Carlos Betancur

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Carlos Betancur Road cycling
Carlos Betancur (2011)
Carlos Betancur (2011)
To person
Full name Carlos Alberto Betancur Gomez
Date of birth October 13, 1989
nation ColombiaColombia Colombia
discipline Street
To the team
Current team Movistar
function driver
Most important successes
UCI WorldTour
2014 Paris – Nice
UCI Road World Championships
2009 silver - Road race (U23)
Last updated: December 31, 2018

Carlos Alberto Betancur Gómez (born October 13, 1989 in Ciudad Bolívar ) is a Colombian road cyclist .

Career

Carlos Betancur was the 2007 Colombian runner-up in the junior class road race. In the 2009 season he won the overall standings and a stage of the U23 event of the Vuelta a Colombia . At the road cycling world championships in Mendrisio he won the silver medal behind the Frenchman Romain Sicard in the road race of the U23 class . In 2010 he was able to win two stages and the overall ranking of the Giro Ciclistico d'Italia , the Giro d'Italia's youth event .

In 2011 he joined the Italian professional Continental Team Acqua & Sapone and won the Giro dell'Emilia, his first race in the highest UCI category on the European calendar . In 2012 he won a stage each of the Tour of Belgium and the Giro di Padania as well as the Trofeo Melinda .

In 2013 Betancur switched to the French ProTeam Ag2r La Mondiale . Here he achieved his first respectable successes in the UCI WorldTour . In the Tour of the Basque Country , he finished seventh overall, before he achieved third place in the second Ardennes classic , the Flèche Wallone , after being in the lead up to a hundred meters from the finish on the final ascent of the wall from Huy , but ultimately from the eventual winner Daniel Moreno and Sergio Henao was overtaken. A few days later he was Liege-Bastogne-Liege in Ans fourth behind winner Daniel Martin , Joaquim Rodríguez and Alejandro Valverde . At the Giro d'Italia , he was fifth overall and won the white jersey of the best young driver.

In the 2014 season Betancur won two stages and the overall standings of the Paris – Nice stage race and thus its first World Tour race. As a result, however, he fell out with the leadership of his team and did not return in June as agreed from a stay in Colombia that he had started in April. He declared that he did not want to take part in the Tour de Suisse because he was tired and was not set up for the 2014 Tour de France by his team . In August, Betancur and the team management agreed to terminate the contract at the end of the year, but he stayed with this team in 2015. He then played for the team in the Vuelta a España 2014 , but finished only 158th. After an unsuccessful 2015 season, the contract was terminated by mutual agreement at the end of August. The following season Betancur signed a contract with the Spanish Movistar team.

In 2016 Betancur won a stage each of the Vuelta a Castilla y León and the Vuelta a Asturias . In 2017 he finished 18th in the overall ranking of the Tour de France and won the hammer climb of the Hammer Sportzone Limburg race . In 2018 he finished 15th in the Giro d'Italia .

successes

2009
  • silver World Championships - Road Races (U23)
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2016
2017
2019

Placements in the Grand Tours

Grand Tour 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia 59 - 5 - 20th DNF - 15th
Yellow jersey Tour de France - - - - - - 18th -
Red jersey Vuelta a España - - 126 158 - - DNF -
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Teams

Web links

Commons : Carlos Betancur  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Substitute captain Moreno inherits Rodriguez. In: radsport-news.com. April 17, 2013, accessed December 31, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Betancur puts his tour debut in jeopardy. In: radsport-news.com. June 10, 2014, accessed December 31, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Betancur will leave Ag2R at the end of the season -. In: radsport-news.com. August 5, 2014, accessed December 31, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Ag2r and Betancur separate with immediate effect. radsport-news.com, August 21, 2015, accessed on August 21, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Betancur, Carlos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Betancur Gómez, Carlos Alberto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Colombian road cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1989
PLACE OF BIRTH Ciudad Bolívar