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José Adrián Bonilla Bonilla (born April 28, 1978) is a
Costa Rican
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former professional road bicycle racer
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. He competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics
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and the 2004 Summer Olympics
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. He debuted professionally in 2004 with the team Comunidad Valenciana
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.
In 2006, during the Operación Puerto doping case
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by the Spanish police, he was identified as the client of a doping traffic network led by Eufemiano Fuentes, under the code name ''Bonilla Alfredo''. Bonilla was not sanctioned by the Spanish government since doping was not a crime at the time. He did not receive any other sanction either since the judge assigned to the case refused to share the case's evidence with the World Anti-Doping Agency
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or the Union Cycliste Internationale
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. Spanish court 31 later cleared him and all the other members of Comunidad Valenciana of any involvement in the case. On a document dated 28 July 2006 the court's secretary made clear none of the team members were found guilty of doping.
Major results
;1999 : 1st Stage 7 Vuelta a Chiriquí : 2nd OverallVuelta Ciclista a Costa Rica
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::1st Stage 11
;2001
: 1st Time trial
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, National Road Championships
: 1st Prologue Vuelta a Guatemala
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;2002
: 1st Overall Vuelta de Higuito
: 1st Overall Vuelta a Chiriquí
::1st Prologue
: 1st Stage 10 Vuelta Ciclista a Costa Rica
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;2003
: 1st Overall Vuelta Ciclista a Costa Rica
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::1st Stage 8
: 1st Overall Vuelta a Zamora
::1st Stage 2
: 1st Overall Vuelta a Galicia
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: 1st Stage 1 Vuelta a Chiriquí
;2004
: 1st Time trial
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, National Road Championships
: 3rd Overall Gran Premio Estremadura-RTP
::1st Stage 1
;2005
: 6th Overall Trofeu Joaquim Agostinho
;2006
: 6th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía
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;2007
: 8th Trofeo Pollença
: 9th Trofeo Sóller
: 10th Overall Vuelta a Chihuahua
: 10th Overall Vuelta Ciclista a Costa Rica
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;2008
: 1st Overall Clásica Poás
: 1st Overall Vuelta a Chiriquí
::1st Stages 6, 8 & 9
: 1st Copa Nacional Protecto
: 1st Stage 3 Vuelta a San Carlos
: 2nd Overall Vuelta Ciclista a Costa Rica
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::1st Stages 10 & 12
;2009
: 1st Time trial
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, National Road Championships
: 1st Stage 4 Vuelta a San Carlos
: 1st Prologue Vuelta a Chiriquí
: 5th Overall Vuelta Ciclista a Costa Rica
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::1st Stages 6 & 11
;2010
: 1st Time trial
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, National Road Championships
: Central American Games
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::1st 15px Time trial
::2nd 15px Road race
: 1st Desafio Powerade
: 6th Time trial, Pan American Road Championships
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: 8th Overall Vuelta Ciclista a Costa Rica
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;2011
: 1st Time trial
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, National Road Championships
: 1st Overall Vuelta Ciclista a Costa Rica
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::1st Stages 7 & 10
: 1st Stages 5 & 7 Vuelta de Higuito
;2013
: 1st Stage 4 ( TTT) Vuelta a Chiriquí
: 3rd Time trial
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, National Road Championships
: 9th Overall Vuelta Ciclista a Costa Rica
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* 1978 births Living people Sportspeople from Cartago Province Costa Rican male cyclists 21st-century Costa Rican sportsmen Pan American Games competitors for Costa Rica Olympic cyclists for Costa Rica Cyclists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2003 Pan American Games {{CostaRica-cycling-bio-stub