Borut Božič

Borut Božič

Borut Božič (2016)
To person
Date of birth	8th August 1980 (age 40)
nation	Slovenia
discipline	Street
To the team
Current team	Bahrain-McLaren
function	driver
Last updated: May 15, 2019

Borut Božič (born August 8, 1980 in Ljubljana ) is a Slovenian racing cyclist .

Career

Borut Božič is considered a sprint specialist. He started his career in 2004 with the Slovenian cycling team Perutnina Ptuj . In the following years u. a. several victories in sections of stage races , two overall victories in the Istrian Spring Trophy and one in the Tour de la Region Wallonne . In 2008 and 2012 he was the Slovenian road champion. His first victory in a UCI ProTour race was the 2009 Tour of Poland . In the sprint of the peloton on the sixth stage of the Vuelta a España in 2009, he won his most important international bike race to date.

In the course of the doping investigation by the Public Prosecutor of Padua at the end of 2014, he was suspected of having been a customer of the controversial sports medicine specialist Michele Ferrari .

As part of the investigation into the "Operation Aderlass" involving the German sports doctor Mark Schmidt , Božič was again suspected of violating anti-doping regulations in May 2019.

successes

2004

• one stage of the Istrian Spring Trophy
• two stages tour of Slovenia
• one stage tour of Serbia

2005

• Overall ranking and one stage of the Istrian Spring Trophy
• a stage Tour de l'Avenir

2006

• three stages tour of Cuba
• Overall ranking and prologue of the Istrian Spring Trophy
• three stages of the Olympia's Tour
• Circuit des Ardennes
• two stages tour of Slovenia

2007

• Grand Prix Kranj
• Overall ranking Tour de la Région Wallonne
• a stage tour of Ireland

2008

• a stage of the Étoile de Bessèges
• a stage of the Ruta del Sol
• one stage Delta Tour Zeeland
• Slovenian champion - road race

2009

• two stages tour of Belgium
• one stage tour of Poland
• a stage Tour de Limousin
• a stage Vuelta a España

2010

• two stages of the Étoile de Bessèges
• one stage Tour of Britain

2011

• one stage Tour de Suisse

2012

• Slovenian champion - road race

2018

• one stage Hammer Sportzone Limburg

Placements in the Grand Tours

Grand Tour	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016
Giro d'Italia	-	-	DNF	-	-	124	-	-
Tour de France	-	-	136	129	-	-	-	DNF
Vuelta a España	102	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Teams

• 2004 Perutnina Ptuj
• 2005 Perutnina Ptuj
• 2006 Perutnina Ptuj
• 2007 Team LPR
• 2008 Cycle Collstrop
• 2009 Vacansoleil
• 2010 Vacansoleil
• 2011 Vacansoleil-DCM
• 2012 Astana Pro Team
• 2013 Astana Pro Team
• 2014 Astana Pro Team
• 2015 Astana Pro Team
• 2016 Cofidis, Solutions Crédits
• 2017 Bahrain-Merida
• 2018 Bahrain-Merida

Individual evidence

1. ↑ cf. Vacansoleil relies on Sprinter Bozic for Giro debut. radsport-news.com, May 2, 2011, accessed December 27, 2014 . 
2. ↑ Bozic: "I achieved something great". radsport-news.com, September 5, 2009, accessed December 27, 2014 . 
3. ^ Gazetta dello Sport: Systematic doping in Astana. radsport-news.com, December 10, 2014, accessed December 27, 2014 . 
4. ↑ Doping: Four professional cyclists under suspicion May 15, 2019

Web links

Commons : Borut Božič  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Borut Božič in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Borut Božič in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Borut Božič in the Tour de France database(French / English )