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Stefan Schumacher Information
Stefan Schumacher
Schumacher at the 2006 Tour de Pologne
Personal information
Full name
Stefan Schumacher
Date of birth
July 21, 1981 (1981-07-21)(age 27)
Country
Germany
Height
1.83 m (6 ft 0 inch)
Weight
68 kg (150 lb)
Team information
Current team
Gerolsteiner
Discipline
Road
Role
Rider
Rider type
All-rounder/Time-trialist
Professional team(s)
2002–2003 2004 2005 2006–
Team Telekom Team Lamonta Shimano-Memory Corp Team Gerolsteiner
Major wins
Eneco Tour of Benelux (2006) Amstel Gold Race (2007) Tour de France (2008), 2 stages
Infobox last updated on:
July 26, 2008
Stefan Schumacher (born July 21, 1981 in Großbettlingen, Esslingen) is a German professional road racing cyclist. First professionally employed with Team Telekom in 2002, he was released the following year. In 2006, he made his UCI ProTour debut with Team Gerolsteiner after posting impressive continential circuits results on the UCI Europe Tour.
Schumacher has been involved in a series of controversial incidents during his career. He was implicated in a doping case in 2005 when he tested positive for an amphetamine. His mother, a doctor, had prescribed an asthma medication after failing to find it on the World Anti-Doping Agency's list of banned substances, and checking with the appropriate Dutch agency. He was cleared by the German cycling federation of a doping offence.
In 2006 Schumacher, now riding for Team Gerolsteiner, won the Eneco Tour of Benelux by one second after colliding with his main rival George Hincapie in the closing metres of the final stage, when time bonuses were available for the leading finishers. Schumacher claimed he had collided first with a spectator and the race jury accepted his story.
Following his third place in the 2007 world championships in his home town of Stuttgart, Schumacher was arrested for drunken driving. Four months later he revealed that the blood test taken at the time of his arrest had shown traces of amphetamines, whilst denying that he had knowingly taken drugs or had any knowledge of how the positive test had come about. Since a rule change in 2004 amphetamines were no longer on the WADA's out-of-competition banned list; as a result the German federation again exonerated him.
Schumacher, riding as leader of Team Gerolsteiner, won both time trials in the 2008 Tour de France, and took the yellow jersey of race leader after the first.
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Stefan Schumacher is one of Germany's brightest hopes for the future. The burly Gerolsteiner is an all-rounder who can sprint as well as climb, as he revealed in his grand tour debut in last year's ...
