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**Thor Hushovd**
	Hushovd before the 2009 Omloop Het Nieuwsblad,; which he would go on to win
Personal information
Full name	Thor Hushovd
Nickname	The God of Thunder
Date of birth	January 18, 1978 (age 31)
Country	Norway
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	81 kg (180 lb; 12.8 st)
Team information
Current team	Cervélo TestTeam
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Sprinter; Classics Specialist
Professional team(s)1
2000–2008; 2009–	Crédit Agricole; Cervélo TestTeam
Major wins
	Tour de France; 7 Stages Points classification (2005, 2009) Vuelta a España; 3 Stages Points classification (2006) Giro d'Italia; 1 Stage Norwegian Road Race Championship (2004); Norwegian Time Trial Championship (2004, 2005); Gent-Wevelgem (2006); Omloop Het Nieuwsblad (2009); U23 World Time Trial Champion (1998)
	Infobox last updated on:
	26 July 2009 1 Team names given are those prevailing; at time of rider beginning association with that team.

Thor Hushovd (born January 18, 1978) is a Norwegian professional road bicycle racer, riding for Cervélo TestTeam. Hushovd is known for sprinting and time trialing. He is a former Norwegian time trial champion. He is the first, and to date the only, Norwegian to wear the yellow jersey as leader of the general classification in the Tour de France.

[edit] Biography

Hushovd was born in Grimstad, Aust-Agder, Norway. He won the under-23 time trial world championship and the under-23 versions of Paris-Roubaix and Paris-Tours, before turning professional in 1998.

Hushovd was Norwegian time trial champion in 2004 and 2005 and road race champion in 2004. In 2006, Hushovd won seven UCI ProTour races and two stages of the Tour de France. Hushovd won the prologue in Strasbourg and wore the yellow jersey as leader of the general classification after the first day despite a cut arm. He continued with stitches and regained the yellow jersey after stage 2 with a third place finish. As the Tour started with Hushovd, it ended with his winning the last stage, beating Robbie McEwen in a sprint. In the 2006 Vuelta a España he won stage 6, wore the golden jersey for three stages and won the points classification

At the 2008 Tour de France, Hushovd won stage 2 in a bunched sprint finish.^[1]

In 2009, Hushovd rode for the Cervélo TestTeam.^[2] He took one of the team's first victories of the season by winning Stage 3 of the Tour of California. At the Tour de France, he won green jersey for the points classification for the second time, placing ahead of Mark Cavendish in unique fashion. Typically the sprinter with the most stage victories wins the points classification, though Hushovd only won one stage, stage 6, while Cavendish won six. After a controversy on stage 14, where Cavendish was relegated to the back of the peloton for being judged to have impeded Hushovd, Hushovd was praised for launching a "bold" solo attack on stage 17, a mountain stage, winning two intermediate sprints in the process.^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6] At the Tour of Missouri in September 2009, Hushovd won stage 3, a 114 mi (183 km) course over rolling hills, in a sprint at the finish.