Greg Henderson
Gregory Henderson (born 10 September 1976) is a New Zealand former professional track and road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2002 and 2017. His career includes winning the 15-kilometre (9.3-mile) scratch race at the 2004 world championships and, in road cycling, winning the points competition at the Tour de Georgia in 2005 and 2008.
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| Full name | Gregory Henderson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | Hendo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 10 September 1976 Dunedin, New Zealand | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 72.5 kg (160 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Retired | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2002–2003 | 7 UP–Maxxis | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2004–2006 | Health Net–Maxxis | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2007–2009 | T-Mobile Team | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2010–2011 | Team Sky | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2012–2016 | Lotto–Belisol | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2017 | UnitedHealthcare | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Vuelta a España, 1 stage Paris–Nice, 2 stages Philadelphia International Championship (2006) Scratch Race World Champion (2004) National Criterium Championships (1999, 2001, 2004, 2005) Sprint classification Tour de Georgia (2005, 2008) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Henderson rode in five Olympic Games and completed 11 Grand Tours.[1] He also competed in four Commonwealth Games and was a four-time medallist, including winning gold in the points race in 2002.[2] During an important part of his career, he served as André Greipel's main lead-out man, and they were colleagues at both T-Mobile Team and later Lotto–Soudal.
In addition to 17 New Zealand track and road titles and eight World Cup track golds, Henderson has been New Zealand Track Cyclist of the Year (2001, 2002, 2003) and Athlete of the Year, Otago, New Zealand (2001, 2002, 2003).
Career
Track cycling
At the 1998 Commonwealth Games Henderson won bronze medals in the 40-kilometre (25-mile) points race and the 4-kilometre (2.5-mile) team pursuit.[3][4]
He won gold in the 40-kilometre (25-mile) points race[5] and bronze again in the 4-kilometre (2.5-mile) team pursuit[6] at the 2002 Commonwealth Games.[4]
He won the 15-kilometre (9.3-mile) scratch race at the 2004 UCI Track Cycling World Championships.[7]
At the 2004 Summer Olympics he finished fourth in the points race and seventh in the madison.[8]
His best placing in the 2006 Commonwealth Games was 10th in the scratch race.[9][4]
At the 2008 Summer Olympics he finished tenth in the points race and the madison.[8]
Road cycling
In 2005, he won the points competition at the Tour de Georgia and International Tour de Toona. In 2006, he recovered from early injuries and won the inaugural Pro Cycling Tour (PCT) Reading Classic.
In 2009, he won the Clásica de Almería in Spain, the second stage of Vuelta Ciclista a Murcia, and the third stage of the Vuelta a España on his Grand Tour debut.[10][2]
In 2010, he won the first stage of the Paris–Nice. In 2011, he won stage 2 of Paris–Nice and stage 3 of the Tour of California.
Henderson left Team Sky at the end of 2011, and joined Lotto–Belisol, mainly to act as lead-out man for Andre Greipel.[11] He credited his success in this role to the positioning skills which he developed as a track rider, and having to compete against quicker road sprinters such as Greipel, Mark Cavendish and Marcel Kittel.[2] In April 2015, he expressed his opinion on Twitter that Fabio Aru of rival team Astana missed the Giro del Trentino not because of illness as it was announced, but because he had an ongoing investigation into his biological passport for doping. Henderson apologised shortly after.[12] He competed in the 2016 Tour de France.[13]
In August 2017 Henderson announced his retirement from competition, having competed in his last race, the 2017 Colorado Classic, and indicated that he would move into full-time coaching, having trained athletes since 2014.[2] The following month he was announced as Endurance Performance Director for USA Cycling.[1]
Personal life
He is married to the Australian cyclist Katie Mactier. He has a bachelor's degree in Physical Education from the University of Otago.[1]
Major results
Road
- 1996
- 1st
Time trial, National Road Championships - 1997
- 1st Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships
- 1998
- 1st Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships
- 1999
- 1st National Criterium Championships
- Tour of Wellington
- 1st Stages 3 & 10
- 2000
- 1st Stage 2 Tour of Wellington
- National Road Championships
- 2nd Road race
- 2nd Time trial
- 2nd Omloop van de Vlaamse Scheldeboorden
- 2001
- 1st National Criterium Championships
- 1st Stage 5 Bay Classic Series
- 2002
- 1st Tour de Loveland
- 10th First Union Invitational
- 2003
- 1st Stage 7 Tour of Southland
- 2004
- 1st National Criterium Championships
- Tour of Southland
- 1st
Points classification - 1st Stages 1 (TTT), 8 & 10
- 1st
- 2005
- 1st National Criterium Championships
- 1st Wachovia Invitational
