David Zabriskie
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| Personal information | |
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| Full name | David Zabriskie |
| Nickname | "The Green Hornet",[1] DZ, Dizzy |
| Date of birth | January 12, 1979 |
| Country |  United States |
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) |
| Weight | 67 kg (150 lb/10.6 st) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Team Slipstream |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | Time trialist |
| Professional team(s) | |
| 1999–2000 2001–2004 2005–2007 2008– |
7-UP/Colorado Cyclist US Postal Team CSC Team Slipstream |
| Major wins | |
| Tour de France, 1 stage Giro d'Italia, 1 stage Vuelta a España, 1 stage United States National Time Trial Champion
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| December 29, 2007 | |
David Zabriskie (born January 12, 1979 in Salt Lake City) is a professional road bicycle racer from the United States who rides for Team Slipstream.[2] His main strength is individual time trials and his career highlights include stage wins in all three Grand Tour stage races and winning the US National Time Trial Championship three times. Zabriskie is known for his quirky nature, including singing before stages and the interviews he does with fellow riders in the professional peloton which are posted on his web site.
In 2005, he became the third American to wear the leader's jersey at the Tour de France, after three-time Tour winner Greg Lemond, and seven-time winner Lance Armstrong. George Hincapie and Floyd Landis became the fourth and fifth Americans in 2006.[3]
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[edit] Biography
Zabriskie made his professional debut with the Colorado Cyclist team in 1999. After displaying his talent for time trials by winning the US National Time Trial Championships (junior and under-23 age categories) and the Grand Prix des Nations (under-23 category), Zabriskie moved on to the US Postal Service cycling team in 2001. Following a year plagued by crashes and injuries, he returned to form in 2004, winning the Elite US National Time Trial Championships. He also won stage 11 of the Vuelta a España in an astonishing 162 km solo breakaway, marking his first Grand Tour stage win -- especially notable among his victories for not being a time trial. In the 2005 season Zabriskie switched to Danish Team CSC, where he racked up another Grand Tour stage victory by winning the 8th stage of the 2005 Giro d'Italia.
Despite success on the international cycling scene, Zabriskie did not receive much attention in his native United States until the 2005 Tour de France, when he won the stage 1 time trial -- making him the first American to win stages in all three Grand Tours. Zabriskie beat Lance Armstrong by two seconds and set the record for the fastest ever time trial in the Tour de France, clocking an average speed of 54.676 km/h. He wore the leader's jersey, the maillot jaune, until the team time trial on stage 4, where he crashed within the final two kilometres, a crash diagnosed as a chain slip though Zabriskie himself didn't know what had happened.[4] After the crash, Zabriskie suffered from his injuries and on stage 8, he arrived last, 51'12" after winner Pieter Weening. Zabriskie abandoned in the 9th stage (from Gérardmer to Mulhouse), after 11 km. Before Zabriskie had fully recovered from his crash in the Tour de France, a swinging glass door at a restaurant shattered on his hand, injuring him badly enough to end his 2005 season. [5] Back home from the Tour de France, Zabriskie was honored in the American state of Utah by the declaration of "Dave Zabriskie Day" by both Salt Lake County mayor Peter Carroon and Salt Lake City mayor Rocky Anderson.
Zabriskie's 2006 season started out well, with a strong 2nd place finish in the February stage race Amgen Tour of California, 29 seconds after the winner, fellow countryman Floyd Landis. He was initially placed 3rd in the April stage race Ford Tour de Georgia, but as he lost time to the favourite riders on the Brasstown Bald mountain stage, he finished 6th place overall. Dave Zabriskie won two time trials in the Dauphiné Libéré in May, beating Floyd Landis in the prologue by two seconds, and winning Stage 3 by 53 seconds, again ahead of Landis, further proving Zabriskie's outstanding time trialing skills. Following several mountain stages, including a ride up the Mont Ventoux, Zabriskie finished the race in 32nd place, behind winner Levi Leipheimer.
Upon completing the 2006 Tour de France in 74th place, Zabriskie became the second American behind Christian Vandevelde to finish all three Grand Tours.
[edit] 2007
On 1 September 2007, Zabriskie won the US National Time Trial Championship for the third time. He finished The Cliffs South Carolina 18.7 mile course in 39 minutes, 34 seconds (28.4 miles/hour average speed) which was just one second ahead of second place finisher Danny Pate.
[edit] 2008
After helping his team win the Giro d'Italia first stage team time trial, Zabriskie crashed on 11 May 2008 in the second stage with several riders and had to abandon the race due to a fractured first vertebrae. He returned home and is expected to fully recover. However, due to the injury it is unknown whether he will be able to ride in the Tour de France or will be selected for the US Olympic team for the 2008 Beijing Olympics.
[edit] Personal life
In 2005, Zabriskie married Randi Reich. Reich graduated with honors from the University of California at Berkeley in 2005.
[edit] Results
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| Competitor for the United States |
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| World Championships | |||
| Silver | 2006 Salzburg | Elite Men's Time Trial | |
- 2003 – U.S. Postal Service Pro Cycling Team
- Best young rider, Quatre Jours de Dunkerque
- 2004 – U.S. Postal Service Pro Cycling Team
- Stage 11, Vuelta a España
- United States National Time Trial Championship
- 2005 – Team CSC
- Stage 1 (ITT), 2005 Tour de France
Maillot jaune (after Stage 1)
- Stage 8 (ITT), Giro d'Italia
- Stage 4 (TTT), Tour Méditeranéen
- 2006 – Team CSC
- United States USPRO National Time Trial Championship
- Stage 2 (TTT), Settimana Ciclistica Internazionale
- Prologue (ITT), and stage 3 (ITT), Dauphiné Libéré
- Points competition (green jersey) leader (after Stage 3)
- 2nd (Silver), World Time Trial Championships
- 2007 – Team CSC
- 3rd Stage 20 (ITT), Giro d'Italia
- 5th overall, 2007 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
- United States USPRO National Time Trial Championship
- 2008 – Slipstream - Chipotle presented by H30
- 1st, Stage 1, Tour of the Bahamas
[edit] Quotes
- David Zabriskie (DZ) has conducted a number of flash-interviews in the peloton with various riders, displaying them on his website. They usually go down like the following interview of Alessandro Petacchi (AP):
DZ: Could I ask you a question?
AP: Yes.
DZ: Do you like Star Wars?
AP: Star Wars?
DZ: The movies.
AP: Yes.
DZ: Thank you.
- "Rock and Roll dude",[6] comment on his stage 9 time trial win at the 2004 Giro d'Italia.
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Christian Vande Velde, Vande Velde's View: My ability to discern..., VeloNews, July 9, 2006
- ^ "Vaughters confirms Millar, Vande Velde, and Zabriskie", Cyclingnews.com, 2007-07-30. Retrieved on 2007-07-30.
- ^ Rhiannon Potkey, Cyclist Zabriskie pedals to the beat of a different drummer, Active, February 21, 2006
- ^ Shane Stokes, DZ's back for more, CyclingNews, February 20, 2006
- ^ PezCycling News - What's Cool In Pro Cycling
- ^ Anthony Tan, Rock and roll, dude: Dave Z enters the record books, CyclingNews, May 17, 2005
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| NAME | Zabriskie, David |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | |
| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Road bicycle racer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1979-01-12 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Salt Lake City, Utah, USA |
| DATE OF DEATH | |
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