Stefan Schumacher
- All-rounder
- Time-trialist
- Giro d'Italia
- 2 individual stages (2006)
Stage races
- Eneco Tour (2006)
- Tour de Pologne (2006)
- Tour de Serbie (2012)
- Tour of China II (2012)
One-day races and Classics
- Amstel Gold Race (2007)
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Stefan Schumacher (born 21 July 1981) is a German former professional road racing cyclist. Schumacher won the bronze medal in the road race at the 2007 UCI Road World Championships, two stages in the 2006 Giro d'Italia and two stages in the 2008 Tour de France. After positive results on doping products in the 2008 Tour de France and the 2008 Summer Olympics, he received a suspension for two years, later reduced by some months. After his suspension, he came back as a professional cyclist before retiring in 2017.
Career
First professionally employed with Team Telekom in 2002, he was released the following year. In 2006, he made his UCI ProTour debut with Gerolsteiner after posting impressive continental circuits results on the UCI Europe Tour.
Schumacher has been involved in a series of controversial incidents during his career. He was implicated in a doping case in 2005 when he tested positive for an amphetamine. His mother, a doctor, had prescribed an asthma medication after failing to find it on the World Anti-Doping Agency's list of banned substances, and checking with the appropriate Dutch agency. He was cleared by the German Cycling Federation of a doping offence.
Gerolsteiner (2006–08)
In 2006 Schumacher, now riding for Gerolsteiner, won the Eneco Tour of Benelux by one second after colliding with his main rival George Hincapie in the closing metres of the final stage, when time bonuses were available for the leading finishers. Schumacher claimed he had collided first with a spectator and the race jury accepted his story.
Following his third place in the road race at the 2007 UCI Road World Championships in his home town of Stuttgart, Schumacher was arrested for drunken driving. Four months later he revealed that the blood test taken at the time of his arrest had shown traces of amphetamines, whilst denying that he had knowingly taken drugs or had any knowledge of how the positive test had come about. Following a rule change in 2004 amphetamines were no longer on WADA's out-of-competition banned list; as a result the German federation again exonerated him.
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In the 2008 Tour de France, Schumacher, riding as leader of Gerolsteiner, won both time trials, beating Swiss favourite Fabian Cancellara, and took the yellow jersey of race leader after the first. After Gerolsteiner was announced to be folding, Schumacher signed a two-year contract with Quick-Step.[2]
Doping suspension
On 6 October 2008 the media reported that Schumacher had tested positive for the controlled substance continuous erythropoietin receptor activator (CERA), a new generation of erythropoietin (EPO), in a blood sample taken during the 2008 Tour de France.[3] CERA was also the drug for which Italian cyclists Riccardo Riccò and Leonardo Piepoli tested positive during the Tour de France. The German cycling federation was likely to take disciplinary action,[4] however Schumacher continued to assert his innocence and believed he was eligible to ride in the 2009 season and having a contract with Quick-Step. Quick-Step manager Patrick Lefevere stated that Schumacher's contract would not be honored.[5]
On 19 February 2009 Schumacher was banned for two years by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI).[6] In January 2010, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) reduced Schumacher's ban, allowing him to ride again as from August 2010.[7]
In April 2009 Schumacher's name was raised in connection with a positive test for performance-enhancing drugs at the 2008 Summer Olympics.[8] Both his "A" and "B" samples tested positive for CERA.[9] Schumacher was disqualified after these positive tests; he appealed against this to CAS, but dropped his appeal in April 2010.[10]
Post-suspension
Schumacher's ban ended in August 2010. He came back to ride for the Miche team, and joined Christina Watches–Onfone for the 2012 season.[11] In March 2013 Schumacher confessed to doping in an interview with the news magazine Der Spiegel. He stated he started doping in his mid-twenties and used "EPO, growth hormone and corticosteroids".[12] He also said that his former team Gerolsteiner tolerated doping and it became as banal as "having a plate of pasta after training".[13]
Major results
Source:[14]
- 2001
- 5th Rund um den Henninger Turm U23
- 2002
- 8th Overall Peace Race
- 1st Young rider classification
- 10th Overall Niedersachsen Rundfahrt
