Cadel Evans children: Does Cadel Evans have any children? – Australian former professional racing cyclist Cadel Evans, who competed professionally in mountain biking and road bicycle racing has two children: one biological and one adopted.
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- Robel
Their adopted child is Robel, a son who hails from Ethiopia. He was adopted in 2012 at the age of six months. At the time of the adoption, Cadel was married to Chiara Passerini. Cadel and Chaira divorced in 2015, three years after Robel’s adoption.
- Aidan
Evans’ second child is another son Aidan, who was born in 2019. Aidan is Evans’ first child with his current partner Stefania Zandonella, a ski Instructor from Italy.
Evans and Aidan’s mother Stefania started dating after 2015 when Evans and his first wife Chiara Passerini were separated.
A summary of Cadel Evans’ career
A four-time Olympian, Evans is one of three non-Europeans – along with Greg LeMond and Egan Bernal – to have won the Tour de France, winning the race in 2011.
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He won the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup in 1998 and 1999 and placed seventh in the men’s cross-country mountain bike race at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
Evans turned to full-time road cycling in 2001 and gradually progressed through the ranks.
He finished second in the Tour de France in 2007 and 2008 — these 2nd place finishes are in the top 10 of the closest Tours in history. He became the first Australian to win the UCI ProTour (2007) and the UCI Road World Championships in 2009.
After finishing outside the top twenty in 2009 and 2010, Evans became the first Australian rider to win the Tour de France in 2011, riding for the BMC Racing Team — at age 34, he was among the five oldest winners in the race’s history. He also made the podium in the 2009 Vuelta a España and the 2013 Giro d’Italia.
Evans retired on 1 February 2015, after completing a race named in his honour.
Source: abtc.ng
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