Sérgio Paulinho
 Paulinho at the 2010 Tour de Romandie. | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Sérgio Miguel Moreira Paulinho |
| Born |
26 March 1980 Oeiras, Portugal |
| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) |
| Weight | 64 kg (141 lb; 10.1 st) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Tinkoff |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | All-rounder |
| Professional team(s) | |
| 2003 | ASC-Vila do Conde |
| 2004 | LA Aluminios-Pecol-Bombarral |
| 2005–2006 | Liberty Seguros–Würth |
| 2007 | Discovery Channel |
| 2008–2009 | Astana |
| 2010–2011 | Team RadioShack |
| 2012– | Team Saxo Bank |
| Major wins | |
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Medal record
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Infobox last updated on 5 January 2014 | |
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Sérgio Miguel Moreira Paulinho, ComIH[1] (born 26 March 1980) is a Portuguese road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour team Tinkoff.[2] He was a domestique in the 2007, 2009 and 2010 Tour de France and won the silver medal for Portugal in the 2004 Athens Olympic Games.
Career
Paulinho was born in Oeiras. After winning a bronze medal in the 2002 UCI Road World Championships, in under-23, in 2003, he became a professional cyclist and started gaining reference in one of the most important Portuguese teams: LA Pecol. In 2004, he was 6th in the Tour of Portugal (Volta), winning two stages, including the final Individual time trial. In the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, he was silver medalist (Italy's Paolo Bettini got gold and Axel Merckx bronze) in the cycling road race.
Following his Olympic performance, he was signed by the Liberty Seguros-Würth team. He was implicated in the Operación Puerto doping case but was later cleared by Spanish officials of any links to the Operación Puerto doping case.[3] He took his first Grand Tour stage win in Vuelta a Espana 2006, on stage 10. He joined the Discovery Channel team at the end of the season.
In 2004 he also won the Portuguese national time trial Championship and stages 7 and 10 of the Tour of Portugal. In 2008, he won again the national time trial championship. He joined Lance Armstrong's Team RadioShack in 2010,[4] along with fellow countrymen Tiago Machado and directeur sportif José Azevedo. On 14 July 2010, he won the 10th stage of the Tour de France.[5]
Career achievements
Major results
- 2002
- Volta ao Portugal do Futuro
- 1st Prologue, Stages 3 & 4
- 3rd
World Under-23 Time Trial Championships - 2003
- 9th Overall Volta a Portugal
- 2004
- 1st
National Time Trial Championships - 1st Overall Volta a Tras os Montes
- 1st Stage 1
- 6th Overall Volta a Portugal
- 1st Stages 7 & 10
- 1st Stage 3 Volta a Terras de Santa Maria
- 2nd
Road Race Summer Olympics - 2006
- 1st Stage 10 Vuelta a España
- 2008
- 1st National Time Trial Championships
- 2009
- 1st Stage 4 TTT Tour de France
- 2010
- 1st Stage 10 Tour de France
- 2012
- 6th GP Miguel Indurain
- 2013
- 2nd Overall Glava Tour of Norway
Grand Tour General Classification results timeline
| Grand Tour | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Giro |
— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 97 | — |
 Tour |
— | 64 | — | 34 | 46 | 81 | 50 | 136 | 89 | — | — |
 Vuelta |
16 | WD | 26 | — | — | 85 | 70 | — | 57 | WD | 115 |
References
- ↑ http://www.presidencia.pt/?idc=10&idi=99824
- ↑ Westemeyer, Susan (19 September 2011). "Pozzato joins Farnese Vini, Paulinho moves to Saxo Bank". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. Retrieved 4 January 2012.
- ↑ VeloNews | Wednesday's EuroFile: Astana 5’ cleared by Spanish courts; Landis sets post-Tour schedule | The Journal of Competitive Cycling
- ↑ "RadioShack Cycling announcements continue".
- ↑ "Sergio Paulinho snatches Tour de France stage win". BBC Sport. BBC. 2010-07-14. Retrieved 2010-07-14.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sérgio Paulinho. |
- Profile at Team Radioshack
- Sérgio Paulinho profile at Cycling Archives