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Tobias Halland Johannessen

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Tobias Halland Johannessen
Halland Johannessen in 2022
Personal information
Born (1999-08-23) 23 August 1999 (age 25)
Drøbak, Norway
Height1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Team information
Current teamUno-X Mobility
Discipline
RoleRider
Amateur team
2019–2020Dare Bikes Development
Professional teams
2021Uno-X Dare Development Team
2022–Uno-X Pro Cycling Team

Tobias Halland Johannessen (born 23 August 1999) is a Norwegian road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Uno-X Mobility.[1][2] Along with his twin brother Anders, Tobias raced in mountain biking, cyclo-cross and road cycling, before deciding to focus primarily on road racing. Knee injuries had kept him from competing in much of the truncated 2020 season.[3] In July 2021 he named to the Norwegian team to compete in the road race event at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[4]

Career

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Johannessen began cycling alongside his brother Anders as a means of getting to school.[5] He initially focussed on cyclo-cross and mountain biking before switching his focus to road racing, signing with the Uno-X development team for the 2021 season. In June 2021, Johannessen finished second in the General Classification of the Giro Ciclistico d'Italia, as well as finishing second on two individual stages.[2] In August 2021, Johannessen won the Tour de l'Avenir after finishing first on consecutive summit finishes on Stages 7 and 8, winning the race by seven seconds over Carlos Rodríguez.[6]

Johannessen raced the 2022 Tour of Norway, in which he took the leader's jersey after the second stage[7] and eventually finished in fourth position, winning the Points classification.[8] He also raced the 2022 Critérium du Dauphiné, in which he won the Young Rider Classification after finishing 10th overall, over a minute ahead of nearest challenger Brandon McNulty.[9]

He participated in the 2023 Tour de France, ending third on stage six, and top 10 on three additional stages.[10][11]

In one of his first races of 2024, Johannessen was close to winning the Classic Var, but mistook a metal gantry close the finish for the actual finish.[12] This led to Lenny Martinez overtaking him a few metres before the finish line, thus snatching the victory. In the run-up to Tour des Alpes-Maritimes, Johannessen was regarded by some as a contender to winning the General Classification.[13][14] He finished 4th on the first stage, but crashed on the second stage and fractured his collarbone.[15] Johannessen returned to racing in the Volta a Catalunya, two months later.

Major results

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Cyclo-cross

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2016–2017
2nd National Junior Championships
2017–2018
1st National Championships
2018–2019
1st National Championships
1st Stockholm
2019–2020
2nd National Championships
2021–2022
1st National Championships

Mountain bike

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2016
3rd Cross-country, UCI World Junior Championships

Road

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2021 (2 pro wins)
1st Overall Tour de l'Avenir
1st Stages 7 & 8
2nd Overall Sazka Tour
1st Stages 3 & 4
2nd Overall Giro Ciclistico d'Italia
3rd Liège–Bastogne–Liège Espoirs
2022 (1)
3rd Overall Étoile de Bessèges
1st Young rider classification
1st Stage 4
4th Overall Tour of Norway
1st Points classification
4th Mont Ventoux Dénivelé Challenge
7th Overall Volta a Catalunya
10th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné
1st Young rider classification
2023 (1)
1st Stage 5 Tour de Luxembourg
2nd Overall Tour of Britain
2nd Giro del Veneto
3rd Paris–Tours
4th Overall Arctic Race of Norway
4th Circuit Franco-Belge
9th Overall Tour of Norway
2024
2nd Classic Var
3rd Overall Deutschland Tour
1st Young rider classification
4th Trofeo Pollença–Port d'Andratx
6th La Flèche Wallonne
6th Gran Piemonte
8th Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana
10th Overall Tour of Slovenia
10th Giro del Veneto
Combativity award Stage 18 Tour de France

General classification results timeline

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Grand Tour general classification results
Grand Tour 2022 2023 2024
Giro d'Italia
Tour de France 30 35
Vuelta a España
Major stage race general classification results
Race 2022 2023 2024
Paris–Nice
Tirreno–Adriatico
Volta a Catalunya 7 86 89
Tour of the Basque Country
Tour de Romandie
Critérium du Dauphiné 10 15
Tour de Suisse

References

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  1. ^ "Twin brothers Johannessen at Uno-X from 2022". news.in-24. Retrieved 19 August 2021.
  2. ^ a b "Tobias Halland Johannessen". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  3. ^ "Fikk OL-plass i sin første landeveissesong: – Hadde ikke drømt om det". VG (in Norwegian). 13 July 2021. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  4. ^ "JOHANNESSEN Tobias Halland". Olympics.com. Archived from the original on 21 July 2021. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  5. ^ "Scouting Report - Tobias Johannessen". ProCycling. Future PLC. September 2021. p. 20.
  6. ^ Long, Jonny (22 August 2021). "Norway's Tobias Johannessen pips Ineos' Carlos Rodriguez to Tour de l'Avenir title after Spaniard's final stage surge". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 23 September 2021.
  7. ^ "Tour of Norway: Ethan Hayter delivers sprint win on stage 2". CyclingNews. 25 May 2022. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
  8. ^ "Evenepoel takes overall title while Kristoff wins stage 6 at Tour of Norway". CyclingNews. 19 May 2022. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
  9. ^ MacLeary, John (12 June 2022). "Primoz Roglic seals Criterium du Dauphine as Jumbo-Visma end dominant week with Jonas Vingegaard stage win". The Telegraph. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
  10. ^ "Official classifications of Tour de France 2023". Tour de France. Archived from the original on 14 August 2019. Retrieved 23 July 2023.
  11. ^ "Tobias Halland Johannessen". www.procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
  12. ^ ""I feel sorry for my teammates" - Tobias Johannessen rues early celebration and mistake for loss of Classic Var". CyclingUpToDate.com. 17 February 2024. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
  13. ^ Axelgaard, Emil (17 February 2024). "Optakt: Tour des Alpes Maritimes" [Preview: Tour des Alpes-Maritimes]. www.feltet.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 3 April 2024.
  14. ^ Silva, Rubén (16 February 2024). "PREVIEW | Tour des Alpes Maritimes 2024 - AG2R, Israel, FDJ and Arkéa deploy big weapons to fight for yellow jersey in two explosive days". CyclingUpToDate.com. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
  15. ^ "Uno-X Mobility on X". X. 18 February 2024. Archived from the original on 3 April 2024. Retrieved 3 April 2024.
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