Cadel Evans, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Cadel Evans

Australian road bicycle racer

Date of Birth: 14-Feb-1977

Place of Birth: Katherine, Northern Territory, Australia

Profession: sport cyclist

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Cadel Lee Evans (; born 14 February 1977) is an Australian former professional racing cyclist who finished in the Top 10 of eleven Grand Tours and won the 2011 Tour de France.
Early in his career, he was a champion mountain biker, winning the World Cup in 1998 and 1999 and placing seventh in the men's cross-country mountain bike race at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
Evans is a four time Olympian.Evans turned to full-time road cycling in 2001, and gradually progressed through the ranks.
He finished second in the 2007 and 2008 Tours de France.
He became the first Australian to win the UCI ProTour (2007) and the UCI Road World Championships in 2009.
Finally, he won the Tour de France in 2011, riding for BMC Racing Team (now CCC Team), after two Tours riddled with bad luck.
At age 34, he was among the five oldest winners in the race's history.
He is one of only three non-Europeans to have won the Tour, the others being Greg LeMond and Egan Bernal.
In addition to his Yellow Jersey from 2011 he also finished on the podium twice, and also made the podium in the Vuelta a Espana as well as the Giro d'Italia. Evans retired on 1 February 2015, after completing a race named in his honour.