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Lance Armstrong

Lance Armstrong
Lance Armstrong (Tour Down Under 2009).jpg
Armstrong before the 2009 Tour Down Under
Personal information
Full name Lance Edward Armstrong
Nickname Le Boss Big Tex
Born Lance Edward Gunderson
(1971-09-18) September 18, 1971 (age 45)
Plano, Texas, U.S.
Height 1.77 m (5 ft 9 12 in)
Weight 75 kg (165 lb)
Team information
Discipline Road
Role Rider
Rider type All-rounder
Amateur team(s)
1990–1991 Subaru–Montgomery
1991 US National Team
Professional team(s)
1992–1996 Motorola
1997 Cofidis
1998–2005 U.S. Postal Service
2009 Astana
2010–2011 Team RadioShack
Major wins

Grand Tour

Tour de France
2 individual stages (1993, 1995)

Stage races

Tour de Luxembourg (1998)
Tour DuPont (1995), (1996)

One-day races and Classics

World Road Race Championships (1993)
National Road Race Championships (1993)
Clásica de San Sebastián (1995)
La Flèche Wallonne (1996)
Trofeo Laigueglia (1993)

Grand Tour

Stage races

One-day races and Classics

Lance Edward Armstrong (born Lance Edward Gunderson, September 18, 1971) is an American former professional road racing cyclist. Armstrong had won the Tour de France a record seven consecutive times from 1999 to 2005, before he was banned for life and all his results going back to August 1998 were voided, as a result of long-term doping offenses.

At age 16, Armstrong began competing as a triathlete and was a national sprint-course triathlon champion in 1989 and 1990. In 1992, Armstrong began his career as a professional cyclist with the Motorola team. He had notable success between 1993 and 1996, including the World Championship in 1993, Clásica de San Sebastián in 1995, Tour DuPont in 1995 and 1996, and a handful of stage victories in Europe, including stage 18 of the 1995 Tour de France.

In 1996, he was diagnosed with a potentially fatal metastatic testicular cancer. After his recovery, he founded the Lance Armstrong Foundation (now the Livestrong Foundation) to assist other cancer survivors.

Returning to cycling in 1998, he was a member of the US Postal/Discovery team between 1998 and 2005, when he won his Tour de France titles, as well as a bronze medal in the 2000 Summer Olympics. Armstrong retired from racing at the end of the 2005 Tour de France, but returned to competitive cycling with the Astana team in January 2009, finishing third in the 2009 Tour de France later that year. Between 2010 and 2011, he raced with Team Radio Shack, the UCI ProTeam he helped found. He retired for a second time in 2011.


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