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2006 Vuelta A Castilla Y León
The 2006 Vuelta a Castilla y León was the 21st edition of the Vuelta a Castilla y León cycle race and was held on 20 March to 24 March 2006. The race started in Valladolid and finished in Segovia. The race was won by Alexander Vinokourov. Teams Fifteen teams of up to eight riders started the race: * * * * * * * * 3 Molinos Resort * * Kaiku * * * * * General classification References Vuelta a Castilla y León The Vuelta Ciclista a Castilla y León is a professional road bicycle stage race held in Castile and León, Spain. Since 2005, it has been a part of the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions ... Vuelta a Castilla y León by year 2006 in Spanish sport {{Spain-cycling-race-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Vinokourov
Alexander Nikolayevich Vinokourov ( Kazakh and Russian: ; born 16 September 1973) is a Kazakhstani former professional road bicycle racer and the current general manager of UCI WorldTeam . He is of Russian origin. As a competitor, his achievements include two bronze medals at the World Championships, four stage wins in the Tour de France, four in the Vuelta a España plus the overall title in 2006, two Liège–Bastogne–Liège monuments, one Amstel Gold Race, and the gold medal at the 2012 London Olympics Men's Road Race. Vinokourov is a past national champion of Kazakhstan, and a dual-medalist at the Summer Olympics. In 2007, he received a two-year ban from cycling for blood doping. In 2019, he was accused of race fixing by prosecutors in Liège but was later cleared of the charges. Vinokourov began cycling in 1984 as an 11-year-old, competing within the former Soviet Union. He moved to France in 1997 to finish his amateur career, and then turned professional there in 1998. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Egoi Martínez
Egoi Martínez de Esteban (born 15 May 1978 in Etxarri-Aranatz, Navarre) is a Spanish former professional road bicycle racer, who competed as a professional between 2001 and 2013. In his first Tour de France, Martínez finished 41st overall at the 2004 Tour de France. Martínez retired at the end of the 2013 season. Career achievements Major results ;2001 : 1st Overall Vuelta Ciclista a León : 2nd Overall Vuelta a Navarra ;2002 : 10th Overall Tour de l'Avenir ;2003 : 1st Overall Tour de l'Avenir ;2004 : 4th Overall Tour du Gévaudan Occitanie, Tour du Gévaudan Languedoc-Roussillon ;2005 : 4th 2005 GP Miguel Induráin, GP Miguel Induráin ;2006 : 2006 Vuelta a España, Vuelta a España ::1st Mountains classification in the Vuelta a España, Mountains classification ::1st Stage 11 : 4th Overall 2006 Vuelta a Castilla y León, Vuelta a Castilla y León : Combativity award in the Tour de France, Combativity Award Stage 4 2006 Tour de France, Tour de France ;2008 : 1st Mounta ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 In Spanish Road Cycling
6 (six) is the natural number following 5 and preceding 7. It is a composite number and the smallest perfect number. In mathematics A six-sided polygon is a hexagon, one of the three regular polygons capable of tiling the plane. A hexagon also has 6 edges as well as 6 internal and external angles. 6 is the second smallest composite number. It is also the first number that is the sum of its proper divisors, making it the smallest perfect number. It is also the only perfect number that doesn't have a digital root of 1. 6 is the first unitary perfect number, since it is the sum of its positive proper unitary divisors, without including itself. Only five such numbers are known to exist. 6 is the largest of the four all-Harshad numbers. 6 is the 2nd superior highly composite number, the 2nd colossally abundant number, the 3rd triangular number, the 4th highly composite number, a pronic number, a congruent number, a harmonic divisor number, and a semiprime. 6 is also the fir ... [...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 Induráin, and José V ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janez Brajkovič
Janez "Jani" Brajkovič (born 18 December 1983) is a racing cyclist from Metlika, Slovenia, who most recently rode for UCI Continental team . He was the world under-23 Time Trial champion in 2004. In 2018, while riding for the team, Brajkovič was suspended after a positive anti-doping test. He was banned for just over a year, and once his suspension was complete, he rejoined the team. Career Before he turned professional, Brajkovič won the under-23 world time trial title in 2004 by beating pre-race favourite Thomas Dekker (formerly of ) by 18 seconds, with a time of 46:56.39 – an average speed of . Discovery Channel (2005–2007) Brajkovič joined Discovery Channel midway through the 2005 season. Brajkovič was signed up as a first year professional but missed the first half of the season due to contractual obligations; he was still contracted with . In July he turned professional and made his début at the Eneco Tour and had a brilliant début start. He finished 7th in t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francisco Pérez Sanchez
Francisco Pérez Sanchez (born 22 July 1978 in Murcia) is a Spanish professional cross-country mountain biking, mountain biker for Wild Wolf Trek Pro Racing, and a former road bicycle racer for several teams including UCI ProTeam . Pérez is a strong climber. Doping In 2004, he was banned for 18 months for EPO use having failed a test during the 2003 Tour de Romandie. Major results * 2007 Tour de France – 72nd * Clásica de Almería (2006) * 2006 Giro d'Italia – 28th ** 2nd, Stage 14 * 2005 Vuelta a España – 52nd * Tour de Romandie – 2 stages (2003) (Stripped of them for double EPO doping) * GP MR Cortez-Mitsubishi – 1 stage & Overall (2003) See also * List of doping cases in cycling References External links *Cyclingnews.com feature: Francisco Perez: Working on the highway(May 19, 2003) Perez initially pr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gustavo César
