43 Facts About Alexander Kristoff

Alexander Kristoff was born on 5 July 1987 and is a Norwegian professional road bicycle racer, who rides for UCI ProTeam Uno-X Mobility.

Alexander Kristoff's stepfather got him interested in cycling rather than football.

Alexander Kristoff won a stage at the Ringerike GP in both 2008 and 2009, and finished second to Kurt Asle Arvesen in the National Road Race Championships in 2009.

Alexander Kristoff joined the BMC Racing Team, a UCI Professional Continental team, for the 2010 season.

Alexander Kristoff again competed in the Giro d'Italia, finishing second to Mark Cavendish on stage thirteen.

Alexander Kristoff then won the opening two stages of Tour of Norway, before winning a third stage on the final day.

Alexander Kristoff's final notable result of the year was a third-place finish at the Vattenfall Cyclassics in Germany, behind home riders John Degenkolb and Andre Greipel.

Alexander Kristoff took his first win of 2014 at February's Tour of Oman, winning the second stage of the race.

Alexander Kristoff took another stage win on stage 15, beating Heinrich Haussler and Sagan in Nimes, as he ultimately finished as runner-up in the points classification, some 150 points in arrears of Sagan.

Alexander Kristoff then followed this up with second overall at the Arctic Race of Norway, along with two stage wins and the points classification, and a bunch sprint victory at the Vattenfall Cyclassics in Hamburg.

Alexander Kristoff competed in the road race at the UCI Road World Championships for the first time since 2010, culminating in an eighth-place finish.

Alexander Kristoff finished the season with fourteen victories, and an eighth-place finish in the final standings of the UCI World Tour.

At his first start of the 2015 season, Alexander Kristoff won three stages at the Tour of Qatar, finishing third overall and he won the points classification.

Alexander Kristoff won the following two stages in bunch sprints, the second of which by 5 millimetres ahead of Andre Greipel.

The duo got a lead of 30 seconds with the remains of the lead group unable to catch them; Alexander Kristoff beat Terpstra in the sprint, to take his biggest win up to that point.

Three days later Alexander Kristoff won the sprinters' semi-classic Scheldeprijs, becoming the first rider to win the Three Days of De Panne, the Tour of Flanders and the Scheldeprijs in the same season.

Alexander Kristoff returned to the peloton a month later at the Tour of Norway, winning the first two stages, the points classification and finishing eighth overall.

Alexander Kristoff then won the first three stages at the Tour des Fjords, where he again won the points classification and finished in ninth place overall.

Alexander Kristoff started his 2016 season with a hat-trick of stage wins at the flat Tour of Qatar, finishing in second position overall to Mark Cavendish.

Alexander Kristoff was unable to take any stage wins at the Tour de France, taking a best result of second place on two occasions, losing out to Cavendish on stage fourteen and Peter Sagan on stage sixteen.

Alexander Kristoff won the opening stage of the Arctic Race of Norway for the second year in succession, before he led home the main field at the Bretagne Classic Ouest-France, finishing third behind Oliver Naesen and Alberto Bettiol.

Alexander Kristoff won the points classification at his first two starts of the 2017 season, winning a stage at the Etoile de Besseges and three stages at the Tour of Oman.

Alexander Kristoff added another points classification victory at the Three Days of De Panne, winning a stage as well as finishing third overall.

Alexander Kristoff took his first victory in the European champion's jersey at the Arctic Race of Norway, when he won the second stage, which finished on the runway at Bardufoss Airport, in a bunch sprint.

Alexander Kristoff missed out in bunch sprints at the EuroEyes Cyclassics and the Bretagne Classic Ouest-France, before winning the points classification at the Tour of Britain, having finished each of the seven mass-start stages in either third, fourth or fifth place.

Alexander Kristoff then won a silver medal in the road race at the UCI Road World Championships on home soil in Bergen, Norway.

Alexander Kristoff took consecutive victories, winning the final stage of the Tour of Oman, and the opening stage of the Abu Dhabi Tour.

Alexander Kristoff then won each of his next two starts; he won the Tour of Norway, having taken the overall lead on the penultimate day with a stage win into Drammen, before he took a record third victory in the Grand Prix of Aargau Canton.

At the Tour de France, Alexander Kristoff's best stage result was a second-place finish to Elia Viviani on stage four, and in a January 2020 interview with Cyclingnews.

At the Tour de France, Alexander Kristoff avoided all the crashes on the opening stage and won the final sprint in Nice, to take the yellow jersey, becoming the second Norwegian to do so after Thor Hushovd.

Alexander Kristoff ultimately ceded the jersey to Julian Alaphilippe following the next stage, having lost nearly half an hour on a hilly parcours around Nice.

Alexander Kristoff won the points classification at the Arctic Race of Norway, having finished each of the first two stages in second place.

Alexander Kristoff did not ride any of the Grand Tours for the first time since 2010, his first season as a professional.

Alexander Kristoff finished second to Rasmus Tiller in the Norwegian National Road Race Championships, before a third-place finish at the Tour of Leuven, leading a small group home behind Victor Campenaerts and Zdenek Stybar.

Three days after the latter, Alexander Kristoff was able to get the better of Campenaerts and Dries Van Gestel when he won sprint into La Louviere at the finish of Circuit Franco-Belge.

Alexander Kristoff finished the season with a sixth-place finish in the road race at the UCI Road World Championships in Australia, with he and Tiller finishing as part of the lead group behind solo winner Remco Evenepoel.

Alexander Kristoff started the season in Iberia, finishing fourth in the Clasica de Almeria, before taking his first victory with the team, winning a bunch sprint on the opening stage of the Volta ao Algarve in Lagos.

Either side of the Tour de France, Alexander Kristoff finished second in the Norwegian National Road Race Championships behind teammate and solo winner Fredrik Dversnes, and then second in the Egmont Cycling Race, having been out-sprinted by Jasper De Buyst.

Alexander Kristoff finished the season with a second-place overall finish at the CRO Race, where he won the points classification.

Alexander Kristoff started the 2024 season with a second-place finish to Gerben Thijssen in the Trofeo Palma in January, held as part of the Vuelta a Mallorca one-day races.

Alexander Kristoff won his next start as well, coming at the Antwerp Port Epic, before a third-consecutive final stage victory in Stavanger at the Tour of Norway.

Alexander Kristoff recorded a fifth-place finish in the road race at the UEC European Road Championships in Belgium, before concluding his season with two stage victories at the CRO Race.

Alexander Kristoff married Maren Kommedal at Stavanger Cathedral in October 2014, and the couple have four children.