Raimondas Rumšas

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Raimondas Rumšas (* 14. January 1972 in Šilutė ) is a former Lithuanian professional - cyclist .

Cycling career

In 1994 Raimondas Rumšas won the Course de la Solidarité Olympique , and in 1996 the Po Ziem Tour . In the same year he signed a contract with the Polish Mróz team. In 2000 he moved to Fassa Bortolo .

The greatest success of his career was the third place in the overall standings at the Tour de France 2002 at his only tour start, behind the later disqualified Lance Armstrong and Joseba Beloki . In 1999 he won the Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda and the Bałtyk-Karkonosze Tour . The following year he won the Tour of Lombardy . In 2001 he became the Lithuanian road racing champion .

After finishing his professional career, Lithuania's "Sportsman of the Year" of 2002 drove for the small Italian Parkpre team and took part in numerous popular races for them, in which he became a serial winner. Without belonging to a professional team, Rumšas was able to win the national time trial championship in 2005 and finished second in the subsequent road race.

Rumšas competed at the Olympic Games twice - in 1996 and 2000 .

doping

Rumšas' performance on the 2002 Tour was overshadowed by the arrest of his wife Edita the day after the final stage. Customs inspectors had tracked down numerous performance-enhancing agents in their car. After her arrest, Edita Rumšiene claimed that the drugs were intended for her seriously ill mother.

However, all of Raimondas Rumšas's doping tests himself during the 2002 tour were negative, which is why he was not deprived of third place overall. At the Giro d'Italia 2003, however, which Rumšas finished sixth overall, the Lithuanian tested positive for the use of the blood doping agent erythropoietin (EPO) and was banned from the UCI for one year . The Lampre racing team then suspended Rumšas.

In January 2006 the Rumšas couple received a suspended four-month prison sentence for introducing illegal doping substances. Edita Rumšiene also received a fine of 3,000 euros. The Polish doctor Krzysztof Ficek, who looked after the Lithuanian professional cyclist during the tour and prescribed the substances, was meanwhile given a twelve-month suspended sentence.

In May 2017, the 21-year-old son of Raimondas Rumšas, Linas, was found unconscious; he died shortly afterwards in the hospital. The suspicion was directed against his father, the son, an ambitious young driver, to have supplied doping substances. During searches of the family's home in Italy, insulin, pain relievers, injections and various other drugs were reportedly found. As a result, investigations into the administration of doping substances, receiving stolen goods and violating the anti-doping law against a total of five people were initiated. In September 2017 Linas' older brother, Raimondas Rumšas jr., Tested positive for the growth hormone GHRP-6 , which promotes muscle building , in Italy . In January 2018 he was banned from the Italian anti-doping agency for four years until October 2021.

successes

  • Overall ranking Lombardy Tour 2000
  • Lithuanian road champion 2001
  • Overall ranking of the Tour of the Basque Country 2001
  • Lithuanian time trial champion (1999 and 2005)
  • Lithuanian Vice Road Champion 2005

Teams

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Affair about third tour Rumsas: wife arrested on radsport-news.com on July 30, 2002
  2. ↑ Tour third Rumsas denies doping suspicions on radsport-news.com from July 30, 2002
  3. ↑ Doping tests of third party Rumsas negative on radsport-news.com from July 31, 2002
  4. ↑ Lithuanian rumsas tested positive for doping at the Giro on radsport-news.com on June 11, 2003
  5. ↑ Lithuanians Rumsas for a year locked in radsport-news.com of 14 November 2003
  6. ↑ Probation for the Rumsas couple on radsport-news.com from January 26, 2006
  7. ↑ Raimondas Rumsas Jr. tested positive for growth hormones. In: radsport-news.com. April 23, 2015, accessed October 3, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Rumsas Jr receives four-year doping ban. In: Cycling News. January 24, 2018, accessed January 24, 2018 .

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personal data
SURNAME Rumšas, Raimondas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Lithuanian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH January 14, 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Šilutė , Lithuanian SSR , Soviet Union