire - 3rd Overall Mitchelton Wines Bay Classic
- 1st Stage 3
- 10th Milan–San Remo
- 2018
- National Road Championships
- 1st Clásica de Almería
- 1st Stage 2 Tour Down Under
- 1st Stage 8 Tour of Britain
- 2nd Milan–San Remo
- 2019
- 1st Brussels Cycling Classic
- 1st Down Under Classic
- Tour de France
- 1st Stages 11, 16 & 21
- Held
after Stage 1
- Giro d'Italia
- 1st Stages 8 & 11
- Tour of Turkey
- 1st Stages 4 & 6
- 1st Stage 4 UAE Tour
- 1st Stage 4 Ster ZLM Toer
- 2nd Overall Bay Classic Series
- 1st Stages 2 & 3
- 2nd Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
- 2nd EuroEyes Cyclassics
- 2020
- UAE Tour
- 1st
Points classification - 1st Stage 2
- 1st
- Tour Down Under
- 1st Stages 2 & 4
- 1st Stage 1 Tour de Wallonie
- 2nd Milano–Torino
- 7th Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
Grand Tour | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
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— | DNF | DNF | — | DNF | |
— | — | — | — | 132 | |
DNF | — | — | — | — |
— | Did not compete |
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DNF | Did not finish |
References
- "Caleb Ewan – Lotto Soudal". Retrieved 24 July 2019.
- "Lotto-Soudal". Directvelo (in French). Association Le Peloton. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
- "Steff Cras and Matthew Holmes complete Lotto Soudal's 2020 roster". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 27 October 2019. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
- "A tiny 22-year-old Aussie bike racer has the most extreme sprinting position in pro cycling". Business Insider. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
- "Getting low: Caleb Ewan explains his super-aero sprinting position". CyclingTips. 1 February 2016. Retrieved 8 February 2016.
- "Korean-Australian Cyclist Caleb Ewan (16) won Australian Track Championship : Korea.net : The official website of the Republic of Korea". www.korea.net.
- "Caleb Ewan Signs With ORICA-GreenEDGE".
- "Caleb Ewan signs for Australian team Orica-GreenEdge on pre-contract agreement". skysports.com. 21 October 2013. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
- O'Shea, Sadhbh (4 August 2014). "Tough day for Ewan at Commonwealth Games". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 10 March 2015.
- "Caleb Ewan". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 10 March 2015.
- "Vuelta a España 2015". Cycling Fever. Retrieved 21 August 2015.
- Windsor, Richard (1 September 2015). "Caleb Ewan takes maiden Grand Tour victory on Vuelta a España stage five". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 1 September 2015.
- "Ewan pulls out of Vuelta a Espana on stage 10". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 31 August 2015. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
- Woodpower, Zeb (19 January 2016). "Tour Down Under: Ewan wins stage 1". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. Archived from the original on 21 January 2016. Retrieved 19 January 2016.
- Migliaccio, Val (24 January 2016). "Tour Down Under 2016: Caleb Ewan wins Stage 6". The Advertiser. Retrieved 11 February 2016.
- Wynn, Nigel (5 February 2016). "Caleb Ewan wins stage two of Herald Sun Tour as Peter Kennaugh retains lead". Cycling Weekly. Time Inc. UK. Retrieved 11 February 2016.
- "99th Giro d'Italia Startlist". Pro Cycling Stats. Retrieved 6 May 2016.
- "2019: 106th Tour de France: Start List". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
- Official Tour de France site. Retrieved 17 July 2019.
External links
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- Caleb Ewan at Commonwealth Games Federation
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- Caleb Ewan at ProCyclingStats
- Caleb Ewan at CycleBase