Meet Chris Froome, A Cycling Legend

Meet Chris Froome, a cycling legend

Introduction

Although he was born in Kenya, Chris Froome is the son of British and therefore carries that nationality. In this article we tell you everything you should know about this legend of cycling, of the greatest winners of this sport.

Developing

The beginnings of Chris Froome

Christopher Clive Froome was born in Nairobi, Keny. In this African country he began to take his first steps in cycling, more precisely in the modality of Mountain Bike.

When he was 16, he moved to Johannesburg, South Africa with his family, and ‘passed’ to the road cycling modality. He represented Kenya in two Sub-23 championships but in 2008 he adopted British nationality and that same year was selected by the United Kingdom team to play world championships in Varese, Italy.

Chris Froome’s professional era

In 2011 he began to be an outstanding character of international cycling, since he almost won one of the great laps (that of Spain) by being second. However, eight years later the race was won because the first, Juanjo Cobo, was dismissed from the positive doping title.

In 2012, second in the general classification of the Tour de France. In addition, that year he won a bronze medal at the London Olympic Games, in the counterreloj test. A year later, revenge would be taken when taking the most important world cycling award, where he began as a favorite and took the Colombian Nairo Quintana four minutes.

After several falls in the Tour de France of 2014 (which forced him to leave), he won the classification as the most combative in the Tour of Spain. In 2015 he got his second tour (in addition to the red dot jaul to the best mountain ranking) and the following year the third with two stages under his credit and four minutes faster than the second, in addition to leaving second in the Spanish race. In 2016 he took a bronze medal at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, in the time trial test.

The year 2017 was undoubtedly very important in Chris Froome’s career, since he not only won the French competition for the fourth time, but also took his first round in Spain. In the first race he had to fight melee with the Spanish Mikel Landa and no stage was taken. In the second, he had to fight the first place with the Italian Nibali, who took a 2:15 -minute advantage.

2018 will put this athlete in the small group of cyclists who have won the three big laps, as it got the Italian turn. There are very few who can boast of this feat: the Belgian Eddy Merckx, the French Bernard Hinault and Jacques Anquetil, the Spanish Alberto Contador and the Italians Felice Gimondi and Vincenzo Nibali.

The last year it has not been good for Chris Froome, since a serious injury (the femur and the right -wing was broken and several ribs in a counterreloj test) has it away from the slopes. But at least he had a ‘good news’ when declaring him the winner of the return to Spain of 2011, adding a second victory to this race.

Chris Froome, a legend even in competition

Chris Froome is considered a legend within cycling, although his career is not over yet. This is a strong athlete in the career in stages, the best climbers that this discipline has given and the top counterrelojists in history.

conclusion

In his professional career he has won more than 60 titles, including four Tours of France, two laps to Spain and a turn of Italy. It also deserves that it has 14 victories in stages in the big laps (seven in that of France, five in that of Spain and two in that of Italy) and four podiums in these competitions (twice second in Spain and one in France anda third place in Italy).