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2005 Clásica De San Sebastián
The 2005 Clásica de San Sebastián was the 25th edition of the Clásica de San Sebastián cycling classic. Constantino Zaballa Constantino Zaballa Gutiérrez (born 15 May 1978 in La Hayuela, Cantabria, Spain) is a Spanish former professional road racing cyclist, best known for winning Clásica de San Sebastián in 2005. Towards the end of his career, Zaballa ventured ... gave Saunier Duval–Prodir their second win in this race. General Standings 13-08-2005: San Sebastián, 227 km. References External linksRace website Clasica de San Sebastian Clásica de San Sebastián San {{Spain-cycling-race-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Constantino Zaballa
Constantino Zaballa Gutiérrez (born 15 May 1978 in La Hayuela, Cantabria, Spain) is a Spanish former professional road racing cyclist, best known for winning Clásica de San Sebastián in 2005. Towards the end of his career, Zaballa ventured into cyclocross with the Club Ciclistica Udías. Major results ;2001 : 1st Stage 8 Tour de l'Avenir : 1st Stage 1 Volta a Portugal ;2003 : 3rd Circuito de Getxo ;2004 : 1st Stage 19 Vuelta a España : 1st Stage 3 Vuelta a Aragón : 2nd Circuito de Getxo ;2005 : 1st Clásica de San Sebastián : 3rd Overall Paris-Nice ;2007 : 1st Overall Euskal Bizikleta ::1st Stage 3 ;2008 : 2nd Overall GP Internacional Paredes Rota dos Móveis ::1st Stage 3 ;2009 : 2nd Road race, National Road Championships ;2010 : 1st Overall Vuelta a Asturias ::1st Stage 5 ;2011 : 2nd Overall Vuelta a Asturias :: 1st Points classification :: 1st Stage 5 ;2013 : 1st Overall Tour de Tipaza ::1st Stage 1 : 1st Destination Thy : 2nd Overall Tour of Chin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Bru
Jon Bru Pascal (born 18 October 1977 in Bera, Navarre) is a Spanish former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2001 and 2008 for the , Kaiku and teams. Major results ;2001 : 1st Memorial Valenciaga ;2002 : 1st Classica do Seixal ;2003 : 1st Stage 3 Volta a Terras de Santa Maria ;2004 : 1st Voltas à Vila do Bombarral Voltas Limited is an Indian multinational home appliances and consumer electronics company headquartered in Mumbai. It designs, develops, manufactures and sells products including air conditioners, air coolers, refrigerators, washing machi ... ;2006 : Volta ao Distrito de Santarém ::1st Points classification ::1st Mountains classification ::1st Stages 2 & 4 External links Profile at Euskaltel-Euskadi official website * * Spanish male cyclists 1977 births Living people People from Cinco Villas, Navarre Cyclists from Navarre {{Spain-cycling-bio-1970s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Sánchez
Samuel "Samu" Sánchez González (born 5 February 1978) is a Spanish former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally in the sport between 2000 and 2017 for the and squads. He was the gold medal winner in the Cycling at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Men's individual road race, road race at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. In the following years Sánchez proved himself in hilly classics and stage races as one of the most important riders in the peloton. He was also known as one of the best Bicycling terminology#D, descenders in the peloton. He finished in the top 6 of the Tour de France three times and in the top 10 of the Vuelta a España 6 times. Other notable achievements include winning the Vuelta a Burgos in 2010, the 2012 Tour of the Basque Country and five stages of the Vuelta a España. Career Euskaltel–Euskadi (2000–13) He started his professional career in 2000 at the Spanish team and remained there until the team's disbanding in 2013. Early years In ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leonardo Bertagnolli
Leonardo Bertagnolli (born 8 January 1978 in Trento) is a retired Italian professional road bicycle racer, who rode as a professional between 2002 and 2012. He signed for , a new team in the 2009 season, though he rode for in the 2009 Giro d'Italia. It was unclear if Bertagnolli switched teams before 's mid-season collapse or after, and whether he continued with after the Giro or briefly returned to . Bertagnolli announced his retirement from the sport after competing in the Italian National Championships in June 2012. It later emerged that the Union Cycliste Internationale had launched disciplinary proceedings into Bertagnolli, in the light of an alleged anti-doping violation via his biological passport, and he was given a sanction of 2 years and ten months as well as disqualified from 1 January 2003 to 18 May 2011. Cancelled results ;2004 : 1st, Coppa Placci : 1st, Coppa Agostoni : 1st, Giro dell'Etna ;2005 : 1st, Stage 2, Vuelta a España : 1st, Stage 3, Tour du Limousin ; ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bouygues Télécom (cycling Team)
