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Fabian Cancellara

October 15, 2023

Fabian Cancellara (born 18 March 1981), nicknamed "Spartacus", is a Swiss cycling executive, businessman and former professional road racing cyclist who last rode for UCI ProTeam Lidl–Trek. He was born in Wohlen bei Bern, Switzerland. Cancellara began road cycling after falling in love with an old bike at the age of thirteen. After that, he began to take the sport more seriously and won two consecutive World Junior Time Trial Championships in 1998 and 1999. At age nineteen he turned professional and signed with the Mapei–Quick-Step team, where he rode as a stagiaire. He is known for being a quality time trialist, a one-day classics specialist, and a workhorse for his teammates who have general classification aspirations.

Fabian Cancellara
Personal information
Full nameFabian Cancellara
NicknameSpartacus[1][2]
Born (1981-03-18) 18 March 1981 (age 42)[3]
Wohlen bei Bern, Switzerland
Height1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)[3]
Weight78 kg (172 lb; 12 st 4 lb)[4]
Team information
Current teamRetired
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeTime trialist
Classics specialist
Amateur team
2000Mapei–Quick-Step (stagiaire)
Professional teams
2001–2002Mapei–Quick-Step
2003–2005Fassa Bortolo
2006–2010Team CSC
2011–2016Leopard Trek
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
8 individual stages
(2004, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2012)
Vuelta a España
3 individual stages (2009, 2013)
1 TTT stage (2011)

Stage races

Tirreno–Adriatico (2008)
Tour de Suisse (2009)
Danmark Rundt (2006)
Tour of Oman (2010)

One-day races and Classics

World Time Trial Championships (2006, 2007, 2009, 2010)
Olympic Games Time Trial (2008, 2016)
National Road Race Championships (2009, 2011)
National Time Trial Championships (2002, 2004–2008, 2012–2014, 2016)
Paris–Roubaix (2006, 2010, 2013)
Tour of Flanders (2010, 2013, 2014)
Milan–San Remo (2008)
Strade Bianche (2008, 2012, 2016)
E3 Harelbeke (2010, 2011, 2013)

Other

Vélo d'Or (2010)
Medal record

After winning a few stages and small races in his starting years, Cancellara earned his first major victory at the 2004 Tour de France where he won the opening prologue time trial and wore the race leader yellow jersey for one day. The following season saw fewer victories, but his 2006 season saw a victory in the men's time trial at the UCI Road World Championships, along with victory at the Paris–Roubaix. Cancellara repeated as world champion in the time trial the next year, along with winning two stages at the Tour de France.

During the 2008 calendar he won gold at the Summer Olympics in the individual time trial event and the Milan–San Remo. The next season saw Cancellara again become world time trial champion and lead both the Tour de France and the Vuelta a España. In 2010, he won the Paris–Roubaix and the Tour of Flanders. Cancellara's 2011 and 2012 campaigns were both short in number of victories, while the latter was hampered by injuries throughout. After a lackluster two-year period, Cancellara again won the Tour of Flanders and Paris–Roubaix double in 2013. In 2014, Cancellara repeated as winner of the Tour of Flanders.

Since turning professional in 2000, Cancellara has ridden for four professional teams. He has achieved great success in the classic monuments; he has won Paris–Roubaix three times, the Milan–San Remo once, and the Tour of Flanders three times. Cancellara has won the opening stage of the Tour de France five times and has led the race for 29 days total, which is the most of any rider who has not won the Tour.[5] His success has not been limited to just time trials and classics, as he has won general classification of the Tirreno–Adriatico, Tour de Suisse, and the Tour of Oman. In 2008, he won gold in the individual time trial and silver in the men's road race at the Summer Olympics. In 2016, he won Olympic gold in the individual time trial for the second time in his career. In addition, Cancellara has been the time trial world champion four times in his career.

Early life and amateur career Edit

Fabian Cancellara was born on 18 March 1981, in Wohlen bei Bern, Switzerland, to a Swiss mother and an Italian Swiss father.[3] He discovered cycling at the age of 13 after falling in love with an old family bike that he had found in the garage and immediately gave up football to concentrate on cycling.[6] In addition, Cancellara excelled at cross-country skiing during his youth.[7]

Cancellara's cycling skills began to blossom at an early age, when he impressed as a time trialist and dominated Swiss junior cycling. Yvan Girard, Swiss national junior team coach from 1997 to 2005, was quoted saying that Cancellara was "head and shoulders above everyone else" in the time trials.[1] He won the junior World Time Trial Championship in both 1998 and 1999 and at the age of 19 he came in second at the 2000 U-23 World Time Trial Championship.[2]

Professional career Edit

2000–2002: The beginning years Edit

After his second-place finish at the Under-23 time trial championship, Cancellara turned professional with Mapei–Quick-Step,[2] which was one of the strongest teams in the world at the time.[8] Cancellara rode as a stagiaire for the Mapei–Quick-Step team in late 2000 before joining the team for the 2001 season as a member of the "Young Riders Project".[8] Cancellara's first victory as a professional came at the prologue of the Tour of Rhodes, where he also won the overall final general classification.[9]

For 2002 the Mapei team split into two formations per UCI regulations, the "Top Team" with 25 riders and the GS-III "Gruppo Giovani" (youth group) to develop young talents, which Cancellara joined with other riders including Filippo Pozzato, Michael Rogers and Bernhard Eisel.[10] Giorgio Squinzi, the head of Mapei firm, later said in an interview with La Gazzetta dello Sport that he took Cancellara and Pozzato all the way from the Junior category to Mapei's top team, in order to let them avoid the Under-23 category where he suggested that doping was even worse than among professionals. Squinzi also said that Cancellara was going to be "The future Miguel Induráin".[11] During his two seasons with Mapei, Cancellara used his time trialling skills to great effect, winning several individual time trials and a total of eleven victories.[9]

2003–2005: On the rise Edit

Following the folding of Mapei–Quick-Step at the end of the 2002 season, Cancellara joined Fassa Bortolo to work as a lead-out man for Alessandro Petacchi in 2003.[12] Cancellara's first victory came Tour Méditerranéen; he helped lead the Fassa Bortolo squad to victory in the race's final stage, which was a team time trial.[13] On 6 April, Cancellara raced his first ever classic in the Tour of Flanders.[14] He finished in the 73rd place and over ten minutes behind the winner.[14] His next success came in the brief 3.4 kilometres (2.1 mi) prologue at the Tour de Romandie.[15] Cancellara was a consistent finisher throughout the race and because of that, he won the points classification for the Tour de Romandie.[16] Next, he won the stage four individual time trial at the Tour of Belgium by a margin of ten seconds over the second-place finisher.[17] His final victory of the season came in the Tour de Suisse's prologue, where he beat out Spaniard Óscar Pereiro by a little over a second for the win.[18]

 
Cancellara at the 2005 HEW-Cyclassics.

Cancellara earned his first victory in 2004 at the Tour of Qatar.[19] Cancellara won the race's fourth stage after attacking in the final kilometers of the race and then out-sprinting the riders who were able to keep pace with him to win the stage.[19] His next victory came in the first stage of the Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme, where he won the opening stage's bunch sprint.[20] Up next on the calendar for Cancellara was the Tour of Flanders.[21] Cancellara crossed the line in 42nd place, just a little over two minutes after the winner Steffen Wesemann.[21] The next weekend, he raced the Paris–Roubaix for the second time.[22] Cancellara showed great form during the race and was a member of the four-man group that was first to reach the finish line.[22] He lost the sprint to the line and crossed the line in fourth.[22] Cancellara's next success came in the Tour de Luxembourg, where he won the stage four individual time trial by fourteen seconds over the second-place finisher.[23] He then went on to win his second Swiss National Time Trial Championship in late June.[24] Cancellara's next success came at the Tour de France.[25] He won the prologue around the Belgian city of Liege and took the first yellow jersey as leader of the general classification.[25] Cancellara lost the lead after the second stage to Thor Hushovd.[26] Cancellara did participate in both the time trial and road race at the Road World Championships.[27][28] Cancellara performed well in the time trial and came in eighth place; he finished over two minutes behind the winner.[27] He entered the men's road race four days later, but did not finish the course.[28]

Cancellara's first victory of the 2005 season came in the Paris–Nice, where he won the fourth stage after out-sprinting his fellow breakaway member Jaan Kirsipuu for the stage win.[29] Up next for Cancellara was the Setmana-Catalana.[30] There he won the race's final stage, an individual time trial by seven seconds over American Tom Danielson.[30] After Setmana-Catalana, he raced the Tour of Flanders and finished 42nd overall and over ten minutes behind the winner Tom Boonen.[31] The next weekend, he raced Paris–Roubaix where he finished in eighth place after a flat tire killed his chances of winning the race.[32] Cancellara's next victory came in the Tour de Luxembourg, when he won the stage 3b individual time trial.[33] He finished the Tour with the same time as the winner László Bodrogi, but was given second overall by the organizers.[34] After the Tour de Luxembourg, Cancellara won the Swiss National Time Trial Championship for the third time.[24] Cancellara then started the Tour de France,[35] but did not win any stages at the race. After the Tour, he then rode the HEW-Cyclassics where he finished in fourth place amidst the bunch sprint for the race win.[36] Cancellara then competed in the road race and the time trial at the Road World Championships.[37][38] Cancellara finished in third place in the time trial event and missed out on a silver second place medal by twelve hundredths of a second.[37] Three days later, he finished the road race in 123rd place and over ten minutes behind the winner.[38]

