Discipline Road 2007 Discovery Channel Weight 64 kg 2005–2006 Liberty Seguros-Wurth Height 1.72 m | 2003 ASC-Vila do Conde Role Bicycler Rider type All-rounder Name Sergio Paulinho | |
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Full name Sergio Miguel Moreira Paulinho Olympic medals Cycling at the 2004 Summer Olympics - Men\'s individual road race Competitors Lance Armstrong, Alberto Contador, Mark Cavendish, Bradley Wiggins, George Hincapie Similar People Nicki Sorensen, Yaroslav Popovych, Karsten Kroon, Alberto Contador, Murilo Fischer Profiles | ||
Current team Team Saxo Bank-SunGard | ||
Sergio paulinho tour de france 2010
Sérgio Miguel Moreira Paulinho, (born 26 March 1980) is a Portuguese road bicycle racer for Portuguese professional cycling team Efapel. 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.
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- Sergio paulinho tour de france 2010
- Tour of algarve volta ao algarve 2012 stage 2 flash interview s rgio paulinho about contador
- Career
- References
Tour of algarve volta ao algarve 2012 stage 2 flash interview s rgio paulinho about contador
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. 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, 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.