David George (cyclist)

David Harold George ( born February 23, 1976 in Cape Town ) is a South African cyclist.

David George was founded in 1997 at the road World Cycling Championships in San Sebastian third in the time trial of the U23. A year later he also won the time trial of the 1998 Commonwealth Games in Kuala Lumpur the bronze medal. Then he got for the following season a professional contract with the U.S. Cycling Team U.S. Postal Service. Since he was able to achieve good results, he remained only two years and then moved to Tacconi Sport. In 2002 he was with CCC Polsat third in the overall standings of the Tour de Langkawi. In 2003, he joined the Barloworld team and won the Giro del Capo in his homeland. The following year he was able to repeat this success and also win at the South African Championships. 2006 George went for the Spanish UCI Professional Continental team Relax- GAM. At the beginning of the season he chose the Tour de Langkawi in itself. Later he won then the silver medal in the time trial at the Commonwealth Games and the South African time trial championship. His victory in the time trial championships he repeated the following year. In 2008, he joined the team MTN, a South African Continental team and scored a stage win at the Giro del Capo. Since the season is he went for smaller teams without registration with the International Cycling Union UCI.

Once at George existed before that suspicious abnormalities in the collected in the biological passport values ​​, a targeted drug testing was carried out on August 29, 2012 which was positive on the doping agent erythropoietin. Then he was suspended by the South African Association and the beginning of December 2012 subject to a two -year ban.

Achievements

2002

  • Giro del Capo

2003

  • Giro del Capo

2004

  • Giro del Capo
  • South Africa South African Champion - Road Race

2006

  • Tour de Langkawi
  • South Africa South African Champion - Individual Time Trial

2007

  • South Africa South African Champion - Individual Time Trial

2008

  • Stage win Giro del Capo

Team

  • 2008 Team MTN
  • 2009 MTN Cycling
  • 2010 City Cycling and Athletic
  • 2011 360 Life
  • 2012 Nedbank 360
Cycling at the 2006 Commonwealth Games MTN Qhubeka Ryan Cox Ian McLeod (cyclist)
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