Richie Porte
Richard Julian Porte (born 30 January 1985) is an Australian former professional road bicycle racer who competed as a professional from 2008 to 2022. His successes include wins at 8 World Tour stage races: Paris–Nice in 2013 and 2015, the Volta a Catalunya in 2015, the Tour de Romandie in 2017, the Tour Down Under in 2017 and 2020, the Tour de Suisse in 2018 and the Critérium du Dauphiné in 2021. In Grand Tours, he won the young rider classification at the 2010 Giro d'Italia, his first year at UCI ProTour level, and finished on the podium of the 2020 Tour de France, but was also frequently hit by illnesses and injuries.
Porte at the 2017 Paris–Nice | |||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Richard Julian Porte | ||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Tasmanian Devil Fish The King of Willunga Hill | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 30 January 1985 Launceston, Tasmania, Australia | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 62 kg (137 lb; 9 st 11 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Retired | ||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
| Rider type | All-rounder | ||||||||||||||
| Amateur teams | |||||||||||||||
| 2007 | AC Sammarinese–Gruppo Lupi | ||||||||||||||
| 2008 | Mastromarco Sensi Grassi | ||||||||||||||
| 2009 | Bedogni–Grassi–Natalini | ||||||||||||||
| Professional teams | |||||||||||||||
| 2008–2009 | Praties | ||||||||||||||
| 2010–2011 | Team Saxo Bank | ||||||||||||||
| 2012–2015 | Team Sky | ||||||||||||||
| 2016–2018 | BMC Racing Team | ||||||||||||||
| 2019–2020 | Trek–Segafredo | ||||||||||||||
| 2021–2022 | Ineos Grenadiers | ||||||||||||||
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Grand Tours
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