Roel Paulissen

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Roel Paulissen Road cycling
Roel Paulissen (2007)
Roel Paulissen (2007)
To person
Date of birth 27th April 1976 (age 44)
nation BelgiumBelgium Belgium
discipline Mountain bike , cyclocross
doping
2010 Clomiphene
Most important successes
World championships
Jersey rainbow.svg UCI mountain bike marathon world champion 2008, 2009
Last updated: October 24, 2018

Roel Paulissen (born April 27, 1976 in Hasselt ) is a Belgian mountain biker and four-time Olympic athlete (1996, 2000, 2004, 2008).

Career

Roel Paulissen won the bronze medal in the U23 cross country race at the 1998 Mountain Bike World Championships on Mont Sainte-Anne . Five years later he won his second bronze medal in Rivera , in the men's race behind fellow countryman Filip Meirhaeghe and the Canadian Ryder Hesjedal . At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens , he narrowly missed the medal ranks with his fourth place. At the mountain bike marathon world championships in the French high alps in Oisans in 2006 , he won the bronze medal.

In 2007 he won the title of runner-up at the World Marathon Championships in Verviers (B) and only had to admit defeat to the Swiss Christoph Sauser .

In 2008 he won the marathon world championships in Villabassa / Niederdorf in South Tyrol and thus for the first time gold in championships. He relegated the two Swiss Christoph Sauser and Urs Huber to places two and three. In 2009 he was able to defend his world championship title in Graz, Austria and became MTB marathon world champion for the second time after 2008.

Paulissen competed at the Olympic Games four times in a row - 1996 , 2000 , 2004 and 2008 . He achieved his best result in Athens in 2004 when he finished fourth in cross country .

Doping ban 2010

In July 2010 it was announced that Paulissen had tested positive for clomiphene at the Belgacom Grand Prix . Paulissen was then fired by his then Cannondale team with immediate effect. He was banned for two years until November 2012.

Roel Paulissen has been cycling again since 2013.

Roel Paulissen has lived in the Puster Valley in South Tyrol (Italy) since 2006 . He runs the RH Racing bike business together with the former MTB racing driver Johann Pallhuber. Together they also lead the MTB team of the same name "RH Racing Cannondale Team". Paulissen and Pallhuber continue to successfully take part in MTB marathons. Paulissen won many regional MTB races, such as the first two editions of the Ortler Bike Marathon in 2015 and 2016 , the Vecia Ferovia (from Auer via the San Lugano Pass) or the Kronplatz King Marathon in the Dolomites.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Dismissed at Cannondale: Mountain bike world champion Paulissen doped. Mountainbike-Magazin, July 16, 2010, accessed on August 23, 2014 .
  2. ^ Doping. Cycling4Fans, accessed August 23, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Paulissen, Roel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian mountain biker
DATE OF BIRTH April 27, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Hasselt