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| Full name | Alexander Kristoff |
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| Nickname | The Stavanger Stallion |
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| Born | (1987-07-05) 5 July 1987
Oslo, Norway |
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| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in) |
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| Weight | 78 kg (172 lb; 12 st 4 lb) |
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| Current team | Uno-X Mobility |
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| Discipline | Road |
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| Role | Rider |
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| Rider type | - Sprinter
- Classics specialist
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| 2006 | Glud & Marstrand–Horsens |
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| 2007–2009 | Maxbo–Bianchi |
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| 2010–2011 | BMC Racing Team |
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| 2012–2017 | Team Katusha |
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| 2018–2021 | UAE Team Emirates |
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| 2022 | Intermarché–Wanty–Gobert Matériaux |
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| 2023– | Uno-X Pro Cycling Team |
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Grand Tours
- Tour de France
- 4 individual stages (2014, 2018, 2020)
Stage races
- Three Days of De Panne (2015)
- Tour of Norway (2019)
One-day races and Classics
- European Road Race Championships (2017)
- National Road Race Championships (2007, 2011)
- Milan–San Remo (2014)
- Tour of Flanders (2015)
- Gent–Wevelgem (2019)
- Hamburg Cyclassics (2014)
- GP Ouest-France (2015)
- Eschborn–Frankfurt (2014, 2016, 2017, 2018)
- Scheldeprijs (2015, 2022)
- London–Surrey Classic (2017)
- Grand Prix of Aargau Canton (2015, 2018, 2019)
- Clásica de Almería (2022)
- Circuit Franco-Belge (2022)
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Alexander Kristoff (born 5 July 1987) is a Norwegian professional road bicycle racer, who rides for UCI ProTeam Uno-X Mobility.
A sprinter and classics rider, Kristoff is the most successful Norwegian cyclist by number of wins, having taken almost 100 victories during his professional career. He has won four Tour de France stages, the 2014 Milan–San Remo and 2015 Tour of Flanders one-day races – as a result, becoming the only Norwegian rider, as of 2025, to win a cycling monument – and has won medals in the road race at the Olympic Games (2012; bronze), the UCI Road World Championships (2017; silver), and the European Road Cycling Championships (2017; gold). He also holds the record for most wins at the one-day races Eschborn–Frankfurt (four) and the Grand Prix of Aargau Canton (three), and most stage wins at the Tour of Oman (nine), the Tour of Norway (eleven), and the Arctic Race of Norway (seven).