Daniel Teklehaimanot

Daniel Teklehaimanot Girmazion (born 10 November 1988) is a professional road racing cyclist from Eritrea, who last rode for UCI Professional Continental team .
Career
Daniel was a member of the UCI's World Cycling Centre training program before signing for the new Australian cycling team 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 . 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 for the 2014 season, on a two-year contract. In 2015, at the Critérium du Dauphiné, he won the first World Tour jersey in '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
References
External links
1988 births
Living people
Eritrean male cyclists
Cyclists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Olympic cyclists for Eritrea
People from Southern Region (Eritrea)
Competitors at the 2007 All-Africa Games
African Games competitors for Eritrea