Daryl Impey

Daryl Impey
	Impey at the 2014 Tour of Alberta
Personal information
Full name	Daryl Impey
Born	6 December 1984 (age 40); Johannesburg, South Africa
Height	183 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	70 kg (154 lb)
Team information
Current team	Mitchelton–Scott
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	All-rounder
Professional team(s)
2008–2009	Barloworld
2010	Team RadioShack
2011	MTN–Qhubeka
2011	REDIRECT Template:Cycling data BOH;
2012–	REDIRECT Template:Cycling data MTS men;
Major wins
	Grand Tours; Tour de France 1 TTT stage (2013) Stage races Tour of Turkey (2009) Tour of Alberta (2014) One-day races and Classics National Time Trial Championships (2011, 2013, 2014, 2015)
	Representing Orica–GreenEDGE
Road bicycle racing
World Championships
	Infobox last updated on; 8 February 2015

Daryl Impey (born 6 December 1984) is a South African professional road cyclist riding for UCI ProTeam Mitchelton–Scott.^[2] Impey is an all-rounder, acting as a domestique for puncheur Simon Gerrans, and as a lead-out man for pure sprinters, in his own right, he generally comes to the fore on tough uphill sprints.^[3]^[4] His best win to date has been the 2009 Tour of Turkey, despite a controversial incident where he was pushed into the barriers by Theo Bos.^[5]

After riding for the South African team Barloworld in 2008 and 2009, in 2010 Impey joined Team RadioShack.^[6] Impey had originally signed for 2011 with the Australian team called Pegasus, but was forced to seek employment elsewhere after that team failed to secure a UCI license.^[7] After riding for MTN–Qhubeka and Team NetApp in 2011, Impey joined GreenEDGE for the squad's inaugural season in 2012.^[1] He won a stage of the Tour of the Basque Country in April of that year, before making his Grand Tour debut at the Giro d'Italia in May.^[8] In 2013, he became the first South African leader of Tour de France.^[9]

In July 2014 Impey announced that he had tested positive for the banned substance Probenecid at the South African road championships in February, though he denied any wrongdoing.^[10] Impey was subsequently cleared of the doping charges at a hearing in August 2014, which accepted his explanation that the Probenecid had entered his system after ingesting contaminated gel capsules he had bought at a pharmacist.^[11] Upon his return, he won the Tour of Alberta by a single second thanks to his victory in the last stage, which gave him enough bonus seconds to overtake Tom Dumoulin.^[12] Impey confirmed his good form a couple of days later by taking the fourth place on the Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec.^[13]

In 2015, Impey had to abandon the Tour de France after being involved in a massive crash on the third stage.^[14] He was named in the start list for the 2015 Vuelta a España.^[15]