Sérgio Paulinho

Sérgio Paulinho
Paulinho at the 2010 Tour de Romandie.
Personal information
Full name Sérgio Miguel Moreira Paulinho
Born (1980-03-26) 26 March 1980
Oeiras, Portugal
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight 64 kg (141 lb; 10.1 st)
Team information
Current team Efapel
Discipline Road
Role Rider
Rider type All-rounder
Professional team(s)
2003 ASC-Vila do Conde
2004 LA Aluminios-Pecol-Bombarral
2005–2006 Liberty Seguros–Würth
2007 Discovery Channel
2008–2009 Astana
2010–2011 Team RadioShack
2012–2016 Team Saxo Bank
2017- Efapel
Major wins

Grand Tours

Tour de France
1 individual stage (2010)
1 TTT stage (2009)
Vuelta a España
1 individual stage (2006)

One-day races and Classics

National Time Trial Championships (2004, 2008)

Sérgio Miguel Moreira Paulinho, ComIH[1] (born 26 March 1980) is a Portuguese road bicycle racer for Portuguese professional cycling team Efapel.[2] He was a domestique in the 2007, 2009 and 2010 Tour de France and won the silver medal for Portugal in the 2004 Athens Olympic Games.

Career

Paulinho was born in Oeiras. After winning a bronze medal in the 2002 UCI Road World Championships, in under-23, in 2003, he became a professional cyclist and started gaining reference in one of the most important Portuguese teams: LA Pecol. In 2004, he was 6th in the Tour of Portugal (Volta), winning two stages, including the final Individual time trial. In the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, he was silver medalist (Italy's Paolo Bettini got gold and Axel Merckx bronze) in the cycling road race.

Following his Olympic performance, he was signed by the Liberty Seguros-Würth team. He was implicated in the Operación Puerto doping case but was later cleared by Spanish officials of any links to the Operación Puerto doping case.[3] He took his first Grand Tour stage win in Vuelta a Espana 2006, on stage 10. He joined the Discovery Channel team at the end of the season.

In 2004 he also won the Portuguese national time trial Championship and stages 7 and 10 of the Tour of Portugal. In 2008, he won again the national time trial championship. He joined Lance Armstrong's Team RadioShack in 2010,[4] along with fellow countrymen Tiago Machado and directeur sportif José Azevedo. On 14 July 2010, he won the 10th stage of the Tour de France.[5]

Career achievements

Major results

2002
Volta a Portugal
1st Prologue, Stages 3 & 4
3rd UCI World Under-23 Time Trial Championships
2003
9th Overall Volta a Portugal
2004
1st National Time Trial Championships
1st Overall Volta a Tras os Montes
1st Stage 1
6th Overall Volta a Portugal
1st Stages 7 & 10
1st Stage 3 Volta a Terras de Santa Maria
2nd Road race, Olympic Games
2006
1st Stage 10 Vuelta a España
2008
1st Time trial, National Road Championships
2009
1st Stage 4 (TTT) Tour de France
2010
1st Stage 10 Tour de France
2012
6th GP Miguel Indurain
2013
2nd Overall Glava Tour of Norway
2016
1st Stage 5 (TTT) Tour of Croatia
2017
3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
9th Overall Volta a Portugal

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
A pink jersey Giro d'Italia — — — — — — — — — 97 —
A yellow jersey Tour de France — 64 — 34 46 81 50 136 89 — —
A gold jersey Vuelta a España 16 DNF 26 — — 85 70 — 57 DNF 115

References

  1. ↑ http://www.presidencia.pt/?idc=10&idi=99824
  2. ↑ Westemeyer, Susan (19 September 2011). "Pozzato joins Farnese Vini, Paulinho moves to Saxo Bank". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. Retrieved 4 January 2012.
  3. ↑ VeloNews | Wednesday's EuroFile: Astana 5’ cleared by Spanish courts; Landis sets post-Tour schedule | The Journal of Competitive Cycling Archived 2006-10-20 at the Wayback Machine.
  4. ↑ "RadioShack Cycling announcements continue". Archived from the original on 2009-09-01.
  5. ↑ "Sergio Paulinho snatches Tour de France stage win". BBC Sport. BBC. 2010-07-14. Retrieved 2010-07-14.
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