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1996 Liège–Bastogne–Liège
The 1996 Liège–Bastogne–Liège was the 82nd edition of the Liège–Bastogne–Liège cycle race and was held on 21 April 1996. The race started in Liège and finished in Ans. The race was won by Pascal Richard of the MG Maglificio team. General classification References 1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ... 1996 in Belgian sport Liege-Bastogne-Liege 1996 in road cycling April 1996 sports events in Europe {{Liège–Bastogne–Liège-race-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pascal Richard
Pascal Richard (born 16 March 1964) is a Swiss former racing cyclist. He is most notable as a former King of the Mountains winner at the Giro d'Italia and Olympic Games gold medalist. He won the Swiss National Road Race Championships, Swiss National Road Race championship in 1989 and 1993. Biography Richard was born in Vevey. At the start of his career, he was a successful cyclo-cross cyclist, becoming World Cyclo-cross Championships, world champion in this discipline in 1988. Later on, he switched to bicycle road racing, road-cycling, and showed a considerable talent for climbing. He won the classics Giro di Lombardia in 1993 and Liège–Bastogne–Liège in 1996. In 1996 he also gained Olympic gold after winning a sprint in a successful three-man breakaway in the Cycling at the 1996 Summer Olympics – Men's individual road race, men's road race. He won the "King of the Mountains" jersey in the 1994 Giro d'Italia and Stage 12 of the 1996 Tour de France; he captured the overal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fabiano Fontanelli
Fabiano Fontanelli (born 24 April 1965 in Faenza) is an Italian former road bicycle racer. Professional from 1989 to 2003, he notably won four stages of the Giro d'Italia. Major results ;1990 :2nd Giro di Romagna ;1991 :1st Overall Giro di Puglia ::1st Stage 1 ;1993 :1st Stage 11 Giro d'Italia :1st Stage 5 Tour de Pologne :1st Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria ;1994 :Clásico RCN ::1st Prologue & Stage 1 :1st Stage 1 Vuelta a los Valles Mineros :8th Milan–San Remo ;1995 :1st Stage 5 Tour de Luxembourg :1st Grand Prix Pino Cerami :6th Milan–San Remo ;1996 :1st Stage 12 Giro d'Italia :1st Stage 3 Tirreno–Adriatico :1st Stage 2 Giro del Trentino :1st Stage 3 Tour Méditerranéen :1st Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise :1st Trofeo Pantalica :1st Giro dell'Etna ;1997 :Tour de Langkawi ::1st Stages 11 & 12 :1st Stage 16 Giro d'Italia ;1998 :1st Stage 16 Giro d'Italia ;1999 :1st Stage 5a Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme :1st Paris–Camembert :9th Rund um den Henninger Tu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1996 UCI Road World Cup
The 1996 UCI Road World Cup was the eighth edition of the UCI Road World Cup. It was won by Belgian classics specialist Johan Museeuw Johan Museeuw (born 13 October 1965) is a retired Belgian professional road bicycle racer, road racing cyclist who was a professional from 1988 until 2004. Nicknamed ''The Lion of Flanders'', he was particularly successful in the cobbled classic ... of the team. Races Single races details ''In the race results the leader jersey identify the rider who wore the jersey in the race (the leader at the start of the race).'' ''In the general classification table the jersey identify the leader after the race.'' Final standings Individual Source: Points are awarded to the top 12 classified riders. Riders must start at least 6 races to be classified. The points are awarded for every race using the following system: Team classification References Complete results from Cyclingbase.com Final classification for individuals and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1996 In Belgian Sport
1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kinshasa, killing around 300 people. * January 9– 20 – Serious fighting breaks out between Russian soldiers and rebel fighters in Chechnya. * January 11 – Ryutaro Hashimoto, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, becomes Prime Minister of Japan. * January 13 – Italy's Prime Minister, Lamberto Dini, resigns after the failure of all-party talks to confirm him. New talks are initiated by President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro to form a new government. * January 14 – Jorge Sampaio is elected President of Portugal. * January 16 – President of Sierra Leone Valentine Strasser is deposed by the chief of defence, Julius Maada Bio. Bio promises to restore power following elections scheduled for February. * January 19 ** Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gabriele Colombo
Gabriele Colombo (born 11 May 1972 in Varese) is an Italian former professional road bicycle racer. He won the Milan–San Remo in 1996. Major results ;1994 :3rd GP Lugano ;1995 :1st Stage 3 ( TTT) Tour de France :3rd Overall Vuelta a Burgos ::1st Stage 2 :6th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico ;1996 :1st Milan–San Remo :1st Overall Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali :1st Overall Giro di Sardegna :2nd GP Chiasso :4th Trofeo Laigueglia :5th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico :5th La Flèche Wallonne :5th Rund um den Henninger Turm :8th Firenze–Pistoia :10th Liège–Bastogne–Liège ;1997 :2nd Trofeo Pantalica :3rd Liège–Bastogne–Liège :7th Giro di Romagna ;1998 :1st Stage 4 Tirreno–Adriatico :1st Stage 6 4 Jours de Dunkerque :7th Trofeo Laigueglia ;2000 :1st Stage 5a Tour of the Basque Country :1st Stage 2 Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme :5th Overall Vuelta a Aragón :9th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico ;2001 :2nd Overall Tirreno–Adriatico :4th Overall Vuelta a Murcia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rolf Sørensen
