Milan Vader

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Milan Vader
File:Milan Vader.jpg
Personal information
Born (1996-02-18) 18 February 1996 (age 30)
Middelburg, Netherlands
Height1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight63 kg (139 lb)
Team information
Current teamQ36.5 Pro Cycling Team
Discipline
RoleRider
Professional teams
2018Habitat Mountain Bike Team
2019–2021KMC–Ekoi–Orbea[1][2]
2022–2024Team Jumbo–Visma[3]
2025–Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team
Major wins
Stage races
Tour of Guangxi (2023)
Medal record
Representing File:Flag of the Netherlands.svg Netherlands
Men's mountain bike racing
European Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Brno Cross-country

Milan Vader (born 18 February 1996) is a Dutch cross-country mountain biker and road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team.[4]

Career

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Vader originally competed in cross-country mountain biking, where he was a two time elite national champion and a bronze medalist at the 2019 European Championships. In 2020, he finished second overall at the Olympic Cross-country World Cup, before going on to place 10th in the cross-country race at the 2020 Summer Olympics.[5]

In 2022, Vader joined Team Jumbo–Visma to focus on road racing.

On stage five of the 2022 Tour of the Basque Country, he suffered a terrible crash, having run into a guardrail during a descent, causing him to fall down a steep dropoff. He fractured his spine in 1 places, eight ribs as well as his shoulder, collarbone, eye socket, and cheekbone in addition to rupturing his carotid artery and perforating his lung. He was placed into an induced coma for 12 days.[6] After five months, Vader returned to racing in September at the CRO Race.

Despite this setback, Vader returned to form, finishing third overall in the Okolo Slovenska in September 2023.[6] A month later, he won the fourth stage of the Tour of Guangxi, his first professional road win, also taking the race lead in the process. He held onto the overall lead for the remainder of the race, winning the race by a margin of six seconds to Rémy Rochas.[7]

Major results

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Mountain bike

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2023 (2 pro wins)
1st File:Jersey red.svg Overall Tour of Guangxi
1st Stage 4
3rd Overall Okolo Slovenska
1st File:Jersey polkadot.svg Mountains classification
2025
10th Muur Classic Geraardsbergen

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

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Grand Tour 2025
File:Jersey pink.svg Giro d'Italia 80
File:Jersey yellow.svg Tour de France
File:Jersey red.svg Vuelta a España
Legend
Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

References

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  • Milan Vader at TeamNL (archive) (in Dutch)