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Pieter Weening
Dutch road bicycle racer From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Pieter Weening (born 5 April 1981) is a Dutch former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2004 and 2020 – for teams Rabobank (2004–2011),[4] Orica–GreenEDGE (2012–2015), Roompot–Charles (2016–2019), and Trek–Segafredo (2020). During his career, Weening took a total of thirteen victories, including Grand Tour stage victories at the 2005 Tour de France, the 2011 Giro d'Italia and the 2014 Giro d'Italia. He also won the 2013 Tour de Pologne and 2016 Tour of Norway stage races.
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Following his retirement from competing, Weening has worked as a directeur sportif for UCI WorldTeam Team Jayco–AlUla since the start of the 2022 season.
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Career
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Amateur career
Born in Harkema, Friesland, Weening joined the Rabobank Beloften team in 2000. In 2002, he won the under-23 race at the Dutch National Road Race Championships, while also placing inside the top ten overall at the Tour de l'Avenir. In his final year at under-23 level in 2003, Weening won the Jadranska Magistrala stage race in Croatia, winning a stage and the mountains classification as well.[5][6] He recorded third-place finishes at La Côte Picarde, Liège–Bastogne–Liège U23 and the Thüringen Rundfahrt der U23 (also winning a stage), second overall at the Triptyque Ardennais, and he formed part of the winning breakaway group in the under-23 road race at the UCI Road World Championships in Canada – ultimately finishing eighth in the group.[7]
Rabobank (2004–2011)
Weening turned professional with Rabobank in 2004, making his Grand Tour début at the Vuelta a España, where he finished 59th overall.[8] He took his first professional victory when he won the eighth stage of the 2005 Tour de France; having bridged across to the breakaway around halfway through the stage, Weening dropped his rivals on the final climb, but was caught by Andreas Klöden before the summit.[9] The pair were able to remain clear of the peloton on the descent to the finish in Gérardmer, with Weening narrowly winning the sprint by 1 centimetre (0.39 inches).[10] Later in the year, Weening finished second overall at the Tour de Pologne, five seconds behind race winner Kim Kirchen; he also won the sixth stage to take the race lead, before ceding the lead to Kirchen on the final day.[11][12] For his performances, Weening won the Gerrit Schulte Trofee as the Dutch men's cyclist of the year.[13]
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Over the next three years, Weening largely worked as a climbing domestique but recorded top-ten overall finishes at the 2006 Critérium International (eighth),[14] and the 2008 Regio-Tour (seventh), while also extending his contract with the team until the end of 2009.[15] He returned to the podium with a third-place overall finish at the 2009 Vuelta a Murcia, a race won by teammate Denis Menchov.[16] Having extended his contract for a further year,[17] Weening took his first victory since 2005, when he won the third stage of the Tour of Austria that July – ultimately finishing the race in sixth place overall.[18][19] He also recorded a fourth-place finish at August's Tour de Pologne, missing the podium by one second to Edvald Boasson Hagen.[20]
In 2010, Weening recorded a top-ten overall finish at March's Vuelta a Murcia (eighth),[21] before recording his best finish at a Grand Tour on his début at the Giro d'Italia, finishing twenty-fourth overall in the general classification, one hour and ten minutes behind race winner Ivan Basso.[22] He then finished fifth overall at the Ster Elektrotoer,[23] second to Niki Terpstra in the Dutch National Road Race Championships,[24] before suffering a collarbone break at the Vuelta a Burgos,[25] ultimately ending his season. Having extended his contract into 2011,[25] Weening recorded a sixth-place overall finish at that year's Tour de Romandie,[26] his final warm-up race for the Giro d'Italia. At the Giro d'Italia, Weening won stage five, which included an uphill finish and several unpaved roads or strade bianche. He soloed away from the breakaway group with 9 kilometres (5.6 miles) remaining,[27] ultimately finishing 8 seconds clear of the peloton, to take the race leader's pink jersey – a jersey he would present as a tribute to the family of Wouter Weylandt, who had died during stage 3 of the race.[28] The first Dutch rider to hold the race lead since Jeroen Blijlevens in 1999,[29] Weening held onto the jersey for a further three days, ceding the lead to Alberto Contador after stage nine, which finished at Mount Etna.[30]
GreenEDGE (2012–2015)
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After eight seasons with Rabobank, Weening left the team to join the new GreenEDGE squad for its inaugural season in 2012.[1] Due to a knee injury, Weening's first start with the team did not come until April's Circuit de la Sarthe.[31] His best finish of the season came the following month, when he finished tenth overall at the Tour of California.[32] The following year, Weening finished second overall to Julián Arredondo at the Tour de Langkawi, having also finished second to Arredondo on the fifth stage to Genting Highlands.[33][34] He then followed this up with top-ten results at the Tour of the Basque Country (sixth), and the Amstel Gold Race (eighth).[35] Later in the season, Weening won the Tour de Pologne, moving up from fifth overall on the final stage, a 37-kilometre (23-mile) individual time trial that finished in Kraków.[36] He also finished second to Sep Vanmarcke in the Grand Prix Impanis-Van Petegem,[37] prior to riding for the Dutch team in the road race at the UCI Road World Championships, which were held in Italy.[38]
In 2014, Weening formed part of the Orica–GreenEDGE squad that won the opening team time trial stage of the Giro d'Italia.[39] On stage nine, Weening took part in the day's main breakaway and, along with Davide Malacarne, was able to stay away to the end of the stage.[39] He outsprinted Malacarne in the closing metres in Sestola, to take his third Grand Tour stage victory.[40] Weening also won the Giro della Toscana from a solo attack.[41] Weening also featured as part of a second consecutive team time trial stage victory for Orica–GreenEDGE at the 2015 Giro d'Italia.
Roompot–Oranje Peloton (2016–2019)
Following four seasons with Orica–GreenEDGE, and having turned down a two-year contract extension, Weening moved to UCI Professional Continental team Roompot–Oranje Peloton for the 2016 season.[42] He took his first victories with the team at that year's Tour of Norway; he soloed to victory on stage 2 in Rjukan after a 20-kilometre (12-mile) attack, maintaining the overall lead for the rest of the race.[43][44] The following month, he won a stage of the Tour de Suisse, having soloed away from a breakaway group in poor weather conditions.[45] Having won the mountains classification at the 2017 Tour de Yorkshire,[46] Weening looked to repeat his victory at the Tour of Norway; he won the third stage in Lillehammer to take the race lead,[47] but ultimately dropped behind Edvald Boasson Hagen and Simon Gerrans on the final day to finish third overall.[48] Later in the season, he also won the mountains classification at the Tour of Austria, and finished seventh overall in the Danmark Rundt.[49]
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In 2018, Weening finished second overall to Kanstantsin Sivtsov in the Tour of Croatia,[50] also finishing second behind Sivtsov on the race's queen stage – which finished at Sveti Jure in the Biokovo mountains. He placed sixth overall at the Adriatica Ionica Race in June,[51] before he won the fifth stage of the Tour of Austria,[52] which finished on the Grossglockner High Alpine Road. He also rode for the Netherlands in the road race at the UEC European Road Championships in Glasgow and the equivalent race at the UCI Road World Championships in Innsbruck. He then started the 2019 season with top-five placings at the Trofeo Andratx–Lloseta – held as part of the Vuelta a Mallorca one-day races – and the Classic Sud-Ardèche,[53][54] before winning the second stage of the Tour de Luxembourg.[55] He ultimately finished outside of the top ten in the general classification, losing nearly a minute on the final stage, but he did finish in the top ten overall at the Tour of Belgium.
