José Azevedo (cyclist)

José Azevedo

José Bento Azevedo Carvalho (born September 19, 1973 in Vila do Conde , Portugal ) is a former Portuguese cyclist .

Athletic career

Azevedo became a professional in 1994 with the Portuguese cycling team Recer-Boavista . Between 2001 and 2003 he drove for the Spanish team ONCE-Eroski and developed into a specialist for the "Grand Tours" . In his first participation in a three-week tour, the Giro d'Italia 2001 , he finished fifth. In his Tour de France debut in 2002 , he finished sixth. He took part in the Tour de France four more times, completing the tour each time. His best placement was fifth in the 2004 Tour de France , which he contested as well as the 2005 event as a helper to the winner Lance Armstrong , who was later disqualified for doping .

Professional

After his active career, which ended in 2008, Azevedo worked as a sporting director : in 2010 with Team RadioShack and in 2014 with Team Katusha .

successes

1998

• a stage Volta a Portugal

2001

• one stage Volta ao Algarve

2004

• Tour de France team time trial

2005

• Tour de France team time trial

2007

• one stage GP CTT Correios de Portugal

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006
Giro d'Italia	5	-	-	-	-	-
Tour de France	-	6th	26th	5	30th	19th
Vuelta a España	-	34	DNF	-	DNF	-

Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Teams

• 1994-1995 Recer-Boavista
• 1996-2000 Maia
• 2001-2003 ONCE-Eroski
• 2004-2006 US Postal / Discovery Channel
• 2007-2008 Benfica

Individual evidence

1. ↑ UCI team database , accessed April 21, 2014.

Web links

Commons : José Azevedo  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• José Azevedo in the Radsportseiten.net database
• José Azevedo (cyclist) in the Tour de France database(French / English )
• José Azevedo in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )