Maximiliano Richeze
Richeze at the 2016 Tour of Britain.
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| Full name | Ariel Maximiliano Richeze | |||||||||
| Born |
7 March 1983 Bella Vista, Argentina |
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| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||
| Weight | 68 kg (150 lb) | |||||||||
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| Current team | Quick-Step Floors | |||||||||
| Discipline | Road | |||||||||
| Role | Rider | |||||||||
| Rider type | Sprinter | |||||||||
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| 2006–2009 | Ceramica Panaria–Navigare | |||||||||
| 2011–2012 | D'Angelo & Antenucci–Nippo | |||||||||
| 2013–2015 | Lampre–Merida | |||||||||
| 2016– | Etixx–Quick-Step | |||||||||
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Ariel Maximiliano Richeze (born 7 March 1983 in Bella Vista) is an Argentine professional cyclist who rides for Quick-Step Floors. Maximiliano won the silver medal at the 2015 Pan American Games (Men's Team Pursuit).
In his first season as a professional racer, he obtained the second position in the last stage of the 2006 Giro d'Italia, finishing some centimetres behind Robert Förster. He is considered to be the Argentine cyclist to obtain the best result in any of the three main cycling tours (the Giro d'Italia, the Tour de France and the Vuelta a España), since nationalized Lucien Petit-Breton raced for France, Argentina-born Juan Antonio Flecha raced for Spain, and Alejandro Borrajo only achieved a third place, also at the Giro.
In the 2007 Giro d'Italia Richeze placed 3rd on Stage 3 and 2nd on Stage 18 and 21, all of which were won by Alessandro Petacchi. But after the disqualification of Petacchi in May 2008 for doping, Richeze was declared the winner of stages 18 and 21 of that Giro.
Among his other achievements are the first position of Stage 1 and other second positions in the 2006 Le Tour de Langkawi in Malaysia, and the 2005 Trofeo Arvedi of the Circuito del Porto in Portugal. Also in 2005 he won the Panamerican under-23 Championship, and in 2003 he became the Argentine under-23 champion.
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