Marco Haller

Marco Haller (born 1 April 1991) is an Austrian professional road bicycling racer, who rides for UCI ProTeam . A sprinter, Haller has taken six victories during his professional career, including wins at the 2015 Austrian National Road Race Championships and the 2022 Hamburg Cyclassics.

Career Early career Born in St. Veit an der Glan, Haller took four stage victories at the 2009 Tour de l'Abitibi, a junior race in Canada, and he also won a bronze medal in the road race at the UCI Junior World Championships in Moscow. He rode for UCI Continental team in 2010, before moving to the following year. The following year, Haller won the mountains classification at the Three Days of De Panne, and placed seventh in the general classification at both the Tour des Fjords and the Arctic Race of Norway. In 2014, Haller won the final stage of his home tour, the Tour of Austria in Vienna.

2015 Haller finished in third place in the Gran Premio Nobili Rubinetterie, before he won the general classification at the Tour des Fjords. He finished second on the opening stage, having led out teammate Alexander Kristoff for the stage win in Norheimsund. Haller was part of the lead-out when Kristoff took further wins on the following two stages, before Haller moved into overall contention with a fifth-place stage finish on stage four. On the final stage, Haller was one of a quartet of riders that went clear of the field inside the final , and with a 15-second gap at the finish, Haller won the race by 12 seconds. During the race, he got into the breakaway on stage 16 and was caught by the bunch before the last climb of the day together with Adam Hansen.

2016–2019 Haller took no further wins over the next three years, his closest such result was a second-place finish on the final stage of the 2018 Dubai Tour, being outsprinted by Elia Viviani. With Haller starting his 2019 season in Australia, he contested the Bay Classic Series criterium races in early January, winning the opening race on New Year's Day, on his way to winning the series overall. He rode the Giro d'Italia for the first time in his career, where he was involved in an incident following stage 12, when a fan attempted to take a bidon out of his mouth; Haller angrily confronted the fan, who apologised for his actions. Haller took no further top-five placings during the season, with his best result being seventh at the Scheldeprijs.

Bahrain–McLaren (2020–2021)

After eight seasons riding for , and with the team having been taken over by due to financial issues, Haller joined – later renamed – for the 2020 season. Like 2019, he started his season in Australia, recording a best of result of eighth place at the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic-induced suspension of racing. The following year, Haller finished second to Patrick Konrad at the Austrian National Road Race Championships, and he placed sixth overall at the Deutschland Tour.

Bora–Hansgrohe (2022–present) Haller left after two seasons, signing a deal in August 2021 with for the 2022 season. He took his first victory with the team at that year's Tour of Norway, winning the fourth stage of the race in a bunch sprint in Kristiansand. Later in the year, Haller took victory in the Hamburg Cyclassics; he was part of a quintet that got clear inside the final , and with support from teammate Patrick Konrad, Haller outsprinted Wout van Aert and Quinten Hermans to the finish line.

No podium finishes followed in 2023 and the early part of 2024, although Haller did record a sixth-place finish at the Paris Olympics in the road race – the best such result for a male Austrian rider – having been a part of the lead group in the second half of the race and missed out on a bronze medal (won by Christophe Laporte) in the final sprint.

Major results Source:

2008 1st Stage 3 Po Stajerski 2009 1st Stage 1 Course de la Paix Juniors Tour de l'Abitibi 1st Stages 1, 4, 5 & 6

4th Road race, UEC European Junior Road Championships 2011 2nd Poreč Trophy 5th Road race, UCI Under-23 Road World Championships 2012 (1 pro win) 1st Stage 4 Tour of Beijing 2013 1st Mountains classification, Three Days of De Panne 7th Overall Tour des Fjords 1st Stage 3 (TTT) 7th Overall Arctic Race of Norway 10th Le Samyn 2014 (1) 1st Stage 8 Tour of Austria 2nd Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships 2015 (2) 1st Road race, National Road Championships 1st Overall Tour des Fjords 1st Young rider classification 3rd Gran Premio Nobili Rubinetterie 2016 4th Road race, National Road Championships 10th Grand Prix Impanis-Van Petegem 2018 10th Scheldeprijs 2019 1st Overall Bay Classic Series 1st Sprints classification 1st Stage 1 7th Scheldeprijs 9th Eschborn–Frankfurt 2020 8th Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race 2021 2nd Road race, National Road Championships 6th Overall Deutschland Tour 10th E3 Saxo Bank Classic 2022 (2) 1st Hamburg Cyclassics 1st Stage 4 Tour of Norway 5th Road race, National Road Championships 2024 6th Road race, Olympic Games 2025 4th Road race, National Road Championships 9th Overall Deutschland Tour

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish