Ángel Casero

Ángel Luis Casero at the Euskal Bizikleta 2005

Ángel Luis Casero Moreno (born September 27, 1972 in Albalat dels Tarongers , Valencia Province ) is a former Spanish cyclist .

Career

Ángel Casero turned professional in 1994 for the Spanish cycling team Banesto . The greatest success of his career was winning the Vuelta a España in 2001 . He competed in the Vuelta a España ten times and was able to place second in 2000 and sixth in 2002 . In the Tour de France , he was in 1999 fifth. The title at the Spanish road championships in 1998 and 1999 was his best result in the one-day races .

After the end of the 2005 season, Casero ended his career. In 2006 it became known that the name Casero had been identified as one of the customers of the accused Eufemiano Fuentes during the investigation into the doping scandal Fuentes by the Guardia Civil .

In 2015, Ángel Casero and his brother Rafael , also a former cyclist, made another attempt to revive the Tour of Valencia with the help of sponsor commitments. The race was entered in category 2.1 of the UCI Europe Tour 2016 for February 2016.

Teams

• 1993 Banesto ( Stagiaire )
• 1994-1997 Banesto
• 1998-1999 Vitalicio Seguros
• 2000-2001 Festina
• 2002–2003 Team Coast / Team Bianchi
• 2005 Comunidad Valenciana

successes

1994

• Tour de l'Avenir

1997

• Vuelta a Castilla y León and a stage

1998

• Spanish road championship

1999

• Spanish road championship
• Prologue Tour of Catalonia

2001

• Vuelta a España

Placements in the Grand Tours

Grand Tour	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005
Giro d'Italia	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Tour de France	-	-	29	DNF	5	DNF	DNF	-	57	-	-
Vuelta a España	13	24	DNF	DNF	DNF	2	1	6th	DNF	-	DNF

Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Doping scandal “Operacion Puerto” - driver list on radsport-seite.de
2. ↑ cadenaser.com of July 12, 2006: Informe de la Guardia Civil (Capítulo III) (Spanish)
3. ↑ Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana to return to UCI calendar in 2016. In: Cyclingnews.com. September 30, 2015, accessed November 26, 2015 . 

Web links

• Ángel Casero in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Ángel Casero in the Tour de France database(French / English )