David Millar

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David Millar at the Tour de Romandie 2011
David Millar at the Tour de Romandie 2011

David Millar (born January 4, 1977 in Mtarfa , Malta ) is a retired Scottish cyclist . He was considered one of the strongest time trial drivers of his generation. In 2004 he was convicted of doping .

Career

In 1997 David Millar became a professional cyclist with the French Équipe Cofidis . In 1999 he won the Isle of Man International (also Manx Trophy) race, which was one of the most traditional international road races in Great Britain. At the Tour de France 2000 , Millar won the first stage - an individual time trial over 16.5 km - and subsequently wore the yellow jersey for three days . In the following years he won stages in the Tour (once in 2002, once in 2003) and in the Vuelta a España (twice in 2001, once in 2003).

The year 2003 was ultimately the most successful of Millar's career up to that point: In the 2003 anniversary tour , he only missed victory in the prologue in Paris (which started under the Eiffel Tower ) due to technical problems . In the autumn he won the individual time trial of the World Championships in Hamilton (Ontario) after he had finished second in the same discipline in 2001 behind Jan Ullrich . He also won the Tour de Picardie .

In the summer of 2004, David Millar admitted, after police interrogation as part of the Cofidis affair, that he was taking EPO to improperly improve performance. He was subsequently stripped of his time trial world title from 2003 and awarded to the Australian Michael Rogers ; he was fired from the Cofidis team. He was banned until June 23, 2006.

Over the next few years, Millar took an offensive against doping and dealt with his own doping past in his autobiography Thoroughbred Racer , published in 2012 .

After his two-year ban, Millar contested the Tour de France 2006 for the Saunier Duval team and then won the individual time trial at the Vuelta a España 2006 . In March 2007, he won the Paris – Nice prologue . He was also a two-time British champion, in road races as well as in the individual time trial, after having become British champion in the single pursuit on the track the year before . Since the 2008 season, Millar drove for the US team Garmin-Chipotle and its successor teams . At the Vuelta a España 2009 he was second in the seventh stage, an individual time trial, behind the Swiss Fabian Cancellara , and won the 20th stage (EZF). In 2010 he won the final time trial at the Critérium International . At the Giro d'Italia 2011 he drove for two days in the Maglia Rosa .

After the road race at the 2014 World Championships , Millar retired as a professional cyclist.

Private

Millar, son of a Royal Air Force pilot, grew up in Hong Kong . He is not related to his Scottish namesake, former cyclist Robert Millar .

successes

1997
1998
2000
2001
2002
2003
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012

Grand Tours placements

Grand Tour 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014
Pink jersey giro - - - - - - - - 94 DNF DNF 100 - DNF -
Yellow jersey trip 62 DNF 68 55 - - 58 69 68 85 158 76 106 113 -
red jersey Vuelta - 64 DNF 102 - - 64 - - 80 109 - - - 144

Teams

Publications

Web links

Commons : David Millar  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Manx International. Retrieved December 16, 2019 .
  2. ↑ radsport-seite.de: David Millar - The EPO World Champion accessed on August 2, 2011
  3. ↑ a b Millar: In Ponferrada the circle came full. In: radsport-news.com. September 30, 2014, accessed March 2, 2020 .


personal data
SURNAME Millar, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th January 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Mtarfa , Malta