- International Tour de Toona
- 1st Points classification
- 1st Stages 2 & 7
- 1st
- 1st Sprints classification Tour de Georgia
- 5th Overall Tour of Southland
- 1st Stages 1 (TTT), 4, 9 & 10
- 2006
- 1st Philadelphia International Championship
- 1st Reading Classic
- 1st Stage 7 Tour of Wellington
- 1st Stage 5 Tour of Southland
- 2nd Overall Bay Classic Series
- 1st Stage 1
- 6th Road race, Commonwealth Games
- 2007
- 5th Overall Tour of Qatar
- 2008
- Tour de Georgia
- 1st Sprints classification
- 1st Stages 3 & 7
- 1st
- 7th Scheldeprijs
- 2009
- 1st Clásica de Almería
- 1st Stage 3 Vuelta a España
- 1st Stage 2 Vuelta a Murcia
- 1st Stage 7 Volta a Catalunya
- 2nd Philadelphia International Championship
- 5th Overall Three Days of De Panne
- 2010
- 1st Down Under Classic
- Tour of Southland
- 1st Stages 1 (TTT), 4 & 9
- 1st Stage 1 Paris–Nice
- 1st Stage 3 Ster Elektrotoer
- 1st Stage 4 Eneco Tour
- 2nd Overall Bay Classic Series
- 1st Stage 2
- 3rd Overall Tour Down Under
- 3rd Overall Tour of Britain
- 1st
Points classification - 1st Stage 2
- 1st
- 4th Scheldeprijs
- 2011
- 1st Stage 2 Paris–Nice
- 1st Stage 3 Tour of California
- National Road Championships
- 2nd Road race
- 3rd Time trial
- 3rd Paris–Bourges
- 2012
- 1st Stage 1 Bay Classic Series
- 7th Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen
- 9th Down Under Classic
- 2013
- 2nd Overall Bay Classic Series
- 3rd Down Under Classic
- 2014
- 1st Stage 2 Ster ZLM Toer
- 3rd Ronde van Limburg
- 4th Overall World Ports Classic
- 7th Road race, Commonwealth Games
- 2015
- 2nd Overall Bay Classic Series
- 1st Stage 4
- 10th Down Under Classic
- 2016
- 6th Overall Presidential Tour of Turkey
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
| Grand Tour | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 |
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 Giro d'Italia |
DNF | — | — | 88 | — | — | — | — | DNF | — |
 Tour de France |
— | — | — | — | — | 124 | 162 | DNF | DNF | 155 |
 Vuelta a España |
— | — | 123 | — | — | — | DNF | 133 | — | — |
| — | Did not compete |
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| DNF | Did not finish |
Track
- 1998
- Commonwealth Games
- 3rd
Points race - 3rd Team pursuit
- 3rd
- 1999
- National Championships
- 1st Team pursuit
- 1st Points race
- 1st
- UCI World Cup Classics, Mexico City
- 2nd Team pursuit
- 3rd Madison
- 2000
- 1st Team pursuit, National Championships
- 2nd Six Days of Nouméa
- 2001
- Goodwill Games
- 1st Points race
- 1st Madison
- 1st Points race, National Championships
- 2002
- Commonwealth Games
- 1st
Points race - 3rd Team pursuit
- 1st
- UCI World Cup Classics, Sydney
- 1st Team pursuit
- 1st Madison
- 3rd Points race
- 2003
- 1st Madison, National Championships
- UCI World Cup Classics, Sydney
- 1st Scratch
- 3rd Points race
- 2nd Madison, UCI World Championships
- 2004
- 1st
Scratch, UCI World Championships - UCI World Cup Classics, Aguascalientes
- 2nd Scratch
- 2005
- 2004–05 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Sydney
- 1st Team pursuit
- 3rd Scratch
- 2nd Scratch, UCI World Championships
- 2006
- Oceania Games
- 1st Points race
- 1st Scratch
- 1st Points race, National Championships
- 2006–07 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Sydney
- 2nd Points race
- 2007
- Oceania Championships
- 1st
Madison - 2nd Points race
- 2nd Scratch
- 1st
- 2007–08 UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics, Sydney
- 1st Points race
References
- "Greg Henderson joins USA Cycling as Endurance Performance Director". cyclingnews.com. 14 September 2017. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
- "Greg Henderson confirms retirement". cyclingnews.com. 16 August 2017. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
- "1998 Commonwealth Games Track Competition" Malaysia 16–19 September 1998 cyclingnews.com
- Greg Henderson olympic.org.nz
- McManus, Gerry (2 August 2002). "2002 Commonwealth Games Men's Points Race". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 3 July 2016.
- McManus, Gerry (1 August 2002). "2002 Commonwealth Games Men's Team Pursuit". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 3 July 2016.
- Sawford, Mal (28 May 2004). "2004 World Track Championships Melbourne, Australia, Men's Scratch Race". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 3 July 2016.
- Greg Henderson Archived 30 October 2014 at the Wayback Machine sports-reference.com
- 2006 Commonwealth Games Men's Scratch Race melbourne2006.com.au
- Clarke, Les (31 August 2009). "Henderson surprise winner in Vuelta's Venlo stage". Retrieved 3 July 2016.
- van Eyck, Xylon (14 September 2011). "Henderson exits Sky to join former team-mates at Lotto-Ridley". VeloNation. VeloNation LLC. Retrieved 5 January 2012.
- Clarke, Stuart (24 April 2015). "Aru to take legal action over Henderson tweets". Cycling Weekly. IPC Media Sports & Leisure network. Retrieved 24 April 2015.
- Long, David (2 July 2016). "Kiwi cyclist Greg Henderson looks to lead the way again at Tour de France". Stuff.co.nz. Retrieved 3 July 2016.
External links
Media related to Greg Henderson at Wikimedia Commons- Greg Henderson at Olympedia
- Greg Henderson at Cycling Archives
- Greg Henderson at ProCyclingStats
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