Gustavo César Veloso (born January 29, 1980, in Vilagarcía de Arousa) is a Spanish former professional road bicycle racer, who competed as a professional from 2001 to 2021. Major results ;2003 : 1st Overall Prémio Grande Porto ::1st Stage 2 : 1st Klasika Primavera : 8th Overall Tour de l'Avenir ;2004 : 3rd Clásica a los Puertos de Guadarrama ;2005 : 9th Overall Vuelta a Aragón ;2006 : 1st Stage 5 Volta a Portugal : 7th Overall Vuelta a Castilla y León : 7th Overall Volta ao Alentejo ;2008 : 1st Overall Volta a Catalunya : 3rd Overall Tour de Langkawi : 4th Overall Tour of Turkey : 10th Overall Volta ao Distrito de Santarém ;2009 : 1st Stage 9 Vuelta a España : 4th Overall Tour of Turkey ;2013 : 2nd Overall Volta a Portugal ::1st Stage 8 : 2nd Overall Tour do Rio ;2014 : 1st Overall Volta a Portugal ::1st Stage 9 (ITT) : 2nd Overall Tour do Rio ;2015 : 1st Overall Volta a Portugal ::1st Points classification ::1st Stages 6 & 9 (ITT) : 1st Overall Tour do Rio ::1st S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michele Scarponi
Michele Scarponi (25 September 1979 – 22 April 2017) was an Italian road bicycle racer who rode professionally for the , Aurum Hotels, Domina Vacanze–Elitron, , , , and teams from 2002 until his death in 2017. During his career, Scarponi had 21 professional victories. He began cycling at age eight with a local team in the Marche region. Scarponi spent almost a decade with them, and won the junior Italian National Road Race Championships in 1997. He then spent four years at the amateur level with (1998–2000) and Site–Frezza (2001) before turning professional in 2002 with . For the next decade, Scarponi rode mainly for Italian teams with the exception of two-year spell with Spanish team in 2005 and 2006 (where he was a domestique during Roberto Heras' 2005 Vuelta a España success). After a doping ban, he had his first major victories in 2009 with : stage and general-classification wins in the 2009 Tirreno–Adriatico, Tirreno–Adriatico and two stage wins – both fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Azevedo
José Bento Azevedo Carvalho (born 19 September 1973) is a Portuguese retired road racing cyclist, and most recently, general manager of UCI WorldTeam . During his racing career, Azevedo rode for between 2001 and 2003 and for between 2004 and 2006. Career Born in Vila do Conde, Azevedo's principal career successes were fifth overall at the 2001 Giro d'Italia, sixth overall at the 2002 Tour de France and fifth overall at the 2004 Tour de France. He also made a second place in the Germany Tour, just behind Michael Rogers. He won the queen-stage of the German competition. Until 2005 he was a renowned domestique; his primary role was to serve as Lance Armstrong's lieutenant in mountain stages, specifically stages in the Pyrenees Mountains. Lance Armstrong described him as the best lieutenant he has ever had. Nicknamed "The Ace", he moved to US Postal (which became the now-defunct Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team) from Team ONCE (also defunct) in 2004. In 2006 Azevedo wore the ... [...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 Domínguez, Miguel Ángel Martín Perdiguero, Mikel Zarrabeitia, and Abraham Olano Abraham Olano Manzano (born 22 January 1970) is a Spanish retired professional road racing cyclist, who raced as a professional fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis León Sánchez
Luis León Sánchez Gil (born 24 November 1983) is a Spanish former road bicycle racer, who last rode for UCI WorldTeam . Sánchez's major achievements include winning the overall classifications of the 2009 Paris–Nice and the 2005 Tour Down Under, as well as the one-day race Clásica de San Sebastián in 2010 Clásica de San Sebastián, 2010 and 2012 Clásica de San Sebastián, 2012. He also has four Tour de France stage victories and is a four-time winner of the Spanish National Time Trial Championships. He is a time trial specialist and has improved his climbing skills over the course of his career. Personal life Born in Mula, Spain, Mula, he is also known as Lulu Sánchez. León is not his surname but he carries it as a middle name as a mark of respect to his grandfather originally, but since late 2006 also as a tribute to his eldest brother, León Sánchez, who died in a motorbike accident. His younger brother, Pedro León, is a professional footballer, playing for Spanish ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
3 Molinos Resort
3 Molinos Resort () was a short-lived professional continental cycling team based in Spain and participated in the UCI Europe Tour When selected the team got a wildcard to UCI ProTour events. '3 Molinos' was founded in 2006 as a professional continental team, but this proved to be their last as funding was withdrawn due to doping scandals. The team was managed by José Francisco Perez, with José Luis Fernandez assisting. 3 Molinos Resort also sponsored a basketball team in the municipality of Murcia, in San José de la Vega, during the 2006-2007 season, in which he was regional champion of the 1st Male Autonomous Division. 2006 squad Major wins Source: ;2006 : Overall Vuelta a Murcia, Santos González : Overall Clásica Internacional de Alcobendas, Jan Hruška ::Stage 3, Jan Hruška : Stage 4 Volta ao Alentejo em Bicicleta, Alberto Benito : Stage 4 Vuelta Asturias Vuelta Asturias is a professional cycle road race held in Spain in early May ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