2006: First classic win Edit

Cancellara's team, Fassa Bortolo, disbanded after the 2005 cycling season.[39] Cancellara signed a three-year contract with Team CSC during the 2005 Tour de France.[39][40] Cancellara's first victory with his new team came in the stage five individual time trial at the Tirreno–Adriatico.[41] He then raced the Milan–San Remo, where he finished with the same time as winner Filippo Pozzato but 24 places behind.[42] A week later, Cancellara lined up to start the E3 Prijs Vlaanderen.[43] He figured into the early breakaway and led the race for a good distance before being caught and ultimately finishing in 37th place.[43] Up next for Cancellara was the Tour of Flanders.[44] He finished sixth overall after being in the lead chase group that was in pursuit of the winner Tom Boonen and second-place finisher Leif Hoste.[44] The next weekend, Cancellara rode his final classic of the season in the Paris–Roubaix.[45] Cancellara was in the leading group of riders for most of the stage.[45] When the race reached the Carrefour de l'Arbre, he powered away from his fellow riders and went on by himself to win the race itself.[45] On 9 April, he celebrated his first classic victory in his career.[45][46]

His next victory came in the stage one individual time trial at the Volta a Catalunya.[47] In late June, Cancellara won his third straight Swiss National Time Trial champion title.[24] He was not selected to ride with Team CSC at the Tour de France.[48] Outside of repeating as time trial champion in June, Cancellara had a quiet June and July. Cancellara's next victories of the season came at the Danmark Rundt. He won the second stage and took the race lead after riding solo to victory.[49] He expanded his lead after winning the stage fifth time trial by eighteen seconds over the second-placed finisher.[50] The next day, he won the race after completing the final stage.[51] In addition to the race's general classification, he also won the youth classification.[51] Later that month, he rode the Vuelta a España and helped his team with the opening team time trial.[52] After the Vuelta, Canacellara competed in the elite men's time trial and road race at the UCI Road World Championships.[53][54] On 21 September, Cancellara won the men's time trial event by over a minute to American David Zabriskie and became the world champion of the time trial discipline.[53] Three days later, he finished the road race in 31st place.[54]

2007: Success in summer and autumn Edit

 
Cancellara winning stage three of the 2007 Tour de France whilst wearing the race leader's yellow jersey

The early portion of Cancellara's 2007 campaign began with no victories to his credit. He started the Tour of California and came closest to a stage win in stage five time trial, where he finished in fourth place.[55][56] He finished in 119th place in the Milan–San Remo, over six minutes behind the winner Óscar Freire.[57] The next week, Cancellara lined up to race the E3 Prijs Vlaanderen.[58] He missed out on the victory after Belgian rider Tom Boonen edged out Cancellara for the win.[58] Eight days later, Cancellara raced the Tour of Flanders and came in 53rd place after his moves were not successful.[59] The last classic Cancellara raced in the 2007 season was the famed Paris–Roubaix, which he finished in 19th place.[60]

After the slow start to the season, Cancellara began to achieve success in June. He rode the Tour de Suisse and won the opening time trial, along with the final stage that was also a time trial.[61][62] With the opening stage victory in the Tour de Suisse, Cancellara led the race for a few stages before losing it to teammate Fränk Schleck after stage four.[61][63] Cancellara continued his success in the time trial with a victory in the Swiss national time trial.[24]

Cancellara won the prologue of the Tour de France in London, defeating Andreas Klöden of Astana by thirteen seconds.[64] During stage two, he was caught up in a very large crash which brought down an estimated thirty riders.[65] He crossed the finish line nursing his left hand but appeared to be fine during the yellow jersey presentation.[65] The next day, he won the third stage in Compiègne after he caught and overtook the breakaway group just 500 metres (1,640.4 ft) from the finish line.[66] Cancellara held the yellow jersey until stage seven, the Tour's first mountain stage.[67]

Cancellara returned to the Road World Championships in September with the aims to defend his time trial crown.[68] He achieved his goal and won the time trial by 52 seconds over second-place finisher László Bodrogi.[68] Three days later, Cancellara raced the road race, but did not finish the course.[69][70]

2008: Olympic champion Edit

Cancellara won the prologue of the Tour of California ahead of Olympic track gold medalist Bradley Wiggins in his first race of the season.[71] Two weeks later, he won the second edition of Italian Monte Paschi Eroica ahead of Italian rider Alessandro Ballan.[72] Cancellara then rode the Tirreno–Adriatico where he won stage five time trial to Recanati, which allowed him to take the race lead.[73] Cancellara would go on to win the race by sixteen seconds over the second place rider.[74] Just a few days later in the Milan–San Remo classic monument race, Cancellara broke away from a leading group in the final kilometres to win the race, thus becoming just the second Swiss rider triumphant in this race, after Erich Maechler in 1987.[75] At Paris–Roubaix, Cancellara finished second after being out-sprinted by the winner Boonen.[76]

 
Cancellara at the 2008 Tour of California, where he won the prologue stage.

In preparation for the second half of the season, Cancellara rode the Tour de Luxembourg and the Tour de Suisse. Cancellara won the prologue of the Tour de Luxembourg and briefly held the overall lead because of the victory.[77] After finishing the Tour de Luxembourg, he started the Tour de Suisse where he saw great success.[78] Cancellara won the seventh and ninth stages through attacks in the closing kilometers of each stage.[78][79] In addition to the two stage wins, he also won the points classification.[78] Cancellara joined his team at the Tour de France.[80] Cancellara proved to be a valuable asset to the squad as he helped his teammate Carlos Sastre to overall victory at the Tour.[81] Cancellara was later awarded the stage win in the penultimate stage after the initial winner, Stefan Schumacher, tested positive for EPO.[82]

In the Olympic Road Race in Beijing, Cancellara was in a chasing group with around 5 km (3.1 mi) before he attacked and successfully bridged the gap to the leading group when 1 km (0.62 mi) was left to race.[83] The race then came down to a sprint finish that was won by the Samuel Sánchez, with Davide Rebellin coming in second and Cancellara coming in third for a bronze medal.[83] However, later it was found that Rebellin had tested positive for Continuous erythropoietin receptor activator (CERA, a third-generation form of erythropoietin) and his medal was removed by both the UCI and the IOC.[84] Cancellara was subsequently promoted to second place, and the initial fourth-place finisher Alexandr Kolobnev was promoted to third place.[85] The riders did not initially receive new medals for their new placings.[86] On 18 December 2010, Cancellara received the same physical medal initially given to Rebellin, in a ceremony held in his hometown of Ittigen, Switzerland.[86] Cancellara's bronze was then given to Kolobnev.[86] Four days after racing the road race, Cancellara raced the time trial event.[87] He won the gold medal by winning the race by over thirty seconds to Swedish rider Gustav Larsson.[87] After finishing with the Olympics, Cancellara decided not to defend his world time trial title in Varese due to mental fatigue.[88] For his successes on the road in the 2008 season, Cancellara was named the Swiss Male Athlete of the Year at the Credit Suisse Sports Awards on 6 December 2008.[89][90]

2009: Domination in the time trial Edit

 
Cancellara on the victory platform after winning the first stage of the 2009 Vuelta a España

Cancellara's first victory of the 2009 season came in the prologue of the Tour of California.[91] This was his second victory in a row in the prologue at the Tour of California.[91] Cancellara then returned to the Tirreno–Adriatico, but an injury prevented his efforts to repeat as winner of the event.[92] Cancellara did not finish the sixth stage of the race; he left the event without winning a single stage.[93] Poor performance marred the early portion of the season for Cancellara as he achieved no success in the early season classics; he did not finish the Tour of Flanders after suffering problem with his bike chain early in the race, on the Koppenberg, and he finished 49th overall in the Paris–Roubaix.[94][95]

Cancellara began to achieve success in June, during the Tour de Suisse. He won the opening time trial of the race and the time trial on stage nine en route to his overall victory.[96][97] In addition to the general classification, he also won the secondary points classification of the Tour de Suisse.[97] A week after finishing the Tour de Suisse, he won his first Swiss national road racing crown on 28 June after outsprinting Mathias Frank at the line.[98] He continued to win in July, as he won the opening stage of the Tour de France and took the first yellow jersey of the race.[99] He then successfully defended the lead until the seventh stage, when he was unable to bridge the gap to the leaders on the Arcalis mountain-top finish.[100]

Cancellara's next victories season came at the Vuelta a España. He won the opening time trial and then held the lead of the race until the race's fourth stage.[101][102] Cancellara briefly regained the lead of the race after winning the time trial on stage seven, but he lost the lead after the next stage's conclusion.[103][104]

The Road World Championships took place in Cancellara's native country Switzerland and he stated that he wished to win both events.[105][106] Cancellara dominated the time trial event and won by a margin of close a minute and a half over the second-place finisher.[106][107] This was Cancellara's third world championship in the time trial discipline, which was tied for most ever with Australia's Michael Rogers.[106] Cancellara's next goal was the road race, which was to take place three days later.[106] During the final lap of the race, Cancellara crossed the gap to the race's leading group that had just formed.[108] At the bottom of the final climb Cadel Evans (Australia) attacked, but no other riders reacted.[108] Cancellara crossed the line in fifth.[108][109]

2010: Victories abound Edit

 
Cancellara riding his bike during the time trial at the Road World Championships

Fabian Cancellara kicked off his 2010 campaign with an overall victory at the Tour of Oman.[110] He gained the lead after the race's final stage and won the race without winning a single stage.[110] In late March, Cancellara won the E3 Prijs Vlaanderen after riding away from Boonen and Juan Antonio Flecha with about 2 kilometres (1.2 mi) remaining in the race.[111] On 4 April he raced the famed Tour of Flanders.[112] Cancellara first attacked in the race on the Molenberg with about 44 kilometres (27.3 mi) remaining in the race and only Boonen was able to mark his efforts.[112] Cancellara's second major attack took place on the steepest part of the Muur van Geraardsbergen.[112] The attack proved successful as he was able to drop Boonen and solo on to the victory.[112][113] By winning the Tour of Flanders, he became the twelfth cyclist to win the opening three monuments of the cycling year – Milan–San Remo, Tour of Flanders, and the Paris–Roubaix – in a career.[112] After winning the Tour of Flanders, Cancellara stated that he wished to win the other two cycling monuments: the Liège–Bastogne–Liège and the Giro di Lombardia.[114]

Just a week after his victory at the Tour of Flanders, Cancellara raced the Paris–Roubaix.[115] Cancellara made a move during the Mons-en-Pévèle portion of the race with more than 50 kilometres (31.1 mi) to go in the race and no one was able to match his efforts.[115] Cancellara then rode solo all the way to the finish in the Roubaix Velodrome and finished two minutes ahead the second-place finisher Thor Hushovd.[115][116] After winning the Roubaix, Cancellara decided to skip the rest of the classics to race the Tour of California as part of his warm up for the Tour de France.[117] He completed the Tour of California without winning a single stage.

Cancellara's next victory came at the Tour de Suisse where he won the prologue, which was an individual time trial around the city of Lugano.[118] Cancellara came close to another stage win in the stage nine individual time trial, but fell short by seventeen seconds.[119] Next, Cancellara won the prologue of the Tour de France.[120] He then held the lead until the second stage came to an end, after stage winner Sylvain Chavanel took it away.[121] However, Cancellara regained the lead the after the next day and held it until stage seven when Chavanel again took the lead.[122][123] Later in the Tour, Cancellara won the stage nineteen individual time trial that stretched from Bordeaux to Pauillac by seventeen seconds over German rider Tony Martin.[124]

The Road World Championships took place in Melbourne and Cancellara returned to the event to defend his title as world champion of the time trial discipline.[125] He won the time trial by over a minute to the second-place finisher and in doing so, he became the first four-time men's world champion of the time trial.[125] Four days later, he competed in the road race and finished 50th overall.[126][127]

Allegation of 'mechanical doping' Edit

In 2010, former cyclist Davide Cassani claimed in a YouTube video that Fabian Cancellara had used a motorized bike during his victories at the Tour of Flanders and the Paris–Roubaix that year.[128] In the video, Cassani showed a normal road bike on a stand and after he pressed a button, the pedals began to rotate.[128][129] Cassani then alleged that a motor could easily be stowed in the seattube of the bike and the button to turn it on would be located on the handlebars.[129][130] In the YouTube video, Cassani showed clips of Cancellara at the two races allegedly "turning on" the motor while riding and showing the drastic increase in speed.[129][130] The claims caught steam since rumors were already going around about riders possibly using the new motor, the Gruber Assist, which could produce 100 Watts of power to aid the rider.[131] Critics of the motor-theory often say that the Gruber Assist was way too noisy that time and in solo ride or a smaller group it could have surely been heard when turned on.[132]

The Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) stated that whilst they are not investigating any specific teams or riders, it would review the need for a new bicycle inspection system to detect such cheating.[128] Then UCI stated that there was no case against Cancellara after the claims gained prominence.[129] Cancellara dismissed Cassani's claims saying that they were "stupid" and far too risky to do.[129][133] He even told the Belgian newspaper Het Nieuwsblad that he had "never had batteries on [his] bike."[129]

During an April 2017 press conference, just before his final Ronde van Vlaanderen, Tom Boonen was asked if it was always the strongest rider who wins the Tour of Flanders. "Yes, most of the time", he said. "In every race like that, it is not always the strongest that wins, but most of the time it is. In Flanders, I can't really recall one year... Well, I can recall one year..." When asked what year he was referring to, Boonen smiled and replied "No comment". On 6 April, two days before the 2018 Paris–Roubaix, Samuël Grulois of Radio Télévision Belge Francophone (RTBF) asked Boonen if he believed Cancellara had used a motor to beat him in 2010: "Did Cancellara steal the 2010 Flanders due to a motor? Is there any doubt?" Boonen replied "Yes", and added "But it's not for me to say. I finished second, and it's not the one in second who has to say the situation is not normal. It's very difficult to prove because we do not have the bike to check. It's too late".[134]

2011: Close but no cigar Edit

This was Cancellara's first year with his new team Leopard Trek, which lacked the high caliber domestiques that Cancellara had in the past, meaning that winning would be tougher for Cancellara. His first major race of the year was the Tirreno–Adriatico, where he won the race's final stage which was an individual time trial.[135] Cancellara came to the Milan–San Remo with the hopes of winning the race a second time.[136] He positioned himself in an eight-man breakaway that made it all the way to the finish.[136] As the group approached the finish line, Cancellara was bested in the sprint for the line by Australian Matthew Goss and Cancellara crossed the line in second.[136]

 
Cancellara at the start of the 2011 Tour of Flanders

Cancellara was seen as the favorite or top contender for the next three one day races – the E3 Prijs Vlaanderen–Harelbeke,[137] the Tour of Flanders,[138][139] and the Paris–Roubaix[140] – due to his great performance in the 2010 season and his good form in the early portion of the 2011 season. He lived up to his expectations and won the E3 Prijs Vlaanderen – Harelbeke after having several flat tires and a few bike changes, he launched a solo attack with 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) and rode by himself to the finish line for the victory.[141] The next weekend, Cancellara began the Tour of Flanders.[142] He launched an attack with about 60 kilometres (37.3 mi) left to go in the race and caught up with the leader Sylvain Chavanel; however, Cancellara cracked after Chavanel did not help with the pacing and the two were picked up by a chasing group on the Muur van Geraardsbergen.[139][142] With 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) left in the race, Cancellara launched two attacks.[142] His first attack was marked by the whole group, while his second attack could only be matched by Chavanel and Nick Nuyens.[139][142] The three rode into the finish together, with Nuyens taking the win, Chavanel second, and Cancellara third.[139][142] The Paris–Roubaix was next on the calendar for Cancellara.[143] Cancellara finished in second place after a crash hurt him early on, as did being a member of a chasing group that did not work with him to catch the leading riders.[143]

On the first of June, Cancellara began the Tour de Luxembourg.[144] He won the prologue and was the first to wear the race leader's yellow jersey.[144] He then held the lead until the second stage came to a close when stage winner Linus Gerdemann took the lead away from him.[145] Cancellara then raced the Tour de Suisse and won the opening and closing stages of the race, which were both individual time trials.[146][147] He then closed out June by winning the Swiss National Road Race after he out-sprinted Steve Morabito for the win, which was his second Swiss National Road Race title.[148]

Cancellara entered the Tour de France in July, but was unable to come away with a victory in either the team time trial or the lone individual time trial.[149][150] Up next for Cancellara was the Vuelta a España, where he helped his team achieve victory in the stage one's team time trial.[151] Cancellara's final events for the 2011 season were the road race and the time trial at the Road World Championships. Cancellara came with the hopes of winning a third consecutive time trial world crown; however, he would finish in third place after the winner Martin and runner-up Wiggins.[152][153] Four days later, Cancellara lined up to race the road race.[154] The race came down to a sprint finish that was won by Mark Cavendish; Cancellara barely missed a medal after finishing in fourth place.[154][155]

2012: An injury-ridden season Edit

 
Cancellara riding his bike while nursing his right arm after hurting it in a crash earlier in the Olympic road race.

