2001 Tour Of The Basque Country
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2001 Tour Of The Basque Country
The 2001 Tour of the Basque Country was the 41st edition of the Tour of the Basque Country cycle race and was held from 9 April to 13 April 2001. The race started in Asteasu and finished at Lasarte-Oria. The race was won by Raimondas Rumšas of the Fassa Bortolo team. General classification References 2001 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 ...
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Raimondas Rumšas
Raimondas Rumšas (born 14 January 1972) is a Lithuanian former professional road bicycle racer. He came third in the 2002 Tour de France but was implicated in a doping scandal. Doping On the day of Rumšas' third-place finish in the 2002 Tour de France, police discovered corticoids, erythropoietin, testosterone, growth hormones and anabolic steroids in the car of his wife, Edita Rumšienė. She was jailed for several months before being released, despite her claim that the drugs were for her mother-in-law. In May 2003 Rumšas tested positive for the banned endurance enhancer erythropoietin (EPO). He had just finished the 2003 Giro d'Italia, where he ranked sixth. Rumšas received a one-year ban. He briefly returned to cycling in 2004 with Acqua & Sapone team for the Gran Premio Città di Camaiore. In June 2005, Rumšas was arrested before his trial by the Bonneville court. In January 2006, he and his wife received four-month suspended prison sentences for the import of p ...
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David Etxebarria
David Etxebarria Alkorta (born 23 July 1973 in Abadiño, Basque Country) is a Spanish former professional road racing cyclist. Major results ;1996 : 1st Overall Tour de l'Avenir : 1st GP Llodio ;1998 : 1st Stage 2 Paris–Nice ;1999 : 1st Overall Euskal Bizikleta : Tour de France ::1st Stages 12 & 16 ;2001 : 1st Stage 3 Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana ;2002 : Tour of the Basque Country ::1st Stages 5a & 5b : 1st Stage 4a Euskal Bizikleta ;2003 : 1st Stage 1 Euskal Bizikleta ;2005 : 1st Klasika Primavera The Klasika Primavera ( en, Spring classic) is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in April in Amorebieta, Spain. Since 2005, the race is organised as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road ... Grand Tour general classification results timeline External links * *Official Tour de France results for David Etxebarria 1973 births Living people Cyclists from the Basque Country (autonomous community) Spanish ...
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Dario Frigo
Dario Frigo (born 18 September 1973) is an Italian former professional road bicycle racer. Career Frigo's transition to professional began at the 1995 Giro del Veneto, riding as a stagiaire for . In 1996, he was officially signed to Saeco on a four-year contract. In 1999, he obtained his first victory at the Dekra Open, in Germany. In 2000, he joined the Fassa Bortolo team and achieved success, winning the Giro di Campania, as well as a stage of the Giro del Trentino. He also finished second overall in the Tour de Suisse. More success came for him in early 2001, when he won the time trial at the Col d'Èze and the overall classification of Paris–Nice, as well as the general classification of the Tour de Romandie. He entered the 2001 Giro d'Italia, and was one of the favorites to win. In the prologue, he finished second to Rik Verbrugghe and after the fourth stage, he took the race lead, which he held for nine days, until losing it to Gilberto Simoni on the 13th stage. The ...
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Alex Zülle
Alex Zülle (born 5 July 1968) is a Swiss former professional road bicycle racer. During the 1990s he was one of the most successful cyclists in the world, winning the 1996 and 1997 Vuelta a España, taking second place in the 1995 and the 1999 Tour de France. He was world time-trial champion in Lugano in 1996. Biography Early career Zülle was born and brought up in Wil in the canton of St. Gallen, son of a Swiss father, Walter Zülle and Wilhelmine, from Brabant, Netherlands. As a child he wanted to be a skier but at 18 he was injured in an accident. He began cycling in the Netherlands for rehabilitation before giving up because it was too windy. His father, having bought cycling equipment, persuaded him to give cycling another go when they returned to Switzerland. After several years as a successful amateur, Zülle turned professional in 1991. He approached the former sporting director of the Swiss team, Helvetia, Paul Köchli, but Köchli signed Laurent Dufaux instea ...
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José Azevedo
José Bento Azevedo Carvalho (born 19 September 1973) is a Portuguese retired road racing cyclist, and most recently, general manager of UCI WorldTeam . During his racing career, Azevedo rode for between 2001 and 2003 and for between 2004 and 2006. Career Born in Vila do Conde, Azevedo's principal career successes were fifth overall at the 2001 Giro d'Italia, sixth overall at the 2002 Tour de France and fifth overall at the 2004 Tour de France. He also made a second place in the Germany Tour, just behind Michael Rogers. He won the queen-stage of the German competition. Until 2005 he was a renowned domestique; his primary role was to serve as Lance Armstrong's lieutenant in mountain stages, specifically stages in the Pyrenees Mountains. Lance Armstrong described him as the best lieutenant he has ever had. Nicknamed "The Ace", he moved to US Postal (which became the now-defunct Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team) from Team ONCE (also defunct) in 2004. In 2006 Azevedo wore th ...
