Maximiliano Richeze

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Maximiliano Richeze Road cycling
Maximiliano Richeze at the Tour de France 2018
Maximiliano Richeze at the Tour de France 2018
To person
Full name Ariel Maximiliano Richeze Araquistain
Date of birth March 7, 1983
nation ArgentinaArgentina 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
gold Pan American Games - road race 2019
PanAmericanJersey.pngPan American champions - road race 2012
PanAmericanJersey.pngPan American champions - scratch, team pursuit 2013

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
  • MaillotArgentina.png Argentine champion (U23) - 1000 meter time trial
2004
2005
2006

2007

2008

2011
2012
2013
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia 138 92 - - - - - - - 127 - 148 - -
Yellow jersey Tour de France - - - - - - - - DNF - 144 - 135 149
Red jersey Vuelta a España - - - - - - - 141 138 144 - - - 148
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Teams

Web links

Commons : Maximiliano Richeze  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. a b Richeze cheers after South American cooperation. In: radsport-news.com. June 15, 2016, accessed January 12, 2020 .
  2. Richeze excluded from the Giro. In: rad-net.de. March 25, 2013, accessed November 27, 2016 .
  3. Coronavirus: Richeze can leave the hospital. In: classic.rad-net.de. March 26, 2020, accessed March 26, 2020 .