Oscar Camenzind
Oscar Camenzind (born 12 September 1971 in Schwyz, Switzerland) is a former professional road racing cyclist from Switzerland. He is national road champion of 1997.[1] In 1998 he won the World Road Championship and the Giro di Lombardia, in 2000 he won the Tour de Suisse and he won Liège–Bastogne–Liège in 2001. His career came to an abrupt end when he retired from pro cycling after a positive doping test in July 2004 for erythropoietin, leading into the Athens Olympics.[2] After confessing to the use, in 2005 he was sued in Swiss court in order to name his supplier, which he refused to do fearing retribution.[3]
 Oscar Camenzind at the 1997 Paris–Nice | ||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Oscar Camenzind | |||||||||||||
| Born | 12 September 1971 Schwyz, Switzerland | |||||||||||||
| Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 8 1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||||
| Weight | 65 kg (143 lb; 10 st 3 lb) | |||||||||||||
| Team information | ||||||||||||||
| Current team | Retired | |||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | |||||||||||||
| Role | Puncheur | |||||||||||||
| Professional teams | ||||||||||||||
| 1996 | Ceramica Panaria-Vinavil | |||||||||||||
| 1997-1998 | Mapei–GB | |||||||||||||
| 1999–2001 | Lampre–Daikin | |||||||||||||
| 2002–2004 | Phonak | |||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Major Results
- 1997
- 1st
Road race, National Road Championships - 2nd Overall Tour de Suisse
- 1st Stages 1 & 9
- 1998
- 1st
Road race, UCI Road World Championships - 1st Giro di Lombardia
- 2nd Milano–Torino
- 4th Overall Giro d'Italia
- 1999
- 1st Stage 7 Tour de Suisse
- 1st Stage 3 Giro del Trentino
- 4th Giro di Lombardia
- 6th Road race, UCI Road World Championships
- 8th Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 2000
- 1st
Overall Tour de Suisse - 2001
- 1st Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 1st Stage 10 Tour de Suisse
- 2002
- 1st Overall Sachsen Tour International
- 1st Stage 2
- 2nd Milano–Torino
- 3rd Giro di Lombardia
- 2003
- 1st Stage 3 Sachsen Tour International
References
- "National Championship, Road, Elite, Switzerland (Men)". Cycling Archives. Retrieved 14 March 2015.
- "Camenzind quits after EPO disgrace". CNN. Athens. 10 August 2004. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
- Westemeyer, Susan (17 August 2006). "Swiss court re-opens Camenzind EPO case". cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
External links
- Oscar Camenzind at Cycling Archives
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Preceded by Michael von Grünigen |
Swiss Sportsman of the Year 1998 |
Succeeded by Marcel Schelbert |
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