Bouygues Telecom () is a French mobile phone, Internet service provider and IPTV company, part of the Bouygues group. It is the third oldest mobile network operator in France, after Orange and SFR, and before Free Mobile. Its headquarters, designed by Arquitectonica, is located at the border of Paris and Issy-les-Moulineaux near the River Seine. History Bouygues Telecom was authorised by the French government to build and operate France's third GSM mobile phone network on 4 December 1994, and commercially launched its network on 30 May 1996. To compensate for its initial weaker coverage in comparison to Orange and SFR, Bouygues Telecom developed several innovations: * heavy use of the 1800 MHz frequency band, which is more efficient in urban areas; * the marketing of the first combo packages in May 1996; * the launch of France's first SMS service in 1996, initially only between its subscribers, not billed until 1997; * a free call recording function included in all packages ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unai Yus
Unai Emilio Yus Querejeta (born February 13, 1974, in Vitoria-Gasteiz) is a Spanish professional racing cyclist. Career highlights ;2001 :1st Porto - Lisboa :1st Stage 12 Volta a Portugal, Fafe ;2003 :1st Stage 1 Volta a Terras de Santa Maria, San Joao Ver :2nd General Classification Volta a Terras de Santa Maria :2nd Porto - Lisboa ;2004 :1st Stage 1 Hessen Rundfahrt, Bad Arolsen :2nd Bera, Cyclo-cross :2nd Aizarnazabal, Cyclo-cross :3rd Ermua, Cyclo-cross :3rd Valladolid, Cyclo-cross :2nd Itsasondo, Cyclo-cross ;2005 :2nd Zeberio, Cyclo-cross :1st Spanish National Cyclo-cross Championships The Spanish National Cyclo-cross Championships are held annually to decide the cycling champions in the cyclo-cross discipline. Men U23 Junior Women References {{reflist National cyclo-cross championships Cycle races in Spain Cyclo-c ... :2nd Polanco, Cyclo-cross :3rd Lugones, Cyclo-cross :2nd Astarria, Cyclo-cross :1st Ormaiztegi, Cyclo-cross :1st Montjuic, Cyclo-cross :2nd ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Haimar Zubeldia
Haimar Zubeldia Agirre (born 1 April 1977) is a Spanish former road racing cyclist from the Basque Country, who competed professionally between 1998 and 2017 for the , , and teams. During his career, Zubeldia recorded five top-ten finishes in the Tour de France, and one in the Vuelta a España. Biography Born and raised in Usurbil, Gipuzkoa, Zubeldia currently resides in the neighboring village of Zarautz. His younger brother Joseba Zubeldia also competed as a professional racing cyclist. At the age of twenty-one, Zubeldia turned professional with in 1998. In 2000, he won the Euskal Bizikleta, and finished second overall in the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré. After his win in 2000 in the Euskal Bizikleta, it took him ten years to win again, when he won the Tour de l'Ain. In 2014, Zubeldia became the Spanish rider with the most starts in the Tour de France, a record previously held by two long-term-servants of what is now the , 5-time-winner Miguel Indurain, and José Vice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cofidis (cycling Team)
Cofidis Solutions Crédits () is a French professional road bicycle racing team sponsored by a money-lending company, Cofidis. It was started in 1996 by Cyrille Guimard, the former manager of Bernard Hinault, Greg LeMond and Laurent Fignon of the Renault-Elf-Gitane team of the 1980s. The team's sponsor has supported the team despite repeated problems such as doping scandals. After it was part of the UCI ProTour for the ProTour's first five seasons, from 2010 the team competed as a UCI Professional Continental team. The team joined the UCI World Tour for the 2020 season. History Cyrille Guimard started the team in 1996 with backing from François Migraine, the chief executive of Cofidis. An early acquisition was Lance Armstrong, formerly of Motorola Cycling Team. Armstrong was dropped because of his cancer and another American, Bobby Julich, became leader for stage races. Julich's place in the top three of the 1998 Tour de France brought the team to the spotlight, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Moncoutié
