Andy Schleck

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Andy Schleck Road cycling
Andy Schleck - Critérium du Dauphiné 2012 - Prologue (5) .jpg
To person
Full name Andy Raymond Schleck
Nickname Andy torticolis
Date of birth 10th June 1985 (age 35)
nation LuxembourgLuxembourg Luxembourg
discipline Street
Driver type Mountain riders, tour riders
End of career 2014
Team (s)
2004
2005–2007
2008
2009–2010
2011
2012
2013
2014 		VC Roubaix
Team CSC
Team CSC-Saxo Bank
Team Saxo Bank
Leopard Trek
RadioShack-Nissan
RadioShack Leopard
Trek Factory Racing
Most important successes
Grand Tours
Jersey white.svg Young talent competition Giro d'Italia 2007
Yellow jersey Tour de France 2010
One day race
Liège – Bastogne – Liège 2009
Andy Schleck

Andy Raymond Schleck (born June 10, 1985 in Luxembourg ) is a former Luxembourg cyclist . His greatest successes were winning the Tour de France 2010 , which was awarded after Alberto Contador's disqualification, and the classic win at Liège – Bastogne – Liège in 2009.

Athletic career

In 2005 Andy Schleck signed at the age of 19 years his first professional contract with the Danish team CSC Saxo Bank by Bjarne Riis , in which even his five-year older brother Fränk rode.

At the Giro d'Italia 2007 , Schleck drew attention for the first time during a major tour, when he finished second in the overall standings behind the Italian Danilo Di Luca and won the jersey of the best young professional. In 2008 he took part in the Tour de France for the first time as a team mate of the eventual winner Carlos Sastre , where he reached 12th place and won the white jersey of the best young professional.

At the Flèche Wallonne 2009, Andy Schleck took second place behind the Italian Davide Rebellin . Four days later he clinched his first big victory: the then 23-year-old Luxembourger single- handedly won the classic Liège – Bastogne – Liège 1:17 minutes ahead of the runner-up. The subsequent Tour de France 2009 he finished second in the overall standings 4:11 minutes behind the winner Alberto Contador . He also won the white jersey of the best young professional for the second time.

Andy Schleck won the eighth stage of the Tour de France 2010 and picked up the yellow jersey on the 9th stage , which he lost again on the 15th stage due to a technical defect. Schleck was also able to win the 17th stage up to the Col du Tourmalet . In the overall standings he finished second, 39 seconds behind Alberto Contador. He won the white jersey of the best young professional for the third time. After the International Court of Justice (CAS) denied Contador the victory of the Tour de France 2010 due to doping on February 6, 2012, Schleck officially received the yellow jersey of the 2010 Tour winner on May 29, 2012.

The 2011 Tour de France concluded Andy Schleck in second with 1:34 minutes behind Cadel Evans from. After a long solo ride he won the 18th stage on the Col du Galibier and on the 19th stage to Alpe d'Huez he won the yellow jersey from French Thomas Voeckler for the second time in his career . In the time trial the next day, he lost the overall lead again. Between 2009 and 2011 he was elected Luxembourg Sportsman of the Year three times in a row .

Schleck started the 2012 season in weak form. After breaking his sacrum in a fall at the Critérium du Dauphiné , he missed the Tour de France . He only returned to racing in the fall.

Even in 2013 and 2014, Andy Schleck was unable to build on the successes of previous years. After he had not finished numerous races or only achieved rear positions in the spring of 2013, he came 20th in the Tour de France . Also in 2014 he was able to achieve any success and had the Tour de France to give up after being on the 4th stage in a fall the collateral - and cruciate ligaments and the meniscus is a torn and damaged cartilage had suffered in his right knee. On October 9, 2014, he announced the end of his cycling career. On November 27, 2014 Schleck was subsequently awarded in Paris for his victory in the Tour de France 2010; French President François Hollande presented him with the trophy in the Élysée Palace .

social commitment

In 2013 Andy Schleck supported the campaign of the human rights organization Survival International to protect the Awá , an endangered indigenous people in the Amazon region in Brazil, together with other celebrities such as Colin Firth and Vivienne Westwood .

family

Andy Schleck is the youngest of three sons of former Luxembourg cyclist Johny Schleck . In 2015 he became a father. In February 2017 he married his girlfriend Jil Delvaux in Bad Mondorf .

successes

2004
  • MaillotLuxemburgo.PNG Luxembourg Masters - Road Race (U23)
  • MaillotLuxemburgo.PNG Luxembourg champions - individual time trial (U23)
  • Flèche du Sud
2005
  • MaillotLuxemburgo.PNG Luxembourg champions - individual time trial
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
  • MaillotLuxemburgo.PNG Luxembourg champions - individual time trial
  • Yellow jerseyOverall ranking, Jersey white.svgjunior ranking and two stages of the Tour de France
2011

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia 2 - - - - - - -
Yellow jersey Tour de France - 11 2 1 2 - 20th WD
Red jersey Vuelta a España - - DNF DNF - - - -
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ rad-net.de from May 29, 2010: Andy Schleck receives yellow tour jersey for 2010
  2. ↑ radsport-news.com of July 21, 2011: Andy Schleck triumphs after solo riding on the Galibier
  3. ↑ radsport-news.com from June 13, 2012: Tour cancellation low point in Schleck's epidemic year
  4. ↑ radsport-news.com from October 10th, 2012: Andy Schleck at Tour of Beijing with a big deficit
  5. ↑ radsport-news.com from July 9, 2014: Andy Schleck also suffered cartilage damage when he fell
  6. ↑ Former tour winner Andy Schleck ends his career. Süddeutsche Zeitung , October 9, 2014, accessed on October 9, 2014 .
  7. ^ Andy Schleck in the Élysée Palace retrospectively recognized as 2010 Tour winner. rad-net, November 29, 2014, accessed November 29, 2014 .
  8. ↑ Prominent support for the Awá on survivalinternational.de accessed on September 1, 2014
  9. ↑ Andy Schleck got married. Tageblatt , February 18, 2017, accessed on the same day.

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personal data
SURNAME Schleck, Andy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schleck, Andy Raymond (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Luxembourg road cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Luxembourg