Odd Christian Eiking
Eiking at the 2018 Deutschland Tour
Personal information
Full nameOdd Christian Eiking
Born (1994-12-28) 28 December 1994
Stord, Norway
Height1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight75 kg (165 lb; 11.8 st)
Team information
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typePuncheur
Amateur team
2010–2013Bergen CK
Professional teams
2014–2015Team Joker[1]
2016–2017FDJ[2]
2018–2021Wanty–Groupe Gobert[3][4][5]
2022–2023EF Education–EasyPost[6][7]

Odd Christian Eiking (born 28 December 1994) is a Norwegian cyclist, who last rode for UCI WorldTeam EF Education–EasyPost.

Career

Born in Stord, Eiking was named in the startlist for the 2016 Vuelta a España.[8]

In August 2017, Eiking signed a contract with Wanty–Groupe Gobert and joined them ahead of the 2018 season.[9] In July 2019, he was named in the startlist for the Tour de France.[10]

At the 2021 Vuelta a España, Eiking was part of a 31-rider breakaway group on the tenth stage,[11] from which he was the highest-placed rider in the general classification, trailing race leader Primož Roglič (Team Jumbo–Visma) by just over nine minutes overnight. The group's advantage over the peloton reached over thirteen minutes at its maximum, with Eiking ultimately finishing almost eleven-and-a-half minutes clear of Roglič, to take the race leader's red jersey. He held the race lead until the final week,[12] ceding the jersey on stage 17, when he was dropped on the second of four categorised climbs to be ascented during the stage.[13] He lost 9' 23" by the end of the stage, dropping to eleventh overall, where he would ultimately finish in the general classification.[14] A few days after the race, Eiking signed a contract with the EF Education–EasyPost team for the 2022 season.[6]

Major results

Source: [15]

2013
10th Overall Tour de Berlin
2014
2nd Overall Giro della Valle d'Aosta
3rd Road race, National Road Championships
4th Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships
4th Hadeland GP
5th Ringerike GP
2015
1st Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships
1st Young rider classification, Tour of Norway
1st Stage 2 Giro della Valle d'Aosta
2nd Road race, National Road Championships
3rd Overall Peace Race U23
3rd Ringerike GP
5th Hadeland GP
6th Overall Arctic Race of Norway
2016
1st Stage 1 (TTT) La Méditerranéenne
4th Overall Tour of Norway
1st Young rider classification
5th Overall Arctic Race of Norway
2017
1st Boucles de l'Aulne
10th Classic Loire-Atlantique
2018
1st Stage 3 Tour de Wallonie
2nd Grand Prix La Marseillaise
8th Overall Tour of Oman
8th Paris–Chauny
2019
Arctic Race of Norway
1st Mountains classification
1st Stage 3
3rd Ardèche Classic
3rd Grand Prix de Plumelec-Morbihan
6th Overall Tour of Guangxi
8th Grand Prix de Wallonie
2021
2nd Overall Arctic Race of Norway
7th Clásica de San Sebastián
10th Overall Étoile de Bessèges
10th Grand Prix La Marseillaise
Vuelta a España
Held after Stages 10–16
2022
2nd Coppa Sabatini

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
A pink jersey Giro d'Italia Has not contested during his career
A yellow jersey Tour de France — — — 111 — —
A red jersey Vuelta a España 77 DNF — — — 11
Legend
— Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

References

  1. ↑ "Odd Christian Eiking » Team Joker". Retrieved 14 October 2014.
  2. ↑ "FDJ: Odd Christian Eiking arrive en 2016" [FDJ: Odd Christian Eiking arrives in 2016]. L'Équipe (in French). 30 June 2015. Retrieved 19 August 2015.
  3. ↑ Almeida, Giampaolo (6 January 2019). "Wanty-Groupe Gobert, il rinnovo di Backaert completa il roster 2019" [Wanty-Groupe Gobert, the renewal of Backaert completes the 2019 roster]. SpazioCiclismo – Cyclingpro.net (in Italian). Gravatar. Retrieved 31 January 2019.
  4. ↑ "Circus - Wanty Gobert". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 5 January 2020. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
  5. ↑ "Intermarché - Wanty - Gobert Matériaux". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 3 January 2021. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
  6. 1 2 "Eiking signs with EF Education-Nippo". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 8 September 2021. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
  7. ↑ "Odd Christian Eiking". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 13 March 2022.
  8. ↑ "Vuelta a Espana 2016 - Start List". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. Retrieved 19 February 2023.
  9. ↑ "Eiking klar for belgisk lag – får kapteinsrolle".
  10. ↑ "2019: 106th Tour de France: Start List". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  11. ↑ Ostanek, Daniel (24 August 2021). "Vuelta a España: Michael Storer wins stage 10 as Primoz Roglic crashes on final descent". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
  12. ↑ Fotheringham, Alasdair (31 August 2021). "Odd Christian Eiking: I'm not giving away the Vuelta a España lead for free". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
  13. ↑ Ryan, Barry (1 September 2021). "Vuelta a España: Roglic storms to victory on Lagos de Covadonga". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
  14. ↑ Fletcher, Patrick (5 September 2021). "Primoz Roglic wins the Vuelta a España". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 7 December 2021.
  15. ↑ "Odd Christian Eiking". FirstCycling.com. FirstCycling AS. Retrieved 19 February 2023.
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