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〕 | weight = | currentteam = | discipline = Road | role = Rider | ridertype = All-rounder | amateuryears1 = – | amateurteam1 = Super C Academy | amateuryears2 = – | amateurteam2 = Hi-Q Super Academy | proyears1 = 2007 | proteam1 = | proyears2 = 2008–2009 | proteam2 = | proyears3 = 2010– | proteam3 = | majorwins = Grand Tours :Tour de France ::General classification (2013, 2015) :: Mountains classification (2015) ::5 individual stages (2012, 2013, 2015) :Vuelta a España ::1 individual stage (2011) Stage races :Critérium du Dauphiné (2013, 2015) :Tour de Romandie (2013, 2014) :Critérium International (2013) :Tour of Oman (2013, 2014) :Vuelta a Andalucía (2015) | updated = 26 July 2015 | medaltemplates = }} }} Christopher "Chris" Froome (born 20 May 1985) is a Kenyan-born British professional road racing cyclist riding for UCI ProTeam . A two time winner of the Tour de France, he is seen as one of the most successful riders of the recent era.〔 Brought up in Kenya and South Africa, he has ridden since 2008 under a British licence on the basis of his passport and his father's and grandparents' country of birth. In 2007 Froome turned professional at the age of 22 with Team Konica Minolta. He moved to Europe to further his career, joining team . In 2010 he moved to and has become one of the team's key cyclists. Froome made his breakthrough as a Grand Tour contender during the 2011 Vuelta a España where he finished second overall. At the 2012 Tour de France, riding as a super-domestique for Bradley Wiggins, Froome won stage seven and finished second overall, behind only Wiggins in the same race as the best British performance in the race's history. In the same year he also won the bronze medal in the time trial event at the Olympic Games and finished fourth in the Vuelta a España. His first multi-stage race win came in 2013, in the Tour of Oman, followed by wins in the Critérium International, the Tour de Romandie, the Critérium du Dauphiné, and the Tour de France. As a defending champion, he began 2014 by again winning the Tour of Oman, followed by a repeat victory in the Tour de Romandie. After retiring from the 2014 Tour de France, he came back to place second in the Vuelta a España. In 2015, he won his second Critérium du Dauphiné and his second Tour de France. ==Early life and amateur career== Froome was born on 20 May 1985 in Nairobi, Kenya,〔 to mother Jane and father Clive, a former hockey player who represented England at under-19 level. His mother's parents emigrated from Tetbury, Gloucestershire, England to Kenya to run a crop farm. Froome has two older brothers, Jonathan and Jeremy, who went to Rugby School in Warwickshire, England.〔 At the age of 13, his mother took him to his first organised bike race, a charity race which he won despite being knocked off by his mother. There he met professional cyclist David Kinjah, who became Froome's mentor and training partner.〔 After finishing primary school at the Banda School in Nairobi, Froome moved to South Africa as a 14-year-old to attend St. Andrew's School in Bloemfontein and St John's College in Johannesburg.〔 He then studied economics for two years at the University of Johannesburg. It was in South Africa that Froome started to participate in road cycling. It was not until he was 22 that he turned professional.〔 Froome started road racing in South Africa, specialising as a climber. Froome competed in the road time trial at the 2006 Commonwealth Games in Melbourne, where he finished 17th, catching the attention of future Team Sky principal Dave Brailsford: "The performance he did, on the equipment he was on, that takes some doing... We always thought he was a bit of a diamond in the rough, who had a huge potential." Whilst representing Kenya at the 2006 Road World Championships in the under-23 category in Salzburg, Austria, Froome crashed into an official just after the start of the time trial,〔 causing both men to fall; although neither was injured, he finished in 36th place. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chris Froome」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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