Maximiliano Richeze
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Axel Maximiliano Richeze (born on March 7, 1983 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine professional cyclist.
Among his achievements are the first position of the Stage 1 and other second positions in the 2006 Le Tour de Langkawi in Malaysia , and the 2005 Trofeo Arvedi of the Circuito del Porto in Portugal. Also in 2005 he won the Panamerican under-23 Championship, and in 2003 he became the Argentine under-23 champion.
In his season as a professional racer, he obtained the second position in the last state of the 2006 Giro d'Italia, finishing some centimetres behind Robert Förster. He is considered to be the Argentine cyclist to obtain the best result in any of the three main cycling tours (the Giro, the Tour de France and the Vuelta a España), since nationalized Lucien Petit-Breton raced for France, Argentina born Juan Antonio Flecha raced for Spain, and Alejandro Borrajo only achieved a third place, also at the Giro.
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