Tobias Bayer
 Bayer in 2021 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Tobias Bayer |
| Born | 17 November 1999 Straß im Attergau, Austria |
| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in) |
| Weight | 71 kg (157 lb) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Alpecin–Deceuninck |
| Discipline | Road, Cyclocross |
| Role | Rider |
| Professional teams | |
| 2018–2020 | Tirol Cycling Team[1] |
| 2021– | Alpecin–Fenix |
Tobias Bayer (born 17 November 1999) is an Austrian racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Alpecin–Deceuninck.
Career
[edit]Bayer began his cycling career in 2015, participating in the Race Around Austria team challenge as one of his first races.[2][3] In 2017, he won the Austrian junior titles in both cyclocross and the individual time trial. His father was also a cyclist and participated in the first Mountain Bike World Championships in Colorado in 1990.[4]
In June 2019, Bayer delivered a noteworthy performance at the Austrian National Road Race Championships near Mondsee, finishing fifth overall and winning the under-23 title ahead of several World Tour professionals.[5]
Bayer rode his first Grand Tour, Vuelta a España in 2021 and supported his captain and sprinter Jasper Philipsen in two stage victories. In 2021 he became Austrian national champion in the under-23 category in both the road race and time trial.[6] He rode for Tirol Cycling Team in the men's team time trial event at the 2018 UCI Road World Championships.[7]
From 2018 to 2021, Bayer was an active athlete in the sports division of the Austrian Armed Forces. In 2020, as a soldier-sportsman, he held the rank of Gefreiter (Private).[8] During the 2020 Giro Ciclistico d'Italia, he finished third on the third stage and briefly led the mountains classification.[9]
Major results
[edit]Road
[edit]2017
- Austrian Junior Time Trial Champion
- 2nd Internationale Cottbuser Junioren-Etappenfahrt
- 3rd Tour de Haute-Autriche Juniors
- 7th Road race, Junior European Road Championships
2018
- Overall U23 Bundesliga Austria
2019
- Austrian Under-23 Road Race Champion
- 5th Road race, National Road Championships
- 9th Croatia–Slovenia
- 10th Overall Giro del Friuli-Venezia Giulia
2020
2021
- Austrian Under-23 Road Race Champion
- Austrian Under-23 Time Trial Champion
- 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
- 4th Road race, National Road Championships
- 9th Overall Boucles de la Mayenne
- 10th Road race, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships
- 10th Road race, UCI Road World Under-23 Championships
2022
- 3rd Brussels Cycling Classic
- 5th Time trial, National Road Championships
2024
Cyclo-cross
[edit]2016–2017
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
[edit]| Grand Tour | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Giro d'Italia
|
— | 100 | — | 96 |
 Tour de France
|
— | — | — | — |
 Vuelta a España
|
DNF | — | 141 | — |
| — | Did not compete |
|---|---|
| DNF | Did not finish |
| IP | Race in Progress |
References
[edit]- ^ "Tirol KTM Cycling Team". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 24 May 2020. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
- ^ "Junges Radtalent nimmt Kurs Richtung Profivertrag". nachrichten.at (in German). 19 August 2020. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
- ^ "Tobias Bayer radelt von Erfolg zu Erfolg". salzi.at (in German). 31 July 2015. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
- ^ "Interview mit Neo-Profi Tobias Bayer vor seinem Debüt bei der Vuelta". Alpecin Cycling (in German). 11 August 2021. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
- ^ Maurer, Peter (1 July 2019). "Bayer als Fünfter des Eliterennens Österreichischer U-23-Meister". radsport-news.com (in German).
- ^ "Sprintsieg für Belgier Philipsen auf zweiter Vuelta-Etappe".
- ^ "2018: World Championships - Team Time Trial". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
- ^ "Bundesheer-Leistungssportler/-innen" (PDF) (in German). Webseite Bundesheer. 1 December 2020. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 February 2021. Retrieved 2 March 2021.
- ^ "Nach einem harten und langen Tag ins Bergtrikot geschlüpft". radsport-news.com (in German). 1 September 2020. Retrieved 4 March 2021.
External links
[edit]- Tobias Bayer at UCI
- Tobias Bayer at Cycling Archives (archived)
- Tobias Bayer at ProCyclingStats
- Tobias Bayer at Cycling Quotient
- Tobias Bayer at UCI
- Tobias Bayer at Cycling Archives (archived)
- Tobias Bayer at ProCyclingStats
- Tobias Bayer at Cycling Quotient
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