# Michael Albasini

Michael Albasini (born 20 December 1980) is a Swiss former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2003 and 2020, for the Phonak, Liquigas, HTC–Highroad and Mitchelton–Scott teams.

## Professional career

Albasini began his career in 2003 with Phonak, moved to Liquigas–Bianchi at the beginning of 2005, and signed with Team Columbia–High Road for the 2009 season. From 2012 until his retirement, Albasini rode with the Australian professional cycling team GreenEDGE.
In 2012, Albasini met success at the UCI World Tour race Volta a Catalunya. The six-stage event contained no time trials, and Albasini took the lead by triumphing on the very first stage over Anthony Delaplace from Saur–Sojasun, getting a 42 seconds overall lead. On the very next stage, he was part of a select group of about 20 riders that were led to the line by Bradley Wiggins after a day in the mountains and he outsprinted his rivals, taking his second win in a row. He held on to his advantage on the following hilly stages, winning the overall classification by 1 minute and 30 seconds over second-placed Samuel Sánchez of Euskaltel–Euskadi.
In 2015, Albasini took a prestigious podium placing at the La Flèche Wallonne, coming in third place atop the Mur de Huy behind Alejandro Valverde and Julian Alaphilippe. He later won the second stage of the Tour de Romandie, having the better in the sprint of a group of 49 riders who had survived the climb and descent of the Col de la Vue des Alpes. He repeated the feat the very next day in Porrentruy, winning by a couple of bike lengths over Julian Alaphilippe. He had to abandon the Tour de France on Stage 5, suffering from a broken arm after a crash.
In October 2019, Albasini announced that he would retire from the sport after the 2020 Tour de Suisse. Following that race's cancellation due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Switzerland, Albasini announced that he intended to extend his career to the end of the 2020 season.

## Major results
### 1998

    1st Road race, National Junior Road Championships

### 2001

    4th Overall Ster Elektrotoer
    6th Overall Grand Prix Guillaume Tell

### 2002

    1st Road race, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships
    5th Overall Grand Prix Guillaume Tell
    7th Overall GP Kranj
       1st Stage 1
    7th Giro del Lago Maggiore

### 2004

    5th Züri-Metzgete
    9th Paris–Bourges

### 2005

    Tour de Suisse
       1st Sprints classification
       1st Stage 5
    7th Overall Three Days of De Panne
    10th Giro della Romagna

### 2006

    Tour de Suisse
       1st Mountains classification
       1st Sprints classification
    3rd Grand Prix de Fourmies

### 2007

    5th Overall Circuit de la Sarthe
       1st Stage 4

### 2008

    2nd Overall Tour de Luxembourg
       1st Stage 3
    2nd GP Miguel Induráin
    3rd Overall Tour Méditerranéen
    6th Tour du Haut Var
    7th La Flèche Wallonne
    8th Gran Premio di Lugano

### 2009

    1st Overall Tour of Austria
       1st Stage 2
    1st Stage 4 Tour of the Basque Country
    1st Stage 5 Tour de Suisse
    9th La Flèche Wallonne

### 2010

    1st Overall Tour of Britain
       1st Stage 3
    4th Overall Tour de Pologne
    10th La Flèche Wallonne

### 2011

    1st Grand Prix of Aargau Canton
    1st Stage 13 Vuelta a España
    1st Mountains classification, Tour of the Basque Country
    3rd Overall Bayern Rundfahrt
       1st Stage 3
    4th Overall Tour of Oman

### 2012

    1st Overall Volta a Catalunya
       1st Stages 1 & 2
    1st Stage 8 Tour de Suisse
    2nd Road race, National Road Championships
    2nd La Flèche Wallonne
    4th Grand Prix of Aargau Canton

### 2013

    1st Grand Prix of Aargau Canton
    1st Stage 4 Paris–Nice
    1st Stage 4 (TTT) Tour de France

### 2014

    1st Tre Valli Varesine
    Tour de Romandie
       1st Stages 1, 2 & 4
    2nd Road race, National Road Championships
    5th Grand Prix of Aargau Canton
    6th Giro di Lombardia
    7th Trofeo Muro-Port d'Alcúdia
    7th La Flèche Wallonne

### 2015

    Tour de Romandie
       1st Stages 2 & 3
    2nd Grand Prix of Aargau Canton
    3rd La Flèche Wallonne

### 2016

    Tour de Romandie
       1st Points classification
       1st Stage 5
    2nd Liège–Bastogne–Liège
    7th La Flèche Wallonne

### 2017

    1st Coppa Ugo Agostoni
    1st Stage 2 Tour of the Basque Country
    1st Stage 1 Tour de Romandie
    2nd Vuelta a La Rioja
    3rd Amstel Gold Race
    4th Grand Prix of Aargau Canton
    4th Coppa Bernocchi
    4th Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli
    5th La Flèche Wallonne
    7th Road race, UCI Road World Championships
    7th Liège–Bastogne–Liège
    10th Tre Valli Varesine

### 2018

    1st Overall Tour des Fjords
       1st Points classification
       1st Stage 2
    7th Road race, UEC European Road Championships

### 2019

    4th Time trial, National Road Championships
    10th Grand Prix of Aargau Canton
    10th Coppa Sabatini

### Grand Tour general classification results timeline

| Grand Tour | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 |
| Giro d'Italia | 87 | — | — | — | — | — | 123 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Tour de France | — | 145 | 115 | 58 | — | — | — | — | 110 | 86 | 70 | DNF | 132 | 98 | — |
| / Vuelta a España | — | — | — | — | — | DNF | — | 122 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 118 |

### Classics results timeline

| Monument | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
| Milan–San Remo | — | — | — | — | — | 118 | — | DNF | 109 | — | — | — | — | 122 | 45 | — | — | 130 |
| Tour of Flanders | DNF | DNF | DNF | DNF | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Paris–Roubaix | — | DNF | DNF | — | DNF | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Liège–Bastogne–Liège | DNF | — | DNF | — | DNF | — | 64 | 97 | 87 | 75 | 51 | 95 | 56 | 2 | 7 | DNF | 70 | 76 |
| Giro di Lombardia | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | DNF | DNF | DNF | DNF | 6 | DNF | — | DNF | DNF | — | DNF |
| Classic | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
| Amstel Gold Race | — | — | DNF | DNF | 79 | 69 | 15 | 41 | 62 | 87 | 55 | DNF | 69 | 57 | 3 | DNF | 60 | — |
| La Flèche Wallonne | DNF | — | DNF | — | DNF | 7 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 2 | 21 | 7 | 3 | 7 | 5 | DNF | DNF | 49 |
| Clásica de San Sebastián | — | — | — | — | 21 | — | — | — | — | DNF | DNF | 32 | — | 70 | DNF | — | — | — |
Legend :
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |