Stefan Denifl

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Stefan Denifl
Stefan Denifl - Osterreich-Rundfahrt 2009a.jpg
Denifl in 2009
Personal information
Full nameStefan Denifl
Born (1987-09-22) 22 September 1987 (age 36)
Fulpmes, Tyrol, Austria
Height1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in)
Weight65 kg (143 lb; 10.2 st)
Team information
Current teamRetired
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider type
  • Climber
  • Time trialist
Amateur team
2009 Cervélo TestTeam (stagiaire)
Professional teams
2006 Vorarlberger
2007–2009 Elk Haus–Simplon
2010 Cervélo TestTeam
2011 Leopard Trek
2012 Vacansoleil–DCM
2013–2016 IAM Cycling
2017–2018 Aqua Blue Sport [1]
Major wins
One-day races and Classics
National Time Trial Championships (2008)

Stefan Denifl (born 22 September 1987) is an Austrian former professional cyclist, who rode professionally between 2006 and 2018 for seven different professional teams. In 2019, Denifl confessed to doping during a five-year period in his career, and was given a four-year ban from the sport; as a consequence of this, Denifl received a two-year sentence in 2021 for serious commercial fraud.

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Career

Born in Fulpmes, Denifl began racing in 2001 with "Team Bike Denifl" as a mountain biker. In 2003, he moved to the road, riding for "Team ÖAMTC Recheis Lattella". From 2004, he focused on road cycling. In 2005, he was signed by Heiko Salzwedel for the T-Mobile Development Programme and included his first experience with the professional cyclists. In 2006, he signed with his first UCI Continental team Vorarlberger, and from 2007 to 2009 he was part of Elk Haus–Simplon. In 2009, he rode as a trainee for Cervélo TestTeam, [2] and rode with them as a full professional the next year. In 2012, he rode for a year with Vacansoleil–DCM [3] before joining IAM Cycling the following year. [4] In October 2016, Aqua Blue Sport announced that Denifl, alongside IAM team-mate Leigh Howard, would be part of their inaugural squad for the 2017 season. [5] After Aqua Blue disbanded in the later summer of 2018, in October of that year Denifl was initially announced as a member of the CCC Team for the following season. However, in December 2018 the team announced that they and Denifl had mutually agreed to cancel his contract due to personal reasons, which were not specified at the time. [6]

Blood doping

In February 2019, 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. Later, Denifl confessed to blood doping in a police interview [7] with CCC Team general manager Jim Ochowicz confirming that team's medical assessment of Denifl's biological passport showed no warning signs of blood doping. [8] [9] Denifl was handed a four-year ban on 27 June 2019. [10] On 12 January 2021, it was announced that Denifl would receive a two-year prison sentence for fraud. [11] The following year, the original judgement was overturned and went to a retrial. [12]

Major results

2004
3rd Road race, National Junior Road Championships
2005
National Junior Road Championships
1st MaillotAustria.PNG Road race
2nd Time trial
2nd Overall Trofeo Karlsberg
6th Road race, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships
2007
9th Eschborn-Frankfurt City Loop U23
2008
National Road Championships
1st MaillotAustria.PNG Time trial
1st MaillotAustria.PNG Under-23 time trial
1st Eschborn-Frankfurt City Loop U23
5th Overall Giro della Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia
2009
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Thüringen Rundfahrt der U23
7th Overall Bayern–Rundfahrt
8th Overall Tour of Austria
2010
7th Overall Tour of Austria
7th Overall Bayern–Rundfahrt
8th Overall Vuelta a Castilla y León
2011
5th Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal
9th Overall Grand Prix de Wallonie
2012
5th Overall Tour du Limousin
2013
1st Jersey polkadot.svg Mountains classification, Bayern–Rundfahrt
2nd Road race, National Road Championships
5th Overall Circuit de la Sarthe
2014
7th Overall Paris–Nice
2015
1st Jersey light blue.svg Mountains classification, Tour de Suisse
10th Overall Tour of Austria
1st Jersey pink.svg Austrian rider classification
2017
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Tour of Austria
1st Stage 17 Vuelta a España

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 20102011201220132014201520162017
Jersey pink.svg Giro d'Italia —— 75 ——— 52 —
Jersey yellow.svg Tour de France Did not contest during his career
Jersey red.svg Vuelta a España DNF —————— 58
Legend
—Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

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