Georg Preidler

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Georg Preidler Road cycling
Georg Preidler (2010)
Georg Preidler (2010)
To person
Date of birth 17th June 1990 (age 30)
nation AustriaAustria Austria
discipline Street
To the team
Current team Groupama-FDJ
function driver
doping
February 2018 to December 23, 2018 (ban until March 4, 2023) Autologous blood doping
Last updated: February 19, 2017

Georg Preidler (born June 17, 1990 in Graz ) is a former Austrian road cyclist .

Athletic career

Georg Preidler began his international career in 2010 with the Austrian Continental Team ARBÖ Gourmetfein Wels and this year came second in the Austrian mountain championships. In addition to cycling, Preidler studied mining at the Montan University Leoben .

In 2011 he switched to the Tyrol team . He was the first Austrian to win the Toscana-Terra di Ciclismo-Coppa delle Nazioni stage race, which is part of the U23 Men's Cycling Nations Cup, and the Gran Premio Palio del Recioto that same week . At the Austrian U23 road championships, he was third.

After a year with the Professional Continental Team Type 1-Sanofi , Preidler switched to ProTeam Argos-Shimano in 2013 . For this team he contested his first Grand Tours : He finished 36th in the Vuelta a España 2013 and finished the Giro d'Italia 2014 in 27th place.

In 2015 the Austrian became national champion in the individual time trial and competed in the Tour de France for the first time , where he was eleventh in the junior class. At the Giro d'Italia , Preidler came third out of a group of three on the 14th stage and ended up 26th in the overall ranking. In 2017 Preidler was again Austrian champion in the individual time trial.

In 2018, after five years at Sunweb , he switched to the French team Groupama-FDJ and, with a 4.5 second lead over Matthias Brändle from Vorarlberg, became state champion in the time trial for the third time and third in the road race. Furthermore, he won the 6th stage of the Tour of Poland after he was able to break away from the group of favorites to the overall standings shortly before the finish and thus recorded his first victory in the UCI WorldTour .

Doping ban 2019

In the course of "Operation Aderlass" it became known in March 2019 that Preidler had filed a voluntary report for attempted blood doping . He had blood drawn twice, but never returned. At the same time he announced his immediate resignation. In June 2019 it became known that Preidler is said to have actively engaged in doping, which is why he was denied all services rendered in 2018 and he and his colleague Stefan Denifl were banned from cycling for four years.

In September 2019, Georg Preidler was charged by the Innsbruck public prosecutor's office with "serious commercial fraud" after he filed a voluntary report in March. He started doping from the beginning of the Giro d'Italia 2017 . On January 14, 2020, Preidler and cross-country skier Dominik Baldauf will have to answer at the Innsbruck Regional Court on charges of serious commercial fraud. On January 16, 2020 it was reported that Preidler had admitted in court that he had "done blood doping".

successes

Preidler at the Giro 2016
2010
  • silver Austrian Championship - Mountain
2011
2012
2013
2015
  • MaillotAustria.PNG Austrian champion - individual time trial
2017
  • Mountain classification Ruta del Sol
  • MaillotAustria.PNG Austrian champion - individual time trial

Denied successes

2018

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - 27 - 26th 71 29
Yellow jersey Tour de France - - 87 56 - -
Red jersey Vuelta a España 36 - - - - DNF
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Teams

Web links

Commons : Georg Preidler  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. 2010 Austria. State champions and champions on radsportverband.at accessed on August 31, 2014
  2. Preidler earned the respect. (No longer available online.) In: kleinezeitung.at. September 24, 2013, archived from the original on September 29, 2014 ; accessed on March 4, 2019 .
  3. 2011 Austrian State champions and champions on radsportverband.at accessed on August 31, 2014
  4. Bombs away! Preidler descends to first WorldTour win in Tour de Pologne. In: cyclingnews.com. August 9, 2018, accessed March 4, 2019 .
  5. Magdalena Ennemoser: Next doping case: World Cup starter Preidler reports himself. In: tt.com. March 4, 2019, accessed March 4, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Professional cyclist Preidler filed a voluntary report
  7. Doping: Preidler informs the team
  8. Denifl and Preidler blocked for four years
  9. Public prosecutor accuses professional cyclist Preidler. In: rad-net.de. September 18, 2019, accessed September 18, 2019 .
  10. Operation Aderlass - Trials against Preidler and Baldauf start (January 12, 2020)
  11. rad-net.de, published on January 16, 2020, 12:39:50 PM: Preidler pleads partly guilty in the doping process - content. Retrieved January 17, 2020 .