Rui Costa (cyclist)
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Costa at the 2013 Tour de Romandie.
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| Full name | Rui Alberto Faria da Costa | ||||||||||||
| Born |
5 October 1986 Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal |
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| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||
| Weight | 63 kg (139 lb; 9.9 st) | ||||||||||||
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| Current team | UAE Team Emirates | ||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||
| Rider type | All-rounder | ||||||||||||
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| 2007–2008 | S.L. Benfica | ||||||||||||
| 2009–2013 | Caisse d'Epargne | ||||||||||||
| 2014– | Lampre–Merida | ||||||||||||
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Rui Alberto Faria da Costa, ComIH (born 5 October 1986) is a Portuguese professional road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam UAE Team Emirates. He is best known for winning the 2013 UCI Road World Championships in Tuscany, Italy – the first Portuguese to do so, three stages of the Tour de France in 2011 and 2013, and the 2012, 2013 and 2014 editions of the Tour de Suisse, becoming the first cyclist to win the event for three consecutive years.
Born in Aguçadoura, Póvoa de Varzim, Costa started his career at Guilhabreu, a civil parish of Vila do Conde, then went to Santa Maria da Feira.
Costa became a professional cyclist at Benfica in 2007, and switched to Caisse d'Epargne in 2009.
In 2009, Costa won the Four Days of Dunkirk followed by a win on stage 8 of the 2010 Tour de Suisse.
In 2010, Costa was involved with an altercation with Carlos Barredo at the end of Stage 6 of the Tour de France, with Barredo removing his front wheel and attempting to club Costa with it before both riders lobbed blows at each other. Both were fined 300 francs for the incident.
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