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Historic Overview Victor Hugo Peña Grisales

Rider

Overall Rank1033
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 a 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 work 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 68 463
2. 1997 Telecom - Flavia 26 687
3. 1998 Avianca - Telecom - Kelme 219 243
4. 1999 Vitalicio Seguros - Grupo Generali 334 187
5. 2000 Vitalicio Seguros - Grupo Generali 709 87
6. 2001 US Postal Service 422 166
7. 2002 US Postal Service 693 83
8. 2003 US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor 942 53
9. 2004 US Postal Service p/b Berry Floor 458 152
10. 2005 Phonak Hearing Systems 268 247
11. 2006 Phonak Hearing Systems 731 69
12. 2007 Unibet.com 127 450
13. 2008 Rock Racing 21 1100
14. 2009 Rock Racing 22 1012
15. 2010 Cafe de Colombia - Colombia es Pasion 31 963
16. 2011 Colombia Es Pasion 17 1259
17. 2012 Colombia - Coldeportes 5 2128
18. 2013 Elite without contract 2 3111
19. 2014 Elite without contract 0 5244
Overall: 5095 1033