In the first races of the 2012 season, Cancellara showed a good form: he powered to a second victory on the gravel roads of the Strade Bianche and took a victory in the closing time trial of the Tirreno–Adriatico. In the final of the first monument of the year, Milan–San Remo, he was the strongest rider during the descent of the Poggio, but was outsprinted for victory by Simon Gerrans. He was in great form for the Belgian spring classics, but a fall and material malfunction kept him from playing a part in the final of both the E3 Harelbeke and Gent–Wevelgem. Cancellara was one of the favourites to win the renewed Tour of Flanders but played no part in the final due to a crash in the feed zone. It was caused by a discarded water bottle. He suffered a four-part fracture of the right collarbone which ruined his spring campaign.[156][157]

He came back to competition on 10 June in his homeland, racing in the Tour de Suisse. Cancellara stated that he was nervous before the start of the prologue, which he finished in second position, four seconds behind the winner, Liquigas–Cannondale's Peter Sagan.[158]

In the Tour de France, Cancellara won the opening-day prologue in Liège; his fifth such victory in the Tour.[159] After his fifth day in the yellow jersey in the race, Cancellara broke René Vietto's longstanding record as the rider with the most career yellow jerseys who has not won the Tour overall.[160] He subsequently lost the jersey to Wiggins of Team Sky after conceding almost two minutes on the seventh stage, which finished on top of a steep Category 1 climb leading to Planche des Belles Filles.[161] He withdrew from the Tour after the eleventh stage to return home to support his wife before the birth of their second child.[162][163]

Cancellara returned to compete in the road race at the Olympic Games. He was the leading rider of a massive breakaway when he badly negotiated a right turn with about 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) to cover and fell heavily on his right shoulder. He completed the race, finishing approximately five minutes after the winner, the Kazakh Alexander Vinokourov, but was in obvious pain and could not hold his handlebar properly with his right hand. As he crossed the line, he was in tears and was sent to the hospital where it was revealed that he did not suffer any fractures.[164][165] Two days after the incident, it was announced that he would be able to defend his Olympic Time Trial title, an event he subsequently finished in seventh.[166] In August, Cancellara announced that he was putting an end to his 2012 season. He required further surgery on his collarbone to get the stabilizing vises out of his body.[167][168]

2013: Return to form Edit

Cancellara began the 2013 campaign with the Tour of Qatar and the Tour of Oman, but failed to collect any victories.[169][170] After finishing the aforementioned tours, he raced the Strade Bianche and finished in fourth place.[171] Next, Cancellara raced the Tirreno–Adriatico.[172] He came close to a stage victory in the race's stage seven individual time trial, but missed the win by twelve seconds.[172] Just five days later, Cancellara lined up at the Milan–San Remo,[173] where he was considered by many as a favorite to win the race.[174][175] The race was marred by poor weather conditions, but Cancellara remained near the front and managed to place third overall after losing out in the sprint for the finish line.[173]

 
Cancellara in the closing kilometer of the 2013 Paris–Roubaix in the Roubaix Velodrome.

His first win of the year came in E3 Harelbeke, after an attack on Oude Kwaremont, with 35 km (22 mi) remaining of the race.[176] His victory at E3 Harelbeke solidified him as a contender for the upcoming Tour of Flanders.[177] On the last lap of the Tour of Flanders, Cancellara attacked on Oude Kwaremont and only Peter Sagan was able to match Cancellara's move.[178] Together, the two rode to the last remaining escapee in the front of the race.[178] Cancellara then attacked on the Paterberg hill with about 13 km (8 mi) remaining.[178] Cancellara's attack was successful and he powered on solo into the finish and won his second Tour of Flanders.[178][179]

After the Tour of Flanders, Cancellara started in the Scheldeprijs in Belgium.[180] During the race, he crashed after 50 km (31 mi) but finished the race.[180] The next day, Cancellara fell while riding on the Waindignies-Hamage cobbled sector of the Paris–Roubaix.[181] Despite the crashes, many still considered Fabian Cancellara the favorite to win the Paris–Roubaix.[182][183] During the Paris–Roubaix on 7 April, Cancellara was attacked multiple times by his competitors, but managed to counter all their attacks.[184] With about 16 km (10 mi) to go, Cancellara made a move that only Sep Vanmarcke and Zdeněk Štybar could follow.[184][185] Štybar was dropped after colliding with a spectator, leaving Cancellara and Vanmarcke to ride to the finish.[184][185] Cancellara outsprinted Vanmarcke at the finish on the Roubaix velodome to claim his third Paris–Roubaix win.[184][185] After the race, Cancellara stated that he would enter neither the Giro d'Italia or the Tour de France, but instead ride the Vuelta a España in order to prepare for the UCI Road World Championships.[186][187]

 
Cancellara (right) on the podium for the men's time trial at the UCI Road World Championships

On 7 June 2013 it was announced that Cancellara would ride the Tour of Austria.[188][189] The next race he started was the Tour de Suisse.[190] Cancellara placed sixteenth overall in the stage 1 individual time trial.[191] Although he did not win a stage, Cancellara expressed his excitement for his teammate Grégory Rast's victory in the race's sixth stage.[192][193] Days after finishing the Tour de Suisse, Cancellara entered and won the men's time trial event at the Swiss Road Championships for the eighth time in his career.[194][195] It was announced on 1 July 2013 that Cancellara signed a three-year deal with Trek, effective on 1 January 2014 and up to and including the 2016 season.[196]

After a short hiatus from racing, Cancellara lined up for the Tour of Austria on 30 June. He won the stage 7 individual time trial by a margin of 22 seconds over the second-place finisher,[197] before completing the race the next day.[198] On Friday 26 July, Cancellara attended the formal team presentation Tour de Pologne.[199] The next day, he finished over sixteen minutes behind the stage winner in the first leg of the race.[200] He finished second on stage seven's 37 km (23.0 mi) time trial, 56 seconds behind stage winner Bradley Wiggins.[201] Cancellara went in hoping to win the time trial, and the second-place finish on the stage left him disappointed.[202]

Cancellara entered the Vuelta a España and helped assist RadioShack-Leopard to a second-place finish in the race's opening team time trial.[203] He won the stage eleven individual time trial by a margin of 37 seconds over reigning world champion Tony Martin.[204] Cancellara then rode in support of team leader and eventual Vuelta winner Chris Horner until the seventeenth stage, after which he left the race in order to focus on the World Championships.[205] Cancellara was seen as a contender for the gold medal in both the men's time trial and road race events at the UCI Road World Championships.[206][207] Cancellara finished the time trial in third position, 48 seconds behind the winner Tony Martin, earning a bronze medal.[208] Four days after completing the time trial event, Cancellara entered the Elite Men's road race.[209] For most of the race, Cancellara stayed near the front of race,[209] before being dropped however on the final climb of the day and fighting his way to tenth place.[209] In late December, RadioShack-Leopard's general manager Luca Guercilena announced that Fabian Cancellara would attempt to break the hour record during the 2014 season.[210]

2014: Third Tour of Flanders victory Edit

Fabian Cancellara began the 2014 cycling season by competing in the inaugural Dubai Tour.[211] The first stage of the race was a brief individual time trial which Cancellara managed to complete 25 seconds slower than the stage winner Taylor Phinney.[212] Cancellara managed to hold his fifth place overall to the race's finish that ended in front of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai.[213] Next, Cancellara began the Tour of Qatar,[214] where his highest stage finish, fourth place, came during the race's third stage, an individual time trial.[215] He finished the race in 67th overall in the general classification.[216] On 18 February, Cancellara started the Tour of Oman.[217] Five days later, he completed the race in thirty-first place overall.[218] Cancellara then entered the Strade Bianche,[219] where he finished in sixth place behind winner Michał Kwiatkowski.[220] On 12 March he started the Tirreno–Adriatico.[221] Cancellara had one top ten result with his second-place finish in the stage seven individual time trial.[222]

Next on the calendar for Cancellara was the Milan–San Remo which took place on 23 March.[223][224] The one-day race came down to a bunch sprint after 294 kilometres (182.7 mi) of racing.[223][224] Norwegian Alexander Kristoff won the bunch sprint and the race, while Cancellara finished in second position.[223][224] Five days later, he competed in the E3 Harelbeke where he finished in ninth place after being caught up behind a crash and having to change a tire.[225][226] Two days later, he started the Gent–Wevelgem.[227] Cancellara came to the race a favorite, but his goal of winning the race were erased when it came down to a field sprint, where he finished in thirty-eighth position.[228][229]

A week after the Gent–Wevelgem, Cancellara raced the Tour of Flanders.[230][231] On the penultimate climb of the day, the Oude Kwaremont, Cancellara attacked and only Sep Vanmarcke was able to mark his move.[230][231] The pair traveled along the course and caught the leaders on the road and the group of four then rode into the finish together.[230][231] Cancellara out-sprinted the three other riders to win his third edition of the Tour of Flanders.[230][231] Three days later, Cancellara raced in the Scheldeprijs.[232] Four days following the Scheldeprijs, Cancellara began the Paris–Roubaix.[231][233][234] He made a move in the Carrefour de l'Arbre sector and which led to the formation of a lead group.[231][234] The group came to the line twenty seconds after the winner, with Cancellara managing to sprint to a third-place finish.[231][234]

In September, Cancellara announced he would not compete in the World Championship Time Trial event, concentrating his energy for the road race which profile he said suited him.[235] He withdrew from the Vuelta a España before Stage 18 to better prepare for this race.[236]

2015: Crashes and injuries Edit

 
Cancellara at the 2015 Tour de Suisse

Cancellara's 2015 campaign started strong with a victory on Stage 2 of the Tour of Oman. He outsprinted a leading ten-man group to take the honours.[237] In the Italian race Tirreno–Adriatico, he had a good prologue, taking second place behind Adriano Malori by a single second. He went on to win the final 10 km time trial of the race.[238] In Milan–San Remo, Cancellara was in the leading group, sprinting to seventh place. The following week, Cancellara crashed badly in E3 Harelbeke, suffering two minor fractures in the transverse processes of his lower vertebrae. His injuries prevented him from defending his Tour of Flanders title, thereby ending his spring classics campaign.[239] He came back at the Tour des Fjords in late May without registering a significant result. On home soil at the Tour de Suisse, he was second in the opening prologue[240] and third in the final individual time trial, both times behind new time trial star Tom Dumoulin.[241]

