Óscar Pereiro

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Oscar Pereiro Sío Road cycling
Óscar Pereiro during the 2011 Tour de France
Óscar Pereiro during the 2011 Tour de France
To person
Date of birth 3rd August 1977
nation SpainSpain Spain
discipline Street
Driver type Mountain riders
To the team
Current team End of career
function driver
Team (s)
2000–2001
2002–2005
2006–2009
2010 		Porta da Ravessa
Phonak
Caisse d'Epargne
Astana
Most important successes

Yellow jerseyOverall ranking Tour de France 2006

Last updated: August 2, 2011

Óscar Pereiro Sío (born August 3, 1977 in Mos (Pontevedra) , Galicia ) is a former Spanish cyclist and later football player . His greatest achievement was winning the 2006 Tour de France .

Career

Early years

At the beginning of his cycling career, Pereiro mainly focused on cross-country races . In 1997 he was third in the Spanish junior cross championship and was even able to win it a year later. In the 1999 season he also finished second in the elite race of the National Crosser Championship. Eventually, due to a lack of qualifications for other professions, Pereiro decided to become a professional cyclist.

2000-2005

Pereiro turned pro in 2000 with the small Portuguese team Porta da Ravessa . In his first year he was third in the small Portuguese race GP Sport Noticiás and took second place in the youngsters' classification of the Tour of Portugal . He achieved his first professional victory in 2001 on the third stage of the GP RLVT. In the same season he also achieved two more second places in small stage races in Portugal and came second overall at the GP Matosinhos.

After two years he moved to the top team Phonak and was used in larger races. Phonak boss Andy Rihs had previously entrusted Álvaro Pino to lead the team. Like Pereiro, Pino came from the province of Pontevedra and offered Pereiro a contract, which he signed. He won a stage at the Catalan Week and was eleventh in the Giro d'Italia , his first three-week tour, in which he also finished sixth on one stage. These results surprised Pereiro himself, who was not very sporty until 2002. At the end of the season he also took part in the Vuelta a España and achieved two more top ten results on different sections, but did not finish the race. In the run-up to the tour he had already achieved third place at the Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia .

The following year, Pereiro demonstrated his climbing and time trial skills at the Tour de Suisse , where he finished second in the prologue, won a mountain stage and came third in the overall standings. He also reached second place in the Burgos Tour and was 17th in the Vuelta a España , which he drove to the end for the first time this year and in which he drove out two tenth stage ranks.

In 2004, Tyler Hamilton joined the Phonak team as captain for the Tour de France. From the American, who was later banned for blood doping, Pereiro was able to learn many of the subtleties in terms of training, nutrition and racing behavior of a team captain. In the same year, Pereiro achieved a victory in the difficult Classique des Alpes and shortly afterwards in his first Tour de France participation a good tenth place due to his constant driving style, because he did not achieve the position by gaining time through a successful breakaway attempt. In addition, a sixth place in the prologue and two more stage top ten results in the largest race in the world jumped out.

Yellow jersey from Pereiro, Tour de France 2006 .

At the beginning of 2005, Pereiro competed again in cyclo-cross races and won one in Mos, Spain . The start of the road season also got off to a promising start with third place in the Paris-Nice mountain classification . At the end of April 2005, Pereiro won the prologue of the Tour de Romandie , where he finished seventh and finished second in the points classification; in the Tour of the Basque Country he came in sixth place. With the Phonak team, Pereiro finished second in the Pro Tour team time trial . During the Tour de France 2005 he lost seven minutes on the day section to Courchevel , then he was able to make up five minutes on the 15th section through a successful attack and one day later he won the 16th stage after another breakaway attempt. After another successful breakaway attempt, which ended with fourth place on the day, he again finished tenth in the overall classification, which was improved to 9th after Jan Ullrich's subsequent disqualification, and received the award of the most aggressive driver. He also came second in the mountain classification. Even after the tour, he achieved podium places in criteria in the Netherlands and France . He finally ended his season with the Vuelta a España . After a tenth place on the ninth stage, he missed victory four days later against Samuel Sánchez by just four seconds . There were two more eighth and a fifth stage places. Finally, he finished the Tour of Spain in 25th place.

2006-2008

For the 2006 season, Pereiro left the Phonak racing team to become a helper for Alejandro Valverde at Caisse d'Epargne , although he still had a contract with the Phonak team for 2006. Again, the Tour de France should be in the foreground for the Spaniard . But captain Valverde broke his collarbone at the beginning of the tour. Thus, Pereiro and Vladimir Karpets should lead the remaining team. Completely surprisingly, at the end of the 13th stage, he won the yellow jersey of Floyd Landis and was second behind the German Jens Voigt . He benefited from the fact that Landis, who led the overall standings, did not see him as a contender for overall victory and allowed the breakaway group around Pereiro to arrive in Montélimar with a 29-minute lead . Pereiro lost the yellow jersey to Landis after the 15th stage, but won it back to La Toussuire on the 16th stage when Landis experienced a drop in strength. Pereiro was also able to defend the yellow jersey thanks to a seventh stage position in Morzine until the final time trial , where he again had to leave it to Landis, who was considered the significantly better time trial, although he showed a very good performance in fourth. However, on July 27, 2006, it was revealed that Pereiro's friend Floyd Landis tested positive for testosterone during the tour . Landis was therefore stripped of the title on September 21, 2007 and Pereiro was subsequently declared the 2006 Tour winner. He was awarded the yellow jersey in a modest ceremony in Madrid in 2007 . In the final stages of what was for him the most successful season of his career, Pereiro was still at the start of the Vuelta a España and finished second in the opening team time trial with Caisse d'Epargne. He finished the year with a second place and two wins in the criteria in Spain.

On January 18, 2007, the French newspaper Le Monde reported in its Internet edition that Oscar Pereiro had tested positive for salbutamol after the 14th and 16th stages of the Tour de France 2006 . However, he was able to submit an exemption that he had to take the drug, which is contained in most asthma drugs, for health reasons. However, this exemption has now been questioned by the French anti-doping agency AFLD. The AFLD had already written to Pereiro several times since August 2006 with the request to present the medical documents in order to dispel any doubts. Pereiro did not comply and the AFLD wanted to open disciplinary proceedings against him if he did not submit the documents by January 25th. The disciplinary proceedings could have resulted in a suspension for all French races, but also in subsequent disqualification from the 2006 Tour de France. However, on January 26, the AFLD announced that it had suspended all investigations against Pereiro after receiving the documents. In terms of sport, however, Pereiro had a good season. After winning the team time trial of the Tour of Catalonia with his team, Pereiro showed his good form before the upcoming Tour of France with a second stage place at the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré . After an eighth and a ninth stage position, he finished tenth in the world's largest race for the third time. After the tour, in addition to a third place on a day segment, he reached second place overall in the Tour du Limousin . However , he had to give up the following Vuelta a España after the eighth day.

In the run-up to the next Tour de France , Pereiro finished third in the Spanish championship. After a tenth and a sixth stage rank during the tour, Pereiro broke his arm, a collarbone and his shoulder in a bad fall. On the descent from Colle d'Agnello he fell over a parapet and flew several meters through the air onto the road below. Due to his injuries, Pereiro had to go without any training for five months.

2009-2010

After this accident, Pereiro was no longer the same. In the 2009 season he was able to achieve a victory in the team time trial at the Tour of the Mediterranean Sea and a fourth stage and eighth place overall at the Circuit Cycliste Sarthe , but the Tour de France showed his accident-related deficits: as the nominal captain of Caisse d'Epargne he had no chance of a win or a top placement in the overall standings and got out after seven stages. He was then released from Caisse d'Epargne, his career seemed to have ended early.

But for 2010 there was another opportunity to drive for the Pro Team Astana as a helper for tour winner Alberto Contador . Pereiro contested the Tour of Catalonia , which he completed in 19th place. But he was not nominated for the Tour de France. The season end criterion in Valencia was dedicated to Pereiro, but after an operation on his wrist he could not participate and said goodbye to cycling in civilian clothes. After his career as an active driver, Pereiro commented on the Vuelta for Spanish radio.

Soccer career

On December 10, 2010, Pereiro announced a notable sports comeback. He signed a contract as a professional footballer in the Spanish Segunda División B with the Galician club Coruxo FC. He justified the sensational step with the fact that it had always been his dream to become a professional footballer. On December 19, 2010, he made his football debut in the second team of Coruxo and then declared that he hoped to be used in the professional team in 2011.

successes

2001

  • a stage Grande Premio RLVT

2002

  • a stage Catalan week

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2009

Grand Tour overall ranking

Grand Tour 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia 11 - - - - - - - - -
Yellow jersey Tour de France - - 10 9 1 10 DNF DNF - -
Red jersey Vuelta a España 30th 17th - 25th 49 DNF - - - -
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CAS says Ullrich guilty on www.sportschau.de
  2. ↑ Óscar Pereiro ficha por el Coruxo de la Segunda División B on as.com (Spanish)

Web links

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personal data
SURNAME Pereiro, Óscar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pereiro Sío, Óscar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd August 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Pontevedra , Galicia