Daryl Impey

Daryl Impey (born 6 December 1984) is a South African former professional road cyclist, who competed as a professional from 2008 to 2023. Impey is an all-rounder; he generally comes to the fore on tough uphill sprints.

Impey is a two-time winner of the Tour Down Under, and the only rider to have won the race in consecutive years, winning in 2018, and 2019. He has won the South African National Road Race Championships twice, and is a nine-time winner of the South African National Time Trial Championships, including eight consecutive titles between 2013 and 2020. In 2013, Impey became the first African rider to wear the yellow jersey at the Tour de France, doing so for two days; six years later, he won his first individual stage at the race, winning the ninth stage in Brioude.

Career

After riding for the South African team in 2008 and 2009, in 2010 Impey joined . Impey had originally signed for 2011 with the Australian team called Pegasus, but was forced to seek employment elsewhere after that team failed to secure a UCI license. After riding for and in 2011, Impey joined for the squad's inaugural season in 2012. He won a stage of the Tour of the Basque Country in April of that year, before making his Grand Tour debut at the Giro d'Italia in May. In 2013, he became the first South African ever to lead the Tour de France.

He won the Tour of Alberta in 2014 by a single second thanks to his victory in the last stage, which gave him enough bonus seconds to overtake Tom Dumoulin. Impey confirmed his good form a couple of days later by taking the fourth place on the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec.

In 2015, Impey had to abandon the Tour de France after being involved in a massive crash on the third stage. He was named in the start list for the 2015 Vuelta a España.

In August 2020, it was announced that Impey was to join from the 2021 season – alongside his former teammate Chris Froome – on a two-year contract.

Major results

2003

2004 National Under-23 Road Championships

2nd Road race 1st Stage 5 Giro del Capo 6th Overall Tour de Tunisie 2006 African Road Championships

4th Road race 2007

Giro del Capo 1st Points classification 1st Prologue & Stage 2 1st Stage 10 Tour du Maroc 2008 1st Stage 6 Herald Sun Tour 6th Memorial Viviana Manservisi 9th World's View Challenge 1 9th World's View Challenge 2 2009

1st Stage 4 2nd Road race, National Road Championships 3rd Giro del Capo II 7th Giro del Capo IV 2011

2nd Overall Tour du Maroc 1st Stage 7 3rd Overall Tour of South Africa 9th Overall Tour of Azerbaijan (Iran) 2012 1st Stage 2 Tour of the Basque Country 1st Stage 2 Tour of Slovenia 2013

Tour de France 1st Stage 4 (TTT)

1st Stage 2 Tour of the Basque Country 1st Stage 2 Bayern–Rundfahrt

5th Overall Eneco Tour 5th Vuelta a La Rioja 2014 National Road Championships

2nd Road race

1st Stage 5 4th Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec 7th Overall Bayern–Rundfahrt 1st Stage 3 7th Overall Tour Down Under 2015 National Road Championships

2nd Road race 2nd Vuelta a La Rioja 3rd 947 Cycle Challenge 6th Overall Tour des Fjords 6th Classic Sud-Ardèche 7th Overall Tour Down Under

2016

2017

1st 947 Cycle Challenge 1st Stage 6 Volta a Catalunya 2018 National Road Championships

Critérium du Dauphiné

1st Stage 1 3rd Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race 8th GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano 10th Brabantse Pijl 2019 National Road Championships

1st Stage 4

1st Stage 1 (TTT) 1st Stage 9 Tour de France 3rd Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race 2020 National Road Championships

2nd Road race 3rd Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race 6th Overall Tour Down Under 2021 2nd La Drôme Classic 2022 1st Stage 4 Tour de Suisse

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish