Alejandro Valverde

Alejandro Valverde

Valverde at the 2015 Tour de France
Personal information
Full name	Alejandro Valverde Belmonte
Nickname	Balaverde (The Green Bullet) El Bala (The Bullet) El Imbatido (The Unbeaten)
Born	(1980-04-25) 25 April 1980 (age 36) Las Lumbreras, Spain
Height	1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	61 kg (134 lb; 9.6 st)
Team information
Current team	Movistar Team
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	All-rounder
Professional team(s)
2002–2004	Kelme–Costa Blanca
2005–	Illes Balears–Banesto
Major wins
Grand Tours Giro d'Italia 1 individual stage (2016) Tour de France 4 individual stages (2005, 2008, 2012) Vuelta a España General classification (2009) Points classification (2012, 2013, 2015) Combination classification (2003, 2009, 2012) 9 individual stages 2 TTT stages (2012, 2014) Stage races Critérium du Dauphiné (2008, 2009) Volta a Catalunya (2009) Vuelta a Andalucía (2012, 2013, 2014, 2016, 2017) Vuelta a Burgos (2004, 2009) Vuelta a Castilla y León (2016) One-day races and Classics National Road Race Championships (2008, 2015) National Time Trial Championships (2014) Liège–Bastogne–Liège (2006, 2008, 2015) La Flèche Wallonne (2006, 2014, 2015, 2016) Clásica de San Sebastián (2008, 2014) Paris–Camembert (2008) Roma Maxima (2014) Vuelta a Murcia (2004, 2007, 2008, 2014, 2017) GP Miguel Indurain (2014) Other UCI ProTour (2006, 2008) UCI World Tour (2014, 2015)
Medal record Representing  Spain Road bicycle racing World Championships 2003 Hamilton Road race 2005 Madrid Road race 2006 Salzburg Road race 2012 Valkenburg Road race 2013 Florence Road race 2014 Ponferrada Road race

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Stage races

One-day races and Classics

Other

Alejandro Valverde Belmonte (born 25 April 1980) is a Spanish road racing cyclist for UCI WorldTeam Movistar Team. Valverde's biggest wins have been the 2009 Vuelta a España, Liège–Bastogne–Liège in 2006, 2008 and 2015, La Flèche Wallonne (2006, 2014, 2015 and 2016), the Clásica de San Sebastián (2008 and 2014), the 2006 and 2008 UCI ProTours, and the 2014 and 2015 UCI World Tours. He has twice collected the silver medal in the UCI Road World Championships, in 2003 and 2005, as well as the bronze four times in 2006, 2012, 2013 and 2014. Valverde is rare in combining different specialities in road bicycle racing, being a strong climber, sprinter and time-trialist in his later years. After a lengthy court battle, he was suspended for two years as part of the Operación Puerto blood doping investigation, but he returned to competition in 2012 upon completion of the ban.