# Daniel Teklehaimanot

Daniel Teklehaimanot Girmazion (Tigrinya: ዳንኤል ተክለሃይማኖት ግርማጽዮን, Tigrinya pronunciation:; born 10 November 1988) is a professional road racing cyclist from Eritrea, who last rode for UCI Professional Continental team Cofidis.

## Career

Daniel was a member of the UCI's World Cycling Centre training program before signing for the new Australian cycling team GreenEDGE in 2012. Whilst at the World Cycling Centre he was diagnosed with tachycardia, which was corrected by surgery in early 2009. He returned to riding in May of that year and went on to finish sixth overall in that year's Tour de l'Avenir. In 2010 he rode as a trainee for Cervélo TestTeam. The same year, he won the African Championships in the road race, individual time trial and team time trial, at both senior and under-23 levels. On the 2010–11 UCI Africa Tour, he won the Tour du Rwanda and the Kwita Izina Cycling Tour.
He participated in the 2012 Summer Olympics being the first Eritrean competing in a sport other than athletics; he finished the road race in the 73rd position. In 2012, he became the first Eritrean to ride in the Vuelta a España, one of the 3 grand tours; he finished the race 146th overall.

### MTN–Qhubeka (2014–17)

Daniel joined MTN–Qhubeka for the 2014 season, on a two-year contract. In 2015, at the Critérium du Dauphiné, he won the first World Tour jersey in MTN–Qhubeka's history by taking the mountains competition. He was named in the start list for the 2015 Tour de France. In July of the year, Daniel also became the first rider from an African team to wear the polka dot jersey at the Tour de France. In 2016, he again won the mountains classification at the Critérium du Dauphiné.
He was named in the start list for the 2017 Giro d'Italia where he briefly held the Mountains Classification jersey. His final race with Dimension Data was the 2017 Tour of Guangxi.

## Major results
### 2007

    8th Road race, All-Africa Games
    9th Road race, African Road Championships

### 2008 (1 pro win)

    1st Road race, National Road Championships
    African Road Championships
       5th Time trial
       8th Road race
    5th Overall Tour Ivoirien de la Paix

### 2009

    2nd Overall Tour of Eritrea
       1st Stages 1 & 3
    6th Overall Tour de l'Avenir

### 2010 (2)

    African Road Championships
       1st Road race
       1st Time trial
       1st Team time trial
    1st Overall Tour du Rwanda
       1st Stage 2
    1st Stage 2 Coupe des nations Ville Saguenay

### 2011 (3)

    African Road Championships
       1st Time trial
       1st Team time trial
    National Road Championships
       1st Time trial
       2nd Road race
    1st Overall Kwita Izina Cycling Tour
       1st Stages 1, 2 & 3
    1st Stage 5 Tour d'Algérie
    5th Overall La Tropicale Amissa Bongo
       1st Stage 4

### 2012 (3)

    African Road Championships
       1st Time trial
       1st Team time trial
    National Road Championships
       1st Road race
       1st Time trial

### 2013 (2)

    African Road Championships
       1st Time trial
       1st Team time trial
    1st Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia

### 2014

    4th Overall Mzansi Tour

### 2015 (1)

    African Road Championships
       1st Team time trial
       2nd Time trial
    1st Time trial, National Road Championships
    1st Mountains classification, Critérium du Dauphiné
    Tour de France
       Held after Stages 6–9

### 2016 (2)

    National Road Championships
       1st Road race
       1st Time trial
    1st Mountains classification, Critérium du Dauphiné
    3rd Time trial, African Road Championships

### 2017

    3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
    7th Overall Tour of Austria
    Giro d'Italia
       Held after Stages 2–3

### 2018 (1)

    1st Time trial, National Road Championships

### 2019

    9th Overall La Tropicale Amissa Bongo

### Grand Tour general classification results timeline

| Grand Tour | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
| Giro d'Italia | — | — | — | — | — | 111 |
| Tour de France | — | — | — | 49 | 85 | — |
| Vuelta a España | 146 | — | 47 | — | — | — |
Legend :
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |