Andy Schleck

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Andy Schleck
Schleck at the 2007 Tour de Romandie
Schleck at the 2007 Tour de Romandie
Personal information
Full name Andy Schleck
Date of birth June 10, 1985 (1985-06-10) (age 23)
Country Flag of Luxembourg Luxembourg
Height 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight 67 kg (150 lb/10.6 st)
Team information
Current team Team CSC
Discipline Road
Role Rider
Rider type All-rounder
Amateur team(s)
2004 Team CSC (stagiaire)
Professional team(s)
2005– Team CSC
Major wins
Giro d'Italia, Young rider classification (2007)
Infobox last updated on:
January 9, 2008

Andy Schleck (born June 10, 1985 in Luxembourg) is a Luxembourgian professional road bicycle racer who, since 2005, has been riding for the Team CSC outfit in the UCI ProTour race series. Andy is the younger brother of Fränk Schleck, whom he rides alongside at Team CSC. Their father Johnny Schleck was also a road bicycle racer who rode several times as a professional in the Tour de France and Vuelta a España races between 1965 and 1974.

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[edit] Career

Still an amateur rider, Andy Schleck won the 2004 Flèche de Sud stage race at the age of 18. As the Danish national team were competing in the race, word spread to the Danish Team CSC manager Bjarne Riis. Riis asked Fränk Schleck, who was already on Team CSC, about his brother, and following talks during the Tour de Luxembourg, Andy Schleck started as a stagiaire for Team CSC on September 1, 2004.[1] He subsequently secured himself a professional contract with CSC. He and brother Fränk shared the 2005 national championships between them, Fränk taking the road race and Andy Schleck won the individual time trial. In the 2006 spring season, Andy Schleck crashed in the GP Cholet and had to take an eight week break before returning for the Volta a Catalunya race in May. In July, just a few days after his brother won the famous Alpe D'Huez stage of the Tour de France, Andy won the major mountain stage in the Sachsen Tour, which he followed with a stage win in the final stage, finishing 23rd overall.

In the 2007 Giro d'Italia, he won the young rider classification and was second in the general classification after Danilo Di Luca. He also finished fourth at the Giro di Lombardia after helping his brother Fränk, who crashed with six kilometres to go.[2]

[edit] Major achievements

2004
  • 1st overall, Flèche du Sud
2005
2006
2007
2008

[edit] References

  1. ^ Andy Schleck: Not Unlike his Brother Fränk, CSC, May 19, 2006
  2. ^ 101st Giro di Lombardia - ProT, Cyclingnews.com, October 20, 2007

[edit] External links

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Persondata
NAME Schleck, Andy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION Road bicycle racer
DATE OF BIRTH 1985-06-10
PLACE OF BIRTH Luxembourg (city), Luxembourg
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH