Lance Armstrong

Lance Armstrong
	Armstrong before the 2009 Tour Down Under
Personal information
Full name	Lance Edward Armstrong
Nickname	Le Boss[1]; Big Tex[2]
Born	Lance Edward Gunderson; September 18, 1971; Plano, Texas, USA
Height	177 cm (5 ft 10 in)[3]
Weight	75 kg (165 lb)[3]
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	All-rounder
Amateur teams
1990–1991	Subaru–Montgomery
1991	US National Team
Professional teams
1992–1996	Motorola
1997	Cofidis
1998–2005	U.S. Postal Service
2009	Astana
2010–2011	Team RadioShack
Major wins
	Grand Tour Tour de France 2 individual stages (1993, 1995) Stage races Tour de Luxembourg (1998) Tour DuPont (1995, 1996) One-day races and Classics World Road Race Championships (1993) National Road Race Championships (1993) Clásica de San Sebastián (1995) La Flèche Wallonne (1996) Trofeo Laigueglia (1993)
Medal record
Representing United States
Men's Cycling
World Championships
Olympic Games

Lance Edward Armstrong (born September 18, 1971 in Plano, Texas, USA) is an American former bicycle rider. He used drugs which helped him in competition. In 2012 the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) took away all his titles from 1998 to 2006. In 2012, he was also banned forever from cycling competitions.

Before his titles were taken away, he won the Tour de France seven times in a row, from 1999 to 2005.[4] He did this several years after having brain surgery, testicular surgery, and a long course of chemotherapy in 1996. The chemotherapy was to treat testicular cancer that spread to his brain and lungs.[5] Armstrong used to race for the Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team, but was only team leader during the Tour de France.

Armstrong retired from professional cycling in 2011.[4]

Teams and victories

1992 - Motorola: Settimana Bergamasca (stage 6); Vuelta a Galicia (Stage 4a); Trittico Premondiale (Stage 2) (or GP Sanson); First Union Grand Prix (Atlanta); Fitchburg-Longsjo Classic (overall, 1 stage win)

1993 - Motorola: World Cycling Champion - UCI Road World Championships; United States US National Cycling Champion - CoreStates USPRO National Road Championships; Tour de France (Stage 8); Tour of America (overall); Trofeo Laigueglia; Tour du Pont (2nd overall, 1 stage win); Tour of Sweden (3rd overall, 1 stage win); Thrift Drug Classic; Kmart West Virginia Classic (overall, 2 stage wins)

1994 - Motorola: Thrift Drug Classic; Tour du Pont (1 stage win)

1995 - Motorola: Tour de France (Stage 18); Clásica de San Sebastián; Paris-Nice (Stage 5); Tour du Pont (overall, mountains, 3 stage wins); Kmart West Virginia Classic (overall, 2 stage wins); Tour of America (overall)

1996 - Motorola: Tour du Pont (overall, 5 stage wins); La Flèche Wallonne

1997 - Cofidis: Sprint 56K Criterium (Austin, TX)

1998 - U.S. Postal Service Pro Cycling Team: Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt (overall); Tour de Luxembourg (overall, 1 stage win); Cascade Classic; Vuelta a España (4th overall)

1999 - U.S. Postal Service Pro Cycling Team: Tour de France (overall, 4 stage wins)[4]; Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré (ITT) (Prologue); Route du Sud (Stage 4); Circuit de la Sarthe (ITT) (Stage 4)

2000 - U.S. Postal Service Pro Cycling Team: Tour de France (overall, 1 stage win)[4]; GP des Nations; GP Eddy Merckx (with Viatcheslav Ekimov); Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré (ITT) (Stage 3); Bronze medal in the 2000 Summer Olympics Individual Time Trial, Men

2001 - U.S. Postal Service Pro Cycling Team: Tour de France (overall, 4 stage wins)[4]; Tour de Suisse (overall, 2 stage wins)

2002 - U.S. Postal Service Pro Cycling Team: Tour de France (overall, 4 stage wins)[4]; Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré (Stage 6); GP du Midi Libre (overall); Profronde van Stiphout (post-Tour criterium)

2003 - US Postal Service Pro Cycling Team: Tour de France (overall, 1 stage win, Team Time Trial)[4]; Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré (overall, Stage 3 ITT)

2004 - US Postal Service pro Cycling Team: Tour de France (overall, 5 stage wins, Team Time Trial)[4]; Tour de Georgia (overall, 2 stage wins); Tour du Languedoc-Roussillon (Stage 5); Volta ao Algarve (ITT) (Stage 4); Profronde van Stiphout (post-Tour criterium)

2005 - Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team: Tour de France (overall, 1 stage win, Team Time Trial)[4]; Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré (points classification)

2009 - Astana Prop Cycling Team: Tour Down Under; Tour of California 7th place

Amateur cycling and triathlon years

1991 - Subaru-Montgomery / US National Team: United States National Amateur Road Race Champion; Settimana Bergamasca (overall and youth classifications); Tour de Gastown criterium (Vancouver, BC); Challenge of Champions Triathlon (Monterey, CA)
1990 - Subaru-Montgomery: United States National Sprint Triathlon Champion; Stonebridge Ranch Triathlon (McKinney, TX)
1989: United States National Sprint Triathlon Champion; Waco Triathlon (Waco, TX)
1988: Athens YMCA Triathlon (Athens, TX) (course record); River Triathlon (Shreveport, LA) (course record)
1987: Hillcrest Tulsa Triathlon
1984: IronKids Triathlon National Champion

References

Fotheringham, William (2011). Cyclopedia: It's All about the Bike. Chicago Review Press. p. 18. ISBN 978-1-56976-948-5.
Reilly, Rick (July 5, 2010). "Armstrong keeps passing tests". espn.go.com. Retrieved May 12, 2013.
"Tour de France 2009 – Rider -22- Lance ARMSTRONG". Letour.fr. Archived from the original on January 12, 2012. Retrieved November 10, 2012.
Maese, Rick. "USADA strips Lance Armstrong’s titles, bans him from cycling," Washington Post (US). August 24, 2012; retrieved 2012-8-24.
Lance Armstrong shares his struggle

1903 Maurice Garin · 1904 Henri Cornet · 1905 Louis Trousselier · 1906 René Pottier · 1907-1908 Lucien Petit-Breton · 1909 François Faber · 1910 Octave Lapize · 1911 Gustave Garrigou · 1912 Odile Defraye · 1913-1914 Philippe Thys · 1915-1918 World War I · 1919 Firmin Lambot · 1920 Philippe Thys · 1921 Léon Scieur · 1922 Firmin Lambot · 1923 Henri Pélissier · 1924-1925 Ottavio Bottecchia · 1926 Lucien Buysse · 1927-1928 Nicolas Frantz · 1929 Maurice De Waele · 1930 André Leducq · 1931 Antonin Magne · 1932 André Leducq · 1933 Georges Speicher · 1934 Antonin Magne · 1935 Romain Maes · 1936 Sylvère Maes · 1937 Roger Lapébie · 1938 Gino Bartali · 1939 Sylvère Maes · 1940-1946 World War II · 1947 Jean Robic · 1948 Gino Bartali · 1949 Fausto Coppi · 1950 Ferdinand Kübler · 1951 Hugo Koblet · 1952 Fausto Coppi · 1953-1955 Louison Bobet · 1956 Roger Walkowiak · 1957 Jacques Anquetil · 1958 Charly Gaul · 1959 Federico Bahamontes · 1960 Gastone Nencini · 1961-1964 Jacques Anquetil · 1965 Felice Gimondi · 1966 Lucien Aimar · 1967 Roger Pingeon · 1968 Jan Janssen · 1969-1972 Eddy Merckx · 1973 Luis Ocaña · 1974 Eddy Merckx · 1975 Bernard Thévenet · 1976 Lucien Van Impe · 1977 Bernard Thévenet · 1978-1979 Bernard Hinault · 1980 Joop Zoetemelk · 1981-1982 Bernard Hinault · 1983-1984 Laurent Fignon · 1985 Bernard Hinault · 1986 Greg LeMond · 1987 Stephen Roche · 1988 Pedro Delgado · 1989-1990 Greg LeMond · 1991-1995 Miguel Indurain · 1996 Bjarne Riis · 1997 Jan Ullrich · 1998 Marco Pantani · 1999-2005 Lance Armstrong, disqualified · 2006 Óscar Pereiro (Floyd Landis, disqualified) · 2007 Alberto Contador · 2008 Carlos Sastre · 2009–10 Alberto Contador · 2011 Cadel Evans · 2012 Bradley Wiggins · 2013 Chris Froome · 2014 Vincenzo Nibali

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[1] Fotheringham, William (2011). Cyclopedia: It's All about the Bike. Chicago Review Press. p. 18. ISBN 978-1-56976-948-5.

[2] Reilly, Rick (July 5, 2010). "Armstrong keeps passing tests". espn.go.com. Retrieved May 12, 2013.

[tdf-3] "Tour de France 2009 – Rider -22- Lance ARMSTRONG". Letour.fr. Archived from the original on January 12, 2012. Retrieved November 10, 2012.

[maese-4] Maese, Rick. "USADA strips Lance Armstrong’s titles, bans him from cycling," Washington Post (US). August 24, 2012; retrieved 2012-8-24.

[5] Lance Armstrong shares his struggle