David Moncoutié (born 30 April 1975) is a retired French professional road racing cyclist, who rode with the French team , for his entire professional career. He was a climber, and won his first professional race in a mountain stage of Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré. He won the Mountains Classification in Vuelta a España four times, one short of the record of five held by José Luis Laguía. Origins David Moncoutié had no familial connection to cycling – he was raised in a football (soccer) loving family in which nobody had raced a bike.Procycling, UK, May 2004 Moncoutié played football until he was 16 before being introduced to cycling by a friend. He gained his baccalauréat in biology. His father, mother and two sisters worked for the post office and wanted him to work there as well.Vélo, France, September 2002, p43 Friends suggested he join them for a ride. He said: "They all had beautiful racing bikes, I had a sports bike that was nothing to talk about... and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kaiku
Kaiku () was a Spanish UCI Professional Continental cycling team based in the Basque country that participated in UCI Continental Circuits races and when selected as a wildcard to UCI ProTour events. The team was managed by Eneko Garate with assistance from directeur sportifs Óscar Guerrero, Juan Hernández and Juan Campos. The lead sponsor, Kaiku Corporación Alimentaria, is a Basque country dairy products company in which Caja Rural de Navarra at one time held a financial stake. In its first season, 2005, Kaiku, a.k.a. " Kaiku–Caja Rural", was formed from Caja Rural's amateur team. Kaiku Corporación had in the previous 22 years sponsored amateur teams that had featured riders who later became famous, such as Juan Antonio Flecha, Joseba Beloki, Juan Carlos Dominguez, Miguel Angel Martin Perdiguero, Mikel Zarrabeitia, and Abraham Olano Abraham Olano Manzano (born 22 January 1970 in Anoeta, Gipuzkoa) is a Spanish retired professional road racing cyclist, who raced bet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liquigas-Bianchi
Cannondale Pro Cycling Team (), previously known as Liquigas, was an Italian professional road bicycle racing team in the UCI ProTour. History The team was formed at the start of the UCI ProTour in 2005. the team was co-title sponsored by Italian companies Liquigas and Bianchi, therefore it was named Liquigas–Bianchi. It featured a number of big names including Italian riders Mario Cipollini, Danilo Di Luca and Stefano Garzelli, as well as Magnus Bäckstedt. In 2007, Cannondale replaced Bianchi as the bicycle sponsor. This marked Cannondale's return to the ProTour after discontinuing sponsorship of the Lampre–Caffita team at the end of the 2005 season. Being an American company, their sponsorship led to a small American ridership on the team. On 11 July 2008 the news broke from the French sports paper L'Equipe that Spanish rider Manuel Beltrán had tested positive for EPO after the first stage of the tour. It was blood abnormalities before the start of the tour that led ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joaquim Rodríguez
Joaquim Rodríguez Oliver (born 12 May 1979) is a former Spanish professional road racing cyclist, who competed between 2001 and 2016 for the , , and teams. Rodríguez recorded notable results included fourteen Grand Tour stage victories, and five overall podium placings: second places at the 2012 Giro d'Italia and the 2015 Vuelta a España, and third-place finishes at the 2010 Vuelta a España, the 2012 Vuelta a España and the 2013 Tour de France. He also finished first in the UCI world rankings in 2010, 2012 and 2013, and won classics such as the La Flèche Wallonne and the Giro di Lombardia twice (2012 and 2013). He also won stage races including the Volta a Catalunya twice (2010 and 2014), the 2015 Tour of the Basque Country and the 2011 Vuelta a Burgos. Personal life and early career Rodríguez was born in Barcelona, the son of an amateur rider in the 1960s, and later lived in Parets del Vallès. Some years later he moved to the Basque country to ride for Iberdrola, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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