Lars Bak

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 and squads. Since retiring as a rider, Bak has acted as a directeur sportif for in 2020, and as team manager for UCI Women's WorldTeam 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 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 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
References
External links
Profile at Team Saxo Bank (source for this article)
1980 births
Living people
Danish male cyclists
Sportspeople from Silkeborg
Danish Giro d'Italia stage winners
Cyclists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Olympic cyclists for Denmark