2007 in road cycling

See also: 2007 in sports, 2007 in cycle racing, 2006 in men's road cycle racing, 2008 in men's road cycle racing.

Contents 1 News 1.1 January 2 Pro Tour 3 Continental Tours 3.1 UCI Africa Tour 3.2 UCI America Tour 3.3 UCI Asia Tour 3.4 UCI Europe Tour 3.5 UCI Oceania Tour 3.6 USA Cycling Professional Tour 4 Other multiple stage road races 5 Other single day road races 6 Other single day time trials 7 National Championships 8 See also

News

January

• 1 - Gordon McCauley wins the first race of 2007, which is the first stage of the 2007 Tour de Vineyards. He finishes in front of a leading group existing of three riders with the others being Clinton Robert Avery and Heath Blackgrove. nzherald.co.nz
• 1 - Shane Vasquez of Belize wins KREM New Years' Day Cycling Classic 2007 in his home country. dewielersite.net
• 2 - Ivan Basso receives the 40th Premio Sport Award, which is awarded by Enrico Morelli. Other nominees were Alfredo Martini, Franco Ballerini, Alessandro Petacchi, Francesco Chicchi, Michele Bartoli and Andrea Tafi. cyclingnews.com
• 2 - With his win in the second stage of the 2007 Tour de Vineyards Gordon McCauley wins his second consecutive race of 2007 and remains the only rider to win a professional road cycling race for the year. dunnersdan.com
• 3 - Due to troubles in organizing the 2007 ENECO Tour the race through the Netherlands and Belgium might be cancelled later in the season as directors Rob Discart and Henk van Mulukom are fighting about the planned sacking of Van Mulukom. shimano-benelux.nl
• 4 - Heath Blackgrove wins two stages in a row to claim the overall win in the 2007 Tour de Vineyards. sportzhub.com
• 6 - Brazilian Nilceu Santos wins the Copa America de Ciclismo in his home country. dewielersite.net
• 7 - Walter Bénéteau ends his career after seven years of professional cycling, finishing his career with a total of three wins. dewielersite.net
• 9 - Italian riders Nicolas Loda and Marco Milesi both end their career. cyclingpost.com
• 10 - Rabobank announces to remain the team's main sponsor until at least 2012. rabobank.com
• 12 - Nathan O'Neill clinches the Australian time trial championship title by finishing one minute and eleven seconds in front of second placed Rory Sutherland. theaustralian.news.com.au
• 11 - Unless signing doping accused Ivan Basso the team of Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team remains part of the Pro Tour. They were risking to be rejected for the 2007 season. usatoday.com
• 12 - Pro Tour team Unibet.com Cycling Team is rejected to participate in Paris–Nice by the organisers. Instead of them continental team Agritubel is selected. The organisation behind the race is known to have troubles with the UCI and their Pro Tour system. cyclingpost.com
• 14 - Darren Lapthorne becomes Australian national road race champion after he finished 15 seconds ahead of a group riders led by Robert McLachlan. cyclingpost.com
• 15 - Former world champion Mario Cipollini will be taken to court or has to pay 1.5 million Euro's in a pending fraud case. dewielersite.net
• 18 - Le Monde reports that Óscar Pereiro, second in the Tour de France 2006 behind doping affected Floyd Landis also tested positive during the Tour. The substance found in his body, salbutamol is commonly used to cure asthma, and is allowed to be used in cycle racing if the cyclist can provide a medical prescription for the substance. It is alleged that the International Cycling Union gave Pereiro retroactive permission to use the substance on medical grounds after the positive tests. The French anti-doping agency questions the veracity of the medical grounds. dewielersite.net
• 19 - Baden Cooke wins the third stage in the 2007 Tour Down Under and celebrates the first victory of the Unibet.com Cycling Team as a member of the Pro Tour. cyclingpost.com
• 19 - Óscar Pereiro claims he is innocent and claims his use of salbutamol was legal. He said he has sent the correct documentation to the French doping agency to prove his words. dewielersite.net
• 19 - In the Cofidis doping case from 2004 seven people face punishments to a maximum of one year detention. Cyclists David Millar and Massimiliano Lelli were not pushined. guardian.co.uk
• 23 - Johan Museeuw reveals that he has used doping during the last years of his career. Patrick Lefevere is blamed to be stimulating cyclists to use doping. The UCI announces that the last speculations against Óscar Pereiro were based on nothing. According to the UCI Pereiro did not use doping. [1], [2], dewielersite.net
• 26 - Patrick Lefevere strikes back and takes the newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws to court after their recent doping stories about the Quick Step-Innergetic manager. hln.be
• 26 - The 2011 road cycling world championships will be held in Copenhagen according to a UCI official in Hooglede, Belgium. telesport.nl
• 27 - The 2007 Tour of Murcia originally scheduled from 7 to 11 March is cancelled and will not take place in 2007. telesport.nl
• 29 - Tony Houbrechts a former helper of Felice Gimondi is arrested and set to jail as he is suspected to have set up a drugs laboratorium. telesport.nl

