Rafał Majka

Rafał Majka is a Polish road cyclist, born on 12 September 1989, who retired from professional racing after riding most recently for the UAE Team Emirates squad. He built his reputation as a climber, first drawing wide notice with a seventh place overall at the 2013 Giro d'Italia and a sixth place a year later. At the Tour de France he won three mountain stages, in 2014 and 2015, and took the mountains classification in 2014 and again in 2016, becoming the first Polish rider to win a jersey at the race. In 2014 he also won the Tour de Pologne, his home stage race. His one Grand Tour podium came at the 2015 Vuelta a España, where he finished third overall. At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro he won the bronze medal in the men's road race, the first medal for Poland at those Games. In later seasons he worked largely as a mountain helper for Tadej Pogačar while still taking occasional stage wins of his own.