Roel Paulissen
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| Full name | Roel Paulissen | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
27 April 1976 Hasselt, Belgium |
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| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 65 kg (143 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Torpado | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Mountain biking | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Cross-country | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1996–1999 | American Eagle | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 2000–2001 | Team GT | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 2001 | Rainer Wurz-Sud Tirol | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 2001 | Lotto–Adecco | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 2002 | Lanabau-Rainer Wurz | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 2003–2004 | Siemens Mobile | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 2004–2006 | Jong Vlaanderen 2016 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 2007–2008 | Cannondale-Vredestein | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 2009–2010 | Cannondale Factory Racing | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 2013 | Torpado | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Major wins | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2005 and 2008 Absa Cape Epic | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Roel Paulissen (born 27 April 1976 in Hasselt) is a Belgian professional mountain biker. Throughout his sporting career since 1993, he has won more than ten Belgian national championship titles, mounted top-five finishes at both the European and World Cup series, and claimed a total of four medals, including two golds, in men's cross-country race at the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships. Paulissen also represented his nation Belgium in four editions of the Olympic Games (1996, 2000, 2004, and 2008), where he competed in men's mountain biking since it officially became an Olympic sport in 1996. By the start of the 2010 season, Paulissen had been overshadowed by a doping issue after he tested positive for clomiphene that sidelined and effectively ended his mountain biking career. Having lifted a two-year suspension from doping in early 2013, Paulissen came out from his short retirement to join and race professionally for the Italian team Torpado.
Born and raised in Hasselt, Paulissen discovered and started cycling at the age of sixteen, when he purchased his first ever mountain bike. He took part in numerous regional and local races across Belgium, and soon joined the Ghislain Cycles Club by the following year. In the summer of 1994, Paulissen surprisingly earned his first trophy under the junior category at the Belgian Championships. Because of his exquisite talent and prowess in the sport, Paulissen offered a spot to train and race professionally for the Dutch team called the American Eagle two years later.
Paulissen officially made his international debut for Belgium at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, where he finished seventeenth in the inaugural men's cross-country race with a time of 2:33:53.
At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Paulissen could not match his best possible ride from Atlanta with a nineteenth-place effort in the same program, posting an official time of 2:16:54.
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