Jorge Soto (cyclist)

Jorge Soto Adelbio Pereira ( born August 8, 1986 in Salto ) is a Uruguayan road bicycle racer.

The 1.87 meter tall Soto, whose parents Jorge and Ema two other sons, Juan Manuel and Cesar, took the first time at the age of 16 years with the Uruguayan national team in Chile in a competition abroad in part. Soto began as a 18 -year-old first for the cycling team of Salto Nuevo. In 2005, he joined the team of Villa Teresa and won at a portion of the stage race Rutas de America. In the Pan Championship of the same year he won in Mar del Plata each the silver medal in the time trial and road race in the U23 class. The Soto now regarded as Uruguayan Olympic hope subsequently received a training grant for the Centre Mondial du Cyclisme (CMC ) of the UCI in Switzerland. There, he expanded the originally planned only for a month stay on for over a year. In 2006, he then joined the Club Ciclista Fénix, but moved later that year to Champagnat, where he stood until 2007 under contract. He he started at the Road World Championships in Salzburg in 2006 in the U23 class. In the time trial, he finished 55th position there, the road race, he could not finish. In the 2008 season, now driving in rows of the team of Villa Teresa, Soto was able to record a stage win at the Vuelta Ciclista del Uruguay and won the bronze medal in the U23 time trial of the Pan Championship. 2009, a native of Salto Soto was again successful in two stages of the Vuelta Ciclista del Uruguay as a daily winner and also participated with the Uruguayan national team on Panamericano de Montevideo. As a financially better-paid offer then he moved in 2010 to porongos. Going for this team at the start, he was then in 2010 first Uruguayan road champion before Mario Sasso and his team-mate Gabriel Richard. About a month later, he secured the Uruguayan championship title in the time trial when he prevailed against, among others, the other podium places occupying Mariano De Fino (Villa Teresa de Montevideo) and Richard Mascarañas ( Alas Rojas de Santa Lucía ). In 2011, he decided, accompanied by a stage win, the overall rating of the Rutas de América in his favor. In 2012 he was present at this event successful, as the porongos drivers first on the second stage first drove through the finish and finally again in the final standings decided the itinerary in his favor.

Soto was a member of the Uruguayan squad for the 2012 Summer Olympics. There he took part in the road race, but had to abandon the race after a fall.

Achievements

  • A stage Rutas de América
  • Vuelta Ciclista del Uruguay a stage
  • Team time trial Rutas de América
  • Vuelta Ciclista del Uruguay two stages
  • A stage Rutas de América
  • A stage in the Vuelta del Paraguay
  • Uruguay Uruguayan champion - road race and time trial
  • A stage and Appreciation Rutas de América
  • Uruguay Uruguayan Champion - Individual Time Trial
  • A stage and Rating Rutas de América
  • Uruguay Uruguayan Champion - Individual Time Trial

Team

  • 2004 Nuevo Club Salto
  • 2005 Villa Teresa
  • 2006 Club Ciclista Fénix
  • 2006-2007 Champagnat
  • 2008-2010 Villa Teresa
  • Since 2010 CC porongos

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Private

Soto is married to Luciana Gonzalez.

Salto (Uruguay)
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