Antonio Colóm Mas (born 11 May 1978) is a Spanish professional road bicycle racer from

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. He is a specialist in short stage races, having won the

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 ofte ...

in 2006, the

Vuelta a Mallorca The Challenge Vuelta Ciclista a Mallorca ( en, Tour of Majorca, ca, Challenge Volta Ciclista a Mallorca) is a series of four (five until 2012) professional one day road bicycle races held on the Spanish island of Mallorca in late January or earl ...

in 2004 and the

Vuelta a Andalucía The Vuelta a Andalucía (Tour of Andalusia) or Ruta del Sol (Route of the Sun) is a regional Spanish road bicycle race first held in 1925. Since 2005, it has been a 2.1 category race on the UCI Europe Tour. The race became a part of the new UCI ...

in 2002.

Career

Colóm began his career at Costa de Almería in 1999 and stayed there for three seasons, in which time he built a growing reputation as a climber, winning the mountains classification of the

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in 2001. In 2002, Colóm moved to

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, and it was here that he had an early breakthrough in winning the

. Colóm moved to the division one team Illes Balears-Banesto in 2004 and once again saw early success, winning the

. A second placing in the

rounded out a successful season. In 2005, Colóm once again saw success in Mallorca, winning the Trofeo Calvia. In 2006, Colóm reversed his 2004 results: placing second overall in the Vuelta a Mallorca and winning the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana. In 2007, Colom moved to

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, and once again showed well in Mallorca, winning the Trofeo Sóller. His 2008 campaign was poor, but got back to winning ways at the start of the 2009 season as he took one stage and the overall win in his "home race" with his new

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outfit. On 9 June 2009 it was announced that he had been provisionally suspended from racing following a positive drug test. On 27 May 2010 the Spanish Cycling Federation suspended him for 2 years, effective 2 April 2009, declaring his results in the 2009 Vuelta al País Vasco void, but making him eligible to return to cycling on 2 April 2011. In July 2014, Colom, competing as an amateur, won the 35-39 male age group at Ironman Frankfurt qualifying himself to compete at the 2014 Ironman World Championship in Hawai'i.

Major results

;1999 - Amica Chips-Costa de Almería ;2000 - Costa de Almería ;2001 - Jazztel-Costa de Almería :

- Mountain competition winner ;2002 - Relax-Fuenlabrada :

;2003 - Colchon Relax-Fuenlabrada ;2004 - :

- overall winner :

::2nd overall ::Combination competition - winner ::Stage 1 - winner ;2005 - : Trofeo Calvia ;2006 - :

::Overall winner ::Stage 4 winner :

- 2nd ;2007 - Astana : Trofeo Sóller : Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré :: Stage 5 winner ;2009 - Team Katusha :

: Trofeo Sóller :Stage 3,

Volta ao Algarve The Volta ao Algarve (Portuguese; en, Tour of the Algarve) is a road bicycle racing stage race held annually in the Algarve, Portugal. Since 2017, it has been organised as a 2.HC event on the UCI Europe Tour. The race became part of the new UCI ...

:Stage 8, Paris–Nice :2nd,
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References

External links

Unofficial Site
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