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Wikipedia / 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 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 and later .

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 40kmoffon points race and the 4kmoffon team pursuit.

He won gold in the points race and bronze again in the team pursuit at the 2002 Commonwealth Games.

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

Major results

Road

  1. 1996

  2. 1st Time trial, National Championships

  3. 1997

  4. 1st Time trial, National Under-23 Championships

  5. 1998

  6. 1st Time trial, National Under-23 Championships

  7. 1999

  8. 1st National Criterium Championships

  9. Tour of Wellington

    1. 1st Stages 3 & 10

    2000

  10. 1st Stage 2 Tour of Wellington

  11. National Road Championships

    1. 2nd Road race

    2. 2nd Time trial

    2nd Omloop van de Vlaamse Scheldeboorden

  12. 2001

  13. 1st National Criterium Championships

  14. 1st Stage 5 Bay Classic Series

  15. 2002

  16. 1st Tour de Loveland

  17. 10th First Union Invitational

  18. 2003

  19. 1st Stage 7 Tour of Southland

  20. 2004

  21. 1st National Criterium Championships

  22. Tour of Southland

    1. 1st Points classification

    2. 1st Stages 1 (TTT), 8 & 10

    2005

  23. 1st National Criterium Championships

  24. 1st Wachovia Invitational

  25. International Tour de Toona

    1. 1st Points classification

    2. 1st Stages 2 & 7

    1st Sprints classification, Tour de Georgia

  26. 5th Overall Tour of Southland

    1. 1st Stages 1 (TTT), 4, 9 & 10

    2006

  27. 1st Philadelphia International Championship

  28. 1st Reading Classic

  29. 1st Stage 7 Tour of Wellington

  30. 1st Stage 5 Tour of Southland

  31. 2nd Overall Bay Classic Series

    1. 1st Stage 1

    6th Road race, Commonwealth Games

  32. 2007

  33. 5th Overall Tour of Qatar

  34. 2008

  35. Tour de Georgia

    1. 1st Sprints classification

    2. 1st Stages 3 & 7

    7th Scheldeprijs

  36. 2009

  37. 1st Clásica de Almería

  38. 1st Stage 3 Vuelta a España

  39. 1st Stage 2 Vuelta a Murcia

  40. 1st Stage 7 Volta a Catalunya

  41. 2nd Philadelphia International Championship

  42. 5th Overall Three Days of De Panne

  43. 2010

  44. 1st Down Under Classic

  45. Tour of Southland

    1. 1st Stages 1 (TTT), 4 & 9

    1st Stage 1 Paris–Nice

  46. 1st Stage 3 Ster Elektrotoer

  47. 1st Stage 4 Eneco Tour

  48. 2nd Overall Bay Classic Series

    1. 1st Stage 2

    3rd Overall Tour of Britain

    1. 1st Points classification

    2. 1st Stage 2

    3rd Overall Tour Down Under

  49. 4th Scheldeprijs

  50. 2011

  51. 1st Stage 2 Paris–Nice

  52. 1st Stage 3 Tour of California

  53. National Road Championships

    1. 2nd Road race

    2. 3rd Time trial

    3rd Paris–Bourges

  54. 2012

  55. 1st Stage 1 Bay Classic Series

  56. 7th Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen

  57. 9th Down Under Classic

  58. 2013

  59. 2nd Overall Bay Classic Series

  60. 3rd Down Under Classic

  61. 2014

  62. 1st Stage 2 Ster ZLM Toer

  63. 3rd Ronde van Limburg

  64. 4th Overall World Ports Classic

  65. 7th Road race, Commonwealth Games

  66. 2015

  67. 2nd Overall Bay Classic Series

    1. 1st Stage 4

    10th Down Under Classic

  68. 2016

  69. 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

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88

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—

DNF

—

Tour de France

—

—

—

—

—

124

162

DNF

DNF

155

Vuelta a España

—

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123

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DNF

133

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Did not compete

DNF

Did not finish

Legend

Track

  1. 1998

  2. Commonwealth Games

    1. 3rd Points race

    2. 3rd Team pursuit

    1999

  3. National Championships

    1. 1st Team pursuit

    2. 1st Points race

    UCI World Cup Classics, Mexico City

    1. 2nd Team pursuit

    2. 3rd Madison

    2000

  4. 1st Team pursuit, National Championships

  5. 2nd Six Days of Nouméa

  6. 2001

  7. Goodwill Games

    1. 1st Points race

    2. 1st Madison

    1st Points race, National Championships

  8. 2002

  9. Commonwealth Games

    1. 1st Points race

    2. 3rd Team pursuit

    UCI World Cup Classics, Sydney

    1. 1st Team pursuit

    2. 1st Madison

    3. 3rd Points race

    2003

  10. 1st Madison, National Championships

  11. UCI World Cup Classics, Sydney

    1. 1st Scratch

    2. 3rd Points race

    2nd Madison, UCI World Championships (with Hayden Roulston)

  12. 2004

  13. 1st Scratch, UCI World Championships

  14. 2nd Scratch, UCI World Cup Classics, Aguascalientes

  15. 2005

  16. UCI World Cup Classics, Sydney

    1. 1st Team pursuit

    2. 3rd Scratch

    2nd Scratch, UCI World Championships

  17. 2006

  18. Oceania Games

    1. 1st Points race

    2. 1st Scratch

    1st Points race, National Championships

  19. 2nd Points race, UCI World Cup Classics, Sydney

  20. 2007

  21. Oceania Championships

    1. 1st Madison

    2. 2nd Points race

    3. 2nd Scratch

    1st Points race, UCI World Cup Classics, Sydney

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