Bobby Julich
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| Full name | Robert Julich | ||||||||||||
| Nickname | Bobby J | ||||||||||||
| Born |
November 18, 1971 Corpus Christi, Texas, United States of America |
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| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 72 kg (159 lb) | ||||||||||||
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| Current team | Retired | ||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||
| Rider type | Time-trialist/Climber | ||||||||||||
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| 1988–1991 | US National Team | ||||||||||||
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| 1992 | Spago | ||||||||||||
| 1994 | Chevrolet | ||||||||||||
| 1995–1996 | Motorola | ||||||||||||
| 1997–1999 | Cofidis | ||||||||||||
| 2000–2001 | Crédit Agricole | ||||||||||||
| 2002–2003 | Team Telekom | ||||||||||||
| 2004–2008 | Team CSC | ||||||||||||
| Major wins | |||||||||||||
| Critérium International (1998, 2005) Paris–Nice (2005) Eneco Tour (2005) Tour de l'Ain (1997) Route du Sud (1997) |
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Robert Julich, popularly called Bobby Julich, (born on November 18, 1971, in Corpus Christi, Texas) is an American former professional road bicycle racer who last rode for Team CSC in the UCI ProTour racing series. He got his international breakthrough when he finished 3rd overall in the 1998 Tour de France, becoming only the second American to finish on the podium. He is a strong time trialist who won a silver medal at the 2004 Olympic Individual Time Trial, and combined with his high versatility he has won a number of stage races on the international circuits including the 2005 edition of Paris–Nice. In September 2008, he announced his retirement as a professional cyclist.
He served as a technical director for Team Saxo Bank until November 2010, when it was announced that he would move to Team Sky for the 2011 season as a race coach. On October 25, 2012, Team Sky announced that Julich would part ways with the team due to his admission to doping in the past. This departure is therefore in line with Team Sky's policy (re-asserted in the wake of the USADA Reasoned Decision and subsequent UCI/Lance Armstrong fall-out) of asking all current team personnel to admit to any past doping offences. After leaving Sky Julich worked as a coach for BMC Racing Team in 2014 before being announced by Team Tinkoff-Saxo as the team's head coach for 2015, however in August 2015 he confirmed that he would leave the team at the end of the year.
Born in Texas, Julich has resided in Glenwood Springs, Colorado, since childhood, with a brief time in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he met his wife. Most of his living relatives reside in the New York area. Bobby Julich got his start in cycling winning the Red Zinger Mini Classics youth bicycle race in 1985. As an amateur cyclist Bobby Julich won the 1990 Junior National Cyclo-Cross Championship, and as a member of the US National Team he participated in the 1991 Tour DuPont. At the time it was the biggest stage race in the United States, and Julich finished 5th overall in a race which included fellow American cyclist and 3-time Tour de France winner Greg LeMond. Bobby won the award for the Best Young Rider and was heralded as the next George Mount.
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