Tobias Halland Johannessen

Tobias Halland Johannessen
	Halland Johannessen in 2022
Personal information
Born	23 August 1999 (age 24); Drøbak, Norway
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Team information
Current team	Uno-X Pro Cycling Team
Discipline	Road; Cyclo-cross; Mountain biking;
Role	Rider
Amateur team
2019–2020	Dare Bikes Development
Professional teams
2021	Uno-X Dare Development Team
2022–	Uno-X Pro Cycling Team

Tobias Halland Johannessen (born 23 August 1999) is a Norwegian road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Uno-X Pro Cycling Team.^[1]^[2] Along with his twin brother Anders, Tobias raced in mountain biking, cyclo-cross and road cycling, before deciding to focus primarily on road racing. Knee injuries had kept him from competing in much of the truncated 2020 season.^[3] In July 2021 he named to the Norwegian team to compete in the road race event at the 2020 Summer Olympics.^[4]

Career

Johannessen began cycling alongside his brother Anders as a means of getting to school.^[5] He initially focussed on cyclo-cross and mountain biking before switching his focus to road racing, signing with the Uno-X development team for the 2021 season. In June 2021, Johannessen finished second in the General Classification of the Giro Ciclistico d'Italia, as well as finishing second on two individual stages.^[2] In August 2021, Johannessen won the Tour de l'Avenir after finishing first on consecutive summit finishes on Stages 7 and 8, winning the race by seven seconds over Carlos Rodríguez.^[6]

Johannessen raced the 2022 Tour of Norway, in which he took the leader's jersey after the second stage^[7] and eventually finished in fourth position, winning the Points classification.^[8] He also raced the 2022 Critérium du Dauphiné, in which he won the Young Rider Classification after finishing 10th overall, over a minute ahead of nearest challenger Brandon McNulty.^[9]

Major results

Road

2021

1st

Overall Tour de l'Avenir

1st Stages 7 & 8

2nd Overall Sazka Tour

1st Stages 3 & 4

2nd Overall Giro Ciclistico d'Italia

3rd Liège–Bastogne–Liège Espoirs

2022

3rd Overall Étoile de Bessèges

1st

Young rider classification

1st Stage 4

4th Overall Tour of Norway

1st

Points classification

4th Mont Ventoux Dénivelé Challenge

7th Overall Volta a Catalunya

10th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné

1st

Young rider classification

General classification results timeline

Grand Tour	2022
Grand Tour general classification results
Giro d'Italia	—
Tour de France	—
Vuelta a España	—
Major stage race general classification results
Race	2022
Paris–Nice	—
Tirreno–Adriatico	—
Volta a Catalunya	7
Tour of the Basque Country	—
Tour de Romandie	—
Critérium du Dauphiné	10
Tour de Suisse	—

Cyclo-cross

2016–2017: 2nd National Junior Championships
2017–2018: 1st National Championships
2018–2019: 1st National Championships; 1st Stockholm
2019–2020: 2nd National Championships
2021–2022: 1st National Championships

Mountain Bike

2016: 3rd Cross-country, UCI World Junior Championships

References

^ "Twin brothers Johannessen at Uno-X from 2022". news.in-24. Retrieved 19 August 2021.
^ ^a ^b "Tobias Halland Johannessen". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
^ "Fikk OL-plass i sin første landeveissesong: – Hadde ikke drømt om det". VG (in Norwegian). 13 July 2021. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
^ "JOHANNESSEN Tobias Halland". Olympics.com. Archived from the original on 21 July 2021. Retrieved 21 July 2021.
^ "Scouting Report - Tobias Johannessen". ProCycling. Future PLC. September 2021. p. 20.
^ Long, Jonny. "Norway's Tobias Johannessen pips Ineos' Carlos Rodriguez to Tour de l'Avenir title after Spaniard's final stage surge". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 23 September 2021.
^ "Tour of Norway: Ethan Hayter delivers sprint win on stage 2". CyclingNews. 25 May 2022. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
^ "Evenepoel takes overall title while Kristoff wins stage 6 at Tour of Norway". CyclingNews. 19 May 2022. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
^ MacLeary, John (12 June 2022). "Primoz Roglic seals Criterium du Dauphine as Jumbo-Visma end dominant week with Jonas Vingegaard stage win". The Telegraph. Retrieved 16 June 2022.

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Tobias Halland Johannessen at MTB Data
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Tobias Halland Johannesen at Team Norway (in Norwegian)

[1] "Twin brothers Johannessen at Uno-X from 2022". news.in-24. Retrieved 19 August 2021.

[stats-2] "Tobias Halland Johannessen". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 21 July 2021.

[3] "Fikk OL-plass i sin første landeveissesong: – Hadde ikke drømt om det". VG (in Norwegian). 13 July 2021. Retrieved 21 July 2021.

[4] "JOHANNESSEN Tobias Halland". Olympics.com. Archived from the original on 21 July 2021. Retrieved 21 July 2021.

[5] "Scouting Report - Tobias Johannessen". ProCycling. Future PLC. September 2021. p. 20.

[6] Long, Jonny. "Norway's Tobias Johannessen pips Ineos' Carlos Rodriguez to Tour de l'Avenir title after Spaniard's final stage surge". Cycling Weekly. Retrieved 23 September 2021.

[7] "Tour of Norway: Ethan Hayter delivers sprint win on stage 2". CyclingNews. 25 May 2022. Retrieved 16 June 2022.

[8] "Evenepoel takes overall title while Kristoff wins stage 6 at Tour of Norway". CyclingNews. 19 May 2022. Retrieved 16 June 2022.

[9] MacLeary, John (12 June 2022). "Primoz Roglic seals Criterium du Dauphine as Jumbo-Visma end dominant week with Jonas Vingegaard stage win". The Telegraph. Retrieved 16 June 2022.

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