Ángel Pulgar

Ángel Pulgar

Àngel Pulgar (2011)
To person
Full name	Ángel Ramiro Pulgar Araujo
Date of birth	February 7, 1989
nation	Venezuela
discipline	train
Most important successes
Pan American Games 2011, 2013 - team sprint Pan American Championships 2018 - Omnium 2014, 2015 - team sprint 2014 - Sprint
Last updated: January 27, 2020

Ángel Ramiro Pulgar Araujo (born February 7, 1989 in Barquisimeto ) is a Venezuelan cyclist .

Career

Pulgar achieved his first successes on the track. In 2007 he won the silver medal in the junior team sprint there at the Pan American Championships and also finished third in the scratch race as a junior at the World Championships . In 2009 he also won the Clásico Aniversario de la Federación Venezolana de Ciclismo , which he repeated two years later. Since this race had returned to the UCI America Tour calendar in 2011 , his second success there represented his first victory in a race on a UCI calendar . In 2010 he again won a silver medal in the team sprint, now in the elite class the Pan American Championships.

In 2011 and 2013 Pulgar won the gold medal in the team sprint at the Pan American Games together with Hersony Canelón and César Marcano , in 2014 and 2015 the three drivers became Pan American champions in this discipline and won the Central American and Caribbean Games as well as the South American Games in 2014 .

In 2016, Ángel Pulgar was nominated for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro and finished eighth in the team sprint with Marcano and Marcano. In 2018 he became the Pan American champion in the Omnium and won the scratch race at the Central American and Caribbean Games .

successes

train

2007

• Pan American Championship - Team Sprint (Juniors) (with Randal Figueroa and José Sivira )
• World Championship - Scratch (Juniors)

2010

• Central American and Caribbean Games - Team Sprint (with Hersony Canelón and César Marcano )
• Pan American Championship - Team Sprint (with Hersony Canelón and César Marcano )
• Central American and Caribbean Games - Team Sprint (with Hersony Canelón and César Marcano )

2011

• Pan American Games - Team Sprint (with Hersony Canelón and César Marcano )

2012

• Pan American Championship - Team Sprint (with Hersony Canelón and César Marcano )

2013

• Pan American Games - Team Sprint (with Hersony Canelón and César Marcano )

2014

• Panamerican champions - sprint, team sprint (with Hersony Canelón and César Marcano )
• Central American and Caribbean Games - Team Sprint (with Hersony Canelón and César Marcano )
• South American Games - Team Sprint (with Hersony Canelón and César Marcano )

2015

• Panamerican champions - team sprint (with Hersony Canelón and César Marcano )
• Pan American Games - Keirin, Team Sprint (with Hersony Canelón and César Marcano )

2016

• Venezuelan champions - team pursuit (with Leonardo Torres , Luis Mendoza and José Antonio Ramos Querales )

2018

• South American Games - Omnium
• South American Games - Team Pursuit (with Clever Martinez , Carlos Linares and Enrique Díaz )
• Central America and Caribbean Game Winner - Scratch
• Pan American Champion - Omnium
• Venezuelan champion - Scratch

2019

• Venezuelan Champion - Omnium, two-man team driving (with Luis Colmenarez )

Street

2011

• Clásico Aniversario de la Federación Venezolana de Ciclismo

2017

• a stage Vuelta a Venezuela

Teams

• 2011 Lara-Fúndela

Web links

Commons : Ángel Pulgar  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ángel Pulgar in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Ángel Pulgar in the ProCyclingStats.com database
• Ángel Pulgar in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )