Fränk Schleck
Luxembourg Champion - Road Race (2005, 2008, 2010, 2011) Amstel Gold Race (2006) two stage wins Tour de France (2006, 2009) Appreciation Tour de Luxembourg (2009) General Classification Tour de Suisse ( 2010) Appreciation Critérium International ( 2011)
Fränk René Schleck ( born April 15, 1980 in Luxembourg ) is a Luxembourgian road cyclists. His brother is the cyclist Andy Schleck.
Career
Schleck, whose father Johny was also a professional cyclist, began in the trained by Claude Conter youth teams, including his older brother Steve and the subsequent Luxembourg cyclist Kim belonged to churches. Later, he spent several years working abroad, eg in De Nardi in Italy or France.
The good contacts Marcel Gilles allowed him to drive a month in Team CSC- Saxo Bank by Bjarne Riis, where he won by good performances a permanent position. His brother Andy drove 2005-2010 also for the team.
On 16 April 2006, he won the Amstel Gold Race.
Another significant success celebrated Schleck on July 18, 2006, when he won the queen stage of the Tour de France from Gap to L' Alpe d' Huez. He was the first Luxembourg cyclist since Edy Schütz in 1966, who won a stage of the Tour de France.
On 27 April 2008 he was defeated at Liege -Bastogne- Liege in the finals only by Alejandro Valverde and Davide Rebellin. A place behind him came to his younger brother Andy, who examined the decision earlier. As the trio Andy overtook on a knoll, pushed his brother Fränk still a bit on.
From July 20 to July 23, 2008 Fränk Schleck wore the yellow jersey as overall leader of the Tour de France. In the final account, he finished sixth.
He won the 17th stage of the Tour de France 2009, also the queen stage, in front of Alberto Contador and Andy Schleck and his brother was at the end of fifth place in the Tour de France. In addition, the older of the Schleck brothers won the eighth stage of the Tour of California, was second in Paris-Nice and won in addition to the third stage and the overall classification of the Tour de Luxembourg.
In 2010 he won the second stage of the Tour de Luxembourg for himself and took second place in the overall standings. In the subsequent Tour de Suisse Luxembourg the third stage for himself and for a thirteenth place, the overall rating of this tour decided the individual time trial in the ninth and final stage. With his team, Saxo Bank also he won the team classification. In a heavy crash on the third stage of the Tour de France 2010, he retired in the shoulder area with a triple fracture of the scapula and a compound fracture of the clavicle as serious injuries that he had to abandon the race.
Doping
The Süddeutsche Zeitung claimed in its issue of 27 September 2008 that Schleck was as a customer of the physician Eufemiano Fuentes, after the doping scandal Fuentes is named, unmasked. This was evidenced by a referral to Fuentes from March 2006. Upon request, the newspaper Schleck said that he had not doped. The transferred money was intended for a training program. Schleck even admitted to have had contact with Fuentes that he had, however, these canceled as soon as he heard of his connections to doping. Due to the allegations, the Luxembourg Anti -Doping Agency ALAD was investigating Schleck, the proceeding one but since there is no evidence of attempted doping will still be performed doping.
Schleck was tested after the 13th stage of the 2012 Tour de France positive for the diuretic xipamide. This was announced by the UCI Cycling Union in the evening of July 17. Diuretics are often used to disguise the drug-taking. His team pulled him back on the same day of the tour. On July 20, 2012, the result was confirmed by the analysis of the B sample. In January 2013 Fränk Schleck was retroactively dated 14 July 2012 suspended for one year. He can not participate in the Tour de France 2013. On July 4, 2013 announced Schleck's Team RadioShack, that it would no longer use it even after the expiry of the lock and terminate the contract with him. Possible make this a clause in Schleck's Treaty, which in the case of a positive doping finding a termination would be possible.
Achievements
- Luxembourg Champion - Road Race
- Appreciation and a stage Critérium International
- Luxembourg Champion - Road Race
- A stage of the Tour de Luxembourg
- A stage and General Classification Tour de Suisse
- A stage of the Tour de France
- A stage in the Tour of California
- A stage and Appreciation Tour de Luxembourg
- Luxembourg Champion - Road Race
- Team time trial Tour of Poland
- Giro dell'Emilia
- A stage in the Tour de Suisse
- A stage of the Tour de France
- Amstel Gold Race
- Luxembourg Champion - Road Race
Rankings in the Grand Tours
Legend:
- DNF: did not finish, a stage driver has not ended
- WD: withdrawal, the driver has the tour canceled after a stage
Awards
On 15 December 2006 Fränk Schleck was awarded the best male athletes in Luxembourg in 2006. He had 146 votes ahead of runner-up David Fiegen, the silver medalist in the 800 meters at the European Athletics Championships in 2006.