Sascha Urweider

Sascha Urweider
To person
Date of birth	September 18, 1980
nation	Switzerland
discipline	Street
doping
2006	2 year suspension, testosterone
Team (s)
2005-2006	Phonak Cycling Team
Most important successes
	Swiss Championship - Road Race 2004
	Last update: 2006

Sascha Urweider (born September 18, 1980 in Meiringen ) is a former Swiss cyclist .

After Urweider won a stage at the Giro della Valle d'Aosta in 2003 and came second at the Swiss Road Cycling Championships, he received a contract with the UCI ProTeam Phonak Hearing Systems for the 2005 season . For this team he contested his only Grand Tour with the Giro d'Italia 2005 and finished the tour as 139.

During a doping control on February 14, 2006, Urweider tested positive for testosterone . Urweider justified the result of the doping test with the intake of a contaminated food supplement . Even before Swiss Olympic could announce the penalty for the doping offense, Sascha Urweider resigned from professional cycling.

Web links

Sascha Urweider in the Radsportseiten.net database

Sascha Urweider in the ProCyclingStats.com database

Individual evidence

↑ Professional cyclist Urweider played Russian roulette. blick.ch, March 13, 2006, accessed on July 12, 2019 .
↑ Sascha Urweider blocked for two years. news.ch, June 22, 2006, accessed on November 1, 2016 .

personal data
SURNAME	Urweider, Sascha
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH	September 18, 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH	Meiringen

[1] Professional cyclist Urweider played Russian roulette. blick.ch, March 13, 2006, accessed on July 12, 2019 .

[2] Sascha Urweider blocked for two years. news.ch, June 22, 2006, accessed on November 1, 2016 .