Discipline Road Role Cyclist Siblings Mauro Richeze Name Maximiliano Richeze Current team Lampre-Farnese Vini | 2013– Lampre-Merida Weight 68 kg Rider type Sprinter Height 1.72 m | |
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Full name Ariel Maximiliano Richeze Born 7 March 1983 (age 41) Buenos Aires, Argentina ( 1983-03-07 ) 2006–2009 Ceramica Panaria-Navigare 2011–2012 D'Angelo & Antenucci-Nippo | ||
ENTREVISTA A MAXIMILIANO RICHEZE, 1ª PARTE - CICLISMO XXI
Ariel Maximiliano Richeze (born 7 March 1983 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine professional cyclist who rides for Lampre-Merida.Maximiliano won the silver medal at the 2015 Pan American Games (Men's Team Pursuit).
Contents
- ENTREVISTA A MAXIMILIANO RICHEZE 1 PARTE CICLISMO XXI
- 54th Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey 2018 1 Stage Konya Torquise Jersey MAXIMILIANO RICHEZE
- Biography
- Doping
- Palmares
- References
54th Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey 2018 1. Stage Konya Torquise Jersey MAXIMILIANO RICHEZE
Biography
In his first season as a professional racer, he obtained the second position in the last stage of the 2006 Giro d'Italia, finishing some centimetres behind Robert Forster. He is considered to be the Argentine cyclist to obtain the best result in any of the three main cycling tours (the Giro d'Italia, the Tour de France and the Vuelta a Espana), since nationalized Lucien Petit-Breton raced for France, Argentina born Juan Antonio Flecha raced for Spain, and Alejandro Borrajo only achieved a third place, also at the Giro.
In the 2007 Giro d'Italia Richeze placed 3rd on Stage 3 and 2nd on Stage 18 and 21, all of which were won by Alessandro Petacchi. But, after the disqualification of Petacchi in May 2008 by doping, Richeze was declared the winner of stages 18 and 21 of that Giro.
Among his other achievements are the first position of the Stage 1 and other second positions in the 2006 Le Tour de Langkawi in Malaysia, and the 2005 Trofeo Arvedi of the Circuito del Porto in Portugal. Also in 2005 he won the Panamerican under-23 Championship, and in 2003 he became the Argentine under-23 champion.
In October 2015, after spending 11 seasons riding professionally for Italian teams, Belgian squad Etixx-Quick Step announced that Richeze would join them from 2016 on a two-year contract, with a role as a lead-out man for Marcel Kittel and Fernando Gaviria.
Doping
Before the start of the 2008 Giro d'Italia Richeze tested positive for a steroid named stanozolo which resulted in his expulsion from the race. Despite being initially cleared by the Argentine Cycling Federation he was banned by the Court of Arbitration for Sport for two years.
Palmares
Grand Tour General Classification results timeline
WD = Withdrew; IP = In Progress