In the Tour de France, Cancellara came in third of stage one's individual time trial.[242] On the second stage, he was donned the yellow jersey thanks to a third place, which gave him four bonus seconds.[243] He was involved in a mass pile-up on the third stage, and finished the race slowly. After a visit to the hospital, it was revealed that he had suffered two transverse process fractures in two vertebrae in his lower back and he had to abandon.[244]

He restarted competition at the Vuelta a España, aiming to regain his form for the world championships. A lingering stomach ailment forced him to abandon the race on stage 3, ruling him out of competition for the world championships in Richmond.[245] On 11 November 2015, having suffered a season rife with serious injuries and illness, Cancellara announced that he would retire at the end of the 2016 season.[246]

2016: Final season Edit

Entering his last season as a professional, he started with a win in the Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana, part of the Vuelta a Mallorca, in late January.[247] Two weeks later, he won the time trial in the Volta ao Algarve, ahead of Tony Martin.[248] In early March he claimed his third early-season win in the Strade Bianche – his third victory in the Tuscan race,[249] earning him a sector of the race's gravel roads to be named in his honour.[250] He won the final stage of Tirreno–Adriatico, his sixth Tirreno time trial stage win, before entering Milan–San Remo.[251]

At the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Fabian Cancellara won his third Olympic medal, winning gold in the time trial, ahead of Tom Dumoulin and Chris Froome.[252]

Fabian Cancellara raced his final professional road race, the Japan Cup criterium, on 22 October 2016.[253]

Personal life Edit

Fabian Cancellara was born to southern Italian parents, who lived in Wohlen bei Bern, Switzerland.[7] His first sport was cross-country skiing, before he adopted cycling as his main pursuit.[7] He married his wife Stefanie in 2006,[8] and later in the same year he became a father after Stefanie gave birth to a baby girl,[8] whom they named Giuliana.[254] Their second daughter, Elina, was born on 13 July 2012.[255] The family now resides in Berne, Switzerland.[8] Cancellara speaks Italian, French, English, and German fluently.[7]