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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 ...
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Francesco Casagrande
Francesco Casagrande (born 14 September 1970 in Florence) is an Italian former professional road racing cyclist. Casagrande was a professional cyclist between 1992 and 2005. Biography He was a proven performer in the Grand Tours and the major one-day races. He wore the leader's jersey into the penultimate stage of the 2000 Giro d'Italia, but faltered badly and wound up 2nd to fellow Italian Stefano Garzelli. Casagrande did, however, win the mountains classification, wearing the corresponding green jersey on the podium. In major one-day races, he has won the Clásica de San Sebastián in 1998 and 1999, followed by the 2000 editions of the La Flèche Wallonne and Subida a Urkiola. Also in 1999, he placed 4th in the World Cycling Championships Road Race behind Óscar Freire, Markus Zberg, and Jean-Cyril Robin. In his early career, Casagrande won the 1996 Tirreno–Adriatico and Tour of the Basque Country — both one-week stage races. In 1998, Casagrande tested positive fo ...
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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 ...
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Fassa Bortolo
Fassa Bortolo (2000–2005) was a professional road bicycle racing team founded in 2000 and led by Giancarlo Ferretti. Dubbed the 'Silver Team', it managed to be one of the most successful teams of the era, not in the least due to top sprinter Alessandro Petacchi. In its six competitive years, Fassa Bortolo won over 200 races, including stages in all three Grand Tours. It was one of the inaugural 20 UCI ProTour teams in 2005. Fassa Bortolo stopped the sponsorship of the team after 2005. Efforts to find a new co-sponsor for 2006 proved unsuccessful. On October 14, 2005, a man claiming to represent proposed new sponsor Sony Ericsson turned out to be an imposter, leaving all staff and riders unemployed.Les Clarke"Ferretti falls flat; no Sony-Ericsson squad for 2006?" ''CyclingNews.com'', October 14, 2005 Petacchi and some of his helpers moved to the new Team Milram, a continuation of the Domina Vacanze Team. The other Fassa Bortolo riders all moved to different teams. Team 2005 ...
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José Alberto Martínez
José Alberto Martínez Trinidad (born September 10, 1975, in Urdiain, Navarre) is a Spanish former professional road cyclist. Career achievements Major results ;1999 : 2nd Overall Euskal Bizikleta : 3rd Overall Grand Prix du Midi Libre ::1st Stage 1 ;2000 : 1st Stage 1 Vuelta a Burgos : 2nd Overall G.P. Portugal Telecom : 3rd Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana : 3rd Overall Vuelta a Murcia ;2001 : 2nd Overall Critérium International : 2nd Overall Tour of the Basque Country ;2002 : 1st Overall Critérium International ;2005 : 1st Classic Loire Atlantique ;2006 : 1st Overall Bayern-Rundfahrt : 1st Stage 3 Critérium International The Critérium International was a two-day bicycle stage race held in France every spring from 1932 until 2016, typically the last weekend of March. It was formerly known as the Critérium National de la Route, first run in 1932. For many years ... Grand Tour general classification results timeline External links * Spanish male cyc ...
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Lasarte-Oria
Lasarte-Oria is a town located in the province of Gipuzkoa, in the Autonomous Community of Basque Country, northern Spain. It was founded in 1986. It is estimated to have a population of around 19.000 people inhabitants. References External links Official WebsiteInasa - Auñamendi Encyclopedia (Euskomedia Fundazioa)Information available in Spanish Spanish might refer to: * Items from or related to Spain: **Spaniards are a nation and ethnic group indigenous to Spain **Spanish language, spoken in Spain and many Latin American countries **Spanish cuisine Other places * Spanish, Ontario, Can ... Municipalities in Gipuzkoa {{Basque-geo-stub ...
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Asteasu
Asteasu () is a town located in the province of Gipuzkoa, in the autonomous community of Basque Country (autonomous community), Basque Country, in the north of Spain. References External links Official WebsiteInformation available in Spanish language, Spanish and Basque language, Basque. ASTEASU in the Bernardo Estornés Lasa - Auñamendi Encyclopedia (Euskomedia Fundazioa)
Information available in Spanish language, Spanish Municipalities in Gipuzkoa {{Basque-geo-stub ...
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