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2012 Tour Of Austria
The 2012 Tour of Austria (german: 2012 Internationale Österreich Rundfahrt) was the 64th edition of the Tour of Austria, an annual bicycle race. Departing from Innsbruck on July 1, it concluded in Vienna on July 8. The 1153.9 km-long stage race was part of the 2012 UCI Europe Tour, and was rated as a 2.HC event. The winner was the Dane Jakob Fuglsang of the squad. Teams 18 teams were invited to participate in the tour: 6 UCI ProTeams, 8 UCI Professional Continental Teams and 4 UCI Continental Teams. Stages Stage 1 1 July 2012 – Innsbruck to Innsbruck, Stage 2 2 July 2012 – Innsbruck to Kitzbüheler Horn, Stage 3 3 July 2012 – Kitzbühel to Lienz, Stage 4 4 July 2012 – Lienz to Sankt Johann im Pongau/ Alpendorf, Stage 5 5 July 2012 – Sankt Johann im Pongau/ Alpendorf to Sonntagberg, Stage 6 6 July 2012 – Waidhofen an der Ybbs to Melk, Stage 7 7 July 2012 – Podersdorf am See to Podersdorf am See, Stage 8 8 July 2012 – Poder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2012 UCI Europe Tour
The 2012 UCI Europe Tour was the eighth season of the UCI Europe Tour. The 2012 season began on 29 January 2012 with the Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise and ended on 21 October 2012 with the Chrono des Nations. The points leader, based on the cumulative results of previous races, wears the UCI Europe Tour cycling jersey. Giovanni Visconti of Italy was the defending champion of the 2010–11 UCI Europe Tour. John Degenkolb John Degenkolb (born 7 January 1989) is a German professional road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . His biggest wins to date are the 2015 Milan–San Remo and the 2015 Paris–Roubaix, two of cycling's five monuments. He is ... of Germany was crowned as the 2012 UCI Europe Tour. Throughout the season, points are awarded to the top finishers of stages within stage races and the final general classification standings of each of the stages races and one-day events. The quality and complexity of a race also determines how many points ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesco Gavazzi
Francesco Gavazzi (born 1 August 1984) is an Italian professional road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam . Career Gavazzi was born in Morbegno. In 2012, Gavazzi participated in the Tour of Beijing and won its queen stage leading to the Great Wall of China. To add to the difficulty of the day, the air quality was deemed as "severely polluted" by the local authorities. Gavazzi closed down an attack by 's Edvald Boasson Hagen and grabbed the victory. His consistent placings in the other stages netted him the second spot in the overall classification behind Tony Martin (). However the win in Beijing was Gavazzi's sole victory during three years at Astana, and in November 2014 it was announced that had signed a one-year deal with for the 2015 season. Major results ;2004 : 10th Trofeo Alcide Degasperi ;2005 : 6th Trofeo Banca Popolare di Vicenza ;2006 : 1st Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships : 1st Overall Giro della Toscana : 1st Trofeo Unidelta : ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Petr Ignatenko
Petr Ignatenko (born 27 September 1987) is a Russian professional road racing cyclist. Doping In June 2015, Petr Ignatenko tested positive for human growth hormone (hGH) in an out-of-competition test on 8 April 2015. This is only the second hGH positive since Patrick Sinkewitz returned an adverse analytical finding for the substance. This represented Rusvelo's fifth positive in less than two years, Ignatenko was subsequently fired by the team. Palmarès ;2008 :2nd Overall Way to Peking ;2010 :1st Overall Giro della Valle d'Aosta ::1st Stage 3 :1st Stage 7 Tour of Bulgaria ;2012 :Tour de Romandie ::1st Sprints classification ::1st Mountains classification : 9th Overall Tour of Austria ;2013 : 6th Overall Tour of Austria ;2014 : 5th Overall Tour de Langkawi Grand Tour general classification results timeline See also *List of doping cases in cycling The following is an incomplete list of doping cases and recurring accusations of doping in professional cycling, where dopi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Rohregger
