Alberto Contador

Alberto Contador

Contador at the 2015 Tour de France
Personal information
Full name	Alberto Contador Velasco
Nickname	El Pistolero
Born	(1982-12-06) 6 December 1982 (age 34) Pinto, Madrid, Spain
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	62 kg (137 lb; 9.8 st)
Team information
Current team	Trek–Segafredo
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	All-rounder
Professional team(s)
2003–2006	ONCE–Eroski
2007	Discovery Channel
2008–2010	Astana
2011–2016	Saxo Bank–SunGard
2017–	Trek–Segafredo
Major wins
Grand Tours Tour de France General classification (2007, 2009) Young rider classification (2007) 3 individual stages (2007, 2009) Giro d'Italia General classification (2008, 2015) Vuelta a España General classification (2008, 2012, 2014) Combination classification (2008, 2014) 5 individual stages (2008, 2012, 2014) Stage races Paris–Nice (2007, 2010) Tirreno–Adriatico (2014) Tour of the Basque Country (2008, 2009, 2014, 2016) Vuelta a Burgos (2016) Vuelta a Castilla y Leon (2007, 2008) Volta ao Algarve (2009, 2010) Single-day races and Classics National Time Trial Championships (2009) Milano–Torino (2012)

Grand Tours

Stage races

Single-day races and Classics

Alberto Contador Velasco (Spanish pronunciation: [alˈβerto kontaˈðor βeˈlasko]; born 6 December 1982) is a Spanish professional cyclist, one of six riders to have won all three Grand Tours of road cycling. He was the winner of the 2007 Tour de France with the Discovery Channel team. With the Astana team he has won the 2008 Giro d'Italia, the 2008 Vuelta a España and the 2009 Tour de France. He initially also won the 2010 Tour de France with this team, and the 2011 Giro d'Italia with team Saxo Bank-SunGard, only to be stripped of these titles later having been found guilty of a doping offence. Following his return from a suspension, he won the 2012 Vuelta a España, the 2014 Vuelta a España and the 2015 Giro d'Italia. Notable summit stage finishes on which he has victories include the Alto de El Angliru in the Vuelta, the Plateau de Beille in the Tour and Mount Etna in the Giro. After being widely expected to lose his tenuous lead in the 2007 Tour de France in that race's final individual time trial, Contador has become a more accomplished time trialist, with several victories in the discipline. He has earned a reputation as an all-rounder, a cyclist who excels in all aspects of stage racing which are needed for high places in the general classification.