Sérgio Paulinho
 Paulinho at the 2010 Tour de Romandie. | |||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Sérgio Miguel Moreira Paulinho | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 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 | Credibom / LA Alumínios / Marcos Car | ||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
| Rider type | All-rounder | ||||||||||||||
| Professional teams | |||||||||||||||
| 2003 | ASC–Vila do Conde | ||||||||||||||
| 2004 | LA Alumínios–Pecol | ||||||||||||||
| 2005–2006 | Liberty Seguros–Würth | ||||||||||||||
| 2007 | Discovery Channel | ||||||||||||||
| 2008–2009 | Astana | ||||||||||||||
| 2010–2011 | Team RadioShack | ||||||||||||||
| 2012–2016 | Team Saxo Bank[1] | ||||||||||||||
| 2017–2020 | Efapel[2] | ||||||||||||||
| 2021– | LA Alumínios / LA Sport | ||||||||||||||
| Major wins | |||||||||||||||
Grand Tours
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Medal record
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Sérgio Miguel Moreira Paulinho, ComIH[3] (born 26 March 1980) is a Portuguese road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI Continental team Credibom / LA Alumínios / Marcos Car.[4][5] 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[edit]
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 Alumínios–Pecol–Bombarral. In 2004, he was 6th in the Volta a Portugal, 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. In 2004 he also won the Portuguese National Time Trial Championships and stages 7 and 10 of the Volta a Portugal.
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.[6] He took his first Grand Tour stage win in the 2006 Vuelta a España, on stage 10. He joined the Discovery Channel team at the end of the season.
In 2008, he again won the Portuguese National Time Trial Championships. He joined Lance Armstrong's Team RadioShack in 2010,[7] 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.[8]
Major results[edit]
- 2002
- Volta a Portugal
- 1st Prologue, Stages 3 & 4
- 3rd
Time trial, UCI World Under-23 Road Championships - 10th Road race, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships
- 2003
- 9th Overall Volta a Portugal
- 2004
- 1st
Time trial, National Road Championships - 1st Overall Volta a Tras os Montes
- 1st Stage 1
- 1st Stage 3 Volta a Terras de Santa Maria
- 2nd
Road race, Olympic Games - 5th Overall GP Estremadura - RTP
- 6th Overall Volta a Portugal
- 1st Stages 7 & 10 (ITT)
- 7th Overall Troféu Joaquim Agostinho
- 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 Induráin
- 2013
- 2nd Overall Tour of Norway
- 2016
- 1st Stage 5 (TTT) Tour of Croatia
- 2017
- 2nd Clássica da Arrábida
- 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
- 4th Clássica Aldeias do Xisto
- 7th Overall Troféu Joaquim Agostinho
- 9th Overall Volta a Portugal
- 2018
- 8th Clássica Aldeias do Xisto
- 2019
- 3rd Overall Troféu Joaquim Agostinho
Grand Tour general classification results timeline[edit]
| Grand Tour | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Giro d'Italia
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— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 97 | — |
 Tour de France
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— | 64 | — | 34 | 46 | 81 | 50 | 136 | 89 | — | — |
 Vuelta a España
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16 | DNF | 26 | — | — | 85 | 70 | — | 57 | DNF | 115 |
References[edit]
- ^ Westemeyer, Susan (19 September 2011). "Pozzato joins Farnese Vini, Paulinho moves to Saxo Bank". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. Retrieved 4 January 2012.
- ^ "Efapel". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 21 March 2020. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
- ^ "Página não encontrada".
- ^ "L.A. Alumínios / L.A. Sport". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 15 February 2021. Retrieved 15 February 2021.
- ^ "Ciclista Sérgio Paulinho vai correr na LA Alumínios-LA Sport em 2021" [Cyclist Sérgio Paulinho will race at LA Alumínios-LA Sport in 2021]. Observador (in Portuguese). José Manuel Fernandes, Observador On Time, S.A. Lusa News Agency. 31 October 2020. Retrieved 1 November 2020.
- ^ 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
- ^ "RadioShack Cycling announcements continue". Archived from the original on 1 September 2009.
- ^ "Sergio Paulinho snatches Tour de France stage win". BBC Sport. BBC. 14 July 2010. Retrieved 14 July 2010.
External links[edit]
- Profile at Team Radioshack
- Sérgio Paulinho at Cycling Archives
- Sérgio Paulinho at ProCyclingStats
- 1980 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Oeiras, Portugal
- Portuguese male cyclists
- Portuguese expatriate sportspeople
- Portuguese Tour de France stage winners
- Portuguese Vuelta a España stage winners
- Cyclists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic cyclists for Portugal
- Olympic silver medalists for Portugal
- Olympic medalists in cycling
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- 2010 Tour de France stage winners
- Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Spain