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2013 Vuelta A España, Stage 1 To Stage 11
The 2013 Vuelta a España began on 24 August, and stage 11 occurred on 4 September. The 2013 edition began with a team time trial stage – where each member of a team started together racing against the clock – in Vilanova de Arousa with the second stage unusually a mountain stage. The eleventh stage, after the first rest day, is the only individual time trial of the race. Stage 1 ;24 August 2013 — Vilanova de Arousa to Sanxenxo, , team time trial (TTT) For the fourth year in succession, the Vuelta began with a team time trial. Stage 2 ;25 August 2013 — Pontevedra to Baiona– Alto do Monte da Groba, Stage 3 ;26 August 2013 — Vigo to Mirador de Lobeira–Vilagarcía de Arousa, Stage 4 ;27 August 2013 — Lalín–A Estrada to Fisterra–Etapa Fin del Mundo, Stage 5 ;28 August 2013 — Sober to Lago de Sanabria, Stage 6 ;29 August 2013 — Guijuelo to Cáceres, Stage 7 ;30 August 2013 — Almendralejo to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2013 Vuelta A España
The 2013 Vuelta a España was the 68th edition of the race. Chris Horner won the 2013 Vuelta at the age of 41 on 15 September 2013, becoming the oldest ever Grand Tour winner. Horner beat his nearest challenger, Italian Vincenzo Nibali, by finishing ahead of him in each of the final three mountainous stages before the final stage into Madrid. This Vuelta started in Galicia on August 24, 2013. The race spent 5 days in Galicia, then continued anticlockwise touring Spain through Castile and León, Extremadura, Andalusia, Aragon, Catalonia, La Rioja, Cantabria, and Asturias, before returning to Madrid for the finish on September 15. The Vuelta included excursions into two neighboring countries, Andorra and France. The top three stage winners received the following bonuses in the general classification: 10 seconds for winners of the stages, six seconds for runners-up, and four seconds for those in third place. Teams The 19 UCI World Tour teams were automatically entitled to start ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jakob Fuglsang
Jakob Diemer Fuglsang (born 22 March 1985) is a Danish professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Before turning professional for , he was a mountain biker racing for Team Cannondale–Vredestein, winning the Under-23 World Cup and Under-23 World Championships. Fuglsang has finished 7th overall at the Tour de France and 6th at the Giro d'Italia, his best result at a Grand Tour. His best career results are his win in the 2019 Liège-Bastogne-Liège, the 2020 Il Lombardia and his overall wins in both the 2017 and 2019 editions of the Critérium du Dauphiné stage race, in the former of which he won two stages. He has also won several other stage races during his career including Danmark Rundt 3 times in a row from 2008 to 2010, Tour de Luxembourg and Tour of Austria in 2012, and Tour of Slovenia in 2009. Career Early years (2006–2008) For the 2006 season Fuglsang rode his first year as a professional mountain biker for Cannondale-Vredestein. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leopold König
Leopold König (born 15 November 1987) is a Czech former professional road cyclist, who rode professionally between 2006 and 2019 for the , , and teams. Since retiring, he has acted as the race director for the Czech Cycling Tour and the Course de la Paix U23 – Grand Prix Jeseníky. Career Early career Born in the small Czech town of Moravská Třebová, east of Prague, König as a child played ice hockey, using his bike solely for fitness until he started road racing at the age of 14. Team NetApp (2011–2014) König was a stage winner in Caerphilly in September 2012 at the Tour of Britain and in May 2013, he won the queen stage of the Tour of California finishing atop Mount Diablo. König detached himself from a small group in the final kilometers and caught Janier Acevedo, dropping him with only to go. However both these wins were eclipsed in August 2013 when he claimed his team's maiden Grand Tour victory by winning a mountain stage to Alto Peñas Blancas in the V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Domenico Pozzovivo
Domenico Pozzovivo (born 30 November 1982) is an Italian professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . His very small stature confer him with the qualities of a pure climbing specialist. He is most known for a victory in stage 8 of the 2012 Giro d'Italia, an overall victory in the 2012 Giro del Trentino, and is notable for his educational attainments. Personal life Pozzovivo has a degree in economics and wrote a thesis entitled "Southern politics from the unity of Italy up to the present day". His educational attainments have earned him the nickname "Dr. Pozzovivo" in the peloton. He stated that his fields of interest outside cycling are history, technology, economics, politics and weather forecasts. He also speaks French fluently and stated that a jump into politics would interest him after his cycling career. Career In 2008, Pozzovivo finished on the third step of the podium of the Giro del Trentino, which had a race categorization of 2.1. The f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Moreno
Daniel Moreno Fernández (born 5 September 1981) is a Spanish former professional road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2005 and 2018 for the , , , and teams. He specialised in mountain and high-mountain races along with Grand Tours like the Giro d'Italia and Vuelta a España, winning three stages of the latter in 2011 and 2013. Career Amateur career In 2003, Moreno was a member of the Alcosto–Fuenlabrada team, and he won the Volta a Portugal do Futuro. From September 2004, Moreno rode as a stagiaire with . At his very first race, the annual Tour of Britain, he achieved a prominent result by finishing 5th in the general classification. Relax–Fuenlabrada (2005–07) In 2005, he remained full-time with . He advanced further by ranking 2nd at the Clásica de Ordizia and the Vuelta a Andalucía. In 2006, he achieved his first victories by taking stage wins at the Clásica Internacional de Alcobendas and the Volta ao Alentejo. He supplemented his triumphs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicolas Roche
Nicolas Roche (; born 3 July 1984) is an Ireland, Irish former professional Road bicycle racing, road bicycle racer who last rode for UCI WorldTeam . He has twice been national champion and has twice finished in the top ten of the Vuelta a España, and won stages in 2013 Vuelta a España, 2013 and 2015 Vuelta a España, 2015. He started a total of 24 Grand Tour (cycling), Grand Tours, finishing 22, and he took a total of 65 top 10 finishes in Grand Tour stages, including 43 on the Vuelta. He represented Ireland at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's individual road race, road race. He has competed for Ireland 7 times at the UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race, road world championships. Early life Roche, who was born in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, in suburban Paris, is the son of former cycling champion Stephen Roche and his former wife, Lydia, nephew of former cycling professionals Laurence Roche and Neil Martin (cycl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baiona, Pontevedra
Baiona is a town and municipality in the province of Pontevedra, autonomous community of Galicia, Spain. It's a tourist town with a medieval historical center situated by the outlet of the Vigo Bay. Its population of just over 11,000 rises to around 45,000 in the summer, if one includes tourists. Since it is on the Portuguese Way path of the Camino de Santiago 30,000 hikers also visit every year. Other than tourism the major economic activities revolve around fishing. History It was founded in 140 BC by Diomedes of Aetolia. Throughout its history it has had several names including Stuciana, Abóriga, Balcagia, and Erizana. In 1201 King Alfonso IX of Leon granted the town a royal charter. In 1370, King Ferdinand I of Portugal, who was proclaimed King of Castile took up residence in the town and established his seat there until being forced to return to Portugal. In 1474, the Baiona was seized by Don Pedro Alvarez de Soutomaior, also known as Pedro Madruga, Count of Caminha. On ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pontevedra
Pontevedra (, ) is a Spanish city in the north-west of the Iberian Peninsula. It is the capital of both the ''Comarca'' (County) and Province of Pontevedra, and of the Rías Baixas in Galicia. It is also the capital of its own municipality which is often considered an extension of the actual city. The city is best known for its urban planning, pedestrianisation and the charm of its old town. In recent years, it has been awarded several international awards for its urban quality and quality of life, accessibility and urban mobility policy, like the international European Intermodes Urban Mobility Award in 2013, the 2014 Dubai International Best Practices Award for Sustainable Development awarded by UN-Habitat in partnership with Dubai Municipality and the Excellence Award of the center for Active Design in New York City in 2015, among others. The city also won the European Commission's first prize for urban safety in 2020. Pontevedra's car-free center helped transform it into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Kišerlovski
Robert Kišerlovski (born 9 August 1986) is a Croatian former professional road bicycle racer, who competed professionally between 2005 and 2018 for the , , , , , , and squads. Career At the 2011 Paris–Nice, Kišerlovski crashed on a slippery downhill and slid underneath a parked truck, being caught underneath it for several minutes and needing eight stitches. On Stage 14 of the 2012 Tour de France Kišerlovski came off the worst when the road was sabotaged with tacks. Kišerlovski crashed, breaking his collarbone, and was left having to abandon the race. The injury forced him to miss the Summer Olympics in London. Kišerlovski left at the end of the 2012 season, and joined on a two-year contract from the 2013 season onwards. In September 2014 it was announced that he would be joining at the start of 2015 on a two-year contract with a view to riding as a domestique for riders such as Alberto Contador. He is the brother of fellow racing cyclist Emanuel Kišerlovski. Ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Markel Irizar
Markel Irizar Aranburu (born 5 February 1980) is a Spanish former professional road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2004 and 2019 for the , and teams. Born in Oñati, Basque Country (autonomous community), Basque Country, Irizar currently resides in Arrasate, Basque Country (autonomous community), Basque Country, Spain. Irizar was diagnosed and treated for testicular cancer in 2002. In February 2019, Irizar announced his plans to retire from the peloton after the 2019 Clásica de San Sebastián, in early August. Major results ;2010 : 5th Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes ::1st Stage 4 : 5th Chrono des Nations ;2011 : 1st Overall 2011 Vuelta a Andalucía, Vuelta a Andalucía : 10th Chrono des Nations ;2012 : 9th Overall 2012 Three Days of De Panne, Three Days of De Panne ;2017 : Combativity award Stage 2 2017 Vuelta a España, Vuelta a España Grand Tour general classification results timeline References External links * * Markel Irizar: Cyclin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haimar Zubeldia
Haimar Zubeldia Agirre (born 1 April 1977) is a Spanish former road racing cyclist from the Basque Country, who competed professionally between 1998 and 2017 for the , , and teams. During his career, Zubeldia recorded five top-ten finishes in the Tour de France, and one in the Vuelta a España. Biography Born and raised in Usurbil, Gipuzkoa, Zubeldia currently resides in the neighboring village of Zarautz. His younger brother Joseba Zubeldia also competed as a professional racing cyclist. At the age of twenty-one, Zubeldia turned professional with in 1998. In 2000, he won the Euskal Bizikleta, and finished second overall in the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré. After his win in 2000 in the Euskal Bizikleta, it took him ten years to win again, when he won the Tour de l'Ain. In 2014, Zubeldia became the Spanish rider with the most starts in the Tour de France, a record previously held by two long-term-servants of what is now the , 5-time-winner Miguel Indurain, and José Vi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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