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Historic Overview Victor Hugo Peña Grisales

Rider

Overall Rank1013
NameVictor Hugo PEÑA GRISALES
Country
  Colombia
Date of birth10-Jul-1974 - Bogota (Distrito Especial)
ContemporiesView Contemporary Ranking

Biography

Victor Hugo Peña Grisales

Víctor Hugo Peña Grisales (born July 10, 1974 in Bogotá) is a Colombian professional retired road racing cyclist. He last rode for the Colombia professional cycling team. In 2003, Peña became the first Colombian to wear the yellow jersey at the Tour de France. He held the yellow jersey for three days following the 4th, 5th and 6th stages of that year's tour.

Peña's 2003 Tour de France, where he served as domestique for Lance Armstrong, is described in detail in Matt Rendell's book A Significant Other. The book also describes the rider's amateur and early professional career.

He is named after both his father Hugo and the author Victor Hugo. He earned his nickname "El Tiburon" ("the shark") due to his looks and the other sport he excelled at besides cycling – swimming. Peña finished 7th in the 100 meter freestyle Pan American swimming championships for juniors in 1991.

At the end of the season in 2012, Peña retired. Later, Pena was implicated in the 2012 USADA Reasoned Report into doping on the US Postal team and was concluded to worked with Dr. Michele Ferrari and received blood transfusions during his Tour de France participations.

source - Wikipedia

Badges

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Major Victories

Vuelta a Murcia 2002
Giro d'Italia - stages 2000 (1)
Vuelta a Murcia - stages 2003 (1)
Ronde van Nederland - stages 2002 (1)
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Seasons

Victor Hugo Peña Grisales - Scores by Season

Year Team Score Rank
1. 1996 Individual 67 462
2. 1997 Telecom - Flavia 26 686
3. 1998 Avianca - Telecom - Kelme 218 243
4. 1999 Vitalicio Seguros - Grupo Generali 329 187
5. 2000 Vitalicio Seguros - Grupo Generali 704 87
6. 2001 US Postal Service 416 166
7. 2002 US Postal Service 688 83
8. 2003 US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor 935 53
9. 2004 US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor 455 152
10. 2005 Phonak Hearing Systems 247 254
11. 2006 Phonak Hearing Systems 740 67
12. 2007 Unibet.com 128 444
13. 2008 Rock Racing 21 1097
14. 2009 Rock Racing 22 1006
15. 2010 Cafe de Colombia - Colombia es Pasion 31 959
16. 2011 Colombia Es Pasion - Cafe de Colombia 17 1248
17. 2012 Colombia - Coldeportes 5 2082
18. 2013 Elite without contract 2 2963
19. 2014 Elite without contract 0 5125
Overall: 5051 1013