Roman Kreuziger
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Kreuziger at the 2009 Tour de France.
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| Personal information | |
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| Full name | Roman Kreuziger |
| Born |
6 May 1986 Moravská Třebová, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic) |
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) |
| Weight | 65 kg (143 lb; 10.2 st) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Orica–Scott |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | All-rounder |
| Professional team(s) | |
| 2006–2010 | Liquigas |
| 2011–2012 | Astana |
| 2013–2016 | Saxo–Tinkoff |
| 2017– | Orica–Scott |
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Roman Kreuziger (Czech pronunciation: [ˈroman ˈkrojtsɪɡr̩]; born 6 May 1986) is a Czech professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour team Orica–Scott. Kreuziger is an all-rounder, with climbing and time trial abilities, becoming a contender for the General classification of stage races. He is also considered one of the biggest talents of the sport after winning the 2004 Junior Road World Championships and the 2008 Tour de Suisse at the age of 22. Next year, he won the 2009 Tour de Romandie and in 2013, he was the victor of the Amstel Gold Race.
His father, Roman Kreuziger Sr., was also a bicycle racer who won the Tour of Austria in 1991 and the Cyclocross Junior World Championships in 1983.
He turned professional in 2006 with Liquigas after a successful amateur career which saw him win the Junior Road World Championships in 2004 and a stage of the Giro delle Regioni in 2005. In 2007 he showed great improvements in his abilities by placing second in the prologues of Paris–Nice and the Tour de Romandie, where he also finished sixth overall. He took his first professional victory in the second stage of the Settimana Ciclistica Lombarda. In late 2007, he also completed his first Grand Tour after finishing 21st in the Vuelta a España.
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