Andy Schleck

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Andy Schleck

Schleck at the 2007 Tour de Romandie
Personal information
Full name	Andy Schleck
Date of birth	June 10, 1985 (1985-06-10) (age 23)
Country	Luxembourg
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	67 kg (150 lb/10.6 st)
Team information
Current team	Team CSC
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	All-rounder
Amateur team(s)
2004	Team CSC (stagiaire)
Professional team(s)
2005–	Team CSC
Major wins
Giro d'Italia, Young rider classification (2007)
Infobox last updated on:
January 9, 2008

Andy Schleck (born June 10, 1985 in Luxembourg) is a Luxembourgian professional road bicycle racer who, since 2005, has been riding for the Team CSC outfit in the UCI ProTour race series. Andy is the younger brother of Fränk Schleck, whom he rides alongside at Team CSC. Their father Johnny Schleck was also a road bicycle racer who rode several times as a professional in the Tour de France and Vuelta a España races between 1965 and 1974.

Contents 1 Career 2 Major achievements 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Career

Still an amateur rider, Andy Schleck won the 2004 Flèche de Sud stage race at the age of 18. As the Danish national team were competing in the race, word spread to the Danish Team CSC manager Bjarne Riis. Riis asked Fränk Schleck, who was already on Team CSC, about his brother, and following talks during the Tour de Luxembourg, Andy Schleck started as a stagiaire for Team CSC on September 1, 2004.^[1] He subsequently secured himself a professional contract with CSC. He and brother Fränk shared the 2005 national championships between them, Fränk taking the road race and Andy Schleck won the individual time trial. In the 2006 spring season, Andy Schleck crashed in the GP Cholet and had to take an eight week break before returning for the Volta a Catalunya race in May. In July, just a few days after his brother won the famous Alpe D'Huez stage of the Tour de France, Andy won the major mountain stage in the Sachsen Tour, which he followed with a stage win in the final stage, finishing 23rd overall.

In the 2007 Giro d'Italia, he won the young rider classification and was second in the general classification after Danilo Di Luca. He also finished fourth at the Giro di Lombardia after helping his brother Fränk, who crashed with six kilometres to go.^[2]

[edit] Major achievements

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Fanclub for the Schleck brothers.
• Team CSC profile
• Andy Schleck profile at the Cycling Website

v • d • e Riders on Team CSC Kurt Asle Arvesen | Lars Bak | Michael Blaudzun | Lasse Bøchman | Matti Breschel | Fabian Cancellara | Íñigo Cuesta | Matthew Goss | Juan José Haedo | Volodymyr Hustov | Allan Johansen | Bobby Julich | Kasper Klostergaard | Alexandr Kolobnev | Karsten Kroon | Gustav Erik Larsson | Marcus Ljungqvist | Anders Lund | Jason McCartney | Bradley McGee | Stuart O'Grady | Carlos Sastre | Andy Schleck | Fränk Schleck | Chris Anker Sørensen | Nicki Sørensen | Jurgen Van Goolen | Jens Voigt | Manager: Bjarne Riis

Persondata
NAME	Schleck, Andy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Road bicycle racer
DATE OF BIRTH	1985-06-10
PLACE OF BIRTH	Luxembourg (city), Luxembourg
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH