2000 Tour Of The Basque Country
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The 2000 Tour of the Basque Country (Spanish: ''Vuelta al País Vasco'') was the 40th edition of the Tour of the Basque Country cycle race and was held from 3 April to 7 April 2000. The race started in Oñati and finished at Madarixa. The race was won by Andreas Klöden of the Telekom team. General classification References 2000 Bas Bas may refer to: People * Bas (name), a given name and a surname * Bas (rapper) (born 1987) Chemistry * Boron arsenide (BAs), a chemical compound * Barium sulfide (BAs), a chemical compound Other uses * ''bas'' (French for "low"), as in bas ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Andreas Klöden
Andreas Klöden (born 22 June 1975) is a German former professional road bicycle racer, who competed as a professional between 1998 and 2013. His major achievements include a bronze medal at the 2000 Olympic Games and finishing second in the general classification at the 2004 and 2006 Tour de France. Klöden was a tall, lightly built racer with enough strength to place high in the overall classifications of the Grand Tours, but his performances were affected by injuries. Biography Klöden was born in Mittweida in 1975. Before he turned professional, he won the bronze medal in the Under 23 World Time Trial Championships in 1996, and two stages at the International Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt in 1997. The T-Mobile years (1998–2006) Klöden signed with ' (later T-Mobile Team) in 1998, and in his first pro season he won the Niedersachsen-Rundfahrt's General classifications (GC) and the prologue of the Tour de Normandie. In 1999, he won a stage at the Portuguese Tour of Algarve. ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Bingen Fernández
Bingen Fernández Bustinza (born December 15, 1972 in Bermeo, Basque Country) is a Spanish former professional road bicycle racer, who last rode for . He became a sporting director in 2010, for , and currently works with . Major results ;1997 :2nd Trofeo Forla de Navarra :5th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía :10th Tour de l'Avenir ;1999 :1st Mountains classification Vuelta a La Rioja :8th GP Miguel Induráin ;2000 :3rd Overall Vuelta a Aragón :4th Overall Tour of the Basque Country ;2001 :5th GP Primavera ;2002 :8th GP Miguel Induráin ;2003 :9th GP Miguel Induráin ;2004 :10th Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana The Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana (; en, Tour of the Valencian Community or Tour of Valencia) is a road cycling stage race held in the Valencian Community (''Comunitat Valenciana''), Spain. Its position in the cycling calendar means it is often ... Grand Tour general classification results timeline External links * * 1972 births Living people People f ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Txema Del Olmo
Txema del Olmo Zendegi (born 26 April 1973 in Bilbao) is a Spanish former professional cyclist. He rode in 4 grand tours, including 3 editions of the Vuelta a España and 1 Tour de France. Major results ;1997 : 3rd Memorial Manuel Galera : 3rd Clásica Memorial Txuma ;1998 : 2nd Overall Tour de l'Avenir ::1st Stage 8 ;2000 : 10th Overall Tour of the Basque Country The Tour of the Basque Country (Officially: ''Itzulia Basque Country'', es, Vuelta al País Vasco, links=no, eu, Euskal Herriko Itzulia) is an annual road cycling stage race held in the Spanish Basque Country in April. It is one of the races ... References External links * 1973 births Living people Spanish male cyclists Sportspeople from Bilbao Cyclists from Biscay {{Spain-cycling-bio-1970s-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Michael Boogerd
Michael Boogerd (born 28 May 1972) is a Dutch former professional road bicycle racer. He was one of the leaders of a generation of Dutch cyclists in the late 1990s and early 2000s, together with teammate Erik Dekker and female cyclist Leontien van Moorsel. Career Boogerd was born in The Hague, and began his professional career in 1994, joining ''WordPerfect''. In 1995 the team changed name to ''Novell'', before Rabobank in 1996 became main sponsor and name for the team. Boogerd stayed with the team his entire career. His speciality were hilly classics like Liège–Bastogne–Liège, La Flèche Wallonne and the Amstel Gold Race in the Ardennes week and the Lombardian races in the Fall, as well as mountain-stages. He has won two stages in Tour de France (1996, 2002) as well as the Amstel Gold Race and Paris–Nice. He has been Dutch Champion three times, in 1997, 1998 and in 2006. In addition to these major victories, Boogerd scored a large number of podium finishes in his favori ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Aitor Garmendia
