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He is known as a strong climber, and rose to prominence at the 2013 Giro d"Italia, where he finished 7th overall, and 6th one year later.
He is known as a strong climber, and rose to prominence at the 2013 Giro d"Italia, where he finished 7th overall, and 6th one year later.
Other major achievemets are three mountainous stage wins in the Tour de France as well as the Mountains classification in the 2014 edition and two stages and the overall victory at the 2014 Tour de Pologne. In 2013, he competed in the Giro d"Italia for the first time, where he had a long battle with Carlos Betancur over the lead in the Young riders classification, which eventually fell to the Colombian in the penultimate stage. A year later, he improved on his Giro d"Italia result from 2013 by finishing 6th overall.
Majka was a last-minute inclusion in Tinkoff-Saxo"s 2014 Tour de France squad, after Roman Kreuziger was temporarily suspended from racing due to irregular biological passport values.
On Stage 14, he earned his first professional victory after going solo on the final climb to Risoul. 4 days later he claimed another victory on Stage 17, soloing to mountaintop finish atop Pla d"Adet.
These successes, as well as some other strong performances in mountain stages, earned Majka the polkadot jersey. In contrast to the previous two years, Majka did not ride the Giro d"Italia in 2015 where Alberto Contador made the first step in trying to do a Giro-Tour double but started in the Tour de France.
Majka then prepared to race his season target, the 2015 Vuelta a España, attempting to gain a top 5 or podium finish in the Government College. He performed well throughout the entire race, being able to stay at the top of the general classification with Nairo Quintana and Fabio Aru.