Sergi Escobar Roure (born 22 September 1974 in

Lleida Lleida (, ; Spanish: Lérida ) is a city in the west of Catalonia, Spain. It is the capital city of the province of Lleida. Geographically, it is located in the Catalan Central Depression. It is also the capital city of the Segrià comarca, as ...

) is a Spanish world champion

track cyclist Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using purpose-designed track bicycles. History Track cycling has been around since at least 1870. When track cycling was in its infancy, it wa ...

who specialises in

individual An individual is that which exists as a distinct entity. Individuality (or self-hood) is the state or quality of being an individual; particularly (in the case of humans) of being a person unique from other people and possessing one's own Maslow ...

and

team pursuit The team pursuit is a track cycling event similar to the individual pursuit, except that two teams, each of up to four riders, compete, starting on opposite sides of the velodrome. Race format Both men's and women's events are competed over ...

Career highlights

; 2001 : 1st, Stage 6,

Volta a Lleida The Volta a Lleida was a road bicycle racing, road cycling stage race held in the Lleida (province), Lleida region of Spain. It was a 2.2 category race on the UCI Europe Tour between 2005 and 2008. List of overall winners {, class="wikitable" , ...

: 3rd, National Championship, Road, ITT, Elite, Spain, Leon (ESP) : 1st, Mediterranean Games, Road, ITT, Elite ; 2002 : 1st, Overall, Cinturón Ciclista Internacional a Mallorca ; 2003 : 3rd, World Championship, Track, Pursuit, Elite, Stuttgart : 2003 World Cup :: 1st, Pursuit, Moscow :: 3rd, Pursuit, Cape Town : 1st, Stage 4, Vuelta a Alicante : 2nd, Overall, Cinturón Ciclista Internacional a Mallorca :: 1st, Stage 1 : 1st, Stage 4,

Vuelta a León Vuelta, Spanish for "lap" or "roundtrip", is used in the name of a number of cycling races in Spanish speaking countries, as well as a few other contexts: Cycling races * Vuelta a Andalucía * Vuelta a Aragón, Spain * Vuelta a Asturias, Spain * V ...

: 3rd, Overall, Volta Provincia Tarragona : National Track Championships, Valencia :: 1st, Pursuit ; 2004 :

World Championships A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game, ...

, Melbourne :: 1st, Pursuit :: 3rd, Team Pursuit : 2004 World Cup :: 1st, Pursuit, Aguascalientes :: 3rd, Team Pursuit, Aguascalientes :: 2nd, Pursuit, Manchester : 3rd, Overall, Vuelta a Alicante :: 1st, Prologue : National Track Championships, Palma de Mallorca :: 1st, Pursuit :: 1st, Madison (with Antonio Miguel Parra) : 1st, Stage 1, Cinturón Ciclista Internacional a Mallorca : 1st, Stage 3, Vuelta a Avila :

Olympic Games The modern Olympic Games or Olympics (french: link=no, Jeux olympiques) are the leading international sporting events featuring summer and winter sports competitions in which thousands of athletes from around the world participate in a var ...

, Athens :: 3rd, Pursuit :: 3rd, Team Pursuit : 2004–2005 World Cup :: 3rd, Pursuit, Los Angeles ; 2005 : 2nd,

Clásica de Almería The Clásica de Almería ( en, Classic of Almería) is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in February or March in Almería, Spain, starting and finishing in Almería itself. Established in 1986, the race was run as an amateur event in i ...

, Los Angeles :: 2nd, Pursuit ; 2006 : 2005–2006 World Cup :: 1st, Pursuit, Los Angeles :: 3rd, Team Pursuit, Los Angeles : National Track Championships :: 1st, Pursuit :: 1st, Team Pursuit : 1st, Overall,

Vuelta a la Comunidad de Madrid Vuelta a la Comunidad de Madrid is a stage road bicycle race held annually in and around Madrid, Spain. Between 2005 and 2012, the race was organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. In 2013 the event was organised as a single-day race, for ...

; 2007 : National Track Championships :: 1st, Pursuit, Elite :: 1st, Team Pursuit :: 1st, Points race :

, Palma de Mallorca :: 3rd, Pursuit ; 2008 : 2007–2008 World Cup :: 3rd, Los Angeles, Pursuit, Los Angeles :: 1st, Pursuit, Copenhagen : 1st, Overall, Volta de Castello

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* 1974 births Living people Sportspeople from Lleida Cyclists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Spain Olympic cyclists of Spain Spanish male cyclists UCI Track Cycling World Champions (men) Olympic medalists in cycling Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Spanish track cyclists Cyclists from Catalonia 21st-century Spanish people {{Spain-cycling-bio-1970s-stub