Aitor Garmendia (born 3 March 1968, in Itsasondo) is a former Spanish racing cyclist. He rode in 6 editions of the Tour de France, 8 editions of the Vuelta a España, and 1 edition of the Giro d'Italia. Major results ;1990 : 1st GP Llodio : 5th Overall Vuelta a Aragón : 8th Overall Tour de la Communauté Européenne ;1991 : 8th Subida a Urkiola ;1992 : 9th Subida a Urkiola ;1993 : 4th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía ;1994 : 1st Stage 7 (ITT) Volta a Catalunya : 2nd Overall Vuelta a Murcia : 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships : 5th GP Villafranca de Ordizia : 6th Overall Tour de Luxembourg ;1995 : 1st Subida a Txitxarro : 2nd Overall Vuelta a Castilla y León ::1st Stage 1 : 2nd Overall Vuelta a Aragón : 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships : 3rd Overall Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme : 4th Overall Vuelta a Murcia : 10th Overall Ronde van Nederland ;1996 : 1st Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia : 2nd Overall Vuelta a Aragón ::1st Stage 2 : 6th Overall Critérium Internati ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Juan Carlos Domínguez
Juan Carlos Domínguez Domínguez (born 13 April 1971 in Íscar, Spain) is a former professional road racing cyclist. He was a professional rider from 1995 to 2006. In the 2006 Eneco Tour of Benelux he had a hematocrit above 50 before the start of stage 5 and he was suspended for 15 days. His daughter, Estela, was killed in a collision with a lorry at a lorry at Villares de la Reina in February 2023 at the age of 19, while training for her first year as a professional with the Sopela team. Major results ;1994 :1st GP Capodarco ;1996 :3rd Overall Vuelta a Aragón :7th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships :9th Overall Tour of the Basque Country :9th Subida al Naranco ;1997 :1st Overall Vuelta a Murcia ::1st Mountains classification ::1st Stage 5 ( ITT) :1st Overall Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme ::1st Stage 5b ( ITT) :1st Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana :4th Overall Tour of Galicia :5th Overall Vuelta a Aragón :10th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships ;1998 :1 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Aitor Osa
Aitor Osa Eizaguirre (born September 9, 1973) is a Spanish former road bicycle racer. He is an older brother of Unai Osa. He was involved in the Operación Puerto doping case. Major results ;1996 : 6th Overall Vuelta a La Rioja : 9th GP Villafranca de Ordizia ;1997 : 4th Overall Vuelta a los Valles Mineros : 6th Subida al Naranco : 7th GP Villafranca de Ordizia ;1998 : 3rd Subida al Naranco ;1999 : 7th Overall Vuelta a Burgos : 7th Subida a Urkiola ;2000 : 2nd Overall Vuelta a Castilla y León : 3rd Overall G.P. Portugal Telecom ::1st Stage 3 : 6th Overall Tour of the Basque Country : 6th Klasika Primavera : 9th Overall Critérium International ;2001 : 5th Subida al Naranco : 9th Overall Vuelta a España ;2002 : 1st Overall Tour of the Basque Country ::1st Stage 3 : 1st Mountains classification Vuelta a España : 1st Stage 2 Vuelta a La Rioja : 1st Stage 4 Volta a Portugal : 2nd Subida al Naranco : 3rd Overall Vuelta a Aragón : 5th Gran Premio Miguel Induráin ;2003 : 2nd L ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Davide Rebellin
Davide Rebellin (9 August 1971 – 30 November 2022) was an Italian professional road bicycle racer, who last rode for UCI Continental team . He was considered one of the finest classic cycle races, classics specialists of his generation with more than fifty top ten finishes in UCI Road World Cup and UCI ProTour classics. Rebellin was best known in the cycling world for his 2004 season, when he won a then unprecedented treble with wins in Amstel Gold Race, La Flèche Wallonne and Liège–Bastogne–Liège. He also won stage races such as Paris–Nice and Tirreno–Adriatico, and a stage in the Giro d'Italia. Rebellin served a two-year suspension for testing positive for Methoxy polyethylene glycol-epoetin beta, Mircera at the 2008 Olympic Games. Career Born in San Bonifacio, province of Verona, Rebellin turned professional in 1992 and came to the attention of the cycling world with a string of strong performances during his early years. He suffered from asthma, a disease that a ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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HTC–Highroad
