Sandy Casar

Sandy Casar (2012)

Sandy Casar (born February 2, 1979 in Mantes-la-Jolie ) is a former French road cyclist .

Career

On July 1, 2000, Casar received a contract with the French cycling team La Française des Jeux , where he had already ridden as a stagiaire in 1999 . He was fond of this team until he retired in 2013. Mountain riding was his greatest strength, but he also had decent time trial and sprint skills.

In 2002, Casar came second on the Paris – Nice long-distance journey . In 2003 he achieved a curious stage win at the Tour de Suisse when he and his escape companion Filippo Simeoni were overtaken shortly before the finish line after a tactical skirmish, but then surprisingly won the sprint of the peloton. In the same year he finished 13th overall at the Giro d'Italia .

At the Tour de France 2004 he reached 16th place in the overall standings, 28 minutes and 53 seconds behind the first-placed Lance Armstrong . With this achievement he managed to achieve second place in the junior ranking. In 2005 he was able to distinguish himself twice as second.

In 2006 Casar achieved his best overall result to date in a major tour when he finished sixth in the Giro d'Italia . On July 27, 2007, he won the 18th stage of the 2007 Tour de France . A year later at the 2008 Tour de France , he also won a stage. Two years later, in the 2010 Tour de France , he won the ninth stage from Morzine - Avoriaz to Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, ahead of Luis León Sánchez and Damiano Cunego .

In September 2013 Casar announced that he was ending his cycling career. Due to allergies and back problems, he can no longer build on his old performance. He drew a bitter balance of his career: He felt twice cheated by cycling colleagues who had doped. On the one hand, the doped athletes had won and earned more than him, on the other hand, he was also put under general suspicion of being doped. However, he felt “like in a prison” in the strict control system against doping, which he will now leave.

Casar denied at the start of his cycling career successfully cross-country race , where he will continue to participate.

successes

2003

• one stage Tour de Suisse

2007

• a stage Tour de France

2009

• a stage Tour de France

2010

• a stage Tour de France

2011

• Paris – Camembert

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012
Giro d'Italia	-	13	-	81	6th	-	-	-	-	-	25th
Tour de France	83	111	16	29	69	71	14th	12	25th	27	22nd
Vuelta a España	-	-	-	-	-	-	19th	DNF	-	-	-

Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Web links

Commons : Sandy Casar  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Sandy Casar in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Sandy Casar in the ProCyclingStats.com database
• Sandy Casar in the Tour de France database(French / English )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Romain Bonte: Sandy Casar: "Mon corps dit stop". In: Francetvsport. September 6, 2013, accessed November 27, 2015 (French). 
2. ↑ Tour de Suisse: Casar counters on the finish line. In: Spiegel Online . June 20, 2003, accessed November 22, 2015 . 
3. ↑ cyclingnews.com of September 6, 2013: Sandy Casar retires
4. ↑ Andreas Schulz: Bitter balance sheet: twice betrayed by doping on de.eurosport.yahoo.com v. September 10, 2013 ( Memento of the original from December 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) 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.