José Serpa

José Serpa at the Giro d'Italia 2010

José Rodolfo Serpa Pérez (born April 17, 1979 in Corozal ) is a Colombian racing cyclist .

Athletic career

Serpa got his first success in 2003 at the Pan American Games in 2003 , he won the gold medal in the time trial. In 2004 he was then Pan-American champion in the team pursuit and in the Madison . At the Vuelta a Venezuela he won a stage in the summer of 2005. He got off to an excellent start in the new year. He was able to win three stages in the Vuelta al Táchira , whereupon he received a contract with Selle Italia-Diquigiovanni . In his first race for this tam, he won two stages of the Tour de Langkawi and finished sixth in the overall standings. At the end of the 2006 season, he was the overall winner of the UCI America Tour . In 2009 and 2012 he won the Tour de Langkawi , in 2001 the Giro del Friuli and in 2012 the Trofeo Laigueglia .

José Serpa competed at the Olympic Games twice - in 2004 and 2008 . In 2004 he competed in the two-man team driving with Leonardo Duque ; the duo took 16th place; In 2008 he was 40th in the road race.

In 2013 Serpa started in the Tour de France and finished 21st in the overall standings, the following year he was 48th of the Tour . At the end of 2015, he announced his retirement from active competitive cycling after he had not received a new contract with his team Lampre-Merida , for which he had ridden since 2013.

successes

2003

• Pan American champions - individual time trial
• Pan American Games - Individual Time Trial

2004

• Pan American Champion - Team Pursuit
• Pan American Champion - Madison (with John Fredy Parra )

2005

• a stage Vuelta a Venezuela

2006

• three stages Vuelta al Táchira
• two stages Tour de Langkawi
• Panamerican champions - road races
• Central American and Caribbean Games - Individual Time Trial
• Overall winner of the UCI America Tour

2007

• a stage Vuelta al Táchira

2008

• one stage Tour de Langkawi
• a stage Vuelta a Venezuela
• Overall ranking and two stages of Clásico Ciclístico Banfoandes

2009

• one stage Tour de San Luis
• Overall ranking and one stage of the Tour de Langkawi
• a stage Vuelta a Venezuela

2010

• a stage Settimana Internazionale
• a stage Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda

2011

• one stage Tour de San Luis
• Giro del Friuli
• Team time trial Settimana Internazionale

2012

• Overall ranking and two stages of the Tour de Langkawi

2014

• Trofeo Laigueglia

2017

• a stage Vuelta a Colombia

2018

• a stage and mountain classification Vuelta al Táchira

Grand Tour overall ranking

Grand Tour	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015
Giro d'Italia	31	-	26th	12	30th	52	87	27	-	-
Tour de France	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	21st	48	116
Vuelta a España	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Teams

• 2006 Selle Italia-Serramenti Diquigiovanni
• 2007 Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Selle Italia
• 2008 Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli
• 2009 Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni-Androni Giocattoli
• 2010 Androni Giocattoli-Serramenti PVC Diquigiovanni
• 2011 Androni Giocattoli-CIPI
• 2012 Androni Giocattoli-Venezuela
• 2013 Lampre-Merida
• 2014 Lampre-Merida
• 2015 Lampre-Merida

• 2018 GW-Shimano

Web links

Commons : José Serpa  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Serpa ends career, Ewan wins again. In: radsport-news.com. April 23, 2015, accessed January 2, 2016 .