Kurt Asle Arvesen

Infobox Cyclist
ridername = Kurt Asle Arvesen

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image_caption = Arvesen at the 2005 HEW Cyclassics
fullname = Kurt Asle Arvesen
nickname =
dateofbirth = birth date and age|1975|2|9
country = Norway
height = height|m=1.83
weight = convert|70|kg|lb st|abbr=on|lk=on
currentteam = Team CSC saxobank
discipline = Road
role = Rider
ridertype = Sprinter/Classics Rider
amateuryears =
amateurteams =
proyears = 1998
1999-2000
2001-2003
2004-
proteams = Asics
Riso Scotti
Team Fakta
Team CSC-Saxo Bank
majorwins = flagiconUCI 1997 UCI Road World Under-23 Championships
Giro d'Italia, 2 stages Danmark Rundt (2004, 2007) flagicon|NOR National Champion (1999, 2002, 2008) flagicon|NOR National Time-Trial Champion (2001, 2006) E3 Prijs Vlaanderen 2008 1 stage, Tour de France 2008
updated = July 1, 2008

Kurt Asle Arvesen (born February 9, 1975 in Nesset) is a professional road bicycle racer from Eresfjord, Nesset, Norway. He is currently part of the Danish Team CSC, where he has been since 2004.

After winning the gold medal at the 1997 Under-23 World Championship as an amateur, Arvesen turned pro with Italian team Asics in 1998, where later Team CSC teammate Ivan Basso rode as a stagiare. The two riders moved on to Davide Boifava's team, Riso Scotti-Vinavil in 1999, which was renamed Amica Chips-Tacconi Sport in 2000, but Arvesen's three years in Italy didn't get him the results his World Under-23 Championships win had foretold. In 2001 Arvesen and Basso split up, as Arvesen moved on to Danish Team Fakta, where he experienced his most successful years culminating in a stage win in the 2003 Giro d'Italia.

In 2004, Team Fakta closed, and Arvesen and sports director Kim Andersen both moved on to Team CSC. At Team CSC, Arvesen has been riding mostly as a domestique, but he managed to win the stage race Danmark Rundt as well as CSC Classic in 2004. For the 2004 Tour de France, Arvesen helped team captain Basso finish second overall, and he was named the toughest rider in the peloton when he managed to finish the three-weeks long race after crashing severely on several stages. For the 2005 Tour de France he would once more ride in support of Basso. This time Arvesen had the strength to ride aggressively, and on the 17th stage of the race, he got in a breakway with 16 other riders which lasted all the way to the finish line. As the leading group slowly disintegrated, he and Italian rider Paolo Savoldelli were the last riders for the sprint, but Savoldelli was too fast for Arvesen. [ [http://www.letour.fr/2005/TDF/LIVE/us/1700/index.html Savoldelli Successful On A Day Of Change] , "LeTour.fr"] In the 2006 UCI ProTour spring season Arvesen got a handful of top 10 placings. When he crashed into a right-swinging car during a training ride in April, [no icon Kurt Asle Arvesen, [http://www.kurtaslearvesen.com/article.asp?id=1067 Kjørt ned på trening!] , "KurtAsleArvesen.com", April 26, 2006] he got away with road rash and a bruised right knee and less than a week later he rode Rund um den Henninger Turm, though he didn't ride the race to its end. He finally managed to win Ster Elektrotoer, but that was not sufficient to secure a place in the 2006 Tour de France roster. Arvesen became runner-up in Paris-Tours.In the 2007 Giro d'Italia Arvesen won stage 8 after beating Paolo Bettini in the finish. On July 16 he won stage 11 in the 2008 Tour de France, his first ever stage win in the tour. After engaging in a successful breakaway, he finished winning two centimeters ahead of number two.

Career highlights

;1997: flagiconUCI UCI Road World Under-23 Championships;1999: NOR National Road Racing Champion;2001: NOR National Time Trial Champion: Stage 9, Herald Sun Tour;2002: NOR National Road Racing Champion: 1st overall, Tour of Sweden: Points classification and Stage 3, Danmark Rundt: Schynberg Rundfahrt: Mountains classification, Paris-Correze;2003: Stage 10, Giro d'Italia;2004: Danmark Rundt: CSC Classic: 123rd overall, Tour de France;2005: 2nd overall, Danmark Rundt: 89th overall, Tour de France:: 2nd place on stage 17;2006: NOR National Time Trial Champion: Ster Elektrotoer: 2nd, Paris-Tours;2007: Stage 8, Giro d'Italia: GP Herning: 3rd overall, Ster Elektrotoer: 67th overall Tour de France: Stage 3 and overall, Danmark Rundt;2008:E3 Prijs Vlaanderen: NOR National Road Racing Champion: Stage 11, Tour de France

References

External links

* [http://www.kurtaslearvesen.com Official website]
* [http://www.team-csc.com/person_profiles.asp?p_id=23 Profile at Team CSC]
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9Rh-UJbBxE 1996 UCI Road World Under-23 Championships from Youtube]

Persondata
NAME= Arvesen, Kurt Asle
ALTERNATIVE NAMES=
SHORT DESCRIPTION=Road bicycle racer
DATE OF BIRTH= 1975-02-09
PLACE OF BIRTH=Molde, Norway
DATE OF DEATH=
PLACE OF DEATH=