Cadel Evans salary: How much does Cadel Evans make? – According to Idol Net Worth, Cadel Evans was drawing an annual salary of $2 million from his team, BMC Racing. Presently, it is unclear how much he earns per year.
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Evans is a decorated Australian former professional racing cyclist.
He is a four-time Olympian and one of three non-Europeans – along with Greg LeMond and Egan Bernal – to have won the Tour de France — he won the race in 2011.
He took the race lead on the penultimate day, after completing a 42.5-kilometre (26.4-mile) individual time trial some two-and-a-half minutes quicker than his closest rivals, Andy Schleck and Fränk Schleck. He won the race at the age of 34, making him one of the race’s five oldest winners.
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Evans, who competed professionally in both mountain biking and road bicycle racing cemented his place as a champion mountain biker early in his career after winning the UCI Mountain Bike World Cup in 1998 and 1999. He also placed seventh in the men’s cross-country mountain bike race at the 2000 Summer Olympics held in Sydney.
Evans turned to full-time road cycling in 2001, and gradually progressed through the ranks, finishing second in the Tour de France in 2007 and 2008 — with both of the second-place finishes ranking in the top 10 of the closest Tours in history.
He became the first Australian to win the UCI ProTour and the UCI Road World Championships in 2007 and 2009 respectively.
He retired on 1 February 2015, after completing the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race, a race named in his honour.
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