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Grégory Rast
Key Stats
Team: Astana
Nationality: Swiss
Born: January 17, 1980
Hometown: Cham, Switzerland
Height: 6-foot-1
Weight: 170 pounds
Turned Pro: 2001
Palmares
Career Highlights:
two-time Swiss road champion (2004 and 2006)
2007
1st overall, Tour du Luxembourg (plus stage 4)
2nd, stage 2, Tour du Luxembourg
2006
1st, Swiss road championship
2nd, Giro del Piemonte
3rd, GP Kanton Aargau
6th, Vattenfall Cyclassics
9th, GP Ouest France-Plouay
2005
2nd, points competition, Tour de Suisse
2nd, stage 5, Tour de Suisse
3rd, Paris-Bourges
3rd, stage 5, Tour de la Region Wallonne
2004
1st, Swiss road championship
2nd, stage 3 in Tour de Suisse
4th, Rund um den Henninger Turm
2003
2nd, stage 2, Deutschland Tour
2nd, stage 5, Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt
2002
6th, world under-23 road championship
Biography
Rast spent two years as a stagiaire with Post Swiss (2000-2001) before joining Phonak in the same capacity in 2002. He turned pro the following year, and remained with Phonak until the squad folded at the end of 2006, and he moved to Astana.