Thomas Rohregger (born 23 December 1982) is an Austrian former professional road bicycle racer, who competed as a professional between 2005 and 2013. Over his career, Rohregger competed for , and . Rohregger retired at the end of the 2013 season, after nine years as a professional. In retirement, Rohregger was involved in the course design for the 2018 UCI Road World Championships around Innsbruck. Major results ;2006 :1st Mountains classification Tour de Luxembourg (2.HC) :2nd National Time Trial Championships :4th National Road Race Championships :4th Overall Tour of Austria (2.HC) ::1st Mountains classification ;2007 : 2nd Overall Tour of Austria (2.HC) ::1st Stage 3 : 3rd National Road Race Championships : 4th Overall Giro del Trentino (2.1) : 6th Rund um den Henninger (1.HC) ;2008 : 1st Overall Tour of Austria : 7th Overall Tour du Luxembourg ;2010 : 1st Mountains classification Tour Down Under ;2011 : 4th Overall Tour of Austria : 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Vuelta a España ;2012 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Kitzbüheler Horn
The Kitzbüheler Horn (also spelt Kitzbühler Horn) is a mountain in the Kitzbühel Alps in Tyrol, Austria, whose western flank lies near the smart ski resort of Kitzbühel. With a height of it only just misses being a 'two-thousander'. At the summit is a 102 metre high TV tower belonging to the ORF and known as the Kitzbüheler Horn Transmission Tower (''Sendeturm Kitzbüheler Horn''). The ''Harschbichl'' (1,604 m) is a sub-peak to the north which is also accessible. Tourism The mountain has several cable cars and gondola lifts and there is a panoramic toll road from Kitzbühel. There are also several mountain inns on its slopes. The so-called ''Alpenhaus'' (,''Alpenhaus'' at www.alpenhaus.at. Austrian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jersey White
Jersey ( , ; nrf, Jèrri, label=Jèrriais ), officially the Bailiwick of Jersey (french: Bailliage de Jersey, links=no; Jèrriais: ), is an island country and self-governing Crown Dependency near the coast of north-west France. It is the largest of the Channel Islands and is from the Cotentin Peninsula in Normandy. The Bailiwick consists of the main island of Jersey and some surrounding uninhabited islands and rocks including Les Dirouilles, Les Écréhous, Les Minquiers, and Les Pierres de Lecq. Jersey was part of the Duchy of Normandy, whose dukes became kings of England from 1066. After Normandy was lost by the kings of England in the 13th century, and the ducal title surrendered to France, Jersey remained loyal to the English Crown, though it never became part of the Kingdom of England. Jersey is a self-governing parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy, with its own financial, legal and judicial systems, and the power of self-determination. The island ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jersey Red
Jersey ( , ; nrf, Jèrri, label= Jèrriais ), officially the Bailiwick of Jersey (french: Bailliage de Jersey, links=no; Jèrriais: ), is an island country and self-governing Crown Dependency near the coast of north-west France. It is the largest of the Channel Islands and is from the Cotentin Peninsula in Normandy. The Bailiwick consists of the main island of Jersey and some surrounding uninhabited islands and rocks including Les Dirouilles, Les Écréhous, Les Minquiers, and Les Pierres de Lecq. Jersey was part of the Duchy of Normandy, whose dukes became kings of England from 1066. After Normandy was lost by the kings of England in the 13th century, and the ducal title surrendered to France, Jersey remained loyal to the English Crown, though it never became part of the Kingdom of England. Jersey is a self-governing parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy, with its own financial, legal and judicial systems, and the power of self-determination. The isl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jersey Yellow
