Leonardo Duque

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Leonardo Duque Road cycling
Leonardo Duque (2016)
Leonardo Duque (2016)
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Full name Leonardo Fabio Duque
Date of birth April 10, 1980
nation ColombiaColombia Colombia (until 2015) France (from 2016)
FranceFrance 
discipline Train, road
Most important successes

a stage Vuelta a España 2007

Last updated: November 12, 2016

Leonardo Fabio Duque (born April 10, 1980 in Cali , Valle del Cauca ) is a former Colombian - French cyclist . He was born a Colombian and also acquired French citizenship in July 2015 . 2016 started with a French license.

Career

Duque was three-time Colombian champion on the track in 2003 - in Madison , points race and scratch . In 2008 he won the track cycling world cup run in Cali the points race.

After winning two stages of the Vuelta a Guatemala on the road in 2003 and thus his first international competitions, he received his first contract with an international cycling team in 2004 , the Belgian Jartazi Granville Team, with which he stayed until the end of 2005. In autumn 2004 he also drove for Chocolade Jacques-Wincor Nixdorf as a stagiaire . He won a stage of the Tour de l'Ain in 2005 and won the one-day race Druivenkoers .

From 2006 to 2012 he drove with the ProTeam Cofidis and won the overall ranking of the Tour du Limousin in 2006. He achieved his greatest success on the 16th stage of the Vuelta a España 2007 as the sprint winner of a three-man breakaway group. This was followed by victories at a stage of the 2008 Mediterranean Tour and at the Grand Prix Cholet-Pays de la Loire .

2013 moved to the Colombian team Colombia . In the same year Duque celebrated successes at GP Beghelli and a stage win at Tour de l'Ain . In 2014 he won the sprint classification of the Tour of Trentino .

In 2016 he moved to Delko Marseille Provence KTM . In November 2016 he won the last stage of the Chinese stage race and thus the overall ranking of the Tour of Taihu Lake . He then announced his retirement from active cycling at the end of the season.

successes

2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2010
2013
2016

Teams

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia 47 47 - - 63 - - 79 78 - -
Yellow jersey Tour de France - - 53 94 - 121 - - - - -
Red jersey Vuelta a España 80 53 67 32 - - 80 - - 60 -

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Leonardo Duque: "Le plus Français des Colombiens". (No longer available online.) Cyclingpro.net, November 21, 2015, archived from the original on December 24, 2016 ; accessed on December 24, 2016 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.cyclingpro.net
  2. ↑ Bert Grabsch runs out of breath in the finale. radsport-news.com, September 18, 2007, accessed December 24, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Duque says goodbye to the peloton with two wins. radsport-news.com, November 12, 2016, accessed November 12, 2016 .

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personal data
SURNAME Duque, Leonardo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Duque Leonardo Fabio
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Colombian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH April 10, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Cali