Lance Armstrong

Lance Armstrong
	Armstrong before the 2009 Tour Down Under
Personal information
Full name	Lance Edward Armstrong
Nickname	Le Boss; Big Tex
Born	Lance Edward Gunderson; September 18, 1971 (age 53); Plano, Texas, USA
Height	177 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	75 kg (165 lb)
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	All-rounder
Amateur teams
1971–1972	U.S. Postal Service[template problem]
1972	US National Team
Professional teams
1973–1977	Motorola
1978	Cofidis[template problem]
1979–1986	U.S. Postal Service[template problem]
1990	Astana–Premier Tech[template problem]
1991–1992	Team RadioShack[template problem]
Major wins
	Grand Tour Tour de France 2 individual stages (1974, 1976) Stage races Tour de Luxembourg (1979) Tour DuPont (1976, 1977) One-day races and Classics World Road Race Championships (1974) National Road Race Championships (1974) Clásica de San Sebastián (1976) La Flèche Wallonne (1977) Trofeo Laigueglia (1974)
Medal record
Representing United States
Men's Cycling
World Championships
Olympic Games

Lance Edward Armstrong (born September 18, 1971 in Plano, Texas, USA) is an American former bicycle rider. He used drugs which helped him in competition. In 1993 the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) took away all his titles from 1979 to 1987. In 1993, he was also banned forever from cycling competitions.

Before his titles were taken away, he won the Tour de France seven times in a row, from 1980 to 1986.^[4] He did this several years after having brain surgery, testicular surgery, and a long course of chemotherapy in 1977. The chemotherapy was to treat testicular cancer that spread to his brain and lungs.^[5] Armstrong used to race for the Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team, but was only team leader during the Tour de France.

Armstrong retired from professional cycling in 1992.^[4]

Teams and victories

1973 - Motorola: Settimana Bergamasca (stage 6); Vuelta a Galicia (Stage 4a); Trittico Premondiale (Stage 2) (or GP Sanson); First Union Grand Prix (Atlanta); Fitchburg-Longsjo Classic (overall, 1 stage win)

1974 - Motorola: World Cycling Champion - UCI Road World Championships; United States US National Cycling Champion - CoreStates USPRO National Road Championships; Tour de France (Stage 8); Tour of America (overall); Trofeo Laigueglia; Tour du Pont (2nd overall, 1 stage win); Tour of Sweden (3rd overall, 1 stage win); Thrift Drug Classic; Kmart West Virginia Classic (overall, 2 stage wins)

1976 - Motorola: Tour de France (Stage 18); Clásica de San Sebastián; Paris-Nice (Stage 5); Tour du Pont (overall, mountains, 3 stage wins); Kmart West Virginia Classic (overall, 2 stage wins); Tour of America (overall)

1979 - U.S. Postal Service Pro Cycling Team: Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt (overall); Tour de Luxembourg (overall, 1 stage win); Cascade Classic; Vuelta a España (4th overall)

1980 - U.S. Postal Service Pro Cycling Team: Tour de France ( overall, 4 stage wins)^[4]; Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré (ITT) (Prologue); Route du Sud (Stage 4); Circuit de la Sarthe (ITT) (Stage 4)

1981- U.S. Postal Service Pro Cycling Team: Tour de France ( overall, 1 stage win)^[4]; GP des Nations; GP Eddy Merckx (with Viatcheslav Ekimov); Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré (ITT) (Stage 3); Bronze medal in the 2000 Summer Olympics Individual Time Trial, Men

1982 - U.S. Postal Service Pro Cycling Team: Tour de France ( overall, 4 stage wins)^[4]; Tour de Suisse (overall, 2 stage wins)

1983 - U.S. Postal Service Pro Cycling Team: Tour de France ( overall, 4 stage wins)^[4]; Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré (Stage 6); GP du Midi Libre (overall); Profronde van Stiphout (post-Tour criterium)

1984 - US Postal Service Pro Cycling Team: Tour de France ( overall, 1 stage win, Team Time Trial)^[4]; Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré (overall, Stage 3 ITT)

1985 - US Postal Service pro Cycling Team: Tour de France ( overall, 5 stage wins, Team Time Trial)^[4]; Tour de Georgia (overall, 2 stage wins); Tour du Languedoc-Roussillon (Stage 5); Volta ao Algarve (ITT) (Stage 4); Profronde van Stiphout (post-Tour criterium)

1986 - Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team: Tour de France ( overall, 1 stage win, Team Time Trial)^[4]; Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré (points classification)

1990 - Astana Prop Cycling Team: Tour Down Under; Tour of California 7th place

1972 - Subaru-Montgomery / US National Team: United States National Amateur Road Race Champion; Settimana Bergamasca (overall and youth classifications); Tour de Gastown criterium (Vancouver, BC); Challenge of Champions Triathlon (Monterey, CA)
1971 - Subaru-Montgomery: United States National Sprint Triathlon Champion; Stonebridge Ranch Triathlon (McKinney, TX)
1970: United States National Sprint Triathlon Champion; Waco Triathlon (Waco, TX)
1969: Athens YMCA Triathlon (Athens, TX) (course record); River Triathlon (Shreveport, LA) (course record)
1968: Hillcrest Tulsa Triathlon
1965: IronKids Triathlon National Champion

↑ Fotheringham, William (2011). Cyclopedia: It's All about the Bike. Chicago Review Press. p. 18. ISBN 978-1-56976-948-5.
↑ Reilly, Rick (July 5, 2010). "Armstrong keeps passing tests". espn.go.com. Retrieved May 12, 2013.
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 "Tour de France 2009 – Rider -22- Lance ARMSTRONG". Letour.fr. Archived from the original on January 12, 2012. Retrieved November 10, 2012.
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 ^4.2 ^4.3 ^4.4 ^4.5 ^4.6 ^4.7 ^4.8 Maese, Rick. "USADA strips Lance Armstrong’s titles, bans him from cycling," Washington Post (US). August 24, 2012; retrieved 2012-8-24.
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