# Pieter Weening

Pieter Weening (born 5 April 1981) is a Dutch former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally for the Rabobank (2004–2011), Orica–GreenEDGE (2012–2015), Roompot–Charles (2016–2019), and Trek–Segafredo (2020) teams.

## Career

Weening was born in Harkema, Friesland.

### 2005

In 2005 Weening won a stage in the Tour de France. After one of the closest finishes in the Tour ever, Weening won the eighth stage just ahead of Andreas Klöden. In the same year he also won a stage in the Tour de Pologne and finished second overall, five seconds behind winner Kim Kirchen. He was named Dutch cyclist of 2005.

### 2011

With only a stage win in the Tour of Austria, Weening had to wait six years before a next big victory. In the Giro d'Italia, just one day after the neutralised stage due to the death of Wouter Weylandt, Weening won stage 5. Analysts described this stage as a 'Mini Tour of Lombardy'. The stage had an uphill finish and several unpaved stretches (strade bianche). Weening was the strongest on the uphill finish of a small break away and stayed just in front of the peloton. After the stage win, he was awarded the Pink leaders jersey. He gave the physical jersey awarded to him on the podium to Weylandt's family.
On 10 August 2011, and after eight seasons with Rabobank, Weening left the team to join the new GreenEDGE squad for its inaugural season in 2012.

### 2013

In 2013, Weening won the Tour de Pologne after starting the time trial fifth overall, and 27 seconds down. He managed to take the lead by placing a solid performance.

### 2014

In 2014, Weening again won a stage in the Giro d'Italia, after also being part of the team that won the first-stage team time trial. On stage 9, he took part in the day's main breakaway and, along with Davide Malacarne (Team Europcar), was able to stay away to the end of the stage. He outsprinted Malacarne in the closing metres, to take the third individual stage win of his career. Weening also won the Giro della Toscana from a solo attack.

### 2020

After Roompot–Charles disbanded at the end of the 2019 season, Weening signed with Trek–Segafredo on 5 June 2020, marking his return to the UCI World Tour after four years at the UCI Professional Continental level. His short-term contract was not extended beyond the 2020 season, and Weening announced his retirement that November.

## Major results
### 2001

    7th Overall Grand Prix Guillaume Tell

### 2002

    1st Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships
    2nd GP Wielerrevue
    6th Overall Tour de l'Avenir
    10th Overall Circuit des Ardennes

### 2003

    1st Overall Jadranska Magistrala
       1st Stage 2
    3rd La Côte Picarde
    3rd Liège–Bastogne–Liège U23
    9th Overall Tour of Austria
    10th Overall Niedersachsen Rundfahrt

### 2005

    1st Stage 8 Tour de France
    2nd Overall Tour de Pologne
       1st Stage 6
    9th Overall Vuelta a Murcia

### 2006

    8th Overall Critérium International

### 2008

    1st Ridderronde Maastricht
    7th Overall Regio-Tour

### 2009

    3rd Overall Vuelta a Murcia
    4th Overall Tour de Pologne
    6th Overall Tour of Austria
       1st Stage 3

### 2010

    2nd Road race, National Road Championships
    5th Overall Ster Elektrotoer
    8th Overall Vuelta a Murcia
    10th Overall Tour of Austria

### 2011

    Giro d'Italia
       1st Stage 5
       Held after Stages 5–8
    6th Overall Tour de Romandie

### 2012

    10th Overall Tour of California

### 2013

    1st Overall Tour de Pologne
    2nd Overall Tour de Langkawi
    2nd Grand Prix Impanis-Van Petegem
    6th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
    8th Overall Eneco Tour
    8th Amstel Gold Race
    8th Amstel Curaçao Race
    9th Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana

### 2014

    Giro d'Italia
       1st Stages 1 (TTT) & 9
    1st Giro di Toscana

### 2015

    1st Stage 1 (TTT) Giro d'Italia

### 2016

    1st Overall Tour of Norway
       1st Stage 2
    1st Stage 6 Tour de Suisse
    6th Overall Tour des Fjords

### 2017

    1st Mountains classification Tour de Yorkshire
    1st Mountains classification Tour of Austria
    3rd Overall Tour of Norway
       1st Stage 3
    6th Trofeo Pollenca–Port de Andratx
    7th Overall Danmark Rundt
    9th Vuelta a Murcia

### 2018

    1st Stage 5 Tour of Austria
    2nd Overall Tour of Croatia
    6th Overall Adriatica Ionica Race
    8th Overall Okolo Slovenska

### 2019

    1st Stage 2 Tour de Luxembourg
    4th Trofeo Andratx–Lloseta
    5th Classic Sud-Ardèche
    8th Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana
    10th Overall Tour of Belgium

### Grand Tour general classification results timeline

| Grand Tour | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
| Giro d'Italia | — | — | — | — | — | — | 24 | 45 | — | 38 | DNF | 92 | — | — | — | — | DNF |
| Tour de France | — | 72 | 93 | 128 | 63 | — | — | — | 72 | — | — | 144 | — | — | — | — | — |
| / Vuelta a España | 59 | — | 61 | — | — | 44 | — | — | 88 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |