2007 in men's road cycling is about the 2007 men's bicycle races governed by the UCI.

News

January

*1 – Gordon McCauley wins the first race of 2007, which is the first stage of the 2007 Tour de Vineyards. He finishes in front of a leading group existing of three riders with the others being Clinton Robert Avery and

Heath Blackgrove Heath Blackgrove (born 5 December 1980 in Oamaru) is a New Zealand former professional racing cyclist, who currently works as a directeur sportif for UCI Continental team . Major results ;1999 : 1st Time trial, National Under-23 Road Champio ...

nzherald.co.nz
*1 – Shane Vasquez of Belize wins KREM New Years' Day Cycling Classic 2007 in his home country
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*2 –

Ivan Basso Ivan Basso (born 26 November 1977) is an Italian former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 1999 and 2015 for seven different teams. Basso, nicknamed Ivan the Terrible, was considered among the best mountain riders in ...

receives the 40th Premio Sport Award, which is awarded by Enrico Morelli. Other nominees were

Alfredo Martini Alfredo Martini (18 February 1921 – 25 August 2014) was an Italian cyclist and coach from Sesto Fiorentino, north of Florence. Professional from 1941 to 1957, he won a stage in the 1950 Giro d'Italia and was later the coach of the Italia ...

Franco Ballerini Franco Ballerini (11 December 1964 – 7 February 2010) was an Italian road racing cyclist. Born in Florence, his greatest exploits as a rider came with his two victories in the cycling classic Paris–Roubaix, riding for the Mapei cyclin ...

Alessandro Petacchi Alessandro Petacchi (born 3 January 1974) is an Italian former professional road racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 1996 and 2015. A specialist Cycling sprinter, sprinter, Petacchi has won 48 Grand Tour (cycling), grand tour stages ...

Francesco Chicchi Francesco Chicchi (born 27 November 1980 in Camaiore) is an Italian retired professional road bicycle racer, who competed as a professional between 2003 and 2016 for the , , , and squads. Major results ;2002 : 1st Road race, UCI Under-23 ...

Michele Bartoli Michele Bartoli (born 27 May 1970, in Pisa) is a retired Italian road racing cyclist. Bartoli was a professional from 1992 until 2004 and was one of the most successful single-day classics specialists of his generation, especially in the Italia ...

and Andrea Tafi
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*2 – With his win in the second stage of the 2007 Tour de Vineyards Gordon McCauley wins his second consecutive race of 2007 and remains the only rider to win a professional road cycling race for the year
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*3 – Due to troubles in organizing the 2007

ENECO Tour The Benelux Tour (previously known as the Eneco Tour and the BinckBank Tour) is a road bicycle racing stage-race that is part of the UCI World Tour. The race was established in 2005 and was originally known as the Eneco Tour, named after the orig ...

the race through the Netherlands and Belgium might be cancelled later in the season as directors Rob Discart and Henk van Mulukom are fighting about the planned sacking of Van Mulukom
shimano-benelux.nl
*4 –

wins two stages in a row to claim the overall win in the 2007 Tour de Vineyards
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*6 – Brazilian Nilceu Santos wins the

Copa América de Ciclismo The Copa América de Ciclismo is a single-day road bicycle racing event held in Brazil. From 2001 to 2007 and in 2009 it took place at Autódromo José Carlos Pace, in São Paulo. The 2008 edition was held in a street circuit around Flamengo Pa ...

in his home country
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*7 –

Walter Bénéteau Walter Bénéteau (28 July 1972 – 10 December 2022) was a French professional cyclist. He raced in every Tour de France from 2000 until 2006. Career Stage 1 of the 2006 Tour de France started with a seven-man break-away with Bénéteau being ...

ends his career after seven years of professional cycling, finishing his career with a total of three wins
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*9 – Italian riders Nicolas Loda and

Marco Milesi Marco Milesi (born 30 January 1970) is a former Italian racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 1994 and 2006. Before that, he finished in second place in the Girobio in 1993. He started six times in a grand Tour (three times in the Tour ...

both end their career
cyclingpost.com
*10 –

Rabobank Rabobank (; full name: ''Coöperatieve Rabobank U.A.'') is a Dutch multinational banking and financial services company headquartered in Utrecht, Netherlands. The group comprises 89 local Dutch Rabobanks (2019), a central organisation (Raboban ...

announces to remain the team's main sponsor until at least 2012
rabobank.com
*12 –

Nathan O'Neill Nathan O'Neill (born 23 November 1974) is an Australian former professional road bicycle racing, road racing cyclist. During his career, O'Neill became an eight-time winner of the Australian National Time Trial Championships and an Olympian in ...

clinches the Australian time trial championship title by finishing one minute and eleven seconds in front of second placed Rory Sutherland
theaustralian.news.com.au
*11 – Unless signing doping accused

the team of

Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team U.S. Postal Service Pro Cycling Team was a United States-based professional road bicycle racing team. On June 15, 2004, the Discovery Channel signed a deal to become sponsor of the team for the 2004–2007 seasons and its name changed to Disc ...

remains part of the Pro Tour. They were risking to be rejected for the 2007 season
usatoday.com
*12 – Pro Tour team

Unibet.com Cycling Team Cycle Collstrop () was a Swedish UCI Professional Continental cycling team. It was the successor to Unibet.com, which was mainly sponsored by the online gambling website Unibet.com and as a continuation of the MrBookmaker.com cycling team. The ...

is rejected to participate in Paris–Nice by the organisers. Instead of them continental team

Agritubel Agritubel Pro Cycling Team () was a French professional road race cycling team. The team's title sponsorAgritubel is a manufacturer and supplier of tubular metal products for cattle, livestock and farming. Agritubel mostly competed for wins at t ...

is selected. The organisation behind the race is known to have troubles with the UCI and their Pro Tour system
cyclingpost.com
*14 –

Darren Lapthorne Darren Lapthorne (born 4 March 1983) is an Australian former professional racing cyclist. Career Born in Melbourne, Lapthorne began his career in 2006 with the Australian Professional Team . In his first year, he won the road race of the Tea ...

becomes Australian national road race champion after he finished 15 seconds ahead of a group riders led by Robert McLachlan
cyclingpost.com
*15 – Former world champion

Mario Cipollini Mario Cipollini (; born 22 March 1967), often abbreviated to "Cipo", is a retired Italian professional road cyclist most noted for his sprinting ability, the longevity of his dominance (his first pro win came in 1988, his last in 2005; 170 p ...

will be taken to court or has to pay 1.5 million

Euro The euro ( symbol: €; code: EUR) is the official currency of 19 out of the member states of the European Union (EU). This group of states is known as the eurozone or, officially, the euro area, and includes about 340 million citizens . ...

's in a pending fraud case
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*18 –

Le Monde ''Le Monde'' (; ) is a French daily afternoon newspaper. It is the main publication of Le Monde Group and reported an average circulation of 323,039 copies per issue in 2009, about 40,000 of which were sold abroad. It has had its own website si ...

reports that

Óscar Pereiro Óscar Pereiro Sío (; born 3 August 1977) is a Spanish former professional road bicycle racer. Pereiro was declared the winner of the 2006 Tour de France, after the original winner Floyd Landis was disqualified for failing a doping test afte ...

, second in the

Tour de France 2006 The 2006 Tour de France was the 93rd edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tours. It took place between the 1st and the 23rd of July. It was won by Óscar Pereiro following the disqualification of Floyd Landis. Due to the Unite ...

behind doping affected Floyd Landis also tested positive during the Tour. The substance found in his body, salbutamol is commonly used to cure asthma, and is allowed to be used in cycle racing if the cyclist can provide a medical prescription for the substance. It is alleged that the

Union Cycliste Internationale The ''Union Cycliste Internationale'' (UCI; ; en, International Cycling Union) is the world governing body for sports cycling and oversees international competitive cycling events. The UCI is based in Aigle, Switzerland. The UCI issues raci ...

