No. 51 - Thor Hushovd
 | Team: Crédit Agricole Country: NOR DOB: 1/18/1978 | Age: 29 Hometown: Grimstad, Norway Height: 6' | Weight: 179 Website: www.thor-hushovd.com Pro Since: 1999 UCI Rank: 11th & Points: 124 Specialty: Sprinter |
Career Summary
The powerful Norwegian national champion Thor Hushovd comes to California ready to dazzle the crows with his explosive finishes. One of the sport's top sprinters, in 2006, he won the first and last stages of the 2006 Tour de France and a stage and the overall points classification at the Tour of Spain. He survived a deep gash to his right arm caused by a spectator's PMU hand during a Tour de France sprint finish.Hushovd began racing at 10 and won nearly every race he entered up until he was 16 (he is unofficially a 13-time Norwegian champion). At the age of 19, he considered “retiring” from the sport. Then in 1998, he hit the Under 23 racing circuit and won Paris-Roubaix, Paris-Tours and the World Time Trial Championships. In 1999, he signed a contract with Credit Agricole and continues to win against the most experienced pros.
Events
07 Amgen Tour of CaliforniaIndividual Results
- 2006 1st stage 3 Volta Ciclista a Catalunya; 1st stage 4 Tirreno-Adriatico; 1st Points overall and 1st stage 6, five second place stage finishes, Vuelta a Espana; 1st stage 7 Dauphine Libere; 1st Prologue and stage 20 Tour de France
- 2005 1st Four Days of Dunkerque; 1st stage 2 Dauphine Libere; 1st stage 4 Tour du Limousin; 1st stage 5 Vuelta a Espana; 1st stage 7 Tour of Catalogne; 1st Norwegian National Time Trial Championships
- 2004 1st stages 1 and 2, Tour of Languedoc- Roussillon; 1st stage 3 Etoile de Besseges; 1st stage 9 Tour de France; 1st Norwegian National Road and Time Trial Championships; 1st Classic Haribo; 1st Grand Prix de Denain; 1st Tour de Vendee
- 2003 1st stage 1 Tour de Castille et Leon; 1st stage 3 Dauphine Libere; 1st Grand Prix Jef Scherens Leuven 2002 1st stage 19 Tour de France; 1st stage 2 Tour de l'Ain
- 2000 1st stage 1 Tour of Picardie
- 1998 1st U23 World Time Trial Championships; 1st U23 Paris Roubaix, 1st U23 Paris Tours
