Murilo Fischer
Fischer at the 2007 Tour de Pologne
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| Personal information | |
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| Full name | Murilo Antonio Fischer |
| Born |
16 June 1979 Brusque, Santa Catarina, Brazil |
| Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) |
| Weight | 64 kg (141 lb) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Retired |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | Sprinter |
| Professional team(s) | |
| 2004 | Domina Vacanze |
| 2005–2006 | Naturino-Sapore di Mare |
| 2007–2009 | Liquigas |
| 2010–2012 | Garmin–Transitions |
| 2013–2016 | FDJ |
| Major wins | |
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Murilo Antonio Fischer (born 16 June 1979 in Brusque, Santa Catarina) is a retired Brazilian professional road bicycle racer, who last rode for UCI ProTeam FDJ. He represented the Brazil in the last four Olympic Games (2000, 2004, 2008 e 2012). Fischer competed his fifth Olympic Games in Rio 2016.
Prior to moving to the Garmin–Transitions team in 2010, Fischer had raced his whole career with Italian teams, having begun his career with Domina Vacanze in 2004, before moving to UCI Professional Continental team Naturino-Sapore di Mare for the 2005 and 2006 seasons. At Naturino-Sapore di Mare, Fischer proved his consistency over a season by winning the 2005 UCI Europe Tour. In 2007, Fischer made the step up to the UCI ProTour with Liquigas.
Fischer is the only Brazilian to have completed three Tour de France and five Giro d'Italia. And he is the second Brazilian (after Luciano Pagliarini) to win a stage of a UCI World Tour race (2007 Tour de Pologne).
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