Maximiliano Richeze
Maximiliano Richeze at the Tour de France 2018 | |
To person | |
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Full name | Ariel Maximiliano Richeze Araquistain |
Date of birth | March 7, 1983 |
nation | Argentina |
discipline | Road / train |
Driver type | Sprinter (road) |
height | 177 cm |
Racing weight | 68 kg |
To the team | |
Current team | UAE Team Emirates |
function | driver |
doping | |
2008-2010 | Steroids |
Most important successes | |
two stages Giro d'Italia 2007 |
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Last updated: January 12, 2020 |
Ariel Maximiliano Richeze Araquistain (born March 7, 1983 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine cyclist .
Athletic career
In track cycling Richeze 2003 Argentine champion in 1000 m time trial . At the Vuelta Ciclista Por Un Chile Líder 2004 he won a stage and thus his first international elite race. In 2005 he became the Pan-American U23 road racing champion .
Subsequently, Richeze received his first contract with an international cycling team with the Italian professional continental team Ceramiche Panaria-Navigare in 2006 , for which he won the first stage of the Tour de Langkawi 2006 , a race hors categorie . He contested his first Grand Tour with the Giro d'Italia in 2006 and was able to place in the top 10 six times in sprint finishes. At the Giro d'Italia 2007 he was second twice in the mass sprint behind Alessandro Petacchi and was declared the stage winner after his doping disqualification.
After his final stage win at the Circuit de la Sarthe in 2008 , Richeze tested positive for anabolic steroids . One day before the start of the Giro d'Italia 2008 he was suspended and later banned for two years until May 2010.
After the end of his doping ban, Richeze drove for smaller teams in 2011 and 2012 and achieved successes above all in Asia and Eastern Europe, but also on four stages of the Tour of Venezuela in 2012. He was also the 2012 Pan American road racing champion.
Then Richeze got a contract with the UCI ProTeam Lampre-Merida around Alessandro Petacchi. This year Richeze won a gold medal in scratch at the Pan American Championships in Aguascalientes on the track and in the team pursuit with the Argentine team .
For the 2016 season, Richeze switched to Etixx-Quick Step , where he was supposed to support Marcel Kittel and Fernando Gaviria in the sprint finishes . Elia Viviani later became the team's most successful sprinter. Richezes most significant individual successes during this time were the stage victories in the UCI WorldTour races Tour de Suisse 2016 , Tour of Turkey 2018 and the gold medal in the road race of the Pan American Games 2019 . After four years with this team, Richeze joined the UAE Team Emirates in 2020 , which he already belonged to when it was still called Lampre .
At the end of February 2020, Maximiliano Richeze started the UAE Tour and fell ill - like four other racing drivers - from COVID-19 . On March 25th, he was released from the hospital cured.
family
Maximiliano Richezes brothers Adrian, Mauro and Roberto are also racing cyclists.
successes
- 2003
- 2004
- 2005
- Panamerica champions (U23) - road race
- Circuito del Porto
- 2006
- one stage Tour de Langkawi
2007
- two stages of the Giro d'Italia
- one stage tour of Luxembourg
- one stage Tour de Langkawi
- one stage of the Giro del Trentino
2008
- one stage Tour de San Luis
- a stage Circuit de la Sarthe
- 2011
- Prologue Tour de Kumano
- three stages tour of Slovakia
- 2012
- Panamerican champions - road races
- one stage Tour of Japan
- one stage Tour de Kumano
- three stages tour of Serbia
- four stages Vuelta a Venezuela
- Overall ranking and two stages Tour de Hokkaidō
- 2013
- Pan American champions - team pursuit (with Walter Pérez , Mauro Richeze and Eduardo Sepúlveda )
- Pan American Champion - Scratch
- 2015
- Pan American Games - Team Pursuit (with Adrián Richeze , Juan Dario Merlos and Mauro Agostini )
- 2016
- Team time trial Tour de San Luis
- a stage and points classification Tour de Suisse
- 2017
- two stages Vuelta Provincia de San Juan
- 2018
- a stage Vuelta Provincia de San Juan
- Pan American Championship - Road Race
- one stage tour of Turkey
- 2019
- Argentine champion - road race
- Pan America Game Winner - Street Racing
Grand Tour placements
Grand Tour | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
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Giro d'Italia | 138 | 92 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 127 | - | 148 | - | - |
Tour de France | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | DNF | - | 144 | - | 135 | 149 |
Vuelta a España | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 141 | 138 | 144 | - | - | - | 148 |
Teams
- 2006 Ceramica Panaria-Navigare
- 2007 Ceramica Panaria-Navigare
- 2008 CSF Group-Navigare
- 2011 D'Angelo & Antenucci-Nippo
- 2012 Team Nippo
- 2013 Lampre-Merida
- 2014 Lampre-Merida
- 2015 Lampre-Merida
- 2016 Etixx-Quick Step
- 2017 Quick-Step Floors
- 2018 Quick-Step Floors
- 2019 Deceuninck-Quick-Step
- 2020 UAE Team Emirates
Web links
- Maximiliano Richeze in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Maximiliano Richeze in the ProCyclingStats.com database
- Maximiliano Richeze in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Richeze cheers after South American cooperation. In: radsport-news.com. June 15, 2016, accessed January 12, 2020 .
- ↑ Richeze excluded from the Giro. In: rad-net.de. March 25, 2013, accessed November 27, 2016 .
- ↑ Coronavirus: Richeze can leave the hospital. In: classic.rad-net.de. March 26, 2020, accessed March 26, 2020 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Richeze, Maximiliano |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Richeze Araquistain, Maximiliano Ariel (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | argentinian cyclist |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 7, 1983 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Buenos Aires , Argentina |