Roman Kreuziger

Roman Kreuziger
	Roman Kreuziger at the Tour de France 2013
To person
Date of birth	May 6, 1986
nation	Czech Republic
discipline	Street
To the team
Current team	NTT Pro Cycling
function	driver
Team (s)
2006–2010 ; 2011–2012 ; 2013–2016 ; 2017 ; 2018 ; 2019 ; 2020	Liquigas ; Astana ; Tinkoff ; Orica-Scott ; Mitchelton-Scott ; Team Dimension Data ; NTT Pro Cycling Team
Most important successes
	Overall ranking Tour de Suisse 2008 ; Overall ranking Tour de Romandie 2009 ; Amstel Gold Race 2013
	Last updated: October 3, 2018

Roman Kreuziger (born May 6, 1986 in Moravská Třebová ) is a Czech cyclist .

Career

Kreuziger won the Czech junior championship titles in time trial and road racing in 2004 . At the 2004 World Championships in Verona , he won the road race and came second in the time trial. In 2005 he won a stage in the U23 stage race Giro delle Regioni .

In 2006, Kreuziger became a professional with the Italian UCI ProTeam Liquigas-Bianchi . In 2008 he won the eighth stage of the Tour de Suisse , a mountain time trial from Altdorf to the Klausen Pass, which paved the way for him to overall victory. In the overall ranking of the Tour de France in 2009 and 2010 , he finished eighth. At the Giro d'Italia 2011 he was able to win the junior ranking and finished fifth overall. At the Giro d'Italia 2012 he won a mountain stage. In 2013 he won the spring classic Amstel Gold Race after a solo ride. In the same year, as fifth in the Tour de France, he achieved his best result to date in a “Grand Tour” . In 2016, Kreuziger was Czech road racing champion and tenth overall in the Tour de France that followed . In the mountainous one-day race Pro Ötztaler 5500 , he won the first edition as a soloist.

Suspected doping

Because of conspicuous values in his Biological Passport in 2011 and 2012, a doping procedure against Kreuziger was opened in 2014 by the World Cycling Association UCI . After his cycling team Tinkoff-Saxo removed him from the squad for the Tour de France , Kreuziger was suspended by the UCI, so that it had to forego the planned start at the Tour of Poland . Kreuziger appealed against this suspension to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in order to be able to start at the Vuelta a España 2014 . However, the CAS rejected the application on August 20, 2014. In September 2014 he was acquitted by an arbitration tribunal of the body of the Olympic Committee of the Czech Republic (COC). The evidence presented by the UCI, the panel said, would not justify a ban.

In the course of the doping investigation by the Public Prosecutor of Padua at the end of 2014, he was suspected of having been a customer of the controversial sports medicine specialist Michele Ferrari .

family

His father Roman Kreuziger senior won the Cyclocross World Championship as a junior in 1983.

successes

2004

Czech Champion - Road Race (Juniors)
Czech Champion - Individual Time Trial (Juniors)
World Champion - Road Race (Juniors)

2005

one stage of the Giro delle Regioni

2007

a stage Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda

2008

Overall ranking and a Tour de Suisse stage

2009

Overall ranking and a stage Tour de Romandie

2010

Overall ranking and one stage Giro di Sardegna

2011

one stage of the Giro del Trentino
Young talent competition Giro d'Italia

2012

a stage of the Giro d'Italia

2013

Amstel Gold Race

2015

one stage USA Pro Challenge

2016

Czech champion - road race

2017

Per Ötztaler 5500

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019
Giro d'Italia	-	-	-	-	5	15th	-	-	28	-	-	55	-
Tour de France	-	12	8th	8th	112	-	5	-	17th	10	24	-	16
Vuelta a España	21st	-	61	28	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Honors

In 2004, 2008, 2009, 2013 and 2018 Kreuziger was the winner of the annual survey on the Král cyklistiky ( cycling king ) of the Czech cycling association Československý svaz cyklistiky.