Mauricio Soler

Soler on the climb to the Col de la Colombiere on the 7th stage of the 2007 Tour de France

Juan Mauricio Soler Hernández (born January 14, 1983 in Ramiriquí , Boyacá ) is a former Colombian cyclist .

Career

In 2006 Soler won the French stage race Circuit de Lorraine . In Milan-Turin he was already in 25th place. This season he drove for the Italian Professional Continental Team Acqua e Sapone . He has already participated in ProTour events through wildcards . Soler was also set up by the Colombian Cycling Association for the road cycling world championship in Salzburg. However, he had to end the race early and did not make it to the finish.

For the 2007 season he moved to the British team Barloworld , which was admitted to the Tour de France by wildcard . There he won the ninth stage on July 17, 2007 and won the mountain classification .

After Soler had won the 2nd stage of the Tour de Suisse 2011 and wore the yellow jersey for one day, he had a serious fall as second in the overall standings at the beginning of the 6th stage on June 16 and suffered a fracture of the base of the skull Ankle and lung injuries. He was transported by helicopter to the St. Gallen Cantonal Hospital , where he was temporarily put into an artificial coma . Due to an improvement in his condition, he was relocated to Pamplona , Spain, his adopted home at the beginning of July , and has been in ongoing rehabilitation since then , the end of which is not in sight. In October, four months after his fall, Soler was able to leave the Pamplona hospital and is scheduled to return to his homeland in Colombia in December .

On July 18, 2012, it was announced that the Colombian will likely not be able to return to cycling despite his ongoing rehabilitation.

Palmarès

2005

• a stage Vuelta a Colombia

2006

• Overall standings and one stage Circuit de Lorraine

2007

• a stage and mountain classification Tour de France
• Overall ranking and one stage Burgos Tour

2009

• Mountain classification Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda

2011

• one stage Tour de Suisse

Teams

• 2005 EPM orbit
• 2006 Acqua & Sapone
• 2007-2009 Barloworld
• 2010 Caisse d'Epargne
• 2011 Movistar team

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Soler can leave intensive care unit - report on Blick.ch
2. ↑ Soler before returning to Colombia - report on cyclingnews.com (accessed November 20, 2011)
3. ↑ End of career: Soler will not return to cycling - report on Live-Radsport.ch (accessed on July 19, 2012)

Web links

• Mauricio Soler in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Mauricio Soler in the Tour de France database(French / English )