# Lars Bak

Lars Ytting Bak (born 16 January 1980) is a Danish former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2002 and 2019 for the Fakta, BankGiroLoterij, Team Saxo Bank, HTC–Highroad, Lotto–Soudal and Team Dimension Data squads. Since retiring as a rider, Bak has acted as a directeur sportif for NTT Pro Cycling in 2020, and as team manager for UCI Women's WorldTeam Uno-X Pro Cycling Team in 2022.

## Background

Born in Silkeborg, Bak became a professional in 2002 for Team Fakta where he rode with fellow Dane Allan Johansen. In 2004 they both switched to BankGiroLoterij where Lars Bak would gain his first professional win, but as the BankGiroLoterij team stopped after the 2004 season, both Bak and Johansen went to Team CSC in 2005.
Here, Bak won the Danish National Road Race Championships, and in the later half of the season he showed his strength and talent as a good upcoming rider, as he won the respected ten stage Under 25 race, the Tour de l'Avenir. He won the leader's jersey by sprinting to the win in a group of four riders on the first stage, a position he defended through the following nine stages bar one, including a time trial and a number of hilly stages.
In 2011 he finally made his Tour de France debut where he worked hard for Mark Cavendish's sprint train and finished off by taking part in a breakaway on the last stage. Bak joined Lotto–Belisol for the 2012 season.
In 2012, he won stage 12 of the Giro d'Italia.
Bak retired at the end of the 2019 season after 18 years as a professional.

## Major results

Source:

### 2000

    1st Stage 2a Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux

### 2001

    5th Overall Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux

### 2003

    6th Veenendaal–Veenendaal
    6th Druivenkoers Overijse
    7th Omloop van de Vlaamse Scheldeboorden

### 2004

    5th Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen
    9th Overall Tour de Luxembourg
       1st Stage 1
    9th Overall Danmark Rundt

### 2005

    National Road Championships
       1st Road race
       3rd Time trial
    1st Overall Tour de l'Avenir
       1st Stage 1
    1st Paris–Bourges
    6th CSC Classic

### 2006

    1st Stage 1 (TTT) Vuelta a España
    1st Eindhoven Team Time Trial
    4th Overall Bayern Rundfahrt
    8th Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise

### 2007

    1st Time trial, National Road Championships
    1st Stage 5 Tour de Wallonie
    3rd Overall Tour Down Under
    6th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk

### 2008

    1st Time trial, National Road Championships
    2nd Overall Tour de Pologne
       1st Stage 1 (TTT)
    2nd Overall Herald Sun Tour
    7th Overall Bayern Rundfahrt
    9th Overall Sachsen Tour
    9th Overall Circuit Franco-Belge

### 2009

    1st Time trial, National Road Championships
    6th Overall Tour de Romandie
    7th Overall Eneco Tour
       1st Stage 5
    8th Overall Danmark Rundt
    9th Overall Tour of Missouri

### 2010

    1st Stage 1 (TTT) Vuelta a España
    2nd Road race, National Road Championships
    8th Overall Danmark Rundt

### 2011

    1st Stage 1 (TTT) Giro d'Italia
    3rd GP Herning
    5th Paris–Roubaix
    8th Overall Ster ZLM Toer

### 2012

    1st Grand Prix de Fourmies
    1st Stage 12 Giro d'Italia
    10th Overall Ster ZLM Toer

### 2013

    2nd Overall Danmark Rundt

### 2014

    2nd Overall Danmark Rundt

### 2015

    2nd Overall Danmark Rundt
    6th Overall Three Days of De Panne

### 2018

    10th Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race

### 2019

    7th Paris–Tours

### Grand Tour general classification results timeline

| Grand Tour | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
| Giro d'Italia | DNF | — | — | — | — | — | 16 | — | 126 | 72 | 94 | 56 | 90 | DNF | 118 | 106 | — |
| Tour de France | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 152 | 96 | 108 | 82 | 37 | 173 | 123 | — | 147 |
| Vuelta a España | — | — | — | 21 | — | — | — | 154 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Legend :
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |