Daryl Impey

Daryl Impey (born 6 December 1984) is a South African former professional road cyclist, who competed as a professional from 2008 to 2023. Impey is an all-rounder; he generally comes to the fore on tough uphill sprints.^[5][6]

Daryl Impey

Impey at the 2014 Tour of Alberta
Personal information
Full name	Daryl Impey
Born	(1984-12-06) 6 December 1984 (age 40) Johannesburg, South Africa
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	70 kg (154 lb; 11 st 0 lb)
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	All-rounder Super-domestique[1]
Professional teams
2008–2009	Barloworld
2010	Team RadioShack
2011	MTN–Qhubeka
2011	Team NetApp
2012–2020	GreenEDGE[2][3]
2021–2023	Israel Start-Up Nation[4]
Major wins
Grand Tours Tour de France 1 individual stage (2019) 1 TTT stage (2013) Stage races Tour of Turkey (2009) Tour of Alberta (2014) Tour Down Under (2018, 2019) One-day races and Classics National Road Race Championships (2018, 2019) National Time Trial Championships (2011, 2013–2020)
Medal record Representing Orica–GreenEDGE (2013) Orica–BikeExchange (2016) Men's road bicycle racing World Championships 2013 Tuscany Team time trial 2016 Doha Team time trial Representing  South Africa Commonwealth Games 2022 Birmingham Men's Road Race

Impey is a two-time winner of the Tour Down Under, and the only rider to have won the race in consecutive years, winning in 2018,^[7] and 2019. He has won the South African National Road Race Championships twice, and is a nine-time winner of the South African National Time Trial Championships, including eight consecutive titles between 2013 and 2020. In 2013, Impey became the first African rider to wear the yellow jersey at the Tour de France, doing so for two days; six years later, he won his first individual stage at the race, winning the ninth stage in Brioude.

Career

Impey wearing the yellow jersey at the 2013 Tour de France

After riding for the South African team Barloworld in 2008 and 2009, in 2010 Impey joined Team RadioShack.^[8] Impey had originally signed for 2011 with the Australian team called Pegasus, but was forced to seek employment elsewhere after that team failed to secure a UCI license.^[9] After riding for MTN–Qhubeka and Team NetApp in 2011, Impey joined GreenEDGE for the squad's inaugural season in 2012.^[10] He won a stage of the Tour of the Basque Country in April of that year, before making his Grand Tour debut at the Giro d'Italia in May.^[11] In 2013, he became the first South African ever to lead the Tour de France.^[12]

He won the Tour of Alberta in 2014 by a single second thanks to his victory in the last stage, which gave him enough bonus seconds to overtake Tom Dumoulin.^[13] Impey confirmed his good form a couple of days later by taking the fourth place on the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec.^[14]

In 2015, Impey had to abandon the Tour de France after being involved in a massive crash on the third stage.^[15] He was named in the start list for the 2015 Vuelta a España.^[16]

In August 2020, it was announced that Impey was to join Israel Start-Up Nation from the 2021 season – alongside his former Barloworld teammate Chris Froome – on a two-year contract.^[4]

Major results

2003

1st Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships

2004

National Under-23 Road Championships

1st Time trial

2nd Road race

1st Stage 5 Giro del Capo

6th Overall Tour de Tunisie

2006

African Road Championships

3rd Time trial

4th Road race

2007

1st Road race, All-Africa Games

Giro del Capo

1st Points classification

1st Prologue & Stage 2

1st Stage 10 Tour du Maroc

2008

1st Stage 6 Herald Sun Tour

6th Memorial Viviana Manservisi

9th World's View Challenge 1

9th World's View Challenge 2

2009

1st Overall Tour of Turkey

1st Points classification

1st Stage 4

2nd Road race, National Road Championships

3rd Giro del Capo II

7th Giro del Capo IV

2011

1st Time trial, National Road Championships

2nd Overall Tour du Maroc

1st Stage 7

3rd Overall Tour of South Africa

9th Overall Tour of Azerbaijan (Iran)

2012

1st Stage 2 Tour of the Basque Country

1st Stage 2 Tour of Slovenia

2013

1st Time trial, National Road Championships

Tour de France

1st Stage 4 (TTT)

Held after Stages 6–7

1st Stage 2 Tour of the Basque Country

1st Stage 2 Bayern–Rundfahrt

2nd Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships

5th Overall Eneco Tour

5th Vuelta a La Rioja

2014

National Road Championships

1st Time trial

2nd Road race

1st Overall Tour of Alberta

1st Stage 5

4th Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec

7th Overall Bayern–Rundfahrt

1st Stage 3

7th Overall Tour Down Under

2015

National Road Championships

1st Time trial

2nd Road race

2nd Vuelta a La Rioja

3rd 947 Cycle Challenge

6th Overall Tour des Fjords

6th Classic Sud-Ardèche

7th Overall Tour Down Under

1st Sprints classification

2016

1st Time trial, National Road Championships

3rd Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships

2017

1st Time trial, National Road Championships

1st 947 Cycle Challenge

1st Stage 6 Volta a Catalunya

2018

National Road Championships

1st Road race

1st Time trial

1st Overall Tour Down Under

Critérium du Dauphiné

1st Points classification

1st Stage 1

3rd Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race

8th GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano

10th Brabantse Pijl

2019

National Road Championships

1st Road race

1st Time trial

1st Overall Tour Down Under

1st Stage 4

1st Overall Czech Cycling Tour

1st Points classification

1st Stage 1 (TTT)

1st Stage 9 Tour de France

3rd Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race

2020

National Road Championships

1st Time trial

2nd Road race

3rd Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race

6th Overall Tour Down Under

2021

2nd La Drôme Classic

2022

1st Stage 4 Tour de Suisse

2nd Road race, Commonwealth Games

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022
Giro d'Italia	DNF	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Tour de France	111	74	—	DNF	38	47	46	72	97	—	—
Vuelta a España	—	—	—	84	—	—	—	—	—	—	101

Legend

—	Did not compete
DNF	Did not finish