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Paúl Alberto Torres García (born November 21, 1983, in
Caracas Caracas ( , ), officially Santiago de León de Caracas (CCS), is the capital and largest city of Venezuela, and the center of the Metropolitan Region of Caracas (or Greater Caracas). Caracas is located along the Guaire River in the northern p ...
) is a retired
Venezuela Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many Federal Dependencies of Venezuela, islands and islets in the Caribbean Sea. It com ...
n professional
racing cyclist Cycle sport is competitive physical activity using bicycles. There are several categories of bicycle racing including road bicycle racing, cyclo-cross, mountain bike racing, track cycling, BMX, and cycle speedway. Non-racing cycling spo ...
. In 2006, while racing for the Gobernaciòn del Zulia-Alcaldia de Cabimas cycling team, he was excluded from racing in the
Vuelta a Colombia The (Spanish for ''Tour of Colombia'') is an annual cycling road race, run over many stages throughout different regions in Colombia and sometimes Venezuela and Ecuador during the first days of August. It is organized by the Colombian Cyclin ...
for having high
haematocrit The hematocrit () (Ht or HCT), also known by several other names, is the volume percentage (vol%) of red blood cells (RBCs) in blood, measured as part of a blood test. The measurement depends on the number and size of red blood cells. It is nor ...
numbers.


Career

;2004 : 1st in Stage 4
Tour de la Guadeloupe The Tour de Guadeloupe (; ) is an annual men's multiple stage road bicycle race held each August in the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe. Founded in 1948 under the name Tour Cycliste de la Guadeloupe, this elite men's competition opened of ...
,
Vieux-Habitants Vieux-Habitants (, French for ''Old Inhabitants''; ) is a commune on Guadeloupe, a French overseas department in the Caribbean. It is located on the southwest coast of the island of Basse-Terre. History This is the oldest parish, founded in 163 ...
(GUA) ;2005 : 1st in Stage 2 Vuelta Internacional al Estado Trujillo, Betijoque (VEN) : 1st in Stage 3 Vuelta Internacional al Estado Trujillo, Circuito El Dividive-Sabana de Mendoza (VEN) ;2006 : 1st in Stage 6 Vuelta Internacional al Estado Trujillo, Bocono (VEN) : 1st in Stage 8 Vuelta Internacional al Estado Trujillo (VEN) : 2nd in General Classification Vuelta Internacional al Estado Trujillo (VEN) ;2008 : 1st in Stage 7
Vuelta al Táchira The Vuelta ciclista al Táchira (''English'': Tour of Táchira) is a multi-day road bicycle racing stage race held annually each January since 1966 in the state of Táchira (state), Táchira in western Venezuela. The Vuelta al Táchira is part of ...
, El Vígia (VEN)


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* * 1983 births Living people Venezuelan male cyclists Cyclists from Caracas Tour de Guadeloupe stage winners {{Venezuela-cycling-bio-stub Doping cases in cycling