Daniel Teklehaymanot’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth and life story

Intro Eritrean racing cyclist
Is Athlete
Sport cyclist
From Eritrea
Type Sports
Gender male
Birth

10 November 1988, Debarwa, Eritrea

Age 32 years
Star sign Scorpio
Sports Teams
NTT Pro Cycling Team
Cervélo Test
Mitchelton-Scott
Cofidis

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

Career

Teklehaimanot 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 of 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)

Teklehaimanot 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, Teklehaimanot also became the first rider from an African team to wear the polka dot jersey at the Tour de France.

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.

Major results

2012
African Road Championships
National Road Championships

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Giro d’Italia — — — — — 111
Tour de France — — — 49 85 —
Vuelta a España 146 — 47 — — —
— Did not compete
DNF Did not finish
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