Rafaâ Chtioui

Rafaâ Chtioui at the Four Days of Dunkirk 2010

Rafaâ Chtioui (born January 26, 1986 ) is a Tunisian cyclist .

career

Rafaâ Chtioui won the silver medal at the road cycling world championships in 2004 in the junior road race behind Roman Kreuziger . A year later, he was also runner-up in the Elite Individual Time Trials at the African Championships . In 2006 he won a stage in the Tour of Morocco and in 2007 he won a section of the Tour of Egypt . In 2008 he started in the road race of the Olympic Games and finished 86th.

After Chtioui drove for the Continental Team Doha from 2008 , he drove for the European professional Continental Teams Acqua & Sapone and Europcar from 2010 to 2012 . He could not achieve any successes for the European teams, but became Pan-Arabian champion in the individual time trial for his association in 2011. After a year without belonging to an international cycling team , he switched to the Skydive Dubai Pro Cycling Team in 2014 , for which he won the stage races Jelajah Malaysia 2014 and La Tropicale Amissa Bongo 2015.

In April 2015, Chtioui hit the headlines when he went off track on the Castile-Leon Tour . In search of the field he drove aimlessly along several country roads, without a map, without a telephone, without money and with very limited knowledge of Portuguese. He addressed numerous passers-by, but they could not help him. Only with the help of a borrowed smartphone did he get to the race website and, with the help of the information there, found his way back to the track. His team-mate Francisco Mancebo commented: "Rafaâ is sometimes a little distracted." Later Chtioui had to give up the race.