Manuel António Cardoso
Cardoso at the Critérium du Dauphine 2010 | |
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Full name | Manuel António Leal Cardoso |
Date of birth | April 7, 1983 |
nation | 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
- one stage tour of Portugal
- 2007
- Troféu RDP-Algarve
- two stages Vuelta a Extremadura
- 2008
- two stages Volta ao Santarém
- two stages Volta ao Alentejo
- a stage Vuelta a Madrid
- 2009
- a stage La Tropicale Amissa Bongo
- a stage Circuit de Lorraine
- a stage Grande Prémio CTT Correios de Portugal
- Portuguese champion - road racing
- two stages of the Grande Prémio Internacional de Torres Vedras
- one stage tour of Portugal
- 2010
- a stage tour down under
- 2011
- a stage Volta Ciclista a Catalunya
- 2012
- a stage Vuelta a Castilla y León
- Portuguese champion - road racing
- 2013
- one stage tour of Portugal
- 2014
- a stage Volta ao Alentejo
- four stages Tour du Maroc
- one stage tour of Portugal
- 2015
- a stage Volta ao Alentejo
Grand Tour placements
Grand Tour | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 |
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Giro d'Italia | - | DNF | - |
Tour de France | DNF | - | - |
Vuelta a España | 126 | - | 160 |
Teams
- 2006 Carvalhelhos-Boavista
- 2007 Riberalves-Boavista
- 2008 Liberty Seguros
- 2009 Liberty Seguros
- 2010 Footon-Servetto
- 2011 Team RadioShack
- 2012 Caja Rural
- 2013 Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
- 2014 Banco BIC-Carmim
- 2015 Clube de Ciclismo de Tavira
Web links
- Manuel António Cardoso in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Manuel António Cardoso in the ProCyclingStats.com database
- Manuel António Cardoso in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
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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 |