Saúl Morales
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Full name | Saúl Morales Corral |
Date of birth | May 3, 1974 |
date of death | February 28, 2000 |
nation | Spain |
discipline | Road cycling |
Team (s) | |
1999 2000 |
Fuenlabrada Colchon Relax – Fuenlabrada |
Saúl Morales Corral (born May 3, 1974 in Madrid , † February 28, 2000 in Caucete , Argentina ) was a Spanish cyclist .
From 1993 to 1998 Saúl Morales drove for the amateur team Alcosto-UC Fuenlabrada . In 1999 the team was converted to a professional team and he was taken over. In the same year he won a stage in the Tour of Venezuela and the mountain classification in the Cinturón a Mallorca .
In February 2000 Morales started with his team in the Tour of Argentina . The tour was organized chaotically, led over bad roads, which were not properly closed to traffic, and extremely steep climbs in the Andes . The supply of the racing drivers was inadequate. The results of the time trial were manipulated in favor of local drivers, and the Argentine driver David Kenig was declared the winner despite positive doping results .
On the seventh stage of the tour, a truck came towards the peloton and brushed against Morales and the German driver Carsten Gottschalk . Gottschalk suffered a broken collarbone and bruises, Morales severe head injuries from which he died. As a result, many European teams finished the race. The truck driver was investigated for manslaughter. To date (as of 2014) no tour of Argentina has taken place.
Just the year before, a Morales teammate, Manuel Sanroma , had a fatal accident on the Tour of Catalonia .
Web links
- Saúl Morales in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Report Argentina Tour (17.2. – 8.3.2000). Thomas Hartmann's blog, accessed December 14, 2014 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Saúl Morales on cycling4fans.de
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SURNAME | Morales, Saúl |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Morales Corral, Saúl |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish cyclist |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 3, 1974 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Madrid |
DATE OF DEATH | February 28, 2000 |
Place of death | Caucete , Argentina |