Sérgio Paulinho

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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

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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

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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

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