HTC–Highroad () was a former professional cycling team competing in international road bicycle races. Their last title sponsor was HTC Corporation, a Taiwanese manufacturer of smartphones but dissolved at the end of the 2011 season from a failure to find a new sponsor. High Road Sports was the management company of team manager Bob Stapleton. Past title sponsors include Columbia Sportswear and Deutsche Telekom. The team was founded in 1991 as Team Telekom, sponsored by Deutsche Telekom. In 2004 their name changed to the T-Mobile Team. The team was under the management of Bob Stapleton and Rolf Aldag. Former leaders included Olaf Ludwig, Walter Godefroot and Eddy Vandenhecke (managers), Luuc Eisenga (spokesperson) and Brian Holm, Valerio Piva (sports directors). History Team beginnings: 1988–1991 At the end of 1988, former World Champion Hennie Kuiper set up a German cycling team that was sponsored by the city of Stuttgart and rode on Eddy Merckx Cycles. The team was called ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Danilo Di Luca
Danilo Di Luca (born 2 January 1976) is a former Italian professional road racing cyclist, best known for winning the 2007 Giro d'Italia, but also for several positive doping tests, the last of which resulting in a lifetime ban from the sport. Di Luca is also one of six riders to have won each of the three Ardennes classics; he won the Amstel Gold Race and La Flèche Wallonne in 2005, and Liège–Bastogne–Liège in 2007. During his career, Di Luca rode for the Riso Scotti, , , , , , and squads. Di Luca's career was also dogged by numerous infractions, involving three suspensions in relation to doping. In 2007, Di Luca was suspended for three months towards the end of the season, for visiting previously banned doctor Carlo Santuccione, which later escalated into the Oil for Drugs case. In 2009, at the Giro d'Italia, Di Luca tested positive on two occasions for CERA, and was given a backdated – to July 2009 – two-year ban in February 2010, which was later red ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Madariaga, Azkoitia
, population_note = , population_density_km2 = auto , blank_name_sec1 = Official language(s) , blank_info_sec1 = , timezone = CET , utc_offset = +1 , timezone_DST = CEST , utc_offset_DST = +2 , postal_code_type = Postal code , postal_code = 20720 , area_code_type = Dialing code , area_code = , leader_title = Mayor , leader_name = Javier Zubizarreta , leader_party = Basque Nationalist Party , website = , footnotes = Azkoitia ( es, Azcoitia) is a town located in the province of Gipuzkoa, in the Autonomous Community of Basque Country, in northern Spain. It is also the seat of the municipality of the same name. Geographical setting Azkoitia and the municipality of the same name, are located on and around the upper Urola river valley, centered on a small alluvial plain surrounded by the Ba ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Oñati
Oñati ( eu, Oñati, es, Oñate) is a town located in the province of Gipuzkoa, in the autonomous community of the Basque Country, in the north of Spain. It has a population of approximately 10,500 and lies in a valley in the center of the Basque country. It lies about south of the Bay of Biscay and is about above sea level. The name is Basque and translates roughly as "place of many hills", reflecting the landscape of the area. The town is surrounded on three sides by green mountains on the southern side by the Aloña limestone formation. Main sights Dating back to the Medieval period, Oñati is home to numerous monuments. The University of Oñati, the ancient university of the Basque Country, which is in the town's centre, is one of the oldest university buildings on the Iberian peninsula. Today it houses the International Institute for the Sociology of Law. Other important sites include the monastery and hospice of Bidaurreta and the Church of Saint Michael. Above the cit ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |