Sérgio Miguel Moreira Paulinho, ComIH (born 26 March 1980) is a Portuguese

road bicycle racer Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and spectators. The two most com ...

, who currently rides for

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. He was a

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in the 2007, 2009 and 2010

Tour de France The Tour de France () is an annual men's multiple-stage cycle sport, bicycle race held primarily in France. It is the oldest and most prestigious of the three Grand Tour (cycling), Grand Tours, which include the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a ...

and won the silver medal for Portugal in the 2004 Athens Olympic Games.

Career

Paulinho was born in Oeiras. After winning a bronze medal in the 2002 UCI Road World Championships, in under-23, in 2003, he became a professional cyclist and started gaining reference in one of the most important Portuguese teams . In 2004, he was 6th in the

Volta a Portugal The Volta a Portugal (), also known as Volta a Portugal em Bicicleta (), is an annual multi-stage road bicycle racing competition held in Portugal. The competition takes place during a two-week span. History The competition started in 1927, alt ...

, winning two stages, including the final

Individual time trial An individual time trial (ITT) is a road bicycle race in which cyclists race alone against the clock (in French: ''contre la montre'' – literally "against the watch", in Italian: ''tappa a cronometro'' "stopwatch stage"). There are also trac ...

. In the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, he was silver medalist (Italy's

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got gold and Axel Merckx bronze) in the cycling road race. In 2004 he also won the Portuguese National Time Trial Championships and stages 7 and 10 of the

. Following his Olympic performance, he was signed by the team. He was implicated in the Operación Puerto doping case but was later cleared by Spanish officials of any links to the Operación Puerto doping case. He took his first Grand Tour stage win in the

2006 Vuelta a España The 2006 Vuelta a España was held from 26 August to 17 September 2006, and was the 61st edition of the race. It consisted of 21 stages covering a total of , and was won by Alexander Vinokourov of the cycling team. The Points classification in th ...

, on stage 10. He joined the team at the end of the season. In 2008, he again won the Portuguese National Time Trial Championships. He joined

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's in 2010, along with fellow countrymen Tiago Machado and directeur sportif José Azevedo. On 14 July 2010, he won the 10th stage of the

Major results

;2002 :

::1st Prologue, Stages 3 & 4 : 3rd Time trial, UCI World Under-23 Road Championships : 10th Road race, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships ;2003 : 9th Overall

;2004 : 1st MaillotPortugal

Time trial In many racing sports, an sportsperson, athlete (or occasionally a team of athletes) will compete in a time trial (TT) against the clock to secure the fastest time. The format of a time trial can vary, but usually follow a format where each athle ...

, National Road Championships : 1st Overall Volta a Tras os Montes ::1st Stage 1 : 1st Stage 3 Volta a Terras de Santa Maria : 2nd Silver medal olympic

Road race,

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: 5th Overall GP Estremadura - RTP : 6th Overall

::1st Stages 7 & 10 ( ITT) : 7th Overall

Troféu Joaquim Agostinho The Grande Prémio Internacional de Torres Vedras – Troféu Joaquim Agostinho is a road bicycle racing stage race held annually in the Torres Vedras, Portugal. Since 2005, it has been organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Cont ...

;2006 : 1st Stage 10

Vuelta a España The Vuelta a España (; ) is an annual stage race, multi-stage bicycle racing, bicycle race primarily held in Spain, while also occasionally making passes through nearby countries. Inspired by the success of the Tour de France and the Giro d'Ital ...

;2008 : 1st MaillotPortugal

, National Road Championships ;2009 : 1st Stage 4 ( TTT)

;2010 : 1st Stage 10

;2012 : 6th

GP Miguel Induráin The Grand Prix Miguel Induráin (), formerly the "Grand Prix Navarre" is a Spanish one-day road bicycle race. History The race was inaugurated in 1951, but was limited to local competition. It was rebranded after Spanish cyclist Miguel Indurái ...

;2013 : 2nd Overall

Tour of Norway The Tour of Norway is a road bicycle race held annually in Norway. It is considered as a successor to the stage race Ringerike GP, which is now a one-day race. It was started in 2011 as a result of the heightened interest in cycling in Norway, ...

;2016 : 1st Stage 5 ( TTT) Tour of Croatia ;2017 : 2nd Clássica da Arrábida : 3rd

, National Road Championships : 4th Clássica Aldeias do Xisto : 7th Overall

: 9th Overall

;2018 : 8th Clássica Aldeias do Xisto ;2019 : 3rd Overall

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

References

External links

Profile at Team Radioshack
* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Paulinho, Sergio 1980 births Living people Sportspeople from Oeiras, Portugal Portuguese male cyclists Portuguese expatriate sportspeople Portuguese Tour de France stage winners Portuguese Vuelta a España stage winners Cyclists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists for Portugal Olympic silver medalists for Portugal Olympic silver medalists in cycling Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics 2010 Tour de France stage winners Portuguese expatriate sportspeople in Spain 21st-century Portuguese sportsmen