Murilo Antonio Fischer (born 16 June 1979) is a Brazilian former professional

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, who rode professionally between 2004 and 2016 for the , , and teams. He represented Brazil in five

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, and competed at thirteen Grand Tours.

Career

Fischer was born in Brusque, Santa Catarina. Prior to moving to the team in 2010, Fischer had raced his whole career with Italian teams, having begun his career with in 2004, before the team moved up to

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level as for the 2005 and 2006 seasons. At , Fischer proved his consistency over a season by winning the 2005 UCI Europe Tour. In 2007, Fischer made the step up to the

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with . He became the second Brazilian to win a

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race stage, winning stage five at the

2007 Tour de Pologne The 2007 Tour de Pologne was held from September 9 to 15, 2007 in Poland. The race began with a very short team time trial in the streets of Warsaw, and its toughest stages were in the proximity of Jelenia Góra, as usual. In all, the race comprise ...

. Fischer signed with on 3 January 2010, to be part of Tyler Farrar's leadout train in the 2010 season. Fischer left at the end of the 2012 season, and joined on a two-year contract from the 2013 season onwards. Fisher completed the 2015 Vuelta a España and he became the first Brazilian rider to have completed all Grand Tours.

Major results

;2000 : 1st Prova Ciclística 9 de Julho : 2nd Tour do Rio ;2001 : 2nd Copa América de Ciclismo ;2002 : 1st Stage 4 Giro Ciclistico d'Italia : 2nd Tour do Rio ;2003 : 1st Jersey rainbow

Road race, UCI B World Championships ;2004 : 4th Overall Uniqa Classic : 6th Overall

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: 6th Criterium d'Abruzzo ;2005 : 1st Overall

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: 1st Giro del Piemonte : 1st Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli : 1st

Gran Premio Industria e Commercio di Prato The Gran Premio Industria e Commercio di Prato is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in Prato, Italy. Since 2005, the race has been organised as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicyc ...

: 1st Trofeo Città di Castelfidardo : 1st Due Giorni Marchigiana : 1st Memorial Cimurri : 1st Stage 3 Tour of Qinghai Lake : 2nd Overall Uniqa Classic ::1st Stages 1 & 3 : 2nd Giro del Lazio : 3rd

Coppa Bernocchi The Coppa Bernocchi is a European Road bicycle racing, bicycle race held in Legnano, Italy. From 2005 to 2019, the race was organised as a UCI race classifications, 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour, before joining the UCI ProSeries in 2020. In 1 ...

: 3rd Gran Premio Industria e Commercio Artigianato Carnaghese : 4th Stausee-Rundfahrt Klingnau : 4th Gran Premio Città di Misano – Adriatico : 4th Coppa Sabatini : 5th Road race,

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: 7th Overall Circuit de Lorraine ;2006 : 8th Overall Giro della Provincia di Lucca ;2007 : 1st Stage 5

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: 2nd

: 3rd Trofeo Calvia : 10th Dwars door Vlaanderen ;2008 : 4th Gran Premio Industria e Commercio Artigianato Carnaghese : 4th Vattenfall Cyclassics : 6th

;2009 : 1st Giro della Romagna : 3rd Road race, National Road Championships : 7th Giro del Friuli : 10th

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;2010 : 1st MaillotBrasil

Road race, National Road Championships : 2nd Gran Premio Nobili Rubinetterie ;2011 : 1st MaillotBrasil

Road race, National Road Championships : 1st Trofeo Magaluf-Palmanova : 4th Trofeo Inca ;2012 : 1st Stage 2 ( TTT) Tour of Qatar

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

References

External links

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Palmares on Cycling Base (French)
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