Caleb Ewan facts for kids
Ewan at the 2018 Tour of Britain
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Full name | Caleb Ewan | ||
Nickname | The Pocket Rocket | ||
Born | Sydney, Australia |
11 July 1994 ||
Height | 1.67 m (5 ft 5 | 1⁄2 in)||
Weight | 69 kg (152 lb; 10 st 12 lb) | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Lotto–Soudal | ||
Role | Rider | ||
Rider type | Sprinter | ||
Major wins | |||
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Caleb Ewan (born 11 July 1994) is an Australian road and track bicycle racer who rides for UCI WorldTeam Lotto–Soudal. A sprinter, Ewan has a style similar to that of Mark Cavendish, taking an extremely low position that offers him an aerodynamic advantage.
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Biography
Caleb Ewan was born in New South Wales to a Korean mother and Australian father. At the age of eight he started bicycle racing, inspired by his father, who was also a competitive cyclist. 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. 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).
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. He was named in the start list for the 2015 Vuelta a España, where he won stage 5, but he withdrew from the race during stage 10.
In 2016, Ewan participated in the Tour Down Under and won the first stage in a mass sprint. He made it a duo of wins by taking the sixth stage as well. He also was the victor of Stage 2 of the Herald Sun Tour, another race held on Australian soil. He was named in the start list for the 2016 Giro d'Italia. He raced in the 2017 Giro, winning stage seven in a field sprint.
In the 2019 Tour Down Under, he headbutted Jasper Philipsen in Stage 5 and was relegated to 83rd place after crossing the finish line first. 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. He won stage 16 in Nîmes, narrowly beating Elia Viviani, as well as the final stage, narrowly beating Groenewegen on the Champs-Élysées.
He was the "lanterne rouge" of the 2022 Tour de France, having finished over 5 hours down on overall winner Jonas Vingegaard.
Major results
Road
- 2010
- 1st
Road race, National Junior Road Championships
- 2011
- 3rd Time trial, National Junior Road Championships
- 2012
- National Junior Road Championships
- 1st Gent–Menen
- 1st Stage 4 Regio-Tour Juniors
- 1st Stage 2b Liège–La Gleize
- 2nd
Road race, UCI Junior Road World Championships
- 2nd Trofeo Comune di Vertova
- 2nd Trofeo Emilio Paganessi
- 3rd Overall Keizer der Juniores
- 2013
- 1st Gran Premio Palio del Recioto
- 1st La Côte Picarde
- Thüringen Rundfahrt der U23
- Tour de l'Avenir
- 1st Stages 1 & 2
- 1st Stage 2 Tour Alsace
- 3rd Gran Premio Industrie del Marmo
- 4th Road race, UCI Road World Under-23 Championships
- 8th Trofeo Piva
- 2014
- 1st
Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships
- 1st Stage 2 Tour de l'Avenir
- 2nd
Road race, UCI Road World Under-23 Championships
- 2nd Trofeo Città di San Vendemiano
- 6th Trofeo Piva
- 2015
- 1st
Overall Tour de Korea
- 1st Vuelta a La Rioja
- Tour de Langkawi
- Herald Sun Tour
- 1st Stages 2 & 3
- 1st Stage 5 Vuelta a España
- 2nd Road race, National Road Championships
- 2016
- 1st EuroEyes Cyclassics
- Tour Down Under
- 1st Stages 1 & 6
- 1st Stage 8 Tour of Britain
- 1st Stage 2 Herald Sun Tour
- 2017
- Tour Down Under
- Tour of Britain
- 1st Stages 1, 3 & 6
- 1st
Points classification, Tour de Yorkshire
- 1st Stage 7 Giro d'Italia
- 1st Stage 4 Tour de Pologne
- 1st Stage 4 Abu Dhabi Tour
- 10th Milan–San Remo
- 2018
- 1st Clásica de Almería
- 1st Stage 2 Tour Down Under
- 1st Stage 8 Tour of Britain
- 2nd Milan–San Remo
- 4th Road race, National Road Championships
- 2019
- 1st Brussels Cycling Classic
- Tour de France
- Giro d'Italia
- 1st Stages 8 & 11
- Tour of Turkey
- 1st Stages 4 & 6
- 1st Stage 4 UAE Tour
- 1st Stage 4 ZLM Tour
- 2nd Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
- 2nd EuroEyes Cyclassics
- 2020
- 1st Scheldeprijs
- Tour de France
- 1st Stages 3 & 11
- Tour Down Under
- 1st Stages 2 & 4
- UAE Tour
- 1st Stage 1 Tour de Wallonie
- 2nd Milano–Torino
- 7th Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
- 2021
- Giro d'Italia
- Tour of Belgium
- 1st Stage 5 Benelux Tour
- 1st Stage 7 UAE Tour
- 2nd Milan–San Remo
- 2022
- 1st Grand Prix de Fourmies
- Tour of Turkey
- 1st Stages 1 & 6
- 1st Stage 3 Tirreno–Adriatico
- 1st Stage 1 Tour des Alpes-Maritimes et du Var
- 1st Stage 1 Saudi Tour
- 1st Stage 1 Deutschland Tour
- 2nd Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne
- 2nd Elfstedenronde
- 2nd Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen
Track
- 2012
- 2nd
Individual pursuit, Oceania Track Championships
- National Junior Track Championships
- 2nd Madison
- 2nd Points race
- 3rd Scratch
- 3rd Team pursuit
- 2013
- 2nd Team pursuit, National Track Championships
See also
In Spanish: Caleb Ewan para niños
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