Antonio Colóm Mas (born 11 May 1978) is a Spanish professional

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from

Bunyola Bunyola () is a municipality of the island of Mallorca, Spain, located in the spurs of the Serra de Tramuntana, at a distance of from Palma. The municipality has an area of and a population of 6,636 inhabitantINE Instituto Nacional Estadística ...

. He is a specialist in short stage races, having won the

Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana The Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana (; or Tour of Valencia) is a road cycling stage race held in the Valencian Community (''Comunitat Valenciana''), Spain. Its position in the cycling calendar means it is often used as preparation for the sprin ...

in 2006, the

Vuelta a Mallorca The Challenge Vuelta Ciclista a Mallorca (, ) is a series of four (five until 2012) professional one day road bicycle races held on the Spanish island of Mallorca in late January or early February. The event is used as an early season preparato ...

in 2004 and the

Vuelta a Andalucía The Vuelta a Andalucía (Tour of Andalusia) or Ruta del Sol (Route of the Sun) is a regional Spanish road bicycle race first held in 1925. Since 2005, it has been a 2.1 category race on the UCI Europe Tour. The race became a part of the new UCI ...

in 2002.

Career

Colóm began his career at Costa de Almería in 1999 and stayed there for three seasons, in which time he built a growing reputation as a climber, winning the mountains classification of the

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in 2001. In 2002, Colóm moved to

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, and it was here that he had an early breakthrough in winning the

. Colóm moved to the division one team Illes Balears-Banesto in 2004 and once again saw early success, winning the

. A second placing in the

rounded out a successful season. In 2005, Colóm once again saw success in Mallorca, winning the

Trofeo Calvià The Challenge Vuelta Ciclista a Mallorca (, ) is a series of four (five until 2012) professional one day road bicycle races held on the Spanish island of Mallorca in late January or early February. The event is used as an early season preparatory ...

. In 2006, Colóm reversed his 2004 results: placing second overall in the Vuelta a Mallorca and winning the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana. In 2007, Colom moved to

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, and once again showed well in Mallorca, winning the Trofeo Sóller. His 2008 campaign was poor, but got back to winning ways at the start of the 2009 season as he took one stage and the overall win in his "home race" with his new

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outfit. On 9 June 2009 it was announced that he had been provisionally suspended from racing following a positive drug test. On 27 May 2010 the Spanish Cycling Federation suspended him for 2 years, effective 2 April 2009, declaring his results in the 2009 Vuelta al País Vasco void, but making him eligible to return to cycling on 2 April 2011. In July 2014, Colom, competing as an amateur, won the 35-39 male age group at Ironman Frankfurt qualifying himself to compete at the

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in Hawai'i.

Major results

;1999 – Amica Chips–Costa de Almería ;2000 – Costa de Almería ;2001 – Jazztel–Costa de Almería :

– Mountain competition winner ;2002 – Relax–Fuenlabrada :

;2003 – Colchon Relax–Fuenlabrada ;2004 – :

– overall winner :

::2nd overall ::Combination competition – winner ::Stage 1 – winner ;2005 – :

;2006 – :

::Overall winner ::Stage 4 winner :

– 2nd ;2007 – Astana : Trofeo Sóller : Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré :: Stage 5 winner ;2009 – Team Katusha :

: Trofeo Sóller :Stage 3,

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:Stage 8,

Paris–Nice Paris–Nice is a professional road bicycle racing, cycling stage race in France, held annually since 1933. Raced over eight days, the race usually starts with a prologue in the Paris region and ends with a final stage either in Nice or on the ...

:2nd,
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References

External links

Unofficial Site
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Colom, Antonio Cyclists from Mallorca Spanish male cyclists 1978 births Living people Doping cases in cycling Spanish male triathletes Spanish sportspeople in doping cases