# Greg Henderson

Gregory Henderson (born 10 September 1976) is a New Zealand former professional track and road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2002 and 2017. His career includes winning the 15-kilometre (9.3-mile) scratch race at the 2004 world championships and, in road cycling, winning the points competition at the Tour de Georgia in 2005 and 2008.
Henderson rode in five Olympic Games and completed 11 Grand Tours. He also competed in four Commonwealth Games and was a four-time medallist, including winning gold in the points race in 2002. During an important part of his career, he served as André Greipel's main lead-out man, and they were colleagues at both T-Mobile Team and later Lotto–Soudal.
In addition to 17 New Zealand track and road titles and eight World Cup track golds, Henderson has been New Zealand Track Cyclist of the Year (2001, 2002, 2003) and Athlete of the Year, Otago, New Zealand (2001, 2002, 2003).

## Career
### Track cycling

At the 1998 Commonwealth Games Henderson won bronze medals in the 40-kilometre (25-mile) points race and the 4-kilometre (2.5-mile) team pursuit.
He won gold in the 40-kilometre (25-mile) points race and bronze again in the 4-kilometre (2.5-mile) team pursuit at the 2002 Commonwealth Games.
He won the 15-kilometre (9.3-mile) scratch race at the 2004 UCI Track Cycling World Championships.
At the 2004 Summer Olympics he finished fourth in the points race and seventh in the madison.
His best placing in the 2006 Commonwealth Games was 10th in the scratch race.
At the 2008 Summer Olympics he finished tenth in the points race and the madison.

### Road cycling

In 2005, he won the points competition at the Tour de Georgia and International Tour de Toona. In 2006, he recovered from early injuries and won the inaugural Pro Cycling Tour (PCT) Reading Classic.
In 2009, he won the Clásica de Almería in Spain, the second stage of Vuelta Ciclista a Murcia, and the third stage of the Vuelta a España on his Grand Tour debut.
In 2010, he won the first stage of the Paris–Nice. In 2011, he won stage 2 of Paris–Nice and stage 3 of the Tour of California.
Henderson left Team Sky at the end of 2011, and joined Lotto–Belisol, mainly to act as lead-out man for Andre Greipel. He credited his success in this role to the positioning skills which he developed as a track rider, and having to compete against quicker road sprinters such as Greipel, Mark Cavendish and Marcel Kittel. In April 2015, he expressed his opinion on Twitter that Fabio Aru of rival team Astana missed the Giro del Trentino not because of illness as it was announced, but because he had an ongoing investigation into his biological passport for doping. Henderson apologised shortly after. He competed in the 2016 Tour de France.
In August 2017 Henderson announced his retirement from competition, having competed in his last race, the 2017 Colorado Classic, and indicated that he would move into full-time coaching, having trained athletes since 2014. The following month he was announced as Endurance Performance Director for USA Cycling.

## Personal life

He is married to the Australian cyclist Katie Mactier. He has a bachelor's degree in Physical Education from the University of Otago.

## Major results
### Road
#### 1996

    1st Time trial, National Championships

#### 1997

    1st Time trial, National Under-23 Championships

#### 1998

    1st Time trial, National Under-23 Championships

#### 1999

    1st National Criterium Championships
    Tour of Wellington
       1st Stages 3 & 10

#### 2000

    1st Stage 2 Tour of Wellington
    National Road Championships
       2nd Road race
       2nd Time trial
    2nd Omloop van de Vlaamse Scheldeboorden

#### 2001

    1st National Criterium Championships
    1st Stage 5 Bay Classic Series

#### 2002

    1st Tour de Loveland
    10th First Union Invitational

#### 2003

    1st Stage 7 Tour of Southland

#### 2004

    1st National Criterium Championships
    Tour of Southland
       1st Points classification
       1st Stages 1 (TTT), 8 & 10

