Mauricio Soler
Juan Mauricio Soler Hernández ( born January 14, 1983 in Ramiriqui, Boyacá ) is a former Colombian cyclist.
Career
2006 Soler won the French stage race Circuit de Lorraine. At Milan -Turin, he finished in 25th place previously. He started this season for the Italian Professional Continental team Acqua e Sapone. By wildcards he took already part in ProTour events. Soler was also set up by the Colombian Cycling Federation for the Road Cycling World Championship in Salzburg. However, he had to finish the race prematurely and did not make it to the finish.
Since the 2007 season, he drives for the British team Barloworld, which was authorized by Wildcard Tour de France. There he won the ninth stage on July 17, 2007. In this stage, he was undercutting the previous best time of ascent to the Col du Galibier clear that 1998 was possibly erected by Marco Pantani under EPO influence. Due to its very good performance in these and other mountain stages he fell several times in doping suspicion from the media. These rumors, however, were rejected by the Barloworld team and the Tour director Prudhomme, especially as the sample that you took off him after his victory did not contain any banned substances. Soler was after the 9th stage several times during mountain stages in the top group, after the exclusion of the overall leader Michael Rasmussen was his mountain jersey safely and he could wear it to the last stage to Paris.
After Soler won the second stage of the Tour de Suisse 2011 before and wore the yellow jersey for one day, he fell in second place in the overall standings at the start of stage 6 hard and suffered a fractured skull, a fracture of the ankle as well as lung injury. He was transported by helicopter to the Kantonsspital St. Gallen and added there temporarily in an artificial coma. Due to the improvement of his condition, he could be the beginning of July in his adopted home of Spain, to Pamplona, relocated and has since been in a continuing rehabilitation, with no end in sight. In October, four months after his fall, Soler could leave the hospital in Pamplona and for December, returning to his homeland is scheduled to Colombia.
On July 18, 2012 it was announced that the Colombians, despite its progressive rehabilitation, probably not to return to cycling.
Palmarčs
- A stage in the Vuelta a Colombia
- A stage and Appreciation Circuit de Lorraine
- A stage and mountain Classification Tour de France
- A stage and Appreciation Burgos Tour
- A stage in the Tour de Suisse
Team
- 2005 EPM Orbitel
- 2006 Acqua & Sapone
- 2007-2009 Barloworld
- 2010 Caisse d'Epargne
- 2011 Movistar team