Manuel António Cardoso

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Manuel António Cardoso Road cycling
Cardoso at the Critérium du Dauphine 2010
Cardoso at the Critérium du Dauphine 2010
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Full name Manuel António Leal Cardoso
Date of birth April 7, 1983
nation PortugalPortugal Portugal
discipline Street
End of career 2015
Last updated: September 29, 2018

Manuel António Leal Cardoso (born April 7, 1983 in Paços de Ferreira ) is a former Portuguese cyclist .

Athletic career

Manuel Cardoso was active as an elite racing driver from 2006 to 2015. In his first year he won one stage of the Tour of Portugal and three more in the following years. In total, he won 17 UCI races during his cycling career . 15 of these successes were stage wins in tours, most of them on the Iberian Peninsula , such as the Vuelta a Castilla y León , the Volta ao Alentejo or the Grande Prémio Internacional de Torres Vedras . In 2009 he was successful at a stage of the Tropicale Amissa Bongo Ondimba in Gabon and in 2010 at a stage of the Tour Down Under in Australia . In 2009 he became the Portuguese road racing champion. He started four times in major country tours . At the Vuelta a España 2010 he was third in the 18th stage, behind the British Mark Cavendish and the Argentine Juan José Haedo .

In 2012 Cardoso took part in the road race at the Olympic Games in London and finished 49th. In 2015, he finished his cycling career.

successes

2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 2010 2011 2012
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - DNF -
Yellow jersey Tour de France DNF - -
Red jersey Vuelta a España 126 - 160
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

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SURNAME Cardoso, Manuel António
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cardoso, Manuel António Leal (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Portuguese cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Paços de Ferreira