David Zabriskie

David Zabriskie
	Zabriskie at the 2006 Tour de Georgia
Personal information
Full name	David Zabriskie
Nickname	"The Green Hornet",; DZ, DZNuts, Dizzy, Captain America, Zup
Born	January 12, 1979 (age 45); Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	67 kg (148 lb; 10.6 st)
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Time-Trialist
Professional teams
1999–2000	7-UP/Colorado Cyclist
2001–2004	U.S. Postal Service
2005–2007	Team CSC
2008–2013	Slipstream–Chipotle
Major wins
	Grand Tours Giro d'Italia 1 Stage (TTT) (2008) Tour de France 1 Stage (TTT) (2011) Stage races Tour of Missouri (2009) One-day races and Classics National Time Trial Championship (2007, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012)
Medal record
Representing the United States
Men's road bicycle racing
World Championships

David Zabriskie (born January 12, 1979) is a retired professional road bicycle racer from the United States, who competed as a professional between 1999 and 2013. His main strength is individual time trials and his career highlights include stage wins in all three Grand Tour stage races and winning the US National Time Trial Championship seven times. Zabriskie is known for his quirky nature, including singing before stages and the interviews he does with fellow riders in the professional peloton which are posted on his web site.

In 2005, he became the third American to wear the leader's yellow jersey at the Tour de France, after winning the prologue of that year's Tour. However, later admissions of drug use during that time caused him to be stripped of his stage win and the resulting yellow jersey.^[2]

On October 10, 2012 – while a member of the Garmin–Sharp squad^[3] – it was announced by USADA that he would be suspended for six months for admissions of doping during his time with the US Postal Cycling Team.^[4] Later that day, Zabriskie confirmed his acceptance of a six-month ban from September 1, 2012 ending on March 1, 2013 along with a stripping of all race results between May 13, 2003 and July 31, 2006.^[5]

^ Christian Vande Velde, Vande Velde's View: My ability to discern... Archived 2007-12-24 at the Wayback Machine, VeloNews, July 9, 2006
^ Rhiannon Potkey, Cyclist Zabriskie pedals to the beat of a different drummer^{[permanent dead link]}, Active, February 21, 2006
^ "Team Garmin-Sharp-Barracuda Unveils 2013 Roster". Garmin–Sharp. Boulder, Colorado: Slipstream Sports LLC. December 28, 2012. Archived from the original on January 2, 2013. Retrieved January 6, 2013.
^ Benson, Daniel (October 10, 2012). "Six former Armstrong USPS teammates receive bans from USADA". cyclingnews. Retrieved 17 May 2013.
^ "Acceptance of Sanction Zabriskie Executed" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 May 2013. Retrieved 28 May 2014.

[1] Christian Vande Velde, Vande Velde's View: My ability to discern... Archived 2007-12-24 at the Wayback Machine, VeloNews, July 9, 2006

[2] Rhiannon Potkey, Cyclist Zabriskie pedals to the beat of a different drummer^{[permanent dead link]}, Active, February 21, 2006

[3] "Team Garmin-Sharp-Barracuda Unveils 2013 Roster". Garmin–Sharp. Boulder, Colorado: Slipstream Sports LLC. December 28, 2012. Archived from the original on January 2, 2013. Retrieved January 6, 2013.

[4] Benson, Daniel (October 10, 2012). "Six former Armstrong USPS teammates receive bans from USADA". cyclingnews. Retrieved 17 May 2013.

[ban2012-5] "Acceptance of Sanction Zabriskie Executed" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 May 2013. Retrieved 28 May 2014.

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