Mauro Santambrogio
Mauro Santambrogio at the Tour Down Under 2009 | |
To person | |
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Date of birth | October 7, 1984 |
nation | Italy |
discipline | Street |
doping | |
2013 / 2014–2017 | EPO |
Team (s) | |
2004–2005 2006 2007 2007–2009 2010–2012 2013 |
LPR Lampre Tenax Lampre BMC Racing Team Vini Fantini-Selle Italia |
Last updated: October 27, 2015 |
Mauro Santambrogio (born October 7, 1984 in Erba ) is a former Italian cyclist .
Athletic career
Mauro Santambrogio began his professional career in 2004 with the Italian cycling team L.PR-Piacenza . The following year he took part in the UCI Europe Tour , where he won the Swiss one-day race Giro del Lago Maggiore . In 2006 Santambrogio switched to the Italian ProTeam Lampre , in whose service he - after a short detour to Team Tenax - was again until the end of 2009. Between 2010 and 2012 Santambrogio drove for the BMC Racing Team .
In 2008 he finished his first three-week tour of the country with the Vuelta a España . Although he only finished 121st overall, he was able to draw attention to himself with sixth place in the mass sprint of the final stage . Santambrogio made his Tour de France debut in 2009.
His greatest success was in 2013 when he won a mountain finish at the Giro d'Italia in extremely poor weather conditions before Vincenzo Nibali . He finished the tour in ninth place overall. On June 3, 2013, however, it was announced that he had tested positive for the doping agent EPO on the first stage of the Giro d'Italia . It was the second doping case of his team Vini Fantini-Selle Italia during the tour of Italy to Danilo di Luca . In October 2013, he stated that he had toyed with the idea of killing himself. Only the reaction to his farewell tweet on Twitter stopped him. After he worked with the Cycling Independent Reform Commission , initiated by the new UCI President Brian Cookson in 2013 , he received an 18-month suspension that ran until November 2, 2014 instead of one possible four-year ban.
On October 22, 2014, a few days before his suspension expired, Santambrogio tested positive for testosterone . He explained that the preparation was used to treat erectile dysfunction and that he had informed the UCI about this. In October 2015 he was banned for three years retrospectively from October 2014; then he announced his retirement from elite cycling.
Teams
- 2004 Team LPR-Piacenza
- 2005 Team LPR-Piacenza
- 2006 Lampre-Fondital
- 2007 Tenax (until July 28th ) / Lampre-Fondital (from July 29th)
- 2008 Lampre
- 2009 Lampre-NGC
- 2010 BMC Racing Team
- 2011 BMC Racing Team
- 2012 BMC Racing Team
- 2013 Vini Fantini-Selle Italia (until June 3rd)
successes
- 2005
- 2009
- 2013
Placements in the Grand Tours
Grand Tour | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 |
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Giro d'Italia | DNF | - | DNF | - | 86 | DSQ | - |
Tour de France | - | 132 | DNF | - | - | - | - |
Vuelta a España | 121 | - | - | 88 | 58 | - | - |
Web link
- Mauro Santambrogio in the Radsportseiten.net database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Santambrogio tested positive for EPO at the Giro. June 3, 2012, accessed October 13, 2013 .
- ↑ Santambrogio who tested positive wanted to kill himself. October 12, 2013. Retrieved October 13, 2013 .
- ↑ cyclingnews.com of June 17, 2014: Santambrogio confesses to UCI CIRC doping Commission
- ↑ Santambrogio tested positive again before suspension expired. radsport-news.com, December 18, 2014, accessed December 18, 2014 .
- ↑ Santambrogio: "Testosterone cure for erectile problems". radsport-news.com, December 19, 2014, accessed December 20, 2014 .
- ↑ Santambrogio declares his resignation after being suspended again. In: radsport-news.com. October 27, 2015, accessed October 27, 2015 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Santambrogio, Mauro |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian cyclist |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 7, 1984 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Erba |