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(Redirected from Daniel Teklehaymanot) Eritrean racing cyclist (born 1988)

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Daniel Teklehaimanot
ዳንኤል ተክለሃይማኖት

Teklehaimanot at the 2015 Tour de France

Personal information

Full name

Daniel Teklehaimanot Girmazion

Born

(1988-11-10) 10 November 1988 (age 36)
Geza Lamza, Ethiopia

Height

1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)

Weight

71 kg (157 lb)

Team information

Discipline

Road

Role

Rider

Rider type

Breakaway specialist

Amateur team

2009–2011

World Cycling Centre

Professional teams

2008

Amore & Vita–McDonald's (stagiaire)

2010

Cervélo TestTeam (stagiaire)

2012–2013

GreenEDGE

2014–2017

MTN–Qhubeka

2018

Cofidis

Major wins

One-day races and Classics

National Road Race Championships
(2008, 2012, 2016)

National Time Trial Championships
(2011–2012, 2015–2016, 2018)

Medal record

Men's road cycling

Representing Eritrea
CAC Road African Championships
	2010 Kigali	Road race
	2010 Kigali	Individual time trial
	2010 Kigali	Team time trial
	2011 Asmara	Individual time trial
	2011 Asmara	Team time trial
	2012 Ouagadougou	Individual time trial
	2012 Ouagadougou	Team time trial
	2013 Sharm el-Sheikh	Individual time trial
	2013 Sharm el-Sheikh	Team time trial
	2015 Wartburg	Team time trial
	2015 Wartburg	Individual time trial

Daniel Teklehaimanot Girmazion (Tigrinya: ዳንኤል ተክለሃይማኖት ግርማጽዮን, Tigrinya pronunciation: [tɐklɐhaymanot]; born 10 November 1988) is a professional road racing cyclist from Eritrea, who last rode for UCI Professional Continental team Cofidis.

Career

Daniel was a member of the UCI's World Cycling Centre training program before signing for the new Australian cycling team GreenEDGE in 2012. Whilst at the World Cycling Centre he was diagnosed with tachycardia, which was corrected by surgery in early 2009. He returned to riding in May of that year and went on to finish sixth overall in that year's Tour de l'Avenir. In 2010 he rode as a trainee for Cervélo TestTeam. The same year, he won the African Championships in the road race, individual time trial and team time trial, at both senior and under-23 levels. On the 2010–11 UCI Africa Tour, he won the Tour du Rwanda and the Kwita Izina Cycling Tour.

He participated in the 2012 Summer Olympics being the first Eritrean competing in a sport other than athletics; he finished the road race in the 73rd position. In 2012, he became the first Eritrean to ride in the Vuelta a España, one of the 3 grand tours; he finished the race 146th overall.

MTN–Qhubeka (2014–17)

Daniel joined MTN–Qhubeka for the 2014 season, on a two-year contract. In 2015, at the Critérium du Dauphiné, he won the first World Tour jersey in MTN–Qhubeka's history by taking the mountains competition. He was named in the start list for the 2015 Tour de France. In July of the year, Daniel also became the first rider from an African team to wear the polka dot jersey at the Tour de France. In 2016, he again won the mountains classification at the Critérium du Dauphiné.

He was named in the start list for the 2017 Giro d'Italia where he briefly held the Mountains Classification jersey. His final race with Dimension Data was the 2017 Tour of Guangxi.