#### 2005

    1st National Criterium Championships
    1st Wachovia Invitational
    International Tour de Toona
       1st Points classification
       1st Stages 2 & 7
    1st Sprints classification, Tour de Georgia
    5th Overall Tour of Southland
       1st Stages 1 (TTT), 4, 9 & 10

#### 2006

    1st Philadelphia International Championship
    1st Reading Classic
    1st Stage 7 Tour of Wellington
    1st Stage 5 Tour of Southland
    2nd Overall Bay Classic Series
       1st Stage 1
    6th Road race, Commonwealth Games

#### 2007

    5th Overall Tour of Qatar

#### 2008

    Tour de Georgia
       1st Sprints classification
       1st Stages 3 & 7
    7th Scheldeprijs

#### 2009

    1st Clásica de Almería
    1st Stage 3 Vuelta a España
    1st Stage 2 Vuelta a Murcia
    1st Stage 7 Volta a Catalunya
    2nd Philadelphia International Championship
    5th Overall Three Days of De Panne

#### 2010

    1st Down Under Classic
    Tour of Southland
       1st Stages 1 (TTT), 4 & 9
    1st Stage 1 Paris–Nice
    1st Stage 3 Ster Elektrotoer
    1st Stage 4 Eneco Tour
    2nd Overall Bay Classic Series
       1st Stage 2
    3rd Overall Tour of Britain
       1st Points classification
       1st Stage 2
    3rd Overall Tour Down Under
    4th Scheldeprijs

#### 2011

    1st Stage 2 Paris–Nice
    1st Stage 3 Tour of California
    National Road Championships
       2nd Road race
       3rd Time trial
    3rd Paris–Bourges

#### 2012

    1st Stage 1 Bay Classic Series
    7th Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen
    9th Down Under Classic

#### 2013

    2nd Overall Bay Classic Series
    3rd Down Under Classic

#### 2014

    1st Stage 2 Ster ZLM Toer
    3rd Ronde van Limburg
    4th Overall World Ports Classic
    7th Road race, Commonwealth Games

#### 2015

    2nd Overall Bay Classic Series
       1st Stage 4
    10th Down Under Classic

#### 2016

    6th Overall Tour of Turkey

#### Grand Tour general classification results timeline

| Grand Tour | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 |
| Giro d'Italia | DNF | — | — | 88 | — | — | — | — | DNF | — |
| Tour de France | — | — | — | — | — | 124 | 162 | DNF | DNF | 155 |
| Vuelta a España | — | — | 123 | — | — | — | DNF | 133 | — | — |
Legend :
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |

### Track
#### 1998

    Commonwealth Games
       3rd Points race
       3rd Team pursuit

#### 1999

    National Championships
       1st Team pursuit
       1st Points race
    UCI World Cup Classics, Mexico City
       2nd Team pursuit
       3rd Madison

#### 2000

    1st Team pursuit, National Championships
    2nd Six Days of Nouméa

#### 2001

    Goodwill Games
       1st Points race
       1st Madison
    1st Points race, National Championships

#### 2002

    Commonwealth Games
       1st Points race
       3rd Team pursuit
    UCI World Cup Classics, Sydney
       1st Team pursuit
       1st Madison
       3rd Points race

#### 2003

    1st Madison, National Championships
    UCI World Cup Classics, Sydney
       1st Scratch
       3rd Points race
    2nd Madison, UCI World Championships (with Hayden Roulston)

#### 2004

    1st Scratch, UCI World Championships
    2nd Scratch, UCI World Cup Classics, Aguascalientes

#### 2005

    UCI World Cup Classics, Sydney
       1st Team pursuit
       3rd Scratch
    2nd Scratch, UCI World Championships

#### 2006

    Oceania Games
       1st Points race
       1st Scratch
    1st Points race, National Championships
    2nd Points race, UCI World Cup Classics, Sydney

#### 2007

    Oceania Championships
       1st Madison
       2nd Points race
       2nd Scratch
    1st Points race, UCI World Cup Classics, Sydney