Tobias Bayer (born 17 November 1999) is an Austrian racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Alpecin–Deceuninck.
Career
Bayer began his cycling career in 2015, participating in the Race Around Austria team challenge as one of his first races.[2][3] In 2017, he won the Austrian junior titles in both cyclocross and the individual time trial. His father was also a cyclist and participated in the first Mountain Bike World Championships in Colorado in 1990.[4]
In June 2019, Bayer delivered a noteworthy performance at the Austrian National Road Race Championships near Mondsee, finishing fifth overall and winning the under-23 title ahead of several World Tour professionals.[5]
Bayer rode his first Grand Tour, Vuelta a España in 2021 and supported his captain and sprinter Jasper Philipsen in two stage victories. In 2021 he became Austrian national champion in the under-23 category in both the road race and time trial.[6] He rode for Tirol Cycling Team in the men's team time trial event at the 2018 UCI Road World Championships.[7]
From 2018 to 2021, Bayer was an active athlete in the sports division of the Austrian Armed Forces. In 2020, as a soldier-sportsman, he held the rank of Gefreiter (Private).[8] During the 2020 Giro Ciclistico d'Italia, he finished third on the third stage and briefly led the mountains classification.[9]
Major results
Road
2017
- Austrian Junior Time Trial Champion
- 2nd Internationale Cottbuser Junioren-Etappenfahrt
- 3rd Tour de Haute-Autriche Juniors
- 7th Road race, Junior European Road Championships
2018
- Overall U23 Bundesliga Austria
2019
- Austrian Under-23 Road Race Champion
- 5th Road race, National Road Championships
- 9th Croatia–Slovenia
- 10th Overall Giro del Friuli-Venezia Giulia
2020
2021
- Austrian Under-23 Road Race Champion
- Austrian Under-23 Time Trial Champion
- 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
- 4th Road race, National Road Championships
- 9th Overall Boucles de la Mayenne
- 10th Road race, UCI Road World Under-23 Championships
- 10th Road race, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships
2022
- 3rd Brussels Cycling Classic
- 5th Time trial, National Road Championships
2024
Cyclo-cross
2016–2017
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
| Grand Tour | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Giro d'Italia
|
— | 100 | — | 96 |
 Tour de France
|
— | — | — | — |
 Vuelta a España
|
DNF | — | 141 | — |
| — | Did not compete |
|---|---|
| DNF | Did not finish |
| IP | Race in Progress |
References
- ^ "Tirol KTM Cycling Team". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 24 May 2020. Retrieved 24 May 2020.
- ^ "Junges Radtalent nimmt Kurs Richtung Profivertrag". nachrichten.at (in German). 19 August 2020. Retrieved 26 November 2020.
- ^ "Tobias Bayer radelt von Erfolg zu Erfolg". salzi.at (in German). 31 July 2015. Retrieved 22 November 2020.
- ^ "Interview mit Neo-Profi Tobias Bayer vor seinem Debüt bei der Vuelta". Alpecin Cycling (in German). 11 August 2021. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
- ^ Maurer, Peter (1 July 2019). "Bayer als Fünfter des Eliterennens Österreichischer U-23-Meister". radsport-news.com (in German).
- ^ "Sprintsieg für Belgier Philipsen auf zweiter Vuelta-Etappe".
- ^ "2018: World Championships - Team Time Trial". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 23 September 2018.
- ^ "Bundesheer-Leistungssportler/-innen" (PDF) (in German). Webseite Bundesheer. 1 December 2020. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 February 2021. Retrieved 2 March 2021.
- ^ "Nach einem harten und langen Tag ins Bergtrikot geschlüpft". radsport-news.com (in German). 1 September 2020. Retrieved 4 March 2021.
External links
- Tobias Bayer at UCI
- Tobias Bayer at Cycling Archives (archived)
- Tobias Bayer at ProCyclingStats
- Tobias Bayer at Cycling Quotient
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