Dan Craven
Craven at the 2015 Le Samyn wearing his Namibian national champions jersey. | |||||||||||||||
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Full name | Dan Craven | ||||||||||||||
Born | Otjiwarongo, South West Africa | 1 February 1983||||||||||||||
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Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
Rider type | All-rounder | ||||||||||||||
Amateur teams | |||||||||||||||
2005–2008 | Team Fidibc.com | ||||||||||||||
2018–2019 | Embrace the World | ||||||||||||||
2019 | Cycling Team Bochum | ||||||||||||||
2019 | NCCS Cycling Team | ||||||||||||||
Professional teams | |||||||||||||||
2009–2011 | Rapha Condor | ||||||||||||||
2012 | Team IG–Sigma Sport | ||||||||||||||
2013 | Synergy Baku | ||||||||||||||
2014 | Bike Aid–Ride for Help | ||||||||||||||
2014–2015 | Team Europcar | ||||||||||||||
2016–2017 | Cycling Academy | ||||||||||||||
Major wins | |||||||||||||||
One-day Races and Classics
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Medal record
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Dan Craven (born 1 February 1983) is a Namibian racing cyclist, who last rode for Namibian amateur team NCCS Cycling Team. He is the grandson of Danie Craven, the South African rugby union icon.
Craven started cycling seriously when he studied at Stellenbosch University. After graduating with a degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics he moved to Switzerland in 2005 in order to pursue a cycling career.[1]
A strong time trialist, Craven was a runner up in the 2006 African Championships, and boasts a 7th place in the time trial at the 2007 B World Championships in Cape Town.
Craven joined the Rapha Condor team for the 2009 season. Craven was the 2008 African Road Race champion, having taken the crown in Casablanca in November just two days after he had picked up a Bronze in the African Time Trial Championships.[2] He joined Team IG–Sigma Sport for the 2012 season.[3] He spent 2013 riding for Synergy Baku before joining the German-based Bike Aid–Ride for Help squad for 2014.[4] In May 2014 it was announced that Craven had been signed to UCI World Tour team, Team Europcar, with effect from July. His first major goal was the last grand tour of 2014, the Vuelta a España.[5]
In 2015 he won the Namibian National Road Race Championships for the fourth time.[6]
Major results
[edit]- 2005
- 1st
Road race, National Road Championships
- 2006
- 1st
Road race, National Road Championships
- 2nd
Time trial, African Road Championships
- 2nd GP Demy–Cars
- 2007
- 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
- 2nd Giro delle Valli Aretine
- 3rd GP Folignano
- 7th Time trial, UCI B World Championships
- 2008
- African Road Championships
- 1st
Road race, National Road Championships
- 1st Grand Prix Cristal Energie
- 2nd Trofeo Salvatore Morucci
- 3rd Giro del Cigno
- 3rd GP Inda–Trofeo Aras Frattini
- 5th GP Folignano
- 6th Coppa della Pace
- 2009
- 1st UCI Africa Tour
- 1st Chas Messenger Road Race
- 1st Shay Elliott Memorial Race
- 1st Stage 4 Tour of Rwanda
- 1st Clayton Velo Spring Classic[7]
- 2nd Shay Elliott Memorial Race
- 2010
- 1st Clayton Velo Spring Classic[8]
- 1st Stage 4 Tour of Rwanda
- 2nd East Midlands Classic
- African Road Championships
- 3rd Overall Rás Tailteann
- 1st Stage 1
- 2011
- 4th Jock Wadley Memorial[9]
- 5th Overall Vuelta Ciclista a León
- 1st Stage 3
- 5th East Yorkshire Classic[10]
- 7th Overall La Tropicale Amissa Bongo
- 1st Mountains classification
- 8th Overall Ronde de l'Oise
- 8th Ryedale Grand Prix[11]
- 2012
- National Road Championships
- 2nd Time trial
- 2nd Road race
- 7th Lincoln Grand Prix[12]
- 2013
- African Road Championships
- 2014
- 1st
Overall Tour du Cameroun
- 1st Mountains classification
- 5th Overall Tour du Maroc
- 9th Road race, Commonwealth Games
- 2015
- 1st
Road race, National Road Championships
- 4th Overall La Tropicale Amissa Bongo
- 9th Time trial, African Games
- 2016
- National Road Championships
- 1st
Road race
- 2nd Time trial
- 1st
- 2017
- 2nd Road race, National Road Championships
- 2018
- 1st
Overall Tour du Sénégal
- 1st Stage 6
- 3rd Road race, National Road Championships
- 2019
- 2nd Road race, National Road Championships
- 7th Overall Tour of Good Hope
- 9th Road race, African Road Championships
- 2020
- 1st
Road race, National Road Championships
References
[edit]- ^ Fraser, Graham (30 January 2014). "Glasgow 2014: Namibian Dan Craven relishes 'home' Games". BBC. Retrieved 20 February 2014.
- ^ Dan Craven
- ^ Stokes, Shane (2 December 2011). "Craven relieved to secure Sigma Sport Specialized deal after missing out on Europcar ride". VeloNation. VeloNation LLC. Retrieved 27 January 2012.
- ^ Schutz, Helge (8 January 2014). "Namibian Cyclists Leave for Tour De Gabon". allAfrica.com. Retrieved 20 February 2014.
- ^ Fletcher, Laura (24 May 2014). "Q&A with Dan Craven". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 14 June 2014.
- ^ "Dan Craven is the new Namibia's road national champ". colnago. Archived from the original on 9 March 2015. Retrieved 4 March 2015.
- ^ "Clayton Velo Spring Classic:Road, Clitheroe – Sunday, 28 Feb 2010". British Cycling. 28 February 2010. Retrieved 8 March 2015.
- ^ "Craven wins Clayton Velo Classic". Cycling Weekly. 1 March 2010. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
- ^ Bull, Nick (17 March 2016). "Bialoblocki wins 'fastest ever' Jock Wadley Memorial". Cycling News. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
- ^ Hunt, Andy (1 August 2011). "Hunt triumphs at East Yorkshire Classic". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
- ^ "Ryedale Grand Prix". British Cycling. 5 June 2011. Retrieved 26 July 2015.
- ^ "Road: Downing wins Lincoln Grand Prix". British Cycling. 13 May 2012. Retrieved 4 August 2015.
External links
[edit]- Dan Craven at UCI
- Dan Craven at Cycling Archives
- Dan Craven at ProCyclingStats
- Dan Craven at Cycling Quotient
- Dan Craven at Olympedia
- Official page on Blogger
- http://bikepure.org/riders-and-teams/pro-riders/dan-craven-ralpha-condor/
- Dan Craven at Cycling Archives
- Dan Craven at ProCyclingStats
- 1983 births
- Living people
- People from Otjiwarongo
- Sportspeople from Otjozondjupa Region
- Namibian male cyclists
- White Namibian people
- Cyclists at the 2010 Commonwealth Games
- Cyclists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic cyclists for Namibia
- Commonwealth Games competitors for Namibia
- Cyclists at the 2014 Commonwealth Games
- Cyclists at the 2018 Commonwealth Games
- Competitors at the 2015 African Games
- African Games competitors for Namibia