Personal information | |
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Born | Wels, Austria | 23 December 1993
Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) |
Weight | 64 kg (141 lb) |
Team information | |
Current team | UAE Team Emirates |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider |
Rider type | Climber |
Amateur team | |
2011 | Oberösterreich |
Professional teams | |
2012–2015 | RC Arbö–Wels–Gourmetfein |
2015 | Tinkoff–Saxo (stagiaire) |
2016–2017 | CCC–Sprandi–Polkowice [1] |
2018–2022 | Bora–Hansgrohe [2] [3] [4] |
2023– | UAE Team Emirates |
Major wins | |
Stage races |
Felix Großschartner (born 23 December 1993) is an Austrian cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam UAE Team Emirates. [5]
Born in Wels, Großschartner turned professional in 2012 with RC Arbö–Wels–Gourmetfein. In 2016, he joined UCI Professional Continental team CCC–Sprandi–Polkowice. With this team, he competed in his first Grand Tour: the 2017 Giro d'Italia. [6]
In September 2017, Großschartner signed a contract to ride for the Bora–Hansgrohe team in the 2018 season. [7] In April 2019, Großschartner took his first overall stage race victory at the Presidential Tour of Turkey, having won the summit finish to the ski resort south of Kartepe. [8] [9] In August 2019, he was named in the start list for the Vuelta a España. [10] In August 2020, he was named in the start list for the Tour de France. [11] He achieved his best result in a Grand Tour later that season, by finishing the Vuelta a España in ninth place overall. [12] He was again selected by Bora–Hansgrohe as their primary general classification contender for the 2021 Vuelta a España, and he finished in tenth place overall. [13]
In 2022, Großschartner took his first senior national championship titles, winning both the Austrian National Road Race Championships and the Austrian National Time Trial Championships. [14]
In August 2022, he signed a two year contract with UAE Team Emirates starting in 2023. [15] In his first year with the team, he notably finished second overall at the Deutschland Tour and third in the Bretagne Classic. [16]
Grand Tour general classification results | |||||||||
Grand Tour | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
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Giro d'Italia | — | 78 | 27 | — | — | 42 | — | — | 31 |
Tour de France | — | — | — | — | 63 | — | 53 | 23 | |
Vuelta a España | — | — | — | 36 | 9 | 10 | — | — | |
Major stage race general classification results | |||||||||
Race | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
Paris–Nice | — | — | 10 | 12 | 9 | 73 | DNF | 54 | 30 |
Tirreno–Adriatico | Has not contested during his career | ||||||||
Volta a Catalunya | 92 | 18 | — | — | NH | — | — | — | 130 |
Tour of the Basque Country | — | — | 46 | — | — | OTL | DNF | — | |
Tour de Romandie | — | — | — | 4 | — | 28 | — | 62 | |
Critérium du Dauphiné | — | — | — | 53 | 61 | — | — | — | 21 |
Tour de Suisse | 28 | DNF | — | — | NH | — | 7 | — | — |
— | Did not compete |
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DNF | Did not finish |
OTL | Outside time limit |
NH | Not held |
IP | In progress |