# Lawson Craddock

Gregory Lawson Craddock (born February 20, 1992) is an American former road and track racing cyclist, who competed as a professional from 2011 to 2024. He is known for his achievement in finishing the 2018 Tour de France despite being seriously injured in the opening stage, and for raising funds for a hurricane-damaged velodrome as a result.

## Cycling career

After spending the 2014 and 2015 seasons with Giant–Shimano in the UCI World Tour, he moved to rival Cannondale for the 2016 and 2017 seasons.
Craddock raced in the 2018 Tour de France and crashed violently during the first stage, causing a hairline fracture in his scapula, but continued racing. He was the last rider to cross the finish line and there were many photos of him with blood covering the entire left side of his face. After that crash, he took to social media announcing he was donating $100 for every stage he finished to the Greater Houston Cycling Association in the rebuild of the Alkek Velodrome, where Craddock got his start in cycling and which was damaged by Hurricane Harvey. A GoFundMe page was also set up for people to make direct donations to the velodrome. Craddock finished the race as the "lanterne rouge", becoming the first rider in Tour history to hold last place after every stage and earning over US$250,000 for the cause. He is the only American to be awarded the lanterne rouge.
On June 11, 2020, USA Cycling announced that Craddock will be on their Men's Road Long Team for the 2020 Summer Olympics (to be held July 23 to August 8, 2021). In October 2020, he was named in the startlist for the 2020 Giro d'Italia. He was also chosen as part of the team for the 2021 Vuelta a España where on stage 19 he rode at the front of the race and controlled the final kilometers of the breakaway to contain any attacks and put his teammate, Magnus Cort, in a position to win the stage. As Cort attacked Craddock fell back and watched as his teammate won the stage, and five seconds later when he crossed the line threw his arms in the air celebrating the victory.

## Major results
### 2008

    National Novice Track Championships
       1st Scratch
       1st Points race

### 2009

    1st Stage 1 (ITT) Edgar Soto Memorial
    1st Stage 2b (ITT) Tour du Pays de Vaud
    2nd Time trial, UCI Junior Road World Championships
    4th Overall Trofeo Karlsberg

### 2010

    National Junior Road Championships
       1st Road race
       1st Time trial
    1st Overall Trofeo Karlsberg
       1st Stages 2 & 3 (ITT)
    1st Stage 1 Tour de New Braunfels
    1st Stage 1 (TTT) Regio Tour
    2nd Overall Trophée Centre Morbihan
       1st Stage 2 (ITT)
    3rd Time trial, UCI Junior Road World Championships
    3rd Overall Tour du Pays de Vaud
       1st Prologue & Stage 4 (ITT)
    3rd Paris–Roubaix Juniors

### 2011

    1st Stage 2 (ITT) Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux
    1st Stage 10 Tour de la Guadeloupe
    1st Stage 2 Hotter'N Hell Hundred
    2nd Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships
    4th Overall Tour de Berlin
    4th Overall Tulsa Tough

### 2012

    2nd Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships
    3rd Time trial, Pan–American Under-23 Road Championships
    3rd Overall Cascade Cycling Classic
    3rd Copperas Cove Classic
    5th Overall Tour of the Gila
       1st Stage 5

### 2013

    2nd Overall Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux
       1st Stage 2
    7th Overall USA Pro Cycling Challenge
    8th Overall Tour of California
       1st Young rider classification

### 2014

    3rd Overall Tour of California
       1st Young rider classification

### 2016

    5th Overall Tour of California
    6th Overall Critérium International
    9th Overall Tour of the Basque Country

### 2018

    1st Mountains classification, Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali
    9th Amstel Gold Race

### 2019

    1st Stage 1 (TTT) Tour Colombia
    6th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
    7th Overall Tour of Utah

### 2020

    1st Stage 1 (TTT) Tour Colombia

### 2021 (1 pro win)

    National Road Championships
       1st Time trial
       5th Road race

### 2022 (1)

    1st Time trial, National Road Championships
    Combativity award Stages 15 & 17 Vuelta a España

### Grand Tour general classification results timeline

| Grand Tour | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
| Giro d'Italia | — | — | — | — | — | — | DNF | — | 107 | — |
| Tour de France | — | — | 124 | — | 145 | — | — | — | — | 84 |
| Vuelta a España | DNF | 42 | — | — | — | 58 | — | 69 | 55 | |
Legend :
| DSQ | Disqualified |
| DNF | Did not finish |
| IP | In progress |