Grégory Rast

Swiss road bicycle racer

Rider (retired)
Directeur sportif

Rider typeClassics specialistAmateur teams2000Post Swiss Team (stagiaire)2002Phonak (stagiaire) Professional teams2001Post Swiss Team2003–2006Phonak2007–2009Astana2010–2011Team RadioShack2012–2018RadioShack–Nissan^[1] Managerial team2019–Trek–Segafredo (directeur sportif) Major winsGrand Tours

Tour de France

1 Team time trial stage (2009)

Stage races

Tour of Luxembourg (2007)

Single-day races and Classics

National Road Race Championships (2004, 2006)

Grégory Rast (born 17 January 1980 in Cham) is a Swiss former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2001 and 2018 for the Post Swiss Team, Phonak, Astana, Team RadioShack and Trek–Segafredo teams.^[2] He was the winner of the Swiss National Road Race Championships in 2004 and 2006.^[3] Rast now works as a directeur sportif for the Lidl–Trek team.^[4] His sporting career began with RMV Cham-Hagendorn.^[5]

Major results

2002

1st

Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships

3rd Overall Grand Prix Guillaume Tell

1st Stage 4

3rd La Côte Picarde

4th Grand Prix de Waregem

9th GP Kranj

2003

8th Trofeo Alcudia

8th Stausee-Rundfahrt Klingnau

2004

1st

Road race, National Road Championships

4th Rund um den Henninger Turm

2005

3rd Paris–Bourges

7th Stausee-Rundfahrt Klingnau

2006

1st

Road race, National Road Championships

2nd Giro del Piemonte

3rd Grand Prix of Aargau Canton

6th Vattenfall Cyclassics

9th GP Ouest France-Plouay

2007

1st

Overall Tour de Luxembourg

1st Stage 4

7th Trofeo Calvia

2008

1st Grand Prix Istanbul

5th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk

6th Overall Tour of Poland

7th Trofeo Sóller

9th Brabantse Pijl

2009

1st Stage 4 (Team time trial) Tour de France

1st Prologue Tour de Luxembourg

1st

Sprints classification Tour de Romandie

2010

9th Overall Tour de Luxembourg

9th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne

2011

4th Paris–Roubaix

2012

8th Road race, Olympic Games

2013

1st Stage 6 Tour de Suisse

5th Road race, National Road Championships

2014

5th Road race, National Road Championships

2015

1st Stage 1 (Team time trial) Tour of Alberta

References

^ "RadioShack-Nissan-Trek announces lineup for 2012". VeloNews. Competitor Group, Inc. 5 December 2011. Retrieved 17 January 2012.
^ "Gregory Rast to retire at the end of the season". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 6 August 2018. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
^ "National Championship, Road, Elite, Switzerland (Men)". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
^ "Trek-Segafredo Men". Trek Bicycle Corporation. Intrepid Corporation. Archived from the original on 6 January 2019. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
^ Post Swiss Team 2001. Däniken: Impressio AG. 2001. p. 23.