Zdeněk Štybar

Zdeněk Štybar

Štybar at the 2015 E3 Harelbeke
Personal information
Full name	Zdeněk Štybar
Nickname	Štyby
Born	(1985-12-11) 11 December 1985 (age 36) Planá, Czechoslovakia
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	68 kg (150 lb)
Team information
Current team	Quick-Step–Alpha Vinyl
Disciplines	Road Cyclo-cross
Role	Rider
Rider type	Classics specialist (Road)
Professional teams
2005–2011	Fidea
2011–	Quick-Step[1]
Major wins
Cyclo-cross World Championships (2010, 2011, 2014) National Championships (2008–2013) UCI World Cup (2009–10) Superprestige (2009–10) Road Grand Tours Tour de France 1 individual stage (2015) Vuelta a España 1 individual stage (2013) Stage races Eneco Tour (2013) One-day races and Classics National Road Race Championships (2014, 2017) Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (2019) E3 BinckBank Classic (2019) Strade Bianche (2015)
Medal record Representing  Czech Republic Men's cyclo-cross UCI World Championships 2010 Tábor Men's race 2011 Sankt Wendel Men's race 2014 Hoogerheide Men's race 2005 Sankt Wendel Men's under-23 race 2006 Zeddam Men's under-23 race 2008 Treviso Men's race 2009 Hoogerheide Men's race UEC European Championships 2006 Huijbergen Men's under-23 race 2005 Pontchâteau Men's under-23 race

Zdeněk Štybar (Czech pronunciation: [ˈzdɛɲɛk ˈʃtɪbar]; born 11 December 1985) is a Czech professional cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Quick-Step–Alpha Vinyl.^[2] While best known as a cyclo-cross racer, in 2011 Štybar began his professional road career while continuing to race cyclo-cross.

Career[]

Early life and cyclo-cross career[]

Stybar at the 2011 Cyclo-cross Zonhoven

Štybar was born in Planá u Mariánských Lázní.

Following consecutive second places in 2008 and 2009, Štybar won the 2010 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in his home nation.

In 2011, he won the World championships for a second time.

Quick-Step (2011–present)[]

In March 2011, Stybar joined the UCI World Tour team Quick-Step to combine his cyclo-cross career with a career in road cycling.^[3]

In 2012 he pulled off a victory on the road by winning a stage in the Four Days of Dunkirk.

In 2013, Štybar came in sixth in Paris–Roubaix. He was in contention for the victory as he was part of the leading trio with Sep Vanmarcke and Fabian Cancellara when he hit a spectator, causing him to slow down to clip in his pedals. He tried to get back to the two leaders, but to no avail.^[4] In August of the same year, Štybar took the overall victory in the Eneco Tour – part of the UCI World Tour – winning two stages in the process.^[5] Later that month, Štybar won stage 7 of the 2013 Vuelta a España beating world champion Philippe Gilbert in a sprint finish in Mairena del Aljarafe.^[6]

In 2014, Štybar won the World Cyclo-cross championships for a third time in an intense battle with defending world champion Sven Nys.^[7]

In trying to defend his title in the 2014 Eneco Tour, Stybar crashed into the steel barriers in the fourth stage near the finish line and had to undergo hospitalization.^[8] He broke and lost his front upper teeth in the crash.^[9] Upon his return, he complained to the UCI that the same dangerous barriers were used in the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec.^[10] His first victory upon his return was Binche–Chimay–Binche, where he attacked inside two kilometers to go on a small cobbled climb after being led out by his teammate Niki Terpstra at the foot of the rise. Štybar had time to celebrate, coming in 2 seconds before John Degenkolb and the charging sprinters.^[11]

Stybar at the 2017 Tour de France

In 2015, Stybar won the Italian Classic Strade Bianche. He also had a good Belgian classics campaign. He finished second in E3 Harelbeke behind Geraint Thomas.^[12] At the Tour of Flanders, his false set of front teeth he broke in 2014 rattled loose as he was riding a cobbled climb and he had to take them off. He still managed to finish the race in ninth position.^[9] He grabbed second place in Paris–Roubaix, being outsprinted by John Degenkolb at Roubaix Velodrome.^[13]

Stybar was named in the start list for the 2015 Tour de France.^[14] He met success on Stage 6, where he powered away on a short but steep incline situated a few hundred meters before the finish line in Le Havre. He kept Peter Sagan from reaching him, crossing the line with a two seconds advantage over the reduced group.^[15]

Stybar finished second in the 2016 Strade Bianche after being outsprinted by fellow escapee Fabian Cancellara at the finish in Siena. The following week, he won the second stage of the 2016 Tirreno–Adriatico after a late solo attack, to take the race lead.^[16] He finished seventh overall in the race.

Stybar finished second behind Greg Van Avermaet (BMC Racing Team) at the 2017 Paris–Roubaix, in a five-man sprint finish in Roubaix Velodrome.^[17]

In May 2018, he was named in the startlist for the 2018 Giro d'Italia.^[18] In 2019, he once again placed in the top 10 at Paris–Roubaix, his sixth top-ten finish at the race.

Major results[]

Cyclo-cross[]

Road[]

Classics results timeline[]

Grand Tour general classification results timeline[]

Grand Tour	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Giro d'Italia	—	—	—	—	—	—	80	—	—	—
Tour de France	—	—	—	103	—	102	—	—	—	—
Vuelta a España	76	DNF	—	—	63	—	—	55	102	133

References[]

External links[]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Zdeněk Štybar.

• Official website
• Zdeněk Štybar at ProCyclingStats
• Zdeněk Štybar at Cycling Archives