Rafael Infantino

Rafael Infantino

Rafael Infantino (2014)
To person
Date of birth	August 28, 1984
nation	Colombia
discipline	Street
End of career	2015
Most important successes
Pan American Championships - Team pursuit, individual time trial (U23)
Last updated: August 12, 2017

Rafael Infantino Abreu (born August 28, 1984 in La Vega , Dominican Republic ) is a former Colombian track and road cyclist .

Athletic career

Rafael Infantino became the 2004 Pan American champion in the team pursuit and in the individual time trial of the U23 class. In the 2007 season he won a stage at the Giro della Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia , the U23 edition of the Trofeo Matteotti and two sections at the Giro della Valle d'Aosta . The next year he was successful in the third stage of the Giro delle Valli Cuneesi nelle Alpi del Mare. In 2011 he won the Clásico RCN . After winning three stages of the Vuelta a Colombia in 2013 , he ended his cycling career.

After the Tour of Colombia in 2016, Infantino tested positive for the use of the banned substance GHRP-2 and was banned by the Colombian Cycling Association until July 2019.

successes

train

Infantino at the USA Pro Cycling Challenge (2011)

2004

• Pan American Champions - Team Pursuit (with Alexander González , John Fredy Parra and José Serpa )

Street

2004

• Pan American Champion - Individual Time Trial (U23)

2007

• a stage of the Giro della Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia
• two stages of the Giro della Valle d'Aosta

2011

• a stage Vuelta a la Independencia Nacional
• Overall ranking Clásico RCN

2013

• three stages Vuelta a Colombia

Teams

• 2009 Amica chips knob
• 2010 UNE-EPM
• 2011 EPM-UNE
• 2012 EPM-UNE
• 2013 Aguardiente Antioqueño-Lotería de Medellín
• 2015 EPM-UNE-Area Metropolitana

Web links

Commons : Rafael Infantino  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Rafael Infantino in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Rafael Infantino in the ProCyclingStats.com database