Andrea Peron
Andrea Peron | |
To person | |
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Date of birth | August 14, 1971 |
nation | Italy |
discipline | Street |
Team (s) | |
1993 1994 1995–1996 1997–1998 1999 2000–2001 2002–2006 |
Gatorade Polti Motorola La Française des Jeux ONCE-Deutsche Bank Fassa Bortolo CSC |
Most important successes | |
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Team (s) as sporting director | |
2010- | Garmin transitions |
Last updated: September 1, 2011 |
Andrea Peron (born August 14, 1971 in Varese ) is a former Italian cyclist .
Career
Andrea Peron became world champion in 1991 in Stuttgart in the ( street fours ), in 1992 he won the silver medal in the 100 km team time trial with the Italian team at the Olympic Games in Barcelona . With the entire world championship team from 1991 he started in 1992 at the International Peace Tour . He won a stage there and was 7th overall. After his success at the Olympics, he received a professional contract with Team Gatorade .
Peron celebrated his first successes as a professional in 1994 with the Polti team . He won a stage in the Tour DuPont , one in the Hofbräu Cup , and he took part in the Tour de France for the first time . The following year he rode for the American cycling team Motorola . As in the previous year, he won another stage of the Tour DuPont and was again third in the overall standings. In 1996 he won a stage of the Vuelta a Castilla y León and also secured the overall standings. After two years at Motorola , he moved to the French team La Française des Jeux , where he also drove for two years. In 1999, he competed in his best Tour de France for the Spanish racing team ONCE-Deutsche Bank , taking an excellent tenth place overall. In 2000 he returned to Italy to join Fassa Bortolo . In 2001 he became the Italian time trial champion for the first and only time. In 2002 Peron switched to the Danish team CSC-Saxo Bank . In 2003 he was able to win the Italian Firenze – Pistoia individual time trial . After the 2006 season, he ended his professional career .
In 2010 Peron became the sporting director of the UCI ProTeam Garmin-Transitions .
Palmarès
1996
2001
2003
Teams
- 1993 Gatorade
- 1994 Polti
- 1995-1996 Motorola
- 1997–1998 La Française des Jeux
- 1999 ONCE-Deutsche Bank
- 2000–2001 Fassa Bortolo
- 2002-2006 CSC
Web links
- Andrea Peron in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Andrea Peron in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
- Andrea Peron in the Tour de France database(French / English )
Individual evidence
- ↑ New Germany . Berlin May 18, 1992, p. 8 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Peron, Andrea |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian cyclist and sports director |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 14, 1971 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Varese |