- 1st Young rider classification
- 2003
- 9th Overall Niedersachsen Rundfahrt
- 2004
- 1st Druivenkoers Overijse
- 1st Mountains classification, Sachsen Tour
- 1st Mountains classification, Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt
- 2nd Road race, National Road Championships
- 2nd Overall Jadranska Magistrala
- 1st Mountains classification
- 2nd Overall Hessen-Rundfahrt
- 3rd Poreč Trophy
- 4th GP Triberg-Schwarzwald
- 5th Rund um Köln
- 8th Rund um Düren
- 10th Overall Bayern Rundfahrt
- 1st Young rider classification
- 1st Stage 6
- 2005
- 1st
Overall Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt
- 1st Stages 1, 2, 3 & 4b (ITT)
- 1st
Overall Ster Elektrotoer
- 1st
Overall Niedersachsen Rundfahrt
- 2nd Rund um Köln
- 2nd Hel van het Mergelland
- 9th Grand Prix Rudy Dhaenens
- 9th Veenendaal–Veenendaal
- 9th Rund um den Henninger Turm
- 2006
- 1st
Overall Tour de Pologne
- 1st Stages 6 & 7
- 1st
Overall Eneco Tour of Benelux
- 1st
Young rider classification
- 1st Prologue
- 1st
- 1st
Overall Circuit Cycliste Sarthe
- Giro d'Italia
- 1st Stages 3 & 18
- Held
after Stages 3–4
- 1st Stage 4 (ITT) Sachsen Tour
- 6th Rund um den Henninger Turm
- 9th Amstel Gold Race
- 2007
- 1st
Overall Bayern Rundfahrt
- 1st Stage 4 (ITT)
- 1st Amstel Gold Race
- 3rd
Road race, UCI Road World Championships
- 4th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
- 1st Stage 5 (ITT)
- 2008
- 1st Stage 4 (ITT) Bayern Rundfahrt
Tour de France- 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
- 3rd GP Triberg-Schwarzwald
- 2011
- Vuelta a Asturias
- 1st Stages 1 & 2b (ITT)
- 3rd Grand Prix of Aargau Canton
- 4th Overall Vuelta a la Comunidad de Madrid
- 4th Overall Tour of Azerbaijan (Iran)
- 1st Prologue & Stage 5
- 7th Coppa Sabatini
- 8th Overall Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
- 9th Giro dell'Appennino
- 10th Coppa Città di Stresa, Gran Premio Nobili Rubinetterie
- 2012
- 1st
Overall Tour of China II
- 1st Prologue & Stage 4 (ITT)
- 1st
Overall Tour de Serbie
- 1st Stage 3
- 2nd Overall Szlakiem Grodów Piastowskich
- 2nd Overall Tour of China I
- 1st Stage 1 (TTT)
- 3rd Overall Tour de San Luis[a]
- 5th Rogaland GP
- 7th Tallinn–Tartu GP
- 8th Overall Danmark Rundt
- 8th Ronde van Drenthe
- 2013
- 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
- 3rd Overall Tour d'Algérie
- 1st Stage 1
- 3rd Overall Tour of Estonia
- 5th Overall Tour de Blida
- 6th Overall Szlakiem Grodów Piastowskich
- 7th Overall Sibiu Cycling Tour
- 1st Stage 3a (ITT)
- 2014
- 1st Stage 3 (ITT) Szlakiem Grodów Piastowskich
- 1st Stage 3 (ITT) Tour de Beauce
- 2015
- 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
- 8th Overall Czech Cycling Tour
- 2016
- 1st
Overall Tour du Maroc
- 9th Overall Tour of Iran (Azerbaijan)
- 9th Gran Premio della Costa Etruschi
Notes
- ^ Promoted one position after Alberto Contador's results were disqualified following his backdated two-year ban in February 2012.[15][16]
References
- ^ "Stefan Schumacher joins CCC Polsat Polkowice". CCC–Sprandi–Polkowice. Archived from the original on 21 January 2015. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
- ^ Bikeradar. "Stefan Schumacher signs with QuickStep". BikeRadar.
- ^ "www.cyclingnews.com – the world centre of cycling". cyclingnews.com.
- ^ Tour rocked by new positive tests BBC News Monday, 6 October 2008
- ^ "Bike World News".
- ^ "UCI schorst (eindelijk) Stefan Schumacher" (in Dutch). Sportwereld. 19 February 2009.
- ^ Schumacher will not appeal CAS decision, Cyclingnews
- ^ "www.cyclingnews.com – the world centre of cycling". cyclingnews.com.
- ^ Wilson, Stephen (July 8, 2009). "Backup samples positive for 5 Olympians". Associated Press.
- ^ Schumacher drops appeal against Beijing-DQ, Cyclingnews
- ^ Schumacher to Christina Watches, Cyclingnews
- ^ "Schumacher confesses to doping". Cyclingnews. Future Publishing Limited. 29 March 2013. Retrieved 29 March 2013.
- ^ "'Like a Plate of Pasta After Training': German Cyclist Admits Years of Doping". Spiegel Online. Spiegel. 29 March 2013. Retrieved 29 March 2013.
- ^ "Stefan Schumacher". FirstCycling.com. FirstCycling AS. Retrieved 12 November 2022.
- ^ "New winners emerge from Contador's suspension". Cycling News. 7 February 2012. Retrieved 19 February 2012.
- ^ "Tour de San Luis (ARG), 23–29 Jan 2012 – General classification: San Luis — San Luis". Union Cycliste Internationale. Infostrada Sports. Archived from the original on 12 May 2014. Retrieved 19 February 2012.
External links
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- Official website
- Stefan Schumacher at UCI
- Stefan Schumacher at ProCyclingStats
- Stefan Schumacher at Cycling Archives
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