Samuel Sánchez

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Samuel Sánchez Road cycling
Samuel Sanchez (2015)
Samuel Sanchez (2015)
To person
Full name Samuel Sánchez González
Nickname Samu
Date of birth 5th February 1978
nation SpainSpain Spain
discipline Street
End of career 2017
doping
2017-2019 GHRP-2
Societies)
1996-1999 Olarra
Team (s)
2000-2013
2014-2017 		Euskaltel-Euskadi
BMC Racing Team
Most important successes
Olympic games
Grand Tours
Last updated: May 14, 2019

Samuel Sánchez González (born February 5, 1978 in Oviedo , Asturias ) is a former Spanish cyclist . He was considered one of the best downhill riders in road cycling . His biggest success was the victory in the road race of the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing . At the end of his career, he was suspended for doping .

Career

After the native Asturian Sánchez drove for the Basque youth team Olarra Erkoreka of the Euskaltel team boss Miguel Madariaga , he switched to the UCI ProTeam Euskaltel-Euskadi in 2000 , which until the beginning of the 2013 season only employed drivers who had a special relationship with the Basque Country . Sánchez stayed with this team until it was dissolved and joined the BMC Racing Team in 2014 .

Sánchez achieved the greatest success of his career so far when he won the road race at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing , when he won the sprint of a six-man top group on a mountainous circuit. He was also successful in other one-day races . a. In 2006, after finishing fourth in the sprint of the field at the road world championships as Alejandro Valverde's assistant , he single-handedly won the UCI ProTour race championship in Zurich . After finishing second in the last race of the series, the classic Lombardy Tour , he also finished the individual classification of the ProTour 2006 in second place.

In the "Grand Tours" , Sánchez was placed in the top ten six times:

He finished seventh on the Tour de France in 2008 , second in 2010 and fifth in 2011 . In 2011 he won the twelfth stage after he caught up with a chasing group around his team-mate Rubén Pérez on the descent from Col de Tourmalet . On the final ascent he shook off his companions after Luz Ardiden , except for Jelle Vanendert , and together with him overtook the last two runaways Jérémy Roy and Geraint Thomas . Sánchez accelerated the pace and distanced Vanendert and Schleck. He took over the spotted jersey of the leader in the mountain classification , which he won at the end of the tour . During the eighth stage of the 2012 Tour de France he fell and had to retire injured.

He achieved comparable placements at the Vuelta a España . He finished seventh in 2006 , third in 2007 and second in 2009 . His most significant victory in a stage race came with the overall victory of the Tour of the Basque Country in 2012 , in which he also won two daily sections.

During a doping control outside of a competition on August 9, 2017, Sánchez tested positive for the growth hormone GHRP-2 and then his team removed it from the line-up for the Vuelta a España 2017 . He described the result as a surprise for him and requested that the B sample be opened. After it became known in October 2017 that the B-sample confirmed the result, the BMC team terminated the contractual relationship with Sanchez. In May 2019, the Union Cycliste Internationale announced that Sanchez had been banned retrospectively for two years, so the ban would expire on after August 16, 2019

successes

2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2015
2016
2017

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - - - 17th - - - - - - - 12 24 - - -
Yellow jersey Tour de France DNF DNF - - - - 7th - 2 5 WD - - 12 - -
Red jersey Vuelta a España - - - 10 7th 3 - 2 - - - 8th 6th DNF DNF -
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. z. B. radsport-news.com from April 8, 2010: Samuel Sanchez wins the king's stage , news.ch from April 5, 2006: Another victory for leader Samuel Sanchez
  2. ^ El padre deportivo del campeón. In: diariovasco.com. Retrieved June 10, 2008, June 29, 2014 (Spanish).
  3. ↑ Euskaltel-Euskadi contará con ocho ciclistas extranjeros la próxima temporada. (No longer available online.) In: deia.com. October 11, 2012, archived from the original on October 15, 2012 ; Retrieved June 29, 2014 (Spanish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.deia.com
  4. ↑ radsport-news.com from August 9, 2008: Sanchez spoils Rebellin's birthday party
  5. ↑ cyclingnews.com of September 24, 2006: Final corner decisive in near-bunch sprint finish
  6. ↑ radsport-news.com from October 1st, 2006: Sanchez wins Züri Metzgete, rebel third
  7. ↑ radsport-news.com of July 14, 2011: Samuel Sanchez wins, Contador defeated
  8. ↑ cyclingnews.com of July 9, 2012: Sánchez recounts tale of broken finger and broken Tour dreams
  9. ↑ Samuel Sanchez tested positive for growth hormone. In: radsport-news.com. April 23, 2015, accessed August 18, 2017 .
  10. ^ Samuel Sanchez: Test result was a total surprise. In: cyclingnews.com. August 17, 2017, accessed on August 18, 2017 .
  11. ↑ After a positive B sample: BMC resigns from Sanchez. In: radsport-news.com. October 5, 2017, accessed October 6, 2017 .
  12. ^ Samuel Sanchez suspended for two years. In: cyclingnews.com. May 13, 2019, accessed May 13, 2019 .

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personal data
SURNAME Sánchez, Samuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sánchez González, Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH 5th February 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Oviedo