Christian Vande Velde

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Christian Vande Velde Road cycling
Christian Vande Velde on the Tour of Missouri
Christian Vande Velde on the Tour of Missouri
To person
Nickname VdV, CVV
Date of birth May 22, 1976
nation United StatesUnited States United States
discipline Street
Driver type Tour driver
To the team
Current team End of career
function driver
Team (s)
1998–2003
2004
2005–2007
2008–2013 		US Postal Service Pro Cycling Team
Liberty Seguros
Team CSC
Garmin
Most important successes


Tour of Luxembourg 2006 Tour of Missouri 2008
one stage Giro d'Italia (MZF) 2008
one stage Tour de France (MZF) 2011

Last updated: September 11, 2013

Christian Vande Velde (born May 22, 1976 in Lemont , Illinois ) is a retired American cyclist . He took part in the Tour de France several times as an assistant to successful riders and placed in the top ten twice. At the end of his career he confessed to doping and was banned.

Career

Christian Vande Velde turned pro with the US Postal Service Pro Cycling Team in 1998 . In both 1999 and 2001, he helped as a part of this team Lance Armstrong to his seven two later because of doping but knew Tour de France -Siegen. During that time he was able to win his first stage race in 1999, the Redlands Bicycle Classics . In the years from 2003 to 2007 he supported his respective team captains as a noble helper. B. Carlos Sastre at Team CSC . The significant individual success during this time was winning the Tour of Luxembourg in 2006.

In 2008 Vande Velde switched to the Garmin-Cervélo team . There he conquered the Maglia Rosa on the team's first big tour, the Giro d'Italia 2008 , after the team had won the first stage, a team time trial. He also showed a strong performance at the Tour de France in the same year and finished fourth in the overall standings. He ended the season by winning the Tour of Missouri . In 2009 he finished the Tour de France in eighth place despite helping out for his captain Bradley Wiggins . The year 2010 was more than unfortunate for Vande Velde, as he had to give up both the Giro and the Tour early due to serious injuries from a fall, whereupon he wanted to end his career.

In the 2011 season, Vande Velde started instead of the previous years at the Giro d'Italia in the California Tour , which he finished in fourth place. In the 2011 Tour de France , Vande Velde supported Thomas Danielson after losing a lot of time due to a fall. Danielson finished eighth and the team won the team championship . Vande Velde took 17th place overall.

Vande Velde was banned from the US anti-doping agency USADA for six months after a confession because of his involvement in the doping system of the US Postal team , and his results were from April 4, 2004 until April 30 Revoked in 2006. He accepted the decision.

At the end of the 2013 season, Vande Velde ended his career as a professional cyclist after finishing the Giro d'Italia in 110th place and giving up the Tour de France on the 7th stage after a fall.

family

Christian Vande Velde's father, John , took part in the Olympic cycling competitions in 1968 and 1972 and was later a member of the UCI Track Cycling Commission .

successes

1999

2002

2005

2006

2008

2009

2011

2012

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - - - - - - - 114 - - 52 DNF DNF - 22nd 110
Yellow jersey Tour de France - 85 - DNF - - 56 - 22nd 24 4th 7th DNF 16 60 DNF
Red jersey Vuelta a España 90 - - - 25th - - 31 - 39 - - 58 - - -
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

The placements in 2004 and 2005 were revoked.

Teams

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ velonation.com of June 18, 2011: Vande Velde pleased with Tour de Suisse showing
  2. ↑ slipstreamsports.com from July 23, 2011: Danielson secures top-10, Garmin-Cervélo's poised to win team GC ( Memento of the original from September 3, 2014 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.slipstreamsports.com
  3. ↑ spiegel.de of October 10, 2012: Tour record driver Hincapie admits doping
  4. ↑ a b c cyclingnews.com of October 10, 2012: Six former Armstrong USPS teammates receive bans from USADA
  5. ↑ derstandard.at of July 5, 2013: Sagan with the first triumph

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personal data
SURNAME Vande Velde, Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Lemont (Illinois)