Tao Geoghegan Hart Der britische Radsportler der entspannt die Tour de France gewonnen hat

Tao Geoghegan Hart (/ˈ t eɪ oʊ ˌ ɡ eɪ ɡ ə n ˈ h ɑːr t / ( list ) TAY -oh GAY -gən HART ;

And joined the team permantly for the 2017 season. He won the 2020 Giro d'Italia, taking the jersey following the final day time-trial.

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Geoghegan Hart was born in Holloway, London. The eldest of 4 siblings, he grew up in the London Fields neighbourhood of Hackney, attding Gayhurst primary school.

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He was brought up as a vegetarian. He also became a ke swimmer after starting secondary school at Stoke Newington School; on 28 July 2008, wh he was 13, he was part of a cross-Channel swimming relay with Clissold Swimming Club. The team of six completed the crossing in 11 hours 34 minutes.

And first had a BMX cycle as a young boy. He has said he recalls being impressed wh attding the 2007 Tour de France prologue in London as a spectator.

Geoghegan Hart is currtly in a relationship with Carlotte Wubb-Moy - a football player who also grew up in East London and like Geoghegan Hart, attded Stoke Newington School.

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Geoghegan Hart started competitive racing at the national level in 2010 with the East London-based club Cycling Club Hackney. He joined the British Cycling under-16 developmt programme in 2011, followed by the Olympic Developmt Programme for under-18s.

He also competed internationally, and attracted atttion for victories abroad and podium places at races including 3rd place at the 2013 Paris–Roubaix Juniors.

In 2014, Geoghegan Hart rode for Axel Merckx's Bissell Developmt Team. He finished third in Liège–Bastogne–Liège U23 and rode his first UCI 2. HC ranked race at the Tour of California in May 2014 before completing a second at the Tour of Britain in September wh, riding for the Great Britain national team, he finished 15th overall.

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In 2015, he again finished third in Liège–Bastogne–Liège U23, eighth overall in the Tour of the Gila, 13th overall in the Tour of California and sevth overall in the USA Pro Cycling Challge, winning the best young rider classification.

He also rode as a Stagiaire for Team Sky in 2015, but opted to stay at Under-23 level for the 2016 season.

On 18 October 2020, Geoghegan Hart won his first stage of a Grand Tour, taking stage 15 of the Giro d'Italia on the Alpine summit finish of the Piancavallo. Following in the steps of previous winners Marco Pantani and Mikel Landa, Geoghegan Hart rode away from the remaining peloton with the Sunweb duo of Jai Hindley and Wilco Kelderman, out-sprinting Kelderman at the line to take the stage win. The result also took Geoghegan Hart up to 4th in the Geral Classification of the race ahead of the second rest day.

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On 24 October 2020, he won his second stage of the Giro d'Italia, taking 2nd overall on the same time as the leader, and on the final stage on the following day, he finished 13th in a time-trial in a time which won the Giro d'Italia.

In taking the jersey following the final day time-trial, he became the first rider in Giro history to win the overall title having never carried the pink jersey during the race itself.

Geoghegan Hart had a few tough seasons after his Giro d'Italia win in 2020 having to deal with COVID and repeated infections afterwards.

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He finished 60th on GC in the 2021 Tour de France and notched only 19th in the 2022 Vuelta a España. He returned to form in early 2023 after winning the 4th stage of the Volta a la Comunitat Valciana, his first win in over 2 years after the Giro victory.

He finished 3rd on GC and continued on upward trajectory by securing a 3rd place on GC in the 2023 Tirro–Adriatico in March 2023.This story is from 2013, when the then 18 year-old 2020 Giro d’Italia winner showed me his favourite training route for a Cycling Weekly ‘Ride with’ feature. I've not changed a word. Words and photos: Chris Sidwells

He’s all smiles as he rolls towards me up the hill into High Beach. We’re in the heart of Epping Forest, virtually on his doorstep, but he’s been away from it most of this year. “I’ve spent most of 2013 racing in Europe with the GB junior team, but I still love getting out here. I live in Hackney, but right form when I started cycling I headed out here, ” he says.

