Sérgio Paulinho

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox cyclist Template:Portuguese name Sérgio Miguel Moreira Paulinho, ComIH<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> (born 26 March 1980) is a Portuguese road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI Continental team Template:UCI team code.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> 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 Template:UCI team code. 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 Template:UCI team code 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.<ref>VeloNews | Wednesday's EuroFile: Astana 5’ cleared by Spanish courts; Landis sets post-Tour schedule | The Journal of Competitive Cycling Template:Webarchive</ref> He took his first Grand Tour stage win in the 2006 Vuelta a España, on stage 10. He joined the Template:UCI team code team at the end of the season.

In 2008, he again won the Portuguese National Time Trial Championships. He joined Lance Armstrong's Template:UCI team code in 2010,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Major results

2002

Volta a Portugal

1st Prologue, Stages 3 & 4

3rd File:Bronze medal blank.svg 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 File:MaillotPortugal.PNG 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 File:Silver medal olympic.svg 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 File:MaillotPortugal.PNG 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

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

External links

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