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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)

    2009
    5th, stage 1, Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen
    3rd, stage 1, Tour de Romandie
    1st, sprint classification, Tour de Romandie
    1st, prologue, Tour de Luxembourg

    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.