Georg Preidler

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Georg Preidler
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Preidler after winning the 2011 Toscana-Terra di Ciclismo.
Personal information
Full nameGeorg Preidler
Born (1990-06-17) 17 June 1990 (age 34)
Graz, Austria
Height1.89 m (6 ft 2+1⁄2 in)
Weight69 kg (152 lb)
Team information
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeClimber
Professional teams
2010 RC Arbö–Gourmetfein–Wels
2011 Tyrol Team
2012 Team Type 1–Sanofi
2013–2017 Argos–Shimano
2018–2019 FDJ [1] [2]
Major wins
One-day races and Classics
National Time Trial Championships
(2015, 2017)

Georg Preidler (born 17 June 1990) is an Austrian cyclist, who rode professionally between 2010 and 2019. He won the Austrian National Time Trial Championships in 2015 and 2017, and was stripped of a third title won in 2018.

Contents

In 2019, Preidler was implicated in the Operation Aderlass doping scandal, [3] and was given a four-year suspension.

Career

Preidler was born in Graz, Austria. As a junior, he won the national championship title, before Preidler began his professional career in 2010 at the Austrian Continental team RC Arbö–Gourmetfein–Wels. He rode for Team Giant–Alpecin at the 2015 Tour de France, [4] finishing 87th overall. [5]

Doping

In February 2019, Austrian newspaper Kronen Zeitung broke news that a number of professional cyclists had been implicated in the doping scandal uncovered at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 2019. Preidler confessed to having his blood extracted for a possible transfusion. On 3 March, Preidler confessed to Austrian police, whilst also terminating his contract with Groupama–FDJ via email. Preidler was due to race during the previous weekend, later admitting to having his blood drawn on two occasions late in 2018. The team then contacted the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), the French Anti-Doping Agency (French : Agence française de lutte contre le dopage) and the Mouvement pour un cyclisme crédible (MPCC; English: Movement for Credible Cycling). [6] [7] Preidler was handed a four-year ban on 27 June 2019. [8]

Major results

Source: [9]

2011
1st Jersey red.svg Overall Toscana-Terra di Ciclismo
1st Gran Premio Palio del Recioto
7th Overall Tour de l'Avenir
2012
1st Jersey polkadot.svg Mountains classification, Tour du Haut Var
1st Jersey polkadot.svg Mountains classification, Tour of Austria
3rd Grand Prix of Aargau Canton
7th Les Boucles du Sud Ardèche
8th Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria
9th Flèche d'Emeraude
2013
1st Jersey polkadot.svg Mountains classification, Étoile de Bessèges
3rd Rund um Köln
2015
1st MaillotAustria.PNG Time trial, National Road Championships
2017
1st MaillotAustria.PNG Time trial, National Road Championships
1st Jersey green.svg Mountains classification, Vuelta a Andalucía
Voided results from February 2018 to March 2019. [10]
2018
National Road Championships
1st MaillotAustria.PNG Time trial
3rd Road race
6th Overall Tour de Pologne
1st Stage 6
7th Raiffeisen Grand Prix
10th Overall Route d'Occitanie

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 201320142015201620172018
Jersey pink.svg Giro d'Italia — 27 — 26 71 29
Jersey yellow.svg Tour de France —— 87 56 ——
Jersey red.svg Vuelta a España 36 ———— DNF
Legend
—Did not compete
DNF Did not finish
No.Disqualified result

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References

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  2. ↑ "Groupama-FDJ confirm 28 riders for 2019". Cyclingnews.com . Immediate Media Company. 15 November 2018. Retrieved 3 January 2019.
  3. ↑ Ballinger, Alex (16 January 2020). "Georg Preidler says he became involved in blood doping 'out of pure curiosity'". Cycling Weekly . TI Media . Retrieved 24 May 2020.
  4. ↑ "2015 Tour de France start list". Velo News. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  5. ↑ "Overall individual time classification". www.letour.com. 26 July 2015. Archived from the original on 9 September 2015. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
  6. ↑ "Preidler admits to blood extraction as doping investigation widens". Cyclingnews.com . Immediate Media Company. 4 March 2019. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  7. ↑ "Madiot expresses 'surprise' and 'enormous disappointment' at Preidler doping confession". Cyclingnews.com . Immediate Media Company. 4 March 2019. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
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  9. ↑ "Georg Preidler". FirstCycling.com. FirstCycling AS. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
  10. ↑ "Consequences Imposed on License-Holders as Result of Anti-Doping Rule Violations (ADRV) as per the UCI Anti-Doping Rules" (PDF). Union Cycliste Internationale . 3 November 2022. p. 2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 November 2022. Retrieved 17 November 2022.
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