Andy Schleck
 Schleck in the 2007 Tour de Romandie |
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| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Andy Schleck |
| Date of birth | June 10 1985 |
| Country |  Luxembourg |
| Height | m () |
| Weight | 67 kg (147 lb) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Team CSC |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Amateur team(s) | |
| 2004 | Team CSC (stagiaire) |
| Professional team(s) | |
| 2005– | Team CSC |
| Infobox last updated on: | |
| May 22, 2007 | |
Andy Schleck (born June 10, 1985) is a Luxembourgian professional road bicycle racer who, since 2005,
has been riding for the Team CSC outfit in the UCI ProTour
race series. Andy is the younger brother of Fränk Schleck, whom he rides alongside at Team
CSC. Their father Johnny Schleck was also a road bicycle racer who rode several times as a
professional in the Tour de France and
Still an amateur rider, Andy Schleck won the 2004 Flèche de Sud stage race at the age of 18. As the Danish national team were competing in the race, word spread to the Danish Team CSC manager Bjarne Riis. Riis asked Fränk Schleck, who was already on Team CSC, about his brother, and following talks during the Tour de Luxembourg, Andy Schleck started as a stagiaire for Team CSC on September 1, 2004.[1] He subsequently secured himself a professional contract with CSC. He and brother Fränk shared the 2005 national championships between them, Fränk taking the road race and Andy Schleck won the individual time trial. In the 2006 spring season, Andy Schleck crashed in the GP Cholet and had to take an eight week break before returning for the Volta a Catalunya race in May. In July, just a few days after his brother won the famous Alpe D'Huez stage of the Tour de France, Andy won the major mountain stage in the Sachsen Tour, which he followed with a stage win in the final stage, finishing 23rd overall.
In the 2007 Giro d'Italia, he won the young rider classification and was second in the general classification after Danilo Di Luca.
Major achievements
- 2004
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- 1st overall, Flèche du Sud
- 2005
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Luxembourg National Time Trial Championship
- 2006
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- Stage 3 and 5, Sachsen Tour
- 1st, Mountains classification, Tour of Britain
- 2007
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- 2nd overall, Giro d'Italia
- Young rider classification winner
- 2nd overall, Giro d'Italia
References
External links
| Riders on Team CSC |
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Kurt Asle Arvesen | Lars Bak | Michael Blaudzun | Matti Breschel | Fabian Cancellara | Íñigo Cuesta | Matthew Goss | Juan José Haedo | Volodymyr Hustov | Allan Johansen | Bobby Julich | Kasper Klostergaard | Alexandr Kolobnev | Karsten Kroon | Marcus Ljungqvist | Anders Lund | Lars Michaelsen | Stuart O'Grady | Martin Pedersen | Luke Roberts | Carlos Sastre | Andy Schleck | Fränk Schleck | Chris Anker Sørensen | Nicki Sørensen | Christian Vandevelde | Jens Voigt | David Zabriskie |
| Manager |
| Bjarne Riis |
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