Career achievements Edit

Main article: List of career achievements by Fabian Cancellara

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Awards and achievements
Preceded by Swiss Sportsman of the Year
2008
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fabian, cancellara, born, march, 1981, nicknamed, spartacus, swiss, cycling, executive, businessman, former, professional, road, racing, cyclist, last, rode, proteam, lidl, trek, born, wohlen, bern, switzerland, cancellara, began, road, cycling, after, falling. Fabian Cancellara born 18 March 1981 nicknamed Spartacus is a Swiss cycling executive businessman and former professional road racing cyclist who last rode for UCI ProTeam Lidl Trek He was born in Wohlen bei Bern Switzerland Cancellara began road cycling after falling in love with an old bike at the age of thirteen After that he began to take the sport more seriously and won two consecutive World Junior Time Trial Championships in 1998 and 1999 At age nineteen he turned professional and signed with the Mapei Quick Step team where he rode as a stagiaire He is known for being a quality time trialist a one day classics specialist and a workhorse for his teammates who have general classification aspirations Fabian CancellaraCancellara at the 2010 UCI Road World ChampionshipsPersonal informationFull nameFabian CancellaraNicknameSpartacus 1 2 Born 1981 03 18 18 March 1981 age 42 3 Wohlen bei Bern SwitzerlandHeight1 86 m 6 ft 1 in 3 Weight78 kg 172 lb 12 st 4 lb 4 Team informationCurrent teamRetiredDisciplineRoadRoleRiderRider typeTime trialistClassics specialistAmateur team2000Mapei Quick Step stagiaire Professional teams2001 2002Mapei Quick Step2003 2005Fassa Bortolo2006 2010Team CSC2011 2016Leopard TrekMajor winsGrand Tours Tour de France8 individual stages 2004 2007 2008 2009 2010 2012 dd dd Vuelta a Espana3 individual stages 2009 2013 1 TTT stage 2011 dd Stage races Tirreno Adriatico 2008 Tour de Suisse 2009 Danmark Rundt 2006 Tour of Oman 2010 One day races and Classics World Time Trial Championships 2006 2007 2009 2010 Olympic Games Time Trial 2008 2016 National Road Race Championships 2009 2011 National Time Trial Championships 2002 2004 2008 2012 2014 2016 Paris Roubaix 2006 2010 2013 Tour of Flanders 2010 2013 2014 Milan San Remo 2008 Strade Bianche 2008 2012 2016 E3 Harelbeke 2010 2011 2013 Other Velo d Or 2010 Medal record Men s road bicycle racingRepresenting SwitzerlandOlympic Games2016 Rio de Janeiro Time trial2008 Beijing Time trial2008 Beijing Road raceWorld Championships2010 Melbourne Time trial2009 Mendrisio Time trial2007 Stuttgart Time trial2006 Salzburg Time trial2013 Florence Time trial2011 Copenhagen Time trial2005 Madrid Time trialAfter winning a few stages and small races in his starting years Cancellara earned his first major victory at the 2004 Tour de France where he won the opening prologue time trial and wore the race leader yellow jersey for one day The following season saw fewer victories but his 2006 season saw a victory in the men s time trial at the UCI Road World Championships along with victory at the Paris Roubaix Cancellara repeated as world champion in the time trial the next year along with winning two stages at the Tour de France During the 2008 calendar he won gold at the Summer Olympics in the individual time trial event and the Milan San Remo The next season saw Cancellara again become world time trial champion and lead both the Tour de France and the Vuelta a Espana In 2010 he won the Paris Roubaix and the Tour of Flanders Cancellara s 2011 and 2012 campaigns were both short in number of victories while the latter was hampered by injuries throughout After a lackluster two year period Cancellara again won the Tour of Flanders and Paris Roubaix double in 2013 In 2014 Cancellara repeated as winner of the Tour of Flanders Since turning professional in 2000 Cancellara has ridden for four professional teams He has achieved great success in the classic monuments he has won Paris Roubaix three times the Milan San Remo once and the Tour of Flanders three times Cancellara has won the opening stage of the Tour de France five times and has led the race for 29 days total which is the most of any rider who has not won the Tour 5 His success has not been limited to just time trials and classics as he has won general classification of the Tirreno Adriatico Tour de Suisse and the Tour of Oman In 2008 he won gold in the individual time trial and silver in the men s road race at the Summer Olympics In 2016 he won Olympic gold in the individual time trial for the second time in his career In addition Cancellara has been the time trial world champion four times in his career Contents 1 Early life and amateur career 2 Professional career 2 1 2000 2002 The beginning years 2 2 2003 2005 On the rise 2 3 2006 First classic win 2 4 2007 Success in summer and autumn 2 5 2008 Olympic champion 2 6 2009 Domination in the time trial 2 7 2010 Victories abound 2 7 1 Allegation of mechanical doping 2 8 2011 Close but no cigar 2 9 2012 An injury ridden season 2 10 2013 Return to form 2 11 2014 Third Tour of Flanders victory 2 12 2015 Crashes and injuries 2 13 2016 Final season 3 Personal life 4 Career achievements 5 References 6 External linksEarly life and amateur career EditFabian Cancellara was born on 18 March 1981 in Wohlen bei Bern Switzerland to a Swiss mother and an Italian Swiss father 3 He discovered cycling at the age of 13 after falling in love with an old family bike that he had found in the garage and immediately gave up football to concentrate on cycling 6 In addition Cancellara excelled at cross country skiing during his youth 7 Cancellara s cycling skills began to blossom at an early age when he impressed as a time trialist and dominated Swiss junior cycling Yvan Girard Swiss national junior team coach from 1997 to 2005 was quoted saying that Cancellara was head and shoulders above everyone else in the time trials 1 He won the junior World Time Trial Championship in both 1998 and 1999 and at the age of 19 he came in second at the 2000 U 23 World Time Trial Championship 2 Professional career Edit2000 2002 The beginning years Edit After his second place finish at the Under 23 time trial championship Cancellara turned professional with Mapei Quick Step 2 which was one of the strongest teams in the world at the time 8 Cancellara rode as a stagiaire for the Mapei Quick Step team in late 2000 before joining the team for the 2001 season as a member of the Young Riders Project 8 Cancellara s first victory as a professional came at the prologue of the Tour of Rhodes where he also won the overall final general classification 9 For 2002 the Mapei team split into two formations per UCI regulations the Top Team with 25 riders and the GS III Gruppo Giovani youth group to develop young talents which Cancellara joined with other riders including Filippo Pozzato Michael Rogers and Bernhard Eisel 10 Giorgio Squinzi the head of Mapei firm later said in an interview with La Gazzetta dello Sport that he took Cancellara and Pozzato all the way from the Junior category to Mapei s top team in order to let them avoid the Under 23 category where he suggested that doping was even worse than among professionals Squinzi also said that Cancellara was going to be The future Miguel Indurain 11 During his two seasons with Mapei Cancellara used his time trialling skills to great effect winning several individual time trials and a total of eleven victories 9 2003 2005 On the rise Edit Following the folding of Mapei Quick Step at the end of the 2002 season Cancellara joined Fassa Bortolo to work as a lead out man for Alessandro Petacchi in 2003 12 Cancellara s first victory came Tour Mediterraneen he helped lead the Fassa Bortolo squad to victory in the race s final stage which was a team time trial 13 On 6 April Cancellara raced his first ever classic in the Tour of Flanders 14 He finished in the 73rd place and over ten minutes behind the winner 14 His next success came in the brief 3 4 kilometres 2 1 mi prologue at the Tour de Romandie 15 Cancellara was a consistent finisher throughout the race and because of that he won the points classification for the Tour de Romandie 16 Next he won the stage four individual time trial at the Tour of Belgium by a margin of ten seconds over the second place finisher 17 His final victory of the season came in the Tour de Suisse s prologue where he beat out Spaniard oscar Pereiro by a little over a second for the win 18 nbsp Cancellara at the 2005 HEW Cyclassics Cancellara earned his first victory in 2004 at the Tour of Qatar 19 Cancellara won the race s fourth stage after attacking in the final kilometers of the race and then out sprinting the riders who were able to keep pace with him to win the stage 19 His next victory came in the first stage of the Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme where he won the opening stage s bunch sprint 20 Up next on the calendar for Cancellara was the Tour of Flanders 21 Cancellara crossed the line in 42nd place just a little over two minutes after the winner Steffen Wesemann 21 The next weekend he raced the Paris Roubaix for the second time 22 Cancellara showed great form during the race and was a member of the four man group that was first to reach the finish line 22 He lost the sprint to the line and crossed the line in fourth 22 Cancellara s next success came in the Tour de Luxembourg where he won the stage four individual time trial by fourteen seconds over the second place finisher 23 He then went on to win his second Swiss National Time Trial Championship in late June 24 Cancellara s next success came at the Tour de France 25 He won the prologue around the Belgian city of Liege and took the first yellow jersey as leader of the general classification 25 Cancellara lost the lead after the second stage to Thor Hushovd 26 Cancellara did participate in both the time trial and road race at the Road World Championships 27 28 Cancellara performed well in the time trial and came in eighth place he finished over two minutes behind the winner 27 He entered the men s road race four days later but did not finish the course 28 Cancellara s first victory of the 2005 season came in the Paris Nice where he won the fourth stage after out sprinting his fellow breakaway member Jaan Kirsipuu for the stage win 29 Up next for Cancellara was the Setmana Catalana 30 There he won the race s final stage an individual time trial by seven seconds over American Tom Danielson 30 After Setmana Catalana he raced the Tour of Flanders and finished 42nd overall and over ten minutes behind the winner Tom Boonen 31 The next weekend he raced Paris Roubaix where he finished in eighth place after a flat tire killed his chances of winning the race 32 Cancellara s next victory came in the Tour de Luxembourg when he won the stage 3b individual time trial 33 He finished the Tour with the same time as the winner Laszlo Bodrogi but was given second overall by the organizers 34 After the Tour de Luxembourg Cancellara won the Swiss National Time Trial Championship for the third time 24 Cancellara then started the Tour de France 35 but did not win any stages at the race After the Tour he then rode the HEW Cyclassics where he finished in fourth place amidst the bunch sprint for the race win 36 Cancellara then competed in the road race and the time trial at the Road World Championships 37 38 Cancellara finished in third place in the time trial event and missed out on a silver second place medal by twelve hundredths of a second 37 Three days later he finished the road race in 123rd place and over ten minutes behind the winner 38 2006 First classic win Edit Cancellara s team Fassa Bortolo disbanded after the 2005 cycling season 39 Cancellara signed a three year contract with Team CSC during the 2005 Tour de France 39 40 Cancellara s first victory with his new team came in the stage five individual time trial at the Tirreno Adriatico 41 He then raced the Milan San Remo where he finished with the same time as winner Filippo Pozzato but 24 places behind 42 A week later Cancellara lined up to start the E3 Prijs Vlaanderen 43 He figured into the early breakaway and led the race for a good distance before being caught and ultimately finishing in 37th place 43 Up next for Cancellara was the Tour of Flanders 44 He finished sixth overall after being in the lead chase group that was in pursuit of the winner Tom Boonen and second place finisher Leif Hoste 44 The next weekend Cancellara rode his final classic of the season in the Paris Roubaix 45 Cancellara was in the leading group of riders for most of the stage 45 When the race reached the Carrefour de l Arbre he powered away from his fellow riders and went on by himself to win the race itself 45 On 9 April he celebrated his first classic victory in his career 45 46 His next victory came in the stage one individual time trial at the Volta a Catalunya 47 In late June Cancellara won his third straight Swiss National Time Trial champion title 24 He was not selected to ride with Team CSC at the Tour de France 48 Outside of repeating as time trial champion in June Cancellara had a quiet June and July Cancellara s next victories of the season came at the Danmark Rundt He won the second stage and took the race lead after riding solo to victory 49 He expanded his lead after winning the stage fifth time trial by eighteen seconds over the second placed finisher 50 The next day he won the race after