gave Pereiro retroactive permission to use the substance on medical grounds after the positive tests. The French anti-doping agency questions the veracity of the medical grounds
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*19 – Baden Cooke wins the third stage in the 2007 Tour Down Under and celebrates the first victory of the

as a member of the Pro Tour
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*19 –

claims he is innocent and claims his use of salbutamol was legal. He said he has sent the correct documentation to the French doping agency to prove his words
dewielersite.net
*19 – In the

Cofidis Cofidis is a French company, now majority owned by Crédit Mutuel, based in Villeneuve-d'Ascq. Founded in 1982 by 3 Suisses International in cooperation with Cetelem, Cofidis specialized in the consumer credit business of the 3 Suisses Group. I ...

doping case from 2004 seven people face punishments to a maximum of one year detention. Cyclists

David Millar David Millar (born 4 January 1977) is a Scottish retired professional road racing cyclist. He rode for Cofidis from 1997 to 2004 and Garmin-Sharp from 2008 to 2014. He has won four stages of the Tour de France, five of the Vuelta a España an ...

and

Massimiliano Lelli Massimiliano Lelli (born 2 December 1967) is a former Italian professional cyclist. He most known for winning the Young rider Classification in the 1991 Giro d'Italia. His highest finishing in the Giro d'Italia was the year he won the Young rid ...

were not punished
guardian.co.uk
*23 –

Johan Museeuw Johan Museeuw (born 13 October 1965) is a retired Belgian professional road racing cyclist who was a professional from 1988 until 2004. Nicknamed ''The Lion of Flanders'', he was particularly successful in the cobbled classics of Flanders and ...

reveals that he has used doping during the last years of his career.

Patrick Lefevere Patrick Lefevere (born 6 January 1955) is a Belgian former professional cyclist, who currently serves as the general manager of UCI WorldTeam . According to the ranking site ''Cycling Ranking'' he is the most successful cycling manager in histo ...

is blamed to be stimulating cyclists to use doping. The UCI announces that the last speculations against

were based on nothing. According to the UCI Pereiro did not use doping
dewielersite.net
*26 –

strikes back and takes the newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws to court after their recent doping stories about the

Quick Step-Innergetic Soudal–Quick-Step () is a Belgian UCI WorldTeam cycling team led by team manager Patrick Lefevere. The directeurs sportifs are Davide Bramati, Iljo Keisse, Klaas Lodewyck, Wilfried Peeters, Tom Steels and Geert Van Bondt. The team is nick ...

manager
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*26 – The 2011 road cycling world championships will be held in

Copenhagen Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...

according to a UCI official in

Hooglede Hooglede (; vls, Ooglee) is a municipality located in the Belgian province of West Flanders. The municipality comprises the towns of and Hooglede proper. On January 1, 2006, Hooglede had a total population of 9,831. The total area is 37.84 k ...

, Belgium
telesport.nl
*27 – The 2007

Tour of Murcia The Vuelta Ciclista a Murcia ( en, Tour of Murcia) is a road bicycle race held in and around Murcia, Spain. The first four editions were reserved to amateurs. Originally the race was held in early March and consisted of five stages. However, due ...

originally scheduled from 7 to 11 March is cancelled and will not take place in 2007
telesport.nl
*29 – Tony Houbrechts a former helper of

Felice Gimondi Felice Gimondi (; 29 September 1942 – 16 August 2019) was an Italian professional racing cyclist. With his 1968 victory at the Vuelta a España, only three years after becoming a professional cyclist, Gimondi, nicknamed "The Phoenix", was the ...

is arrested and set to jail as he is suspected to have set up a drugs laboratorium
telesport.nl

News

January

Pro Tour

Continental Tours

UCI Africa Tour

UCI America Tour

UCI Asia Tour

UCI Europe Tour

UCI Oceania Tour

USA Cycling Professional Tour

Other multiple stage road races

Other single day road races

Other single day time trials

National championships

See also