# Daryl Impey

Daryl Impey (born 6 December 1984) is a South African former professional road cyclist, who competed as a professional from 2008 to 2023. Impey is an all-rounder; he generally comes to the fore on tough uphill sprints.
Impey is a two-time winner of the Tour Down Under, and the only rider to have won the race in consecutive years, winning in 2018, and 2019. He has won the South African National Road Race Championships twice, and is a nine-time winner of the South African National Time Trial Championships, including eight consecutive titles between 2013 and 2020. In 2013, Impey became the first African rider to wear the yellow jersey at the Tour de France, doing so for two days; six years later, he won his first individual stage at the race, winning the ninth stage in Brioude.

## Career

After riding for the South African team Barloworld in 2008 and 2009, in 2010 Impey joined Team RadioShack. Impey had originally signed for 2011 with the Australian team called Pegasus, but was forced to seek employment elsewhere after that team failed to secure a UCI license. After riding for MTN–Qhubeka and Team NetApp in 2011, Impey joined GreenEDGE for the squad's inaugural season in 2012. He won a stage of the Tour of the Basque Country in April of that year, before making his Grand Tour debut at the Giro d'Italia in May. In 2013, he became the first South African ever to lead the Tour de France.
He won the Tour of Alberta in 2014 by a single second thanks to his victory in the last stage, which gave him enough bonus seconds to overtake Tom Dumoulin. Impey confirmed his good form a couple of days later by taking the fourth place on the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec.
In 2015, Impey had to abandon the Tour de France after being involved in a massive crash on the third stage. He was named in the start list for the 2015 Vuelta a España.
In August 2020, it was announced that Impey was to join Israel Start-Up Nation from the 2021 season – alongside his former Barloworld teammate Chris Froome – on a two-year contract.

## Major results
### 2003

    1st Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships

### 2004

    National Under-23 Road Championships
       1st Time trial
       2nd Road race
    1st Stage 5 Giro del Capo
    6th Overall Tour de Tunisie

### 2006

    African Road Championships
       3rd Time trial
       4th Road race

### 2007

    1st Road race, All-Africa Games
    Giro del Capo
       1st Points classification
       1st Prologue & Stage 2
    1st Stage 10 Tour du Maroc

### 2008

    1st Stage 6 Herald Sun Tour
    6th Memorial Viviana Manservisi
    9th World's View Challenge 1
    9th World's View Challenge 2

### 2009

    1st Overall Tour of Turkey
       1st Points classification
       1st Stage 4
    2nd Road race, National Road Championships
    3rd Giro del Capo II
    7th Giro del Capo IV

### 2011

    1st Time trial, National Road Championships
    2nd Overall Tour du Maroc
       1st Stage 7
    3rd Overall Tour of South Africa
    9th Overall Tour of Azerbaijan (Iran)

### 2012

    1st Stage 2 Tour of the Basque Country
    1st Stage 2 Tour of Slovenia

### 2013

    1st Time trial, National Road Championships
    Tour de France
       1st Stage 4 (TTT)
       Held after Stages 6–7
    1st Stage 2 Tour of the Basque Country
    1st Stage 2 Bayern–Rundfahrt
    2nd Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships
    5th Overall Eneco Tour
    5th Vuelta a La Rioja

### 2014

    National Road Championships
       1st Time trial
       2nd Road race
    1st Overall Tour of Alberta
       1st Stage 5
    4th Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec
    7th Overall Bayern–Rundfahrt
       1st Stage 3
    7th Overall Tour Down Under

### 2015

    National Road Championships
       1st Time trial
       2nd Road race
    2nd Vuelta a La Rioja
    3rd 947 Cycle Challenge
    6th Overall Tour des Fjords
    6th Classic Sud-Ardèche
    7th Overall Tour Down Under
       1st Sprints classification

### 2016

    1st Time trial, National Road Championships
    3rd Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships

### 2017

    1st Time trial, National Road Championships
    1st 947 Cycle Challenge
    1st Stage 6 Volta a Catalunya

### 2018

    National Road Championships
       1st Road race
       1st Time trial
    1st Overall Tour Down Under
    Critérium du Dauphiné
       1st Points classification
       1st Stage 1
    3rd Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
    8th GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano
    10th Brabantse Pijl

### 2019

    National Road Championships
       1st Road race
       1st Time trial
    1st Overall Tour Down Under
       1st Stage 4
    1st Overall Czech Cycling Tour
       1st Points classification
       1st Stage 1 (TTT)
    1st Stage 9 Tour de France
    3rd Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race

### 2020

    National Road Championships
       1st Time trial
       2nd Road race
    3rd Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race
    6th Overall Tour Down Under

### 2021

    2nd La Drôme Classic

### 2022

    1st Stage 4 Tour de Suisse
    2nd Road race, Commonwealth Games

### Grand Tour general classification results timeline

| Grand Tour | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 |
| Giro d'Italia | DNF | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Tour de France | 111 | 74 | — | DNF | 38 | 47 | 46 | 72 | 97 | — | — |
| Vuelta a España | — | — | — | 84 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 101 |
Legend :
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |