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Christian Vande Velde Information
Christian Vandevelde| |220px| ]] | | Personal information |
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| Full name | Christian Vandevelde |
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| Nickname | VDV |
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| Date of birth | May 22, 1976 (1976-05-22) (age 32) |
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| Country |  United States |
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| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) |
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| Weight | 69 kg (150 lb/10.9 st) |
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| Team information |
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| Current team | Team Garmin-Chipotle |
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| Discipline | Road |
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| Role | Rider |
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| Rider type | All-rounder |
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| Professional team(s) |
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1998–2003
2004
2005–2007
2008– | US Postal Service Pro Cycling Team
Liberty Seguros
Team CSC
Team Garmin-Chipotle | | Major wins |
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Tour de Luxembourg (2006)
Eneco Tour of Benelux Quatre Jours de Dunkerque UCI World Cup, Individual Pursuit (1999) | | Infobox last updated on: | | December 29, 2007 | Christian Vandevelde (born 22 May 1976 in Lemont, Illinois, U.S.), sometimes referred to as Christian Vande Velde, is an American professional road bicycle racer who currently rides for Team Garmin-Chipotle. Son of United States Bicycling Hall of Fame inductee, John Vandevelde, Christian became professional in 1998 for US Postal. He twice rode on the Tour de France team that brought Lance Armstrong to victory, in 1999 and 2001. In the 1999 Tour de France Vandevelde himself wore the young rider's jersey, the maillot blanc, for a time; he did not complete the 2001 Tour de France. Christian Vandevelde moved to Liberty Seguros in 2004 and switched to Team CSC in 2005. He has always worked as a domestique, riding in support of varying team captains, even though the 2005 season saw Vandevelde taking chances of his own including a breakaway on 4th stage of the Eneco Tour of Benelux, which was eventually hampered when the peloton was led on a false route, meaning the riders of the breakaway had to wait for the peloton to get back on track, at which time the gap between the break and the peloton was reduced from six to four minutes with 43 kilometres to go. In the 2006 Tour de France, he was a domestique on Team CSC for team captains Carlos Sastre and Fränk Schleck. Vandevelde was the best of the climbers in the team apart from Sastre and Schleck, whom he supported brilliantly in the high mountain stages. On stage 16, he pulled for most of the early slopes of the Col de La Croix de Fer, after team-mates Sastre and Schleck attacked to put then race leader Floyd Landis under pressure. On stage 17 to Morzine, he again pulled for most of the day along with team-mate Jens Voigt and Matthias Kessler and Serhiy Honchar from T-Mobile. With the (TTT) win by Team Garmin-Chipotle in Stage 1 of the 2008 Giro d'Italia, Vande Velde became the first American to wear the Maglia rosa since Andy Hampsten in 1988. Vande Velde finished the 2008 Tour de France in fifth place, 3'05" behind the winner Carlos Sastre and 17th in the olympic road race in Bejing.
Results20072008
Notes- ^ "Vaughters confirms Millar, Vande Velde, and Zabriskie", Cyclingnews.com (2007-07-30). Retrieved on 2007-07-30.
- ^ "Vaughters confirms Millar, Vande Velde, and Zabriskie", Cyclingnews.com (2007-07-30). Retrieved on 2007-07-30.
External links| Riders on Team Garmin-Chipotle presented by H30 |
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| Magnus Bäckstedt | Steven Cozza | Tom Danielson | Julian Dean | Jason Donald | Timmy Duggan | Huub Duyn | Lucas Euser | Tyler Farrar | Michael Friedman | Will Frischkorn | Ryder Hesjedal | Christophe Laurent | Trent Lowe | Pat McCarty | Martijn Maaskant | Daniel Martin | David Millar | Danny Pate | Kilian Patour | Tom Peterson | Chris Sutton | Christian Vande Velde | David Zabriskie | Manager: Jonathan Vaughters |
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| Persondata |
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| NAME | Vandevelde, Christian | | ALTERNATIVE NAMES | | | SHORT DESCRIPTION | Road bicycle racer | | DATE OF BIRTH | 1976-05-22 | | PLACE OF BIRTH | Lemont, Illinois, USA | | DATE OF DEATH | | | PLACE OF DEATH | |
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