Sven Erik Bystrøm

Sven Erik Bystrøm (born 21 January 1992 in Haugesund) is a Norwegian road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam UAE Team Emirates.[4] He was 2014 Under-23 World Road Race Champion.

Sven Erik Bystrøm
Bystrøm in 2015.
Personal information
Full nameSven Erik Bystrøm
Born (1992-01-21) 21 January 1992
Haugesund, Norway
Height1.89 m (6 ft 2 1⁄2 in)[1]
Weight70 kg (154 lb; 11 st 0 lb)[1]
Team information
Current teamUAE Team Emirates
Disciplines
  • Road
  • Track
RoleRider
Amateur team
2012–2014Team Øster Hus–Ridley
Professional teams
2014Team Katusha (stagiaire)
2015–2017Team Katusha
2018–UAE Team Emirates[2][3]
Major wins
One-day races and Classics
National Road Race Championships (2020)

He signed with the Continental level Team Øster Hus–Ridley in 2012. He signed for Team Katusha as a trainee from August 2014, with a full professional contract from 2015. He was named in the startlist for the 2016 Vuelta a España.[5] He also started the 2017 Vuelta a Espana but crashed out with a broken shoulder on stage 7.[6]

In 2018, he joined UAE Team Emirates on an initial two-year contract.[7] In July 2019, he was named in the startlist for the 2019 Tour de France.[8]

Major results
2009
1st Overall Grenland Grand Prix
1st Stage 2
2nd Ringerike Grand Prix Juniors
2nd U6 Cycle Tour Tidaholm Juniors
2010
3rd Road race, National Junior Road Championships
10th Overall Regio-Tour Juniors
1st Stage 3
2011
5th Himmerland Rundt
2012
1st Eschborn-Frankfurt City Loop U23
2nd Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships
8th Rogaland GP
2013
3rd Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships
4th Baronie Breda Classic
7th Ringerike GP
2014
1st Road race, UCI Under-23 Road World Championships
2nd Ringerike GP
3rd Eschborn-Frankfurt City Loop U23
6th Hadeland GP
6th Baronie Breda Classic[9]
7th ZLM Tour
9th Ronde van Drenthe
10th Overall Tour of Norway
10th Overall Tour des Fjords
10th Ronde van Vlaanderen U23
2015
1st Prologue (TTT) Tour of Austria
1st Young rider classification Circuit Cycliste Sarthe
2016
7th Le Samyn
8th Overall Tour of Qatar
2017
2nd Road race, National Road Championships
2020
1st Road race, National Road Championships

Grand Tour general classification results timeline
Grand Tour 2016 2017 2018 2019
Giro d'Italia — — — —
Tour de France — — — 110
Vuelta a España 141 DNF 113 —
Legend
— Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

References
  1. "Sven Erik Bystrøm - UAE team Emirates". Retrieved 4 July 2019.
  2. "UAE Team Emirates". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. Archived from the original on 6 January 2019. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
  3. "UAE Team Emirates complete 2020 roster with re-signing of former world champion Rui Costa". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 8 October 2019. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
  4. "UAE Team Emirates". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 2 January 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
  5. "71st Vuelta a España". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
  6. "CyclingPub.com - Sven Erik Bystrøm out of Vuelta a España, World Championships in doubt". cyclingpub.com.
  7. "Bystrom joins Kristoff in move to UAE Team Emirates - News shorts".
  8. "2019: 106th Tour de France: Start List". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  9. "Teunissen wins Baronie Breda Classic". cyclingnews.com. 21 September 2014. Retrieved 11 March 2019.
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