No. 25 - George Hincapie
 | Team: Team DSC Country: USA DOB: 6/29/1973 | Age: 33 Hometown: Queens, New York Residence: Greenville, South Carolina Height: 6' 3 | Weight: 175 Hobbies: Basketball, mountain biking, music, motorcycles Website: www.georgehincapie.com Pro Since: 1994 NRC Rank: 14th & Points: 815 UCI Rank: 14th & Points: 117 Specialty: All Around, Time Trialist |
Career Summary
One of the world's most recognized cyclists, George Hincapie kicked off 2006 in style by wearing the Amgen Tour of California race leader's jersey after wining stage 2. He also won stage 5 and finished just shy of the podium in fourth overall. His finest moment in 2006 came when he thrilled a hometown crowd by winning the USA Cycling National Road Race Championships in Greenville, SC.Ten-time Tour de France veteran, Hincapie is the only team member to ride all seven winning Tours with Lance Armstrong. He demonstrated his ownability to win at the Tour when in 2005, he broke away to win the mountainous stage 15. An accomplished classics racer, he has finished second in Paris-Roubaix, the highest for an American. He is the only American to win Gent-Wevelgem and Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne.
Events
07 Amgen Tour of California06 Amgen Tour of California
04 Tour de Georgia
Individual Results
- 2006 1st USA Cycling National Road Race Championships; 4th overall, 3rd sprint classification, 1st stages 2 and 5, 3rd prologue Amgen Tour of California; 1st stage 4, 2nd prologue Eneco Tour of Benelux; 3rd overall Tour of Flanders; 2nd prologue, wore Yellow Jersey during stage 2 (8th American in Yellow); 5th Gent-Wevelgem
- 2005 1st stage 15, 1st stage 4 team time trial, 14th overall Tour de France; 1st Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne; 1st stages 1 and 7, 3rd overall Dauphine Libere; 1st GP Quest; 2nd Paris-Roubaix; South Carolina Athlete of the Year
- 2004 1st overall Three Days of Panne; 3rd T-Mobile International; 1st stage 4 team time trial Tour de France; 4th Gent-Wevelgem; 5th Paris-Nice
- 2003 2nd stage 7 and Points Volta a Catalunya; 7th overall Tour of Belgium
- 2002 2nd Classic Haribo; 3rd overall Three Days of Panne; 3rd USPro Road Championships; 3rd Gent Wevelgem
- 2001 1st Gent Wevelgem; 1st San Francisco Grand Prix; 3rd First Union USPro Championships; 3rd Trofeo Luis Puig; 3rd First Union Invitational
- 2000 2nd USPro Road Championship; 3rd First Union Classic; 3rd stage 8 Paris Nice
- 1999 1st First Union Classic; 1st points overall Tour de Luxembourg; 1st stage 6 Prutour
- 1998 1st USPro Championships; 2nd First Union Classic; 3rd stage 3 Tour de France
- *As a talented junior, Hincapie won 16 medals and 10 junior national titles and two world medals.