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Geoghegan-Hart spent yesterday travelling, but the day before he was winning the Giro della Lunigiana, a the UCI 2.1-junior ranked stage race featuring riders from Italy Australia, Denmark, Norway, Belgium, Germany, Kazakhstan, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Austria and Russia. Team GB dominated, taking the first two places overall with Geoghegan-Hart winning the first stage, the overall, the mountains and the points competitions.

Geoghegan-Hart rides like a teenage Bradley Wiggins, he looks and talks like one too. But first, that name? “Tao is Gallic for Tom, I’m part Irish part Scottish, so my name is a combination of that, ” he says.

He’s tall and slim; he’s world championship level on the track, but even better on the road. And, like Wiggins, he loves the history and geography of cycling. “I get excited about racing in Europe. I love the history of the races, the spectacle, the fans and the places the races go. Seeing the Tour de France riders in the mountains is what inspired me to start cycling, and it really gets my adrenaline going to think I might be able to do it one day.”

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He probably will, but Geoghegan-Hart has to get the next step right, and he knows it. “I’m 18 now, so I move up to under-23 next year. I’m on the Olympic Development Program (ODP) now and I’ve applied to the (BC under-23) Academy, but it’s also deciding what might be the best path for me. Riders like Josh Edmondson have shown that being based in Europe and racing for a team there works well, so I’m hoping to open as many doors as possible and chose which is best. Matt Winston, my coach on ODP is advising me, ” he says.

Today’s ride is a regular one. “I like exploring on my bike, and I’ve got lots of routes up here, ” Geoghegan-Hart says as he heads through Theydon Bois then over the M11 then M25. Epping Forest is an oasis at London’s back door, but traffic noise still impinges. Now, though, after Geoghegan-Hart puts the up-and-down of Taney Common between him and London, it’s so quiet and peaceful the city might be 100 instead of ten miles away.

“Great isn’t it?” He says, smiling, as he presses on to Toot Hill. “Right from starting cycling if I had two hours I’d come up here, ” he continues. Geoghegan-Hart used to swim, “Just club and sometimes county stuff, but I was also part of a team that swum the channel. We used to do two-hour training sessions for it in Dover Harbour.”

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Then in his early teens Geoghegan-Hart joined Cycling Club Hackney. “The first race I did was on a grass track. I didn’t know then there was such a thing as grass track racing, I thought they’d been put on special for us. I was last in my first ever road race, on the Hog Hill circuit. I rode a woman’s bike with no top tube, a Specialized Dolce it was. It was the only bike they had small enough for me. I was 14, but then I had a growing spurt, ” he says.

Madison Genesis pro Alex Peters, who rode the Tour of Britain this year, was a Hackney rider then and about the same age as Geoghegan-Hart. The pair teamed up in training and racing, and neither has looked back since.

“This year has been fantastic. Riding with the British team in the best junior races we really work hard for each other. I like to win but I also like working in a team, even leading out sprinters. My strength is as a climber, but leading sprints, putting the sprinter in the right place, that’s another thing that gets my adrenaline going. And the team ride 100 percent for me when I’ve been the protected rider.

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“Paris-Roubaix (where Geoghegan-Hart finished third behind Mads Pedersen and Nathan Van Hooydonk) was a great team performance. It fires me up when I see young British riders like Peter Kennaugh riding at the front for Chris Froome in the mountains. I’d love to do that, ” he says.

Geoghegan-Hart will get his chance, and maybe more. His generation of young road racers haven’t seen British riders fail. They’ve only seen success, or at least riders they can relate to up there fighting. Riders who at this stage of British cycling history went through exactly the same system Geoghegan-Hart is going through. That creates confidence, and confidence, or even more, a feeling they have a right to win, brings success.

Blackmore is the farthest Geoghegan-Hart needs go today. He’s got the form and just needs to keep tickling it during the run up to the world championships, so he heads