Rolf Sørensen (born 20 April 1965) is a former Danish professional road bicycle racer. He is currently working as a cycling commentator and agent. Born in Helsinge in Denmark, Sørensen moved to Italy at the age of 17, where he has lived since. He goes under the name ''Il Biondo'' due to his blonde hair. Accomplishments Sørensen won such classic one-day races as the Tour of Flanders, Liège–Bastogne–Liège, Paris–Brussels, Paris–Tours and Milano–Torino, as well as slightly smaller races like the Coppa Bernocchi (twice), and the Rund um den Henninger Turm or Grand Prix Frankfurt. He has led the UCI Road World Cup on several occasions, finishing third in 1989 and 1991 and second in 1997 after a broken foot kept him from scoring points in the last two World Cup races of the season. Sørensen also won individual stages in the 1994 and 1996 Tour de France, and wore the yellow jersey as the leader of the race after the team time trial in 1991, won by his Italian tea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Virenque
Richard VirenqueRichard Virenque's name is pronounced Ree-shah Vee-rahnk. Virenque considers himself a man of the South but pronounces his name in standard French. Confusion is caused by the southern habit of pronouncing "en" as "ang" or "eng", making it Vee-rank. But Virenque says Vee-rahnk or Vee-ronk, a sound difficult to write in English. (born 19 November 1969) is a retired French professional road racing cyclist. He was one of the most popular French riders with fans, known for his boyish personality and his long, lone attacks.Virenque's fan club in 2000, two years after the Festina scandal had 5,000 members, of whom 2,000 were described as active. In 2000, Virenque received 589 letters in three weeks during the Tour de France, more than any other rider. He was a climber, best remembered for winning the King of the Mountains competition of the Tour de France a record seven times, and as one of the central figures in a widespread doping scandal in 1998, the Festina Affair ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Axel Merckx
Axel Eddy Lucien Jonkheer Merckx (born 8 August 1972) is a Belgian former professional road bicycle racer and the son of five-time Tour de France champion Eddy Merckx. He is team director of UCI Continental team . In his professional career, he won the Belgian national road race championship in 2000 and a bronze medal in the road race at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. Cycling career Born in Uccle, Axel Merckx became a professional cyclist in 1993, winning the Belgian national road race championship in 2000. He vowed to make his mark by accomplishing feats that had eluded his father, such as winning a Tour de France stage at Alpe d'Huez and the Paris–Tours classic. He did not succeed, but competed in eight Tours de France and finished as the highest-placed Belgian rider six times. His personal best finish was tenth in the 1998 edition. Merckx won the bronze medal in the road race at the 2004 Games in Athens, breaking free in the final kilometre. During the 2006 Tour ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Davide Rebellin
Davide Rebellin (9 August 1971 – 30 November 2022) was an Italian professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 1992 and 2022 for twelve different teams, taking more than sixty professional wins. He was considered one of the finest classics specialists of his generation with more than fifty top ten finishes in UCI Road World Cup and UCI ProTour classics. Rebellin was best known in the cycling world for his 2004 season, when he won a then unprecedented treble with wins in Amstel Gold Race, La Flèche Wallonne and Liège–Bastogne–Liège. He also won stage races such as Paris–Nice and Tirreno–Adriatico, and a stage in the Giro d'Italia. Rebellin served a two-year suspension for testing positive for Mircera at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Career 1990s Born in San Bonifacio in the province of Verona, Rebellin turned professional in 1992 and came to the attention of the cycling world with a string of strong performances during his early years. He suffered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurent Madouas
Laurent Madouas (born 8 February 1967) is a French former road cyclist. His son Valentin is also a cyclist. '''' (May 26, 2016). Major results ;1988 : 3rd Overall : 10th GP des Amériques ;1990 : 8th Overall |
Lance Armstrong
Lance Edward Armstrong (''né'' Gunderson; born September 18, 1971) is an American former professional road bicycle racing, road racing cyclist. He achieved international fame for winning the Tour de France a record seven consecutive times from 1999 Tour de France, 1999 to 2005 Tour de France, 2005, but was stripped of his titles in 2012 after Lance Armstrong doping case, an investigation into History of Lance Armstrong doping allegations, doping allegations found that Armstrong used performance-enhancing drugs over his career. As a result, Armstrong is currently banned for life from all sanctioned bicycling events. At age 16, Armstrong began competing as a triathlon, triathlete and was a national sprint-course triathlon champion in 1989 and 1990. In 1992, he began his career as a professional cyclist with the Motorola Cycling Team, Motorola team. Armstrong had success between 1993 and 1996 with the UCI Road World Championships, World Championship in 1993 UCI Road World Champio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MG Maglificio (cycling Team)
MG Maglificio was an Italian professional road cycling team in the 1990s. The team started racing in 1992, under the management of Belgians Roger De Vlaeminck and Patrick Lefevere and Italians Enrico Paoloni and Paolo Abetoni. After a one-year co-sponsorship with Riso Scotti in 1998, MG Maglificio withdrew from cycling as a sponsor. History GB–MG Maglificio MG Maglificio was already a co-sponsor in the 1991 season of the Del Tongo team by Abetoni. This team had riders such as Fabio Baldato, Franco Ballerini, Franco Chioccioli, Dag Erik Pedersen and the young sprinter Mario Cipollini. In 1992, under the guidance of Flemish team management, and with GB and Bianchi as co-sponsors, the team was expanded and included such Belgian talents as Carlo Bomans and Andrej Tchmil, as well as neo-prof Davide Rebellin. The team was immediately successful, with four Giro stage wins by Mario Cipollini, who was also victorious in Gent–Wevelgem. Chioccioli won a stage in the Tour de France a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
