# Danny Pate

Danny Pate (born March 23, 1979) is an American retired professional cyclist, who competed professionally in road racing, cyclo-cross and mountain bike racing between 2000 and 2018 for the Saeco–Valli & Valli, Prime Alliance, Health Net–Maxxis, Jelly Belly–Pool Gel, Garmin–Transitions, HTC–Highroad, Team Sky and Rally Cycling teams.

## Career

Born in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Pate took his only professional victory at the 2007 Tour of Missouri, winning the penultimate stage.
He made his first start at both the Giro d'Italia and the Tour de France in 2008. In the latter, he was part of the breakaway on the fifteenth stage with three other riders, and was still clear with Simon Gerrans and Egoi Martínez heading into the final kilometre of the stage, an uphill finish to Prato Nevoso in Italy. He was out-sprinted by Gerrans and Martínez, sitting up for a third-place stage finish. He took a further third-place Grand Tour stage finish at the following year's Giro d'Italia, this time as part of a 25-rider breakaway; he was out-sprinted by Michele Scarponi and Félix Cárdenas at the finish in Benevento.
In October 2015 the UCI Continental team Rally Cycling, then named Optum–Kelly Benefit Strategies, announced that Pate would join them for the 2016 season after four years with Team Sky, reuniting him with former Prime Alliance teammate and Optum performance director Jonas Carney. He retired from racing at the 2018 Colorado Classic, after finishing the last stage in Denver.

## Major results
### 1997

    1st Junior race, National Cyclo-cross Championships

### 1998

    1st Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships

### 2000

    9th Rund um die Nürnberger Altstadt

### 2001

    1st Time trial, UCI Under-23 Road World Championships
    1st Overall Triptyque Ardennais
    2nd Ronde van Vlaanderen U23
    8th La Côte Picarde
    9th Overall Sea Otter Classic
    9th Prix de la Ville de Soissons

### 2002

    1st Overall International Tour de Toona
    1st Lake Eola Criterium
    2nd Road race, National Road Championships
    3rd Overall Tour of the Gila
    3rd USPRO Championships
    5th Overall GP de Beauce

### 2003

    1st Stage 2 Tour de White Rock
    4th Overall GP de Beauce

### 2004

    3rd Road race, National Road Championships

### 2005

    1st Mountains classification Nature Valley Grand Prix
    2nd Road race, National Road Championships
    2nd USPRO Championships
    6th Overall Redlands Bicycle Classic
    7th Overall International Cycling Classic
       1st Stages 3 & 15
    9th San Francisco Grand Prix

### 2006

    2nd Overall Rás Tailteann
       1st Stage 2
    3rd Road race, National Road Championships
    3rd Overall Tour de Beauce
       1st Stage 4 (ITT)
    3rd Reading Classic (Pro Cycling Tour)
    6th Lancaster Classic
    9th Overall Tour du Limousin
    10th Overall Tour de l'Ain

### 2007

    1st Stage 5 Tour of Missouri
    2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
    3rd Overall Tour de Beauce
    4th Lancaster Classic

### 2008

    1st Stage 1 (TTT) Giro d'Italia
    1st Stage 4 (TTT) Tour de Georgia
    3rd Road race, National Road Championships

### 2009

    3rd Overall Critérium International
    5th Overall Tour Méditerranéen

### 2010

    10th Gran Premio Nobili Rubinetterie – Coppa Papà Carlo

### 2013

    1st Stage 2 (TTT) Giro d'Italia
    1st Stage 1b (TTT) Giro del Trentino

### 2015

    1st Stage 1 (TTT) Tour de Romandie