Tobias Halland Johannessen
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Born | Drøbak, Norway | 23 August 1999
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Role | Rider |
Amateur team | |
2019–2020 | Dare Bikes Development |
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2021 |
Tobias Halland Johannessen (born 23 August 1999) is a Norwegian road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Continental team .[1] For the 2022 season, he will join UCI ProTeam Uno-X Pro Cycling Team.[2]
Along with his twin brother Anders, Tobias has 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[]
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.[1] 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]
Major results[]
Road[]
- 2021
- 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
Cyclo-cross[]
- 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[]
- 2016
- 3rd UCI Junior World XCO Championships
References[]
- ^ a b "Tobias Halland Johannessen". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
- ^ "Twin brothers Johannessen at Uno-X from 2022". news.in-24. Retrieved 19 August 2021.
- ^ "Wouldn't have dreamed of it – VG". newsbeezer.com. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
- ^ "JOHANNESSEN Tobias Halland". Olympics.com. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
- ^ "Scouting Report - Tobias Johannessen". ProCycling. Future PLC. September 2021. p. 20.
- ^ Long, Jonny. "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.
External links[]
- Tobias Halland Johannessen at Cycling Archives
- Tobias Halland Johannessen at ProCyclingStats
- Tobias Halland Johannessen at Olympedia
- 1999 births
- Living people
- Norwegian male cyclists
- Olympic cyclists of Norway
- Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Twin sportspeople
- Twin people from Norway