Rafał Majka Cyclist

Rafał Majka (born 12 September 1989) is a Polish professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam Tinkoff-Saxo. In 2013, he competed in the Giro D'Italia for the first time, where he had a long battle with Carlos Betancur over the lead in the Young riders classification, which eventually fell to the Colombian in the penultimate stage. In the final classification, he ended up 7th, eight minutes behind winner Vincenzo Nibali. A year later, he improved on his result from 2013 by finishing 6th.Majka was a last-minute inclusion in Tinkoff-Saxo's 2014 Tour de France squad, after Roman Kreuziger was temporarily suspended from racing due to irregular biological passport values. On Stage 14, he earned his first professional victory after going solo on the final climb to Risoul. 4 days later he claimed another victory on Stage 17, soloing to mountaintop finish atop Pla d'Adet. These successes, as well as some other strong performances in mountain stages, earned Majka the polkadot jersey. Thus he became the first Pole to win a jersey in the Tour de France. A couple of weeks after the Tour de France he won stages 5 & 6 of the 2014 Tour de Pologne which were mountainous as well as the general classification.