completing the final stage 51 In addition to the race s general classification he also won the youth classification 51 Later that month he rode the Vuelta a Espana and helped his team with the opening team time trial 52 After the Vuelta Canacellara competed in the elite men s time trial and road race at the UCI Road World Championships 53 54 On 21 September Cancellara won the men s time trial event by over a minute to American David Zabriskie and became the world champion of the time trial discipline 53 Three days later he finished the road race in 31st place 54 2007 Success in summer and autumn Edit nbsp Cancellara winning stage three of the 2007 Tour de France whilst wearing the race leader s yellow jerseyThe early portion of Cancellara s 2007 campaign began with no victories to his credit He started the Tour of California and came closest to a stage win in stage five time trial where he finished in fourth place 55 56 He finished in 119th place in the Milan San Remo over six minutes behind the winner oscar Freire 57 The next week Cancellara lined up to race the E3 Prijs Vlaanderen 58 He missed out on the victory after Belgian rider Tom Boonen edged out Cancellara for the win 58 Eight days later Cancellara raced the Tour of Flanders and came in 53rd place after his moves were not successful 59 The last classic Cancellara raced in the 2007 season was the famed Paris Roubaix which he finished in 19th place 60 After the slow start to the season Cancellara began to achieve success in June He rode the Tour de Suisse and won the opening time trial along with the final stage that was also a time trial 61 62 With the opening stage victory in the Tour de Suisse Cancellara led the race for a few stages before losing it to teammate Frank Schleck after stage four 61 63 Cancellara continued his success in the time trial with a victory in the Swiss national time trial 24 Cancellara won the prologue of the Tour de France in London defeating Andreas Kloden of Astana by thirteen seconds 64 During stage two he was caught up in a very large crash which brought down an estimated thirty riders 65 He crossed the finish line nursing his left hand but appeared to be fine during the yellow jersey presentation 65 The next day he won the third stage in Compiegne after he caught and overtook the breakaway group just 500 metres 1 640 4 ft from the finish line 66 Cancellara held the yellow jersey until stage seven the Tour s first mountain stage 67 Cancellara returned to the Road World Championships in September with the aims to defend his time trial crown 68 He achieved his goal and won the time trial by 52 seconds over second place finisher Laszlo Bodrogi 68 Three days later Cancellara raced the road race but did not finish the course 69 70 2008 Olympic champion Edit Cancellara won the prologue of the Tour of California ahead of Olympic track gold medalist Bradley Wiggins in his first race of the season 71 Two weeks later he won the second edition of Italian Monte Paschi Eroica ahead of Italian rider Alessandro Ballan 72 Cancellara then rode the Tirreno Adriatico where he won stage five time trial to Recanati which allowed him to take the race lead 73 Cancellara would go on to win the race by sixteen seconds over the second place rider 74 Just a few days later in the Milan San Remo classic monument race Cancellara broke away from a leading group in the final kilometres to win the race thus becoming just the second Swiss rider triumphant in this race after Erich Maechler in 1987 75 At Paris Roubaix Cancellara finished second after being out sprinted by the winner Boonen 76 nbsp Cancellara at the 2008 Tour of California where he won the prologue stage In preparation for the second half of the season Cancellara rode the Tour de Luxembourg and the Tour de Suisse Cancellara won the prologue of the Tour de Luxembourg and briefly held the overall lead because of the victory 77 After finishing the Tour de Luxembourg he started the Tour de Suisse where he saw great success 78 Cancellara won the seventh and ninth stages through attacks in the closing kilometers of each stage 78 79 In addition to the two stage wins he also won the points classification 78 Cancellara joined his team at the Tour de France 80 Cancellara proved to be a valuable asset to the squad as he helped his teammate Carlos Sastre to overall victory at the Tour 81 Cancellara was later awarded the stage win in the penultimate stage after the initial winner Stefan Schumacher tested positive for EPO 82 In the Olympic Road Race in Beijing Cancellara was in a chasing group with around 5 km 3 1 mi before he attacked and successfully bridged the gap to the leading group when 1 km 0 62 mi was left to race 83 The race then came down to a sprint finish that was won by the Samuel Sanchez with Davide Rebellin coming in second and Cancellara coming in third for a bronze medal 83 However later it was found that Rebellin had tested positive for Continuous erythropoietin receptor activator CERA a third generation form of erythropoietin and his medal was removed by both the UCI and the IOC 84 Cancellara was subsequently promoted to second place and the initial fourth place finisher Alexandr Kolobnev was promoted to third place 85 The riders did not initially receive new medals for their new placings 86 On 18 December 2010 Cancellara received the same physical medal initially given to Rebellin in a ceremony held in his hometown of Ittigen Switzerland 86 Cancellara s bronze was then given to Kolobnev 86 Four days after racing the road race Cancellara raced the time trial event 87 He won the gold medal by winning the race by over thirty seconds to Swedish rider Gustav Larsson 87 After finishing with the Olympics Cancellara decided not to defend his world time trial title in Varese due to mental fatigue 88 For his successes on the road in the 2008 season Cancellara was named the Swiss Male Athlete of the Year at the Credit Suisse Sports Awards on 6 December 2008 89 90 2009 Domination in the time trial Edit nbsp Cancellara on the victory platform after winning the first stage of the 2009 Vuelta a EspanaCancellara s first victory of the 2009 season came in the prologue of the Tour of California 91 This was his second victory in a row in the prologue at the Tour of California 91 Cancellara then returned to the Tirreno Adriatico but an injury prevented his efforts to repeat as winner of the event 92 Cancellara did not finish the sixth stage of the race he left the event without winning a single stage 93 Poor performance marred the early portion of the season for Cancellara as he achieved no success in the early season classics he did not finish the Tour of Flanders after suffering problem with his bike chain early in the race on the Koppenberg and he finished 49th overall in the Paris Roubaix 94 95 Cancellara began to achieve success in June during the Tour de Suisse He won the opening time trial of the race and the time trial on stage nine en route to his overall victory 96 97 In addition to the general classification he also won the secondary points classification of the Tour de Suisse 97 A week after finishing the Tour de Suisse he won his first Swiss national road racing crown on 28 June after outsprinting Mathias Frank at the line 98 He continued to win in July as he won the opening stage of the Tour de France and took the first yellow jersey of the race 99 He then successfully defended the lead until the seventh stage when he was unable to bridge the gap to the leaders on the Arcalis mountain top finish 100 Cancellara s next victories season came at the Vuelta a Espana He won the opening time trial and then held the lead of the race until the race s fourth stage 101 102 Cancellara briefly regained the lead of the race after winning the time trial on stage seven but he lost the lead after the next stage s conclusion 103 104 The Road World Championships took place in Cancellara s native country Switzerland and he stated that he wished to win both events 105 106 Cancellara dominated the time trial event and won by a margin of close a minute and a half over the second place finisher 106 107 This was Cancellara s third world championship in the time trial discipline which was tied for most ever with Australia s Michael Rogers 106 Cancellara s next goal was the road race which was to take place three days later 106 During the final lap of the race Cancellara crossed the gap to the race s leading group that had just formed 108 At the bottom of the final climb Cadel Evans Australia attacked but no other riders reacted 108 Cancellara crossed the line in fifth 108 109 2010 Victories abound Edit nbsp Cancellara riding his bike during the time trial at the Road World ChampionshipsFabian Cancellara kicked off his 2010 campaign with an overall victory at the Tour of Oman 110 He gained the lead after the race s final stage and won the race without winning a single stage 110 In late March Cancellara won the E3 Prijs Vlaanderen after riding away from Boonen and Juan Antonio Flecha with about 2 kilometres 1 2 mi remaining in the race 111 On 4 April he raced the famed Tour of Flanders 112 Cancellara first attacked in the race on the Molenberg with about 44 kilometres 27 3 mi remaining in the race and only Boonen was able to mark his efforts 112 Cancellara s second major attack took place on the steepest part of the Muur van Geraardsbergen 112 The attack proved successful as he was able to drop Boonen and solo on to the victory 112 113 By winning the Tour of Flanders he became the twelfth cyclist to win the opening three monuments of the cycling year Milan San Remo Tour of Flanders and the Paris Roubaix in a career 112 After winning the Tour of Flanders Cancellara stated that he wished to win the other two cycling monuments the Liege Bastogne Liege and the Giro di Lombardia 114 Just a week after his victory at the Tour of Flanders Cancellara raced the Paris Roubaix 115 Cancellara made a move during the Mons en Pevele portion of the race with more than 50 kilometres 31 1 mi to go in the race and no one was able to match his efforts 115 Cancellara then rode solo all the way to the finish in the Roubaix Velodrome and finished two minutes ahead the second place finisher Thor Hushovd 115 116 After winning the Roubaix Cancellara decided to skip the rest of the classics to race the Tour of California as part of his warm up for the Tour de France 117 He completed the Tour of California without winning a single stage Cancellara s next victory came at the Tour de Suisse where he won the prologue which was an individual time trial around the city of Lugano 118 Cancellara came close to another stage win in the stage nine individual time trial but fell short by seventeen seconds 119 Next Cancellara won the prologue of the Tour de France 120 He then held the lead until the second stage came to an end after stage winner Sylvain Chavanel took it away 121 However Cancellara regained the lead the after the next day and held it until stage seven when Chavanel again took the lead 122 123 Later in the Tour Cancellara won the stage nineteen individual time trial that stretched from Bordeaux to Pauillac by seventeen seconds over German rider Tony Martin 124 The Road World Championships took place in Melbourne and Cancellara returned to the event to defend his title as world champion of the time trial discipline 125 He won the time trial by over a minute to the second place finisher and in doing so he became the first four time men s world champion of the time trial 125 Four days later he competed in the road race and finished 50th overall 126 127 Allegation of mechanical doping Edit In 2010 former cyclist Davide Cassani claimed in a YouTube video that Fabian Cancellara had used a motorized bike during his victories at the Tour of Flanders and the Paris Roubaix that year 128 In the video Cassani showed a normal road bike on a stand and after he pressed a button the pedals began to rotate 128 129 Cassani then alleged that a motor could easily be stowed in the seattube of the bike and the button to turn it on would be located on the handlebars 129 130 In the YouTube video Cassani showed clips of Cancellara at the two races allegedly turning on the motor while riding and showing the drastic increase in speed 129 130 The claims caught steam since rumors were already going around about riders possibly using the new motor the Gruber Assist which could produce 100 Watts of power to aid the rider 131 Critics of the motor theory often say that the Gruber Assist was way too noisy that time and in solo ride or a smaller group it could have surely been heard when turned on 132 The Union Cycliste Internationale UCI stated that whilst they are not investigating any specific teams or riders it would review the need for a new bicycle inspection system to detect such cheating 128 Then UCI stated that there was no case against Cancellara after the claims gained prominence 129 Cancellara dismissed Cassani s claims saying that they were stupid and far too risky to do 129 133 He even told the Belgian newspaper Het Nieuwsblad that he had never had batteries on his bike 129 During an April 2017 press conference just before his final Ronde van Vlaanderen Tom Boonen was asked if it was always the strongest rider who wins the Tour of Flanders Yes most of the time he said In every race like that it is not always the strongest that wins but most of the time it is In Flanders I can t really recall one year Well I can recall