Simon Špilak
 Špilak at the 2013 Tour de Romandie | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Simon Špilak |
| Nickname | Spile |
| Born | 23 June 1986 Tišina, Slovenia |
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) |
| Weight | 68 kg (150 lb; 10.7 st) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Retired |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | All-rounder Short stage race specialist |
| Professional teams | |
| 2005–2007 | KRKA–Adria Mobil |
| 2008–2011 | Lampre |
| 2012–2019 | Team Katusha[1] |
| Major wins | |
| Stage races
Single-day races and Classics
| |
Simon Špilak (born 23 June 1986) is a retired Slovenian professional road bicycle racer.[2]
Professional career[]
Born in Tišina, Špilak was the winner of the 2010 Tour de Romandie, after original race winner Alejandro Valverde had his results expunged as part of a doping suspension. Špilak went on to gain second place in that race in 2013 and 2014, both times behind Chris Froome. In 2013, he was the victor of the GP Miguel Induráin and the Eschborn–Frankfurt City Loop, his only two victories of the year. In 2015, he won the general classification of the Tour de Suisse with only five seconds of an advantage over Geraint Thomas. The victory was decided on the last day's time trial.[3] Špilak was considered a rarity in road cycling in that he is a general classification rider who targets one-week races rather than the three-week Grand Tours.[4] In an interview he said that he disliked the heat, so he was always preparing for spring races instead of Grand Tours which took part mostly in summer.[5]
In October 2019, Špilak announced his retirement after his Team Katusha–Alpecin team folded.[2]
Major results[]
- 2003
- 10th Time trial, UCI Junior Road World Championships
- 2004
- National Junior Road Championships
- 1st Road race
- 1st Time trial
- 3rd
Road race, UCI Junior Road World Championships - 4th Paris–Roubaix Juniors
- 2005
- 1st Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships
- 7th GP Kranj
- 9th Road race, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships
- 2006
- 1st Poreč Trophy
- 2nd Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships
- 5th Trofeo Zsšdi
- 7th Time trial, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships
- 7th Overall Istrian Spring Trophy
- 2007
- 1st La Côte Picarde
- 4th Overall Tour of Slovenia
- 1st
Young rider classification
- 1st
- 4th Overall Tour de l'Avenir
- 5th Overall Istrian Spring Trophy
- 2008
- 5th Overall Tour of Slovenia
- 5th Overall Three Days of De Panne
- 9th Tour of Flanders
- 2009
- 1st Stage 3 Tour of Slovenia
- 6th Overall Giro della Provincia di Grosseto
- 2010
- 1st
Overall Tour de Romandie[a]
- 1st Young rider classification
- 1st Stage 4
- 1st
- 3rd Overall Bayern–Rundfahrt
- 2011
- 5th Overall Tour of Slovenia
- 5th Giro del Friuli
- 2012
- 4th Overall Paris–Nice
- 8th Overall Tour de Romandie
- 8th Overall Tour of Belgium
- 10th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
- 2013
- 1st GP Miguel Induráin
- 1st Eschborn–Frankfurt City Loop
- 2nd Overall Tour de Romandie
- 1st Stage 4
- 4th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía
- 4th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
- 6th Overall Paris–Nice
- 9th Overall Tour de Suisse
- 10th Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes
- 2014
- 1st Stage 5 Critérium du Dauphiné
- 1st Stage 3 Arctic Race of Norway
- 2nd Overall Tour de Romandie
- 1st Stage 3
- 4th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
- 8th Overall Paris–Nice
- 9th Overall Volta ao Algarve
- 2015
- 1st Overall Tour de Suisse
- 2nd Overall Tour de Romandie
- 3rd Overall Paris–Nice
- 2016
- 7th Overall Tour de Romandie
- 8th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
- 9th Overall Tour de Suisse
- 2017
- 1st Overall Tour de Suisse
- 1st Stage 7
- 2nd Pro Ötztaler 5500
- 10th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
- 2018
- 6th Overall Tour de Suisse
- 9th GP Miguel Induráin
- 2019
- 5th Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana
- 6th Overall Tour de Suisse
- 6th Overall Tour of California
- 9th Overall Tour de Romandie
- 10th Overall Volta ao Algarve
Grand Tour general classification results timeline[]
| Grand Tour general classification results | ||||||||||||||||||
| Grand Tour | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Giro d'Italia
|
48 | — | — | 117 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
 Tour de France
|
— | 109 | DNF | — | — | — | DNF | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
 Vuelta a España
|
Did not contest during his career | |||||||||||||||||
| Major stage race general classification results | ||||||||||||||||||
| Race | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | ||||||
| Paris–Nice
|
12 | DNF | — | 13 | 4 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 31 | — | — | 59 | ||||||
 Tirreno–Adriatico
|
— | — | 18 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 11 | 27 | — | ||||||
 Volta a Catalunya
|
— | — | — | — | — | 34 | — | — | — | — | — | DNF | ||||||
| Tour of the Basque Country
|
— | — | — | — | 10 | 4 | 4 | 12 | 8 | 10 | 48 | — | ||||||
| Tour de Romandie
|
— | — | 1 | 21 | 8 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 30 | 30 | 9 | ||||||
 Critérium du Dauphiné
|
— | 77 | — | — | — | — | 85 | — | — | — | — | — | ||||||
| Tour de Suisse
|
— | — | DNF | — | DNF | 9 | — | 1 | 9 | 1 | 6 | 6 | ||||||
| — | Did not compete |
|---|---|
| DNF | Did not finish |
Notes[]
- ^ Retroactively awarded after Alejandro Valverde's results were disqualified following his backdated two-year ban in June 2010.
References[]
- ^ Stokes, Shane (26 October 2011). "Katusha Team confirms its eleven new signings for 2012 season". VeloNation. VeloNation LLC. Retrieved 3 January 2012.
- ^ a b "Here are all the riders retiring at the end of the 2019 season". Retrieved 13 October 2019.
- ^ Stuart Clarke (21 June 2015). "Geraint Thomas falls just short of Tour de Suisse title as Spilak wins overall". Cycling Weekly. IPC Media Sports & Leisure network. Retrieved 21 June 2015.
- ^ "Tour de Suisse: 10 riders to watch".
- ^ "Primož Roglič končuje sezono, Simon Špilak pa kariero". Delo. Retrieved 13 October 2019.
External links[]
Media related to Simon Špilak at Wikimedia Commons
- Simon Špilak at Cycling Archives
- Simon Špilak at ProCyclingStats
- 1986 births
- Living people
- People from Tišina
- Slovenian male cyclists
- Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic cyclists of Slovenia