Luis Felipe Laverde Jimenez (born 6 July 1979 in

Urrao Urrao is a town and municipality of Colombia, located in the subregion southwest of the department of Antioquia. Limited by the north with the municipalities of Frontino and Abriaquí, in the east with the municipalities of Abriaquí, Caic ...

) is

Colombia Colombia (, ; ), officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country in South America with insular regions in North America—near Nicaragua's Caribbean coast—as well as in the Pacific Ocean. The Colombian mainland is bordered by the Car ...

n professional

road bicycle racer Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and spectators. The two most common ...

for , having left the team. His best results are two stage victories in the Giro d'Italia, in

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and

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Palmarès

;2001 : Pan American Champion U23 ;2003 : Stage 4, Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda ;2006 : Stage 14, Giro d'Italia ;2007 : Stage 6, Giro d'Italia :

Gran Premio Nobili Rubinetterie The Gran Premio Nobili Rubinetterie was a single-day road bicycle race held annually in Arona (NO), Arona, Italy between 1997 and 2015. It was held primarily as a UCI race classifications, 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. In 2010 the GP was split ...

;2011 : 3rd,

Giro dell'Appennino The Giro dell'Appennino is a semi classic European bicycle race held in the Apennine Mountains, Italy. Since 2005, the race has been organised as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. Famous riders like Fausto Coppi, Francesco Moser, Felice Gimond ...

;2013 : 6th Overall,

Vuelta a Colombia The Vuelta a Colombia (Spanish for ''Tour of Colombia'') is an annual cycling road race, run over many stages throughout different regions in Colombia and sometimes Venezuela and Ecuador during the first days of August. It is organized by the ...

;2014 : 4th, Pan American Road Race Championships ;2015 : 3rd Overall,

::1st Stage 12 ;2016 : 6th Overall,

;2017 : 7th Overall,

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Profile on Ceramica Panaria-Navigare official website
* * * * * * * 1979 births Living people Colombian male cyclists Olympic cyclists of Colombia Cyclists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Pan American Games competitors for Colombia Cyclists at the 1999 Pan American Games Central American and Caribbean Games medalists in cycling Central American and Caribbean Games bronze medalists for Colombia Competitors at the 1998 Central American and Caribbean Games South American Games medalists in cycling South American Games silver medalists for Colombia Competitors at the 2010 South American Games Colombian Giro d'Italia stage winners Sportspeople from Antioquia Department 20th-century Colombian people 21st-century Colombian people {{Colombia-cycling-bio-stub