Trek–Segafredo (2020)
After Roompot–Charles disbanded at the end of the 2019 season, Weening began the 2020 season as a free agent.[56] In June, Weening signed a contract with Trek–Segafredo for the remainder of the 2020 season, marking his return to the UCI World Tour after four years at UCI Professional Continental level.[3] He made his first start with the team at August's Strade Bianche,[57] postponed from March due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Italy. He also rode the pandemic-delayed Giro d'Italia in October, but withdrew from the race on the fifth stage following a crash the previous day.[58] His contract was not extended beyond the 2020 season,[59] and Weening announced his retirement that November.[60]
Post-retirement
In December 2021, Weening was announced as a directeur sportif for UCI WorldTeam Team BikeExchange–Jayco for the 2022 season,[61] a role he continues to hold as of the 2025 season.[62]
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Personal life
In 2022, Weening was convicted of assault and threatening behaviour and sentenced to 80 hours' community service; he appealed the decision, and in November 2023, the sentence was overturned in court in Leeuwarden, with the judge ruling that the incident "was threatening to him".[63][64]
Major results
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- 2001
- 7th Overall Grand Prix Guillaume Tell
- 2002
- 1st
Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships - 2nd GP Wielerrevue
- 6th Overall Tour de l'Avenir
- 10th Overall Circuit des Ardennes
- 2003
- 1st Overall Jadranska Magistrala
- 1st Mountains classification
- 1st Stage 2
- 2nd Overall Triptyque Ardennais
- 3rd Overall Thüringen Rundfahrt der U23
- 1st Stage 1
- 3rd La Côte Picarde
- 3rd Liège–Bastogne–Liège U23
- 6th Flèche Ardennaise
- 8th Road race, UCI Under-23 Road World Championships
- 9th Overall Tour of Austria
- 10th Overall Niedersachsen Rundfahrt
- 2005
- 1st Stage 8 Tour de France
- 2nd Overall Tour de Pologne
- 1st Stage 6
- 9th Overall Vuelta a Murcia
- 2006
- 8th Overall Critérium International
- 2008
- 1st Ridderronde Maastricht
- 7th Overall Regio-Tour
- 2009
- 3rd Overall Vuelta a Murcia
- 4th Overall Tour de Pologne
- 6th Overall Tour of Austria
- 1st Stage 3
- 2010
- 2nd Road race, National Road Championships
- 5th Overall Ster Elektrotoer
- 8th Overall Vuelta a Murcia
- 10th Overall Tour of Austria
- 2011
- Giro d'Italia
- 1st Stage 5
- Held
after Stages 5–8
- 6th Overall Tour de Romandie
- 2012
- 10th Overall Tour of California
- 2013
- 1st
Overall Tour de Pologne - 2nd Overall Tour de Langkawi
- 2nd Grand Prix Impanis-Van Petegem
- 6th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
- 8th Overall Eneco Tour
- 8th Amstel Gold Race
- 8th Amstel Curaçao Race
- 9th Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana
- 2014
- 1st Giro di Toscana
- Giro d'Italia
- 1st Stages 1 (TTT) & 9
- 2015
- 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Giro d'Italia
- 2016
- 1st Overall Tour of Norway
- 1st Stage 2
- 1st Stage 6 Tour de Suisse
- 6th Overall Tour des Fjords
- 2017
- 1st Mountains classification, Tour de Yorkshire
- 1st
Mountains classification, Tour of Austria - 3rd Overall Tour of Norway
- 1st Stage 3
- 6th Trofeo Pollença–Port de Andratx
- 7th Overall Danmark Rundt
- 9th Vuelta a Murcia
- 2018
- 1st Stage 5 Tour of Austria
- 2nd Overall Tour of Croatia
- 6th Overall Adriatica Ionica Race
- 8th Overall Okolo Slovenska
- 2019
- 1st Stage 2 Tour de Luxembourg
- 4th Trofeo Andratx–Lloseta
- 5th Classic Sud-Ardèche
- 8th Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana
- 10th Overall Tour of Belgium
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
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