Sérgio Paulinho

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Men's Cycling
Olympic medal record
Silver	Athens 2004	Individual Road Race

Sérgio Miguel Moreira Paulinho (born March 26, 1980) is a Portuguese road bicycle racer.

Son of former cyclist Jacinto Paulinho, Paulinho won the world junior championship in 2002. In 2003, he became a professional cyclist and started gaining reference in one of the most important Portuguese teams: LA Pecol. In 2004, he was 6th in the Tour of Portugal (Volta). In the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, he was silver medalist (Italy's Paolo Bettini got gold and Axel Merckx bronze) in the cycling road race.

Following his Olympic performance, he was signed by the Team Astana (formerly known as Liberty Seguros-Würth).

On July 6, 2006, it was announced in Belgian Sporza that he is to switch to the Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team at the end of the season despite that his name was apparently implicated in the Fuentes scandal. Discovery boss Johan Bruyneel does not believe Paulinho has a case to answer to. Indeed, Bruyneel was correct since Paulinho was cleared by Spanish officials of any wrongdoing as part of the Operación Puerto doping case.^[1]

He took his first Grand Tour stage win in Vuelta a Espana 2006, on stage 10. In 2004 he also won the Portuguese national time trial Championship and stage 7 and 10 at Tour of Portugal.

Riders on Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team
Ivan Basso \| Fumiyuki Beppu \| Volodymyr Bileka \| Janez Brajkovič \| Alberto Contador \| Antonio Cruz \| Steve Cummings \| Tom Danielson \| John Devine \| Stijn Devolder \| Vladimir Gusev \| George Hincapie \| Levi Leipheimer \| Fuyu Li \| Trent Lowe \| Egoi Martínez \| Jason McCartney \| Gianni Meersman \| Uroš Murn \| Benjamín Noval \| Pavel Padrnos \| Sérgio Paulinho \| Yaroslav Popovych \| José Luis Rubiera \| Tomas Vaitkus \| Jurgen Van Goolen \| Brian Vandborg \| Matt White
Manager
Johan Bruyneel