Pro Tour

Continental Tours

UCI Africa Tour

Date	Place	Winner	Second	Third
16–21 January 2007	2007 La Tropicale ABO	Frédéric Guesdon	Pierre Rolland	Jussi Veikkanen

UCI America Tour

Date	Place	Winner	Second	Third
7–21 January 2007	2007 Vuelta al Tachira	Hernán Buenahora	Manuel Medina	Jackson Rodriguez
23–28 January 2007	2007 Tour de San Luis	Jorge Giacinti	Fernando Antogna	Francisco Mancebo

UCI Asia Tour

Date	Place	Winner	Second	Third
6–12 January 2007	2007 Jelajah Malaysia	Mahdi Sohrabi	Hossein Askari	Thomas Just
20–25 January 2007	2007 Tour of Siam	Jai Crawford	Yukihiro Doi	William Ford
28 January -2 February 2007	2007 Tour of Qatar	Wilfried Cretskens	Tom Boonen	Steven de Jongh
2–11 February 2007	2007 Le Tour de Langkawi	Anthony Charteau	José Serpa	Walter Pedraza

UCI Europe Tour

UCI Oceania Tour

Date	Place	Winner	Second	Third
17–21 January 2007	2007 Tour Down Under	Martin Elmiger	Karl Menzies	Lars Bak
24–28 January 2007	2007 Tour of Wellington	Hayden Roulston	Craig McCartney	Matthew Talbot

USA Cycling Professional Tour

Other multiple stage road races

Date	Place	Winner	Second	Third
1–4 January 2007	2007 Tour de Vineyards	Heath Blackgrove	Michael Torckler	Gordon McCauley
3–7 January 2007	2007 Bay Classic Series	Mark Renshaw	Simon Gerrans	Rory Sutherland
11–21 January 2007	2007 Vuelta a San Juan	Luciano Montivero	Darío Díaz	Juan Pablo Dotti
2–11 February 2007	2007 Vuelta a Peru	in progress
3–4 February 2007	2007 Tour of the Bahamas	Frank Travieso	William Frischkorn	Craig Lewis
5–11 February 2007	2007 Clásica del Oeste	in progress

Other single day road races

Date	Place	Winner	Second	Third
1 January	Krem's New Year Cycling Classic	Shane Vasquez	Marlon Castillo	Mateo Cruz
7 January	Copa America de Ciclismo	Nilceu Santos	Francisco Chamorro	Raphael Serpa
9 January	100 YFAMT Race	Adam Toula	Arkaitz Duran Aroca
16 January	2007 Down Under Classic	Mark Renshaw	Hilton Clarke	Simon Clarke
26 January	Joseph Sunde Memorial	Shaun Higgerson	Trent Wilson	Stewart Campbell
27 January	Main Divide Cycle Race	Oliver Pearce	Edward Barrett	Nathan Smith
28 January	Copa da Republica de Ciclismo	Francisco Chamorro	Kleber Neve	Fabielle Mota
28 January	Pick'n Pay Fast One	Malcolm Lange	Nolan Hoffmann	Juan van Heerden
4 February	VW Herald	Jacques Janse van Rensburg	Jeremy Maartens	Waylon Woolcock
4 February	NBT Capital Classic	Arran Brown	Michael Thomson	Martin van Wijk

Other single day time trials

Date	Place	Winner	Second	Third
4 February	Qormi Dingli Circuit	Etienne Bonello	Johann Vassallo	Ramon Grech

National Championships

Date	Country	Road race Elite	Road race U23	Time trial Elite	Time trial U23
11-14 January	Australia	Darren Lapthorne Robert McLachlan Karl Menzies	Wesley Sulzberger Cameron Meyer Simon Clarke	Nathan O'Neill Rory Sutherland David Pell	Zakkari Dempster Hayden Josefski Miles Olman
11-14 January	New Zealand	Julian Dean Heath Blackgrove Gordon McCauley	Matthew Haydock Oliver Pearce Edwin Crossling	Glen Chadwick Gordon McCauley Aaron Strong	Matthew Haydock Joseph Cooper Clinton Avery

See also

• List of doping cases in cycling

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