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Roman Kreuziger
Personal information |
Full name |
Roman Kreuziger |
Date of birth |
May 6, 1986 (1986-05-06) (age 22) |
Country |
Czech Republic |
Height |
1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) |
Weight |
65 kg (140 lb) |
Team information |
Current team |
Liquigas |
Discipline |
Road |
Professional team(s) |
2006– |
Liquigas |
Major wins |
Junior Road World Championships (2004) |
Infobox last updated on: |
August 26, 2007 |
Roman Kreuziger (born May 6, 1986 in Moravská Třebová) is a Czech professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour Team Liquigas.
[edit] Career
He turned professional in 2006 with Liquigas after a successful amateur career which saw him win the Junior Road World Championships in 2004 and a stage of the Giro delle Regioni in 2005. In 2007, he showed great improvements in his abilities by placing 2nd in the prologues of Paris-Nice and the Tour de Romandie, where he also finished sixth overall. He took his first professional victory in the second stage of the Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda. In late 2007 he also completed his first Grand Tour after finishing 21st in the Vuelta a España.
In 2008 he finished second in Tour de Romandie, 35 seconds behind Andreas Klöden.
[edit] Palmares
- 2003
- 2nd, European U19 Cyclo-Cross Championship
- 2004
- World U19 Road Race Champion
- Czech Republic U19 Road Race Champion
- Czech Republic U19 Time Trial Champion
- , World U19 Time Trial Championship
- , World U19 Cyclo-Cross Championship
- 2005
- 2nd, National U23 Time Trial Championship
- 2007
- 1st, Trofeo Città di Borgomanero (paired time trial, with Vincenzo Nibali)
- 1st, Stage 2, Settimana Lombarda
- 2nd, prologue Paris-Nice
- 6th overall, Tour de Romandie
- 2nd, Prologue
- 2008
- 2nd overall, Tour de Romandie
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