Carlos Sastre

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Carlos Sastre Road cycling
Entering Paris in the yellow jersey before the overall victory of the Tour de France 2008
Entering Paris in the yellow jersey before the overall victory of the Tour de France 2008
To person
Full name Carlos Sastre Candil
Date of birth April 22, 1975
nation SpainSpain Spain
discipline Street
Driver type Mountain riders
Team (s)
1997–2001
2002–2008
2009–2010
2011 		ONCE-Eroski
CSC-Saxo Bank
Cervélo TestTeam
Geox
Most important successes

Yellow jersey Tour de France 2008

Last updated: January 6, 2015

Carlos Sastre Candil (born April 22, 1975 in Leganés , Madrid ) is a former Spanish cyclist .

His greatest achievement was winning the Tour de France in 2008 . He also got a third ( 2006 ) and a fourth ( 2007 ) place in the Tour de France and two second ( 2005 and 2007 ) and a fourth place ( 2006 ) in the Vuelta a España . He achieved a total of 15 top ten placements in the three major country tours .

Career

Sastre grew up with his siblings in Ávila, central Spain . After the son of the city Ángel Arroyo temporarily led the overall standings at the Vuelta a España in 1982 , Sastre's father Víctor founded the Escuela de ciclismo de El Barraco (for example: the cycling school of El Barraco, a municipality in Ávila), and Carlos Sastre began I started cycling at the age of eight.

Sastre began his professional career in 1997 with the ONCE team . For this team he won the mountain classification of the Vuelta a España 2000 , which he finished eighth overall.

For the 2002 season, Sastre moved to the Danish team CSC . The greatest success of his career with this team was the overall victory of the Tour de France in 2008 . Sastre won the 17th stage with an attack at the foot of the final climb to L'Alpe d'Huez . As a result, he won the overall leader's yellow jersey with a margin of 1:24 minutes , which he defended until Paris. During the time at Team CSC until 2008, Sastre was also able to prove his skills as a specialist in stage races and, in addition to his Tour victory in 2008, was able to place five times in the top ten of the Tour de France and Vuelta a España .

In 2009 and 2010 Sastre drove for the Cervélo TestTeam . He was overall third in the Giro d'Italia 2009 , in which he won two stages. In the following year he was eighth in Italy and seventh in the Tour of Spain . After the end of the 2011 season, which he contested without any particular success with Team Geox , Sastre resigned from active racing.

Personal

Sastre lives in Madrid and is married to Piedi, sister of the late racing cyclist José María Jiménez . The couple have a son and a daughter. As a greeting to his one year old daughter and as a thank you to family, friends and team in general, Sastre put one of her pacifiers in his mouth when he crossed the finish line to win his stage at the 2003 Tour de France. The anecdote made headlines and was picked up repeatedly by the media, especially in connection with Sastre's later Tour de France appearances.

Most important successes

2000
2001
2003
2005
2006
2008
2009

Placements in the Grand Tours

Grand Tour 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - - 38 - - - 43 - - 3 8th 30th
Yellow jersey Tour de France - 20th 10 9 8th 21st 3 4th 1 12 19th -
Red jersey Vuelta a España 8th DNF - 35 6th 2 4th 2 3 - 7th 20th
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Un sueño hecho realidad - Spanish biography on Sastre's website ( Memento of the original from August 27, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on August 26, 2012. My story - English biography on Sastre's website ( Memento from August 27, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.carlossastre.com
  2. ↑ radsport-news.com of July 23, 2008: Schleck gives yellow to Sastre, Kohl third
  3. ↑ cyclingnews.com from September 15, 2011: Carlos Sastre announces his retirement
  4. ↑ Agencias (19 July 2003). Carlos Sastre se adjudica el triunfo en la decimotercera etapa. abc.es (Spanish; accessed July 26, 2008)
  5. ↑ For example, Andrew Hood (1 March 2004). Sastre wants more of the same. velonews.com (accessed July 26, 2008)
    Bjorn Haake (ed .; July 25, 2008). Sastre enjoyed the first day in yellow. cyclingnews.com (accessed July 26, 2008)
personal data
SURNAME Sastre, Carlos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sastre Candil, Carlos (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH April 22, 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Leganés , Madrid