Rafał Majka
Majka at the 2022 Tour of Slovenia | |||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Rafał Majka | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 12 September 1989 Zegartowice, Poland | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 58 kg (128 lb; 9 st 2 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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| Current team | UAE Team Emirates XRG | ||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Climbing specialist | ||||||||||||||
| Amateur teams | |||||||||||||||
| 2008–2009 | Gragnano S.C. | ||||||||||||||
| 2009 | Miche–Silver Cross–Selle Italia (stagiaire) | ||||||||||||||
| 2010 | Petroli Firenze | ||||||||||||||
| Professional teams | |||||||||||||||
| 2011–2016 | Saxo Bank–SunGard | ||||||||||||||
| 2017–2020 | Bora–Hansgrohe | ||||||||||||||
| 2021– | UAE Team Emirates | ||||||||||||||
| Major wins | |||||||||||||||
Grand Tours
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Medal record
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Rafał Majka (Polish pronunciation: [ˈrafaw ˈmajka]; born 12 September 1989) is a Polish professional road bicycle racer, who rides for UCI WorldTeam UAE Team Emirates XRG. He is known as a strong climber, and rose to prominence at the 2013 Giro d'Italia, where he finished 7th overall, and 6th one year later; he has taken fifteen victories during his professional career.
Other major achievements are three mountainous stage wins in the Tour de France, two victories in the mountains classification at the race (2014 and 2016), and two stages and the overall victory at the 2014 Tour de Pologne. He achieved his only Grand Tour podium finish at the 2015 Vuelta a España, where he finished third.
At the 2016 Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal for Poland in the road race.