Jersey ( , ; nrf, Jèrri, label= Jèrriais ), officially the Bailiwick of Jersey (french: Bailliage de Jersey, links=no; Jèrriais: ), is an island country and self-governing Crown Dependency near the coast of north-west France. It is the largest of the Channel Islands and is from the Cotentin Peninsula in Normandy. The Bailiwick consists of the main island of Jersey and some surrounding uninhabited islands and rocks including Les Dirouilles, Les Écréhous, Les Minquiers, and Les Pierres de Lecq. Jersey was part of the Duchy of Normandy, whose dukes became kings of England from 1066. After Normandy was lost by the kings of England in the 13th century, and the ducal title surrendered to France, Jersey remained loyal to the English Crown, though it never became part of the Kingdom of England. Jersey is a self-governing parliamentary democracy under a constitutional monarchy, with its own financial, legal and judicial systems, and the power of self-determination. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marco Bandiera
Marco Bandiera (born 12 June 1984) is an Italian former road bicycle racer, who competed professionally between 2008 and 2016 for the , , , and squads. Major results ;2004 : 3rd GP Kranj ;2005 : 2nd Trofeo Alcide Degasperi : 2nd Gran Premio di Poggiana : 5th Trofeo Gianfranco Bianchin ;2006 : 1st Trofeo Zsšdi : 1st GP Capodarco : 2nd Giro del Casentino : 4th Trofeo Franco Balestra : 9th Giro del Belvedere : 9th Trofeo Città di Brescia ;2007 : Giro del Veneto (U23) ::1st Stages 1 & 3 : 1st Stage 1 Giro della Valle d'Aosta ;2008 : 9th Giro del Piemonte ;2009 : 9th Vattenfall Cyclassics ;2012 : 1st Mountains classification Tour of Turkey ;2013 : 6th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, previously Omloop Het Volk, is a one-day road cycling race in Belgium, held annually in late February. It is the opening event of the Belgian cycling season, as well as the first race of the year in Northwestern Europe, and ... ;2014 : 1st Sprints classification Giro d'Italia ;2015 : ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nico Sijmens
Nico Sijmens (born 1 April 1978 in Diest, Belgium) is a retired Belgian road racing cyclist, who competed professionally between 2001 and 2014. Sijmens rodes for the , , and teams over his career. Career achievements Major results ;2002 : 4th Overall Vuelta a La Rioja : 5th Le Samyn ;2003 : Tour of Austria ::1st Stages 4 & 6 : 9th Clásica de Almería : 10th Classic Loire Atlantique ;2004 : 1st Grand Prix Pino Cerami : 3rd Brabantse Pijl : 3rd Grand Prix de Denain : 8th Rund um Köln : 9th Grand Prix de Wallonie ;2005 : 1st Overall Regio-Tour ::1st Stage 2 : 1st Hel van het Mergelland : 2nd Brussel–Ingooigem : 6th Grote Prijs Jef Scherens : 9th Overall Tour de Wallonie ;2006 : 2nd Overall Tour de Wallonie ::1st Stage 3 : 6th Tour du Doubs : 8th Overall Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen : 8th Grote Prijs Jef Scherens : 10th Hel van het Mergelland : 10th Le Samyn ;2007 : 1st Beverbeek Classic : 1st Hel van het Mergelland : 7th Tour de la Somme : 9th Grand Prix de Wallonie ;2008 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Danilo Wyss
Danilo Wyss (born 26 August 1985) is a Swiss former road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2008 and 2020 for the and . He is no relation to fellow Swiss cyclist Daniel Wyss who won the Race Across America in 2006 and 2009. Career He competed in twelve Grand Tours during his career, finishing each one, including the Giro d'Italia for five successive years between 2010 and 2014. He won the Swiss National Road Race Championships in 2015. He was named in the start list for the 2015 Tour de France. Major results ;2003 : 2nd Road race, National Junior Road Championships ;2006 : 10th Road race, UCI Under-23 Road World Championships ;2007 : 1st Stage 3 Les 3 Jours de Vaucluse : 2nd Grand Prix de Waregem : 3rd Paris–Roubaix Espoirs : 5th Road race, UCI Under-23 Road World Championships : 9th GP Herning ;2008 : 6th Grand Prix Pino Cerami ;2009 : 1st Stage 1 Tour de Beauce ;2010 : 9th Nokere Koerse ;2012 : 1st Stage 1 ( TTT) Giro del Trentino ;2013 : 7th Grand P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
