Rui Costa (cyclist)

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Rui Costa Road cycling
Rui Costa (2013)
Rui Costa (2013)
To person
Full name Rui Alberto Faria Da Costa
Date of birth 5th October 1986
nation PortugalPortugal Portugal
discipline Street
To the team
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
Most important successes
UCI Road World Championships
Jersey rainbow.svg World champion in road racing 2013
Tour de France
three stages
Tour de Suisse
2012, 2013, 2014 overall ranking
three stages
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

Costa in the rainbow jersey 2014

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

Costa (right) at the 2011 Tour de France
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
  • MaillotPortugal.PNG Portuguese champion - road racing
2017
2020
  • a stage Saudi tour
  • MaillotPortugal.PNG Portuguese champion - road racing

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - - - - - - - - 27 - -
Yellow jersey Tour de France DNF 73 90 18th 27 DNF DNF 49 - - 53
Red jersey Vuelta a España - - - - - - - - 43 - -
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Web links

Commons : Rui Costa  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Brawl between Barredo and Costa. In: radsport-news.com. Retrieved January 3, 2019 .
  2. ↑ a b radsport-news.com of July 10, 2011: "This victory will help us all"
  3. ^ Gregor Brown: Rui Costa out of Tour de France overall battle with bronchitis. In: Cycling Weekly. July 17, 2014, accessed January 4, 2019 .
  4. ^ Movistar signs Rui Costa after doping suspension expires velonews.competitor.com April 7, 2011
  5. ↑ Costa signs three year contract with Team Movistar velonation.com March 25, 2011
  6. ↑ 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
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