Rui Costa (cyclist)
Rui Costa (2013) | |
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Full name | Rui Alberto Faria Da Costa |
Date of birth | 5th October 1986 |
nation | Portugal |
discipline | Street |
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Current team | UAE Team Emirates |
doping | |
2010 | Methylhexanamine |
Team (s) | |
2007–2008 2009–2010 2011–2013 2014–2016 2017– |
Benfica Caisse d'Epargne Movistar Team Lampre-Merida UAE Team Emirates |
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Last updated: January 3, 2019 |
Rui Alberto Faria da Costa (born October 5, 1986 in Póvoa de Varzim ) is a Portuguese cyclist . In 2013 he became the first Portuguese road cycling world champion . He won the Tour de Suisse in 2012, 2013 and 2014 .
Athletic career
Rui Costa turned pro in 2007 with the Portuguese Professional Continental Team Benfica . At the same time, as a member of the Portuguese national team, he won the overall ranking of the Italian U23 stage race Giro delle Regioni .
For the 2009 season, Rui Costa moved to the Spanish ProTeam Caisse d'Epargne , later the Movistar team, and achieved his greatest success to date with overall victory at the Four Days of Dunkirk . In 2009 he contested his first Tour de France , but could not finish it. The following year he had an argument with the Spaniard Carlos Barredo after crossing the finish line of the sixth stage of the tour ; the handlebars of the two drivers had touched during the race. Barredo hit him with the front wheel of his bike, Rui Costa took the bike from him and returned the favor with punches.
On July 9, 2011, Costa won a Tour de France stage for the first time when he saved a lead of twelve seconds at the finish on the mountainous eighth stage from Aigurande to Super Besse after a long escape.
Costa was the first Portuguese to win the Tour de Suisse overall in June 2012 and was thus able to celebrate the greatest success of his career to date. He laid the foundation for the overall victory of the tour by winning the stage on the second section to Verbier . In 2013 and 2014 he won this tour again. In the subsequent Tour of France he won two stages. At the road cycling world championships in Florence in autumn 2013 , he beat the Spaniard Joaquim Rodríguez in a two-man sprint in a road race , making him the first Portuguese road world champion.
In 2012 and 2016 , Rui Costa started in road races at the Olympic Games. He finished 13th in London in 2012 and tenth in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 .
In 2014 Rui Costa moved to the Italian team Lampre-Merida . At the Tour de France , Costa was one of the favorites in the race. Due to bronchopneumonia , however, he had to give up the race after the second day of rest. In 2015 he was the first Portuguese road champion.
doping
In 2010 Rui Costa won the Portuguese road individual time trial championships. Like his brother Mário, he was tested positive for methylhexanamine during a doping control on the occasion of these championships and was then suspended for one year by the Portuguese Cycling Federation. After the World Anti-Doping Agency reclassified the drug, the ban was reduced to five months. Thereupon he was signed again for three years by his previous Movistar team .
Honors
In 2012 and 2013, Rui Costa was voted Portugal's Sportsman of the Year . In both years he relegated footballer Cristiano Ronaldo to second place.
successes
- 2007
- Overall ranking Giro delle Regioni
- 2008
- one stage of the Giro delle Regioni
- a stage Coupe des Nations Ville Saguenay
- 2009
- Overall standings Four days from Dunkirk
- a stage Vuelta a Chihuahua
- 2010
- Trofeo Deià
- one stage Tour de Suisse
- Portuguese champion - individual time trial
- 2011
- Overall ranking Vuelta a Madrid
- a stage Tour de France
- Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal
- 2012
- Overall ranking and a Tour de Suisse stage
- 2013
- Klasika Primavera
- Overall ranking and two stages of the Tour de Suisse
- Portuguese champion - individual time trial
- two stages Tour de France
- World Champion - Road Race
- 2014
- Overall ranking and a Tour de Suisse stage
- 2015
- 2017
- a stage Vuelta Provincia de San Juan
- Overall ranking and one stage Abu Dhabi tour
- 2020
- a stage Saudi tour
- Portuguese champion - road racing
Grand Tour placements
Grand Tour | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
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Giro d'Italia | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 27 | - | - | |
Tour de France | DNF | 73 | 90 | 18th | 27 | DNF | DNF | 49 | - | - | 53 | |
Vuelta a España | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 43 | - | - |
Web links
- Rui Costa in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Rui Costa in the ProCyclingStats.com database
- Rui Costa in the Tour de France database(French / English )
- Rui Costa in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ^ Brawl between Barredo and Costa. In: radsport-news.com. Retrieved January 3, 2019 .
- ↑ a b radsport-news.com of July 10, 2011: "This victory will help us all"
- ^ Gregor Brown: Rui Costa out of Tour de France overall battle with bronchitis. In: Cycling Weekly. July 17, 2014, accessed January 4, 2019 .
- ^ Movistar signs Rui Costa after doping suspension expires velonews.competitor.com April 7, 2011
- ↑ Costa signs three year contract with Team Movistar velonation.com March 25, 2011
- ↑ Cycling - Costa depends on Ronaldo. (No longer available online.) Eurosport.yahoo.com, Nov 16, 2013, archived from the original on June 11, 2015 ; Retrieved November 16, 2013 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Costa, Rui |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Faria da Costa, Rui Alberto (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Portuguese cyclist |
DATE OF BIRTH | 5th October 1986 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Póvoa de Varzim , Portugal |