Koldo Gil
Koldo Gil Pérez (born January 16, 1978 in Pamplona ) is a former Spanish cyclist .
Career
Gil turned pro in 2001 with the Spanish cycling team iBanesto.com . He celebrated his first international success in 2002 on a stage of the Vuelta a La Rioja , but his breakthrough came in the Tour of Catalonia in 2003 with a third place overall. His other successes include u. a. the overall victory of the Tour of Murcia 2005 and a stage victory at the Giro d'Italia 2005 .
At the Tour de Suisse 2006 he initially took second place in the overall standings, just 24 seconds behind the winner Jan Ullrich . Gil had won the sixth stage to La Punt-Chamues-ch and stayed in the lead until the final individual time trial, which he finished in ninth, 1:14 minutes behind Ullrich and thus narrowly missed the Tour victory. Due to a ruling by the International Court of Justice CAS on February 9, 2012 , Ullrich was subsequently stripped of his victory due to his collaboration with Eufemiano Fuentes and his involvement in the doping scandal named after Fuentes . Therefore Gil subsequently moved up to first place in the overall ranking.
Gil himself is said to have been on Fuentes' customer list, which is why his Saunier Duval-Prodir team refused to take part in the tour in the run-up to the Vuelta a España 2006 . In 2009 he announced his resignation. When he resigned, he blamed the UCI for not having found a new team.
successes
2002
- a stage Vuelta a La Rioja
2004
- Overall ranking Vuelta a Castilla y León
2005
- Overall ranking of the Tour of Murcia
- a stage of the Giro d'Italia
2006
- Overall ranking and two stages of Euskal Bizikleta
- Overall ranking and a Tour de Suisse stage
- 2007
- Subida al Naranco
- Overall rating of the Tour of Asturias
- 2008
Teams
- 2001 iBanesto.com
- 2002 iBanesto.com
- 2003 ONCE-Eroski
- 2004 Liberty Seguros
- 2005 Liberty Seguros-Würth
- 2006 Saunier Duval-Prodir
- 2007 Saunier Duval-Prodir
- 2008 Liberty Seguros Continental
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Sports court found Jan Ullrich guilty. spiegel.de, February 9, 2012, accessed on February 9, 2012 .
- ↑ The Tour de Suisse in numbers. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: Statistics. Tour de Suisse. InfrontRingier Sports & Entertainment Switzerland AG, p. 9 , archived from the original on January 30, 2015 ; accessed on July 27, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ In Dr. Fuentes' affair involved. nzz.ch, August 25, 2006, accessed on February 4, 2015 .
- ↑ Kodo Gil resigns and criticizes UCI. radsport-news.com, February 16, 2009, accessed September 6, 2013 .
Web links
- Koldo Gil in the database of Radsportseiten.net
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Gil, Koldo |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gil Pérez, Koldo (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish cyclist |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 16, 1978 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Pamplona , Spain |