Luca Paolini

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Luca Paolini Road cycling
Luca Paolini (2013)
Luca Paolini (2013)
To person
Nickname Il Gerva
Date of birth 17th January 1977
nation ItalyItaly Italy
discipline Road, mountain bike
Most important successes

bronze 2004 World Cup - road race
one stage Vuelta a España 2006
one stage Giro d'Italia 2013

Last updated: February 16, 2017

Luca Paolini (born January 17, 1977 in Milan ) is an Italian racing cyclist .

Athletic career

Paolini became a professional with the Mapei-Quickstep cycling team in 2000 and moved to Quick Step with team manager Patrick Lefevere , where he stayed until 2005. He is considered one of the best precious helpers of road cycling , with both his UCI teams, as well as with the Italian national road world championships . At the beginning of his career he was able to win the semi-classics Giro del Piemonte , Pfeil von Brabant and Coppa Placci as individual successes . At the UCI Road World Championships 2004 in Verona, third in the sprint of a leading group behind Óscar Freire and Erik Zabel . At the HEW Cyclassics , Paolini finished second behind his team-mate Filippo Pozzato in 2005 . His most successful year so far was 2013 when he won the classic Omloop Het Nieuwsblad , a fifth place in the cycling monument Milan-Sanremo and in his first participation in the Giro d'Italia, won the third stage as a soloist and won the pink jersey . In 2015 he blew up a six-man leading group with an attack near Gent – ​​Wevelgem shortly before the finish and thereby won his first UCI WorldTour - one-day race .

During the Tour de France 2015 , Paolini tested positive for cocaine after the fourth stage and was immediately taken out of the race by his Katusha team . In December 2015, in an interview with Gazzetta dello Sport , he stated that he was addicted to sleeping pills and cocaine. After his brother died ten years ago, he began to take sleeping pills regularly. After his suspension in the summer, he went to a rehab clinic. The incident during the tour was a "wake-up call" and initiated a turning point in his life. His case is still pending with the Anti-Doping Commission of the World Cycling Federation UCI ; Paolini is still suspended. In April 2016, the UCI announced that Paolini had been banned for 18 months until January 6, 2017.

Paolini then initially announced his resignation, but returned to active sport as a mountain biker after his suspension had expired .

Honors

In 2016 an asteroid was named after him: (42697) Lucapaolini .

successes

2000

2001

2002

2003

2004

2006

2007

2008

2009
2013
2015

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - - - - - - - - - - 59 111 111
Yellow jersey Tour de France 69 - - 100 - - - - - 108 - 136 WD
Red jersey Vuelta a España - DNF - DNF - - - - 135 - - - -
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Teams

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. Luca Paolini. (No longer available online.) Strassenradsport.com, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on March 29, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.strassenradsport.com
  2. ↑ Paolini triumphs as an outlier. radsport-news.com, March 29, 2015, accessed March 29, 2015 .
  3. ↑ radsport-news.com - Paolini tested positive for cocaine. In: radsport-news.com. April 23, 2015, accessed July 10, 2015 .
  4. ↑ Suspended Paolini admits drug problem. In: rad-net.de. March 25, 2013, accessed December 27, 2015 .
  5. ^ Sid ( Sport-Informations-Dienst ): After cocaine violation: UCI bans Paolini for 18 months. (No longer available online.) In: handelsblatt.com . April 13, 2016, archived from the original on April 13, 2016 ; accessed on April 13, 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.handelsblatt.com
  6. ↑ Paolini is returning - on a mountain bike. radsport-news.com, February 16, 2017, accessed February 16, 2017 .

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personal data
SURNAME Paolini, Luca
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH 17th January 1977
PLACE OF BIRTH Milan