The offseason has brought a lot of big news for 23-year-old American Lawson Craddock, starting with his decision to move to Cannondale-Garmin next year after two seasons with Giant-Alpecin, followed by an announcement on Tuesday that he and his girlfriend of four years recently got engaged.
Craddock's first two years on the WorldTour have been a mixed bag, although this season ended well when he finished his first Grand Tour at the Vuelta a España, helping teammate Tom Dumoulin make an ultimately unsuccessful run at the overall win.
Craddock's inaugural year with Giant-Alpecin started well with a third-place overall finish at the Tour of California, followed by a sixth-place finish in the time trial at the Tour de Suisse. Things didn’t run so smoothly after that, however, as he abandoned the Vuelta during stage 14, starting a run of DNFs that carried through to the end of the year.
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The 2015 season looked hopeful for Craddock, but he crashed at the Tour Down Under in January and suffered fractures to his sternum, manubrium, a rib and his left wrist. A long recovery at home in Texas was necessary, and Craddock returned to racing exactly two months later at the Volta a Catalunya.
Tour of the Basque Country followed Catalunya, with Fleche Wallonne, Liege-Bastogne-Liege, Tour of Yorkshire and Tour of California coming in quick succession. He ended the first half of his season at Criterium du Dauphine.
Craddock's early season didn't exactly light up the results column, with just one top-10 finish in California to his credit along with DNFs at Wallonne and Liege, but Craddock stormed back when he returned to racing again in August, finishing third during the Tour of Poland's Queen stage behind Sergio Henao (Team Sky) and Diego Ulissi (Lampre-Merida), and just ahead of Christophe Riblon (AG2R), Fabio Aru (Astana) and Mikel Nieve (Team Sky).
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