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Fabian Cancellara

Key Stats

Team: Saxo Bank
Nationality: Swiss
Born: March 18, 1981
Hometown: Wohlen bei Bern, Switzerland
Height: 6-foot-1
Weight: 176 pounds
Strengths: time trialiing

Palmares

Career Highlights:

two-time world time trial champion (2006 and 2007)
1st, prologue Tour de France 2007
1st, stage 3, Tour de France 2007
1st, Paris-Roubaix 2006

2008
Two stage wins, Tour de Suisse
1st, Prologue Amgen Tour of California
1st, Monte Paschi Eroica
1st, stage 5, Tirreno - Adriatico
1st, overall, Tirreno-Adriatico
1st, Milan-San Remo
2nd, Paris-Roubaix
2007
1st, Prologue Tour of Switzerland
1st, stage 9 Tour of Switzerland
1st, Swiss Championship, ITT
1st, Prologue Tour de France
1st, stage 3 Tour de France
1st, World championship, ITT
2nd, stage 11 Tour de France
2nd, E3 Prijs Vlaanderen

2006
1st, Paris-Roubaix
1st, World championship, ITT
1st, Danmark Rundt
1st, Swiss Championship, ITT
1st, stage 5 Tirreno - Adriatico
1st, stage 1 Volta a Catalunya
1st, stage 2 Danmark Rundt
1st, stage 5 Danmark Rundt
2nd, stage 14 Vuelta a España
2nd, LUK Challenge Chrono Bühl
5th, Züri Metzgete
6th, Tour of Flanders
6th, Ghent - Wevelgem

2005
1st, Swiss ITT Championship
1st, stage 4 Paris-Nice
1st, stage 4 Tour de Luxembourg
1st, stage 5 Setmana Catalana
1st, Best young rider, Tour de Luxembourg
2nd overall, Tour de Luxembourg
3rd, World championship, ITT
3rd, stage 21 Tour de France
4th, HEW Cyclassics Cup
4th, Ghent-Wevelgem
8th, Paris-Roubaix

2004
1st, Swiss ITT Championship
1st, Prologue Tour de France
1st, stage 1 Setmana Catalana
1st, stage 4 Tour de Luxembourg
1st, stage 4 Tour of Qatar
4th, Paris-Roubaix
4th, Three Days of de Panne
8th, World championship, ITT
10th, Olympics, ITT

2003
1st, Best young rider, Tour of The Netherlands
1st, Points competition Tour de Romandie
1st, Prologue Tour of Switzerland
1st, Prologue Tour de Romandie
1st, Stage 4 Tour of Belgium
4th, Tour of The Netherlands
8th, Trois Jours de la Panne
9th GP des Nations
9th overall, Deutschland Tour

2002
1st, Swiss ITT Championship
1st, GP Eddy Merckx
1st GP Erik Breukink
1st overall, Tour of Rhodes
1st overall, ZLM Tour
1st, stage 1 Österreich Rundfahrt
1st, stage 4 GP Erik Breukink
1st, Prologue Tour of Rhodes
1st, stage 3 Ytong Bohemia Tour
8th, GP des Nations
9th, World championship, ITT

2001
1st overall, Tour of Rhodes
1st, Prologue, Tour of Rhodes
2nd, GP Eddy Merckx