Víctor Hugo Peña
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Personal information | |
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Full name | Víctor Hugo Peña Grisales |
Nickname | El Tiburon (the shark) |
Born | Bogotá, Colombia | July 10, 1974
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) |
Weight | 65 kg (143 lb) |
Team information | |
Current team | Retired |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider |
Rider type | Time trialist, stage races |
Amateur team | |
2013–2015 | Supergiros–Blanco del Valle–Redetrans |
Professional teams | |
1997–1998 | Flavia Telecom |
1999–2000 | Vitalicio Seguros |
2001–2004 | U.S. Postal Service |
2005–2006 | Phonak |
2007 | Unibet.com |
2008–2009 | Rock Racing |
2010–2011 | Café de Colombia–Colombia es Pasión |
2012 | Colombia–Coldeportes |
Major wins | |
Grand Tours
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Víctor Hugo Peña Grisales (born July 10, 1974 in Bogotá) is a Colombian former professional road racing cyclist. He last rode for the Colombia professional cycling team.[1] In 2003, Peña became the first Colombian to wear the yellow jersey at the Tour de France. He held the yellow jersey for three days following the 4th, 5th and 6th stages of that year's tour.
Peña's 2003 Tour de France, where he served as a domestique for Lance Armstrong, is described in detail in Matt Rendell's book A Significant Other. The book also describes the rider's amateur and early professional career.
He is named after both his father Hugo and the author Victor Hugo. He earned his nickname "El Tiburon" ("the shark") due to his looks and the other sport he excelled at besides cycling – swimming. Peña finished 7th in the 100 meter freestyle Pan American swimming championships for juniors in 1991.
At the end of the season in 2012, Peña retired.[2] Later, Pena was implicated in the 2012 USADA Reasoned Report into doping on the US Postal team and was concluded to work with Dr. Michele Ferrari and received blood transfusions during his Tour de France participations.
Major results
[edit]- 1996
- 7th Time trial, UCI Road World Under-23 Championships
- 1997 (1 pro win)
- 1st
Time trial, National Road Championships
- 1998
- 1st
Mountains classification, Grand Prix du Midre Libre
- 1st
Mountains classification, Vuelta a Castilla y Leon
- 8th Overall Vuelta a Colombia
- 10th Overall Volta a Catalunya
- 2000 (1)
- 1st Stage 11 (ITT) Giro d'Italia
- 2001
- 3rd EnBW Grand Prix
- 2002 (2)
- 1st
Overall Vuelta a Murcia
- 3rd Overall Ronde van Nederland
- 1st Stage 4 (ITT)
- 2003 (1)
- 1st Stage 4 (TTT) Tour de France
- 2nd Overall Volta ao Algarve
- 6th Overall Vuelta a Murcia
- 1st Stage 4
- 7th GP Eddy Merckx
- 10th Overall Ronde van Nederland
- 2004
- 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Vuelta a España
- 2nd Overall Volta ao Algarve
- 4th Overall Tour of Belgium
- 10th Overall Danmark Rundt
- 2005
- 10th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
- 2006
- 9th Overall Giro d'Italia
- 2007
- 1st
Sprints classification, Volta a Catalunya
- 3rd Duo Normand (with Gustav Larsson)
- 2008
- 1st Stage 7 Vuelta a Colombia
- 2009
- 1st Stage 12 Vuelta a Colombia
- 6th GP Llodio
- 2010
- 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
- 2014
- 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
References
[edit]- ^ "Colombia-Coldeportes (COL) - COL". UCI Continental Circuits. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 7 April 2012. Retrieved 9 January 2012.
- ^ Team Type 1, Colombia, MTN secure Pro Continental licenses for 2013
External links
[edit]- "Personal website". Archived from the original on 2007-10-07. Retrieved 2018-07-27.
- Victor Hugo Peña Grisales at Cycling Archives
- "Official Tour de France results for Víctor Hugo Pena". Archived from the original on 2007-08-07. Retrieved 2008-06-30.
- Víctor Hugo Pena – official Tour de France results (archive)
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