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Chris Horner

Key Stats

Team: Astana
Nationality: American
Born: October 23, 1971
Hometown: Bend, Oregon
Height: 5-foot-11
Weight: 150 pounds
Turned Pro: 1995

Palmares

Career Highlights:

1st overall, Tour de Langkawi 2000
1st overall, Tour de Georgia 2003
three-time USA Cycling National Racing Calendar champion
(2002, 2003, 2004)

2009
3rd, stage 1 TTT, Giro d'Italia
6th, stage 5, Giro d'Italia

2007
2nd, stage 7, Tour de Suisse
3rd, Giro dell'Emilia
3rd, prologue and stage 4, Tour de Romandie
3rd, stage 3, Tour of California
5th overall, Tour de Romandie
5th, Coppa Sabatini
10th, Giro di Lombardia

2006
1st, Tour de Romandie
2nd, stage 2, Tour of California
3rd, stage 5, Tour of California
7th overall, Tour de Romandie
8th, Liège-Bastogne-Liège
10th overall, Paris-Nice

2005
1st, stage 6, Tour de Suisse
2nd, mountains competition, Tour de Suisse
3rd, U.S. road championship
4th, stage 6, Deutschland Tour
5th overall, Tour de Suisse

2004
1st overall, Sea Otter Classic (plus stage 2)
1st overall, Redlands Bicycle Classic (plus prologue and stages 1 and 2)
3rd, Tour de Georgia
3rd, stage 4, Tour of Georgia
8th, world road championship

2003
1st, Tour de Georgia
1st, San Francisco Grand Prix
2nd, U.S. criterium championship
2nd, stage 4, Tour of Georgia
3rd overall, Sea Otter Classic
3rd, stage 2, Sea Otter Classic

2002
2nd, U.S. time trial championship

2001
1st, stage 5, Redlands Bicycle Classic
2nd overall, Redlands Bicycle Classic
2nd, stage 1, Sea Otter Classic
3rd, stage 3, Redlands Bicycle Classic

2000
1st, Tour de Langkawi
1st, Redlands Bicycle Classic
3rd, stage 3, Criterium International
3rd, stage 6, Tour de Langkawi
8th overall, Criterium International

Biography

Horner turned pro 1995 and scored a Tour DuPont stage win in 1996 for NutraFig. He then moved to French team Française des Jeux for the 1997 to 1999 seasons. He came back to the States to ride for Mercury in 2000, Prime Alliance in 2002, Saturn in 2003 and Webcor Builders in 2004. Horner returned to European racing with Saunier Duval and then Davitamon-Lotto, where, besides garnering his own results, his assisted teammate Cadel Evans to a second place overall at the 2007 Tour de France.