one year When asked what year he was referring to Boonen smiled and replied No comment On 6 April two days before the 2018 Paris Roubaix Samuel Grulois of Radio Television Belge Francophone RTBF asked Boonen if he believed Cancellara had used a motor to beat him in 2010 Did Cancellara steal the 2010 Flanders due to a motor Is there any doubt Boonen replied Yes and added But it s not for me to say I finished second and it s not the one in second who has to say the situation is not normal It s very difficult to prove because we do not have the bike to check It s too late 134 2011 Close but no cigar Edit This was Cancellara s first year with his new team Leopard Trek which lacked the high caliber domestiques that Cancellara had in the past meaning that winning would be tougher for Cancellara His first major race of the year was the Tirreno Adriatico where he won the race s final stage which was an individual time trial 135 Cancellara came to the Milan San Remo with the hopes of winning the race a second time 136 He positioned himself in an eight man breakaway that made it all the way to the finish 136 As the group approached the finish line Cancellara was bested in the sprint for the line by Australian Matthew Goss and Cancellara crossed the line in second 136 nbsp Cancellara at the start of the 2011 Tour of FlandersCancellara was seen as the favorite or top contender for the next three one day races the E3 Prijs Vlaanderen Harelbeke 137 the Tour of Flanders 138 139 and the Paris Roubaix 140 due to his great performance in the 2010 season and his good form in the early portion of the 2011 season He lived up to his expectations and won the E3 Prijs Vlaanderen Harelbeke after having several flat tires and a few bike changes he launched a solo attack with 16 kilometres 9 9 mi and rode by himself to the finish line for the victory 141 The next weekend Cancellara began the Tour of Flanders 142 He launched an attack with about 60 kilometres 37 3 mi left to go in the race and caught up with the leader Sylvain Chavanel however Cancellara cracked after Chavanel did not help with the pacing and the two were picked up by a chasing group on the Muur van Geraardsbergen 139 142 With 4 kilometres 2 5 mi left in the race Cancellara launched two attacks 142 His first attack was marked by the whole group while his second attack could only be matched by Chavanel and Nick Nuyens 139 142 The three rode into the finish together with Nuyens taking the win Chavanel second and Cancellara third 139 142 The Paris Roubaix was next on the calendar for Cancellara 143 Cancellara finished in second place after a crash hurt him early on as did being a member of a chasing group that did not work with him to catch the leading riders 143 On the first of June Cancellara began the Tour de Luxembourg 144 He won the prologue and was the first to wear the race leader s yellow jersey 144 He then held the lead until the second stage came to a close when stage winner Linus Gerdemann took the lead away from him 145 Cancellara then raced the Tour de Suisse and won the opening and closing stages of the race which were both individual time trials 146 147 He then closed out June by winning the Swiss National Road Race after he out sprinted Steve Morabito for the win which was his second Swiss National Road Race title 148 Cancellara entered the Tour de France in July but was unable to come away with a victory in either the team time trial or the lone individual time trial 149 150 Up next for Cancellara was the Vuelta a Espana where he helped his team achieve victory in the stage one s team time trial 151 Cancellara s final events for the 2011 season were the road race and the time trial at the Road World Championships Cancellara came with the hopes of winning a third consecutive time trial world crown however he would finish in third place after the winner Martin and runner up Wiggins 152 153 Four days later Cancellara lined up to race the road race 154 The race came down to a sprint finish that was won by Mark Cavendish Cancellara barely missed a medal after finishing in fourth place 154 155 2012 An injury ridden season Edit nbsp Cancellara riding his bike while nursing his right arm after hurting it in a crash earlier in the Olympic road race In the first races of the 2012 season Cancellara showed a good form he powered to a second victory on the gravel roads of the Strade Bianche and took a victory in the closing time trial of the Tirreno Adriatico In the final of the first monument of the year Milan San Remo he was the strongest rider during the descent of the Poggio but was outsprinted for victory by Simon Gerrans He was in great form for the Belgian spring classics but a fall and material malfunction kept him from playing a part in the final of both the E3 Harelbeke and Gent Wevelgem Cancellara was one of the favourites to win the renewed Tour of Flanders but played no part in the final due to a crash in the feed zone It was caused by a discarded water bottle He suffered a four part fracture of the right collarbone which ruined his spring campaign 156 157 He came back to competition on 10 June in his homeland racing in the Tour de Suisse Cancellara stated that he was nervous before the start of the prologue which he finished in second position four seconds behind the winner Liquigas Cannondale s Peter Sagan 158 In the Tour de France Cancellara won the opening day prologue in Liege his fifth such victory in the Tour 159 After his fifth day in the yellow jersey in the race Cancellara broke Rene Vietto s longstanding record as the rider with the most career yellow jerseys who has not won the Tour overall 160 He subsequently lost the jersey to Wiggins of Team Sky after conceding almost two minutes on the seventh stage which finished on top of a steep Category 1 climb leading to Planche des Belles Filles 161 He withdrew from the Tour after the eleventh stage to return home to support his wife before the birth of their second child 162 163 Cancellara returned to compete in the road race at the Olympic Games He was the leading rider of a massive breakaway when he badly negotiated a right turn with about 15 kilometres 9 3 mi to cover and fell heavily on his right shoulder He completed the race finishing approximately five minutes after the winner the Kazakh Alexander Vinokourov but was in obvious pain and could not hold his handlebar properly with his right hand As he crossed the line he was in tears and was sent to the hospital where it was revealed that he did not suffer any fractures 164 165 Two days after the incident it was announced that he would be able to defend his Olympic Time Trial title an event he subsequently finished in seventh 166 In August Cancellara announced that he was putting an end to his 2012 season He required further surgery on his collarbone to get the stabilizing vises out of his body 167 168 2013 Return to form Edit Cancellara began the 2013 campaign with the Tour of Qatar and the Tour of Oman but failed to collect any victories 169 170 After finishing the aforementioned tours he raced the Strade Bianche and finished in fourth place 171 Next Cancellara raced the Tirreno Adriatico 172 He came close to a stage victory in the race s stage seven individual time trial but missed the win by twelve seconds 172 Just five days later Cancellara lined up at the Milan San Remo 173 where he was considered by many as a favorite to win the race 174 175 The race was marred by poor weather conditions but Cancellara remained near the front and managed to place third overall after losing out in the sprint for the finish line 173 nbsp Cancellara in the closing kilometer of the 2013 Paris Roubaix in the Roubaix Velodrome His first win of the year came in E3 Harelbeke after an attack on Oude Kwaremont with 35 km 22 mi remaining of the race 176 His victory at E3 Harelbeke solidified him as a contender for the upcoming Tour of Flanders 177 On the last lap of the Tour of Flanders Cancellara attacked on Oude Kwaremont and only Peter Sagan was able to match Cancellara s move 178 Together the two rode to the last remaining escapee in the front of the race 178 Cancellara then attacked on the Paterberg hill with about 13 km 8 mi remaining 178 Cancellara s attack was successful and he powered on solo into the finish and won his second Tour of Flanders 178 179 After the Tour of Flanders Cancellara started in the Scheldeprijs in Belgium 180 During the race he crashed after 50 km 31 mi but finished the race 180 The next day Cancellara fell while riding on the Waindignies Hamage cobbled sector of the Paris Roubaix 181 Despite the crashes many still considered Fabian Cancellara the favorite to win the Paris Roubaix 182 183 During the Paris Roubaix on 7 April Cancellara was attacked multiple times by his competitors but managed to counter all their attacks 184 With about 16 km 10 mi to go Cancellara made a move that only Sep Vanmarcke and Zdenek Stybar could follow 184 185 Stybar was dropped after colliding with a spectator leaving Cancellara and Vanmarcke to ride to the finish 184 185 Cancellara outsprinted Vanmarcke at the finish on the Roubaix velodome to claim his third Paris Roubaix win 184 185 After the race Cancellara stated that he would enter neither the Giro d Italia or the Tour de France but instead ride the Vuelta a Espana in order to prepare for the UCI Road World Championships 186 187 nbsp Cancellara right on the podium for the men s time trial at the UCI Road World ChampionshipsOn 7 June 2013 it was announced that Cancellara would ride the Tour of Austria 188 189 The next race he started was the Tour de Suisse 190 Cancellara placed sixteenth overall in the stage 1 individual time trial 191 Although he did not win a stage Cancellara expressed his excitement for his teammate Gregory Rast s victory in the race s sixth stage 192 193 Days after finishing the Tour de Suisse Cancellara entered and won the men s time trial event at the Swiss Road Championships for the eighth time in his career 194 195 It was announced on 1 July 2013 that Cancellara signed a three year deal with Trek effective on 1 January 2014 and up to and including the 2016 season 196 After a short hiatus from racing Cancellara lined up for the Tour of Austria on 30 June He won the stage 7 individual time trial by a margin of 22 seconds over the second place finisher 197 before completing the race the next day 198 On Friday 26 July Cancellara attended the formal team presentation Tour de Pologne 199 The next day he finished over sixteen minutes behind the stage winner in the first leg of the race 200 He finished second on stage seven s 37 km 23 0 mi time trial 56 seconds behind stage winner Bradley Wiggins 201 Cancellara went in hoping to win the time trial and the second place finish on the stage left him disappointed 202 Cancellara entered the Vuelta a Espana and helped assist RadioShack Leopard to a second place finish in the race s opening team time trial 203 He won the stage eleven individual time trial by a margin of 37 seconds over reigning world champion Tony Martin 204 Cancellara then rode in support of team leader and eventual Vuelta winner Chris Horner until the seventeenth stage after which he left the race in order to focus on the World Championships 205 Cancellara was seen as a contender for the gold medal in both the men s time trial and road race events at the UCI Road World Championships 206 207 Cancellara finished the time trial in third position 48 seconds behind the winner Tony Martin earning a bronze medal 208 Four days after completing the time trial event Cancellara entered the Elite Men s road race 209 For most of the race Cancellara stayed near the front of race 209 before being dropped however on the final climb of the day and fighting his way to tenth place 209 In late December RadioShack Leopard s general manager Luca Guercilena announced that Fabian Cancellara would attempt to break the hour record during the 2014 season 210 2014 Third Tour of Flanders victory Edit Fabian Cancellara began the 2014 cycling season by competing in the inaugural Dubai Tour 211 The first stage of the race was a brief individual time trial which Cancellara managed to complete 25 seconds slower than the stage winner Taylor Phinney 212 Cancellara managed to hold his fifth place overall to the race s finish that ended in front of the Burj Khalifa in Dubai 213 Next Cancellara began the Tour of Qatar 214 where his highest stage finish fourth place came during the race s third stage an individual time trial 215 He finished the race in 67th overall in the general classification 216 On 18 February Cancellara started the Tour of Oman 217 Five days later he completed the race in thirty first place overall 218 Cancellara then entered the Strade Bianche 219 where he finished in sixth place behind winner Michal Kwiatkowski 220 On 12 March he started the Tirreno Adriatico 221 Cancellara had one top ten result with his second place finish in the stage seven individual time trial 222 Next on the calendar for Cancellara was the Milan San Remo which took place on 23 March 223 224 The one day race came down to a bunch sprint after 294 kilometres 182 7 mi of racing 223 224 Norwegian Alexander Kristoff won the bunch sprint and the race while Cancellara finished in second position 223 224 Five days later he competed in the E3 Harelbeke where he finished in ninth place after being caught up behind a crash and having to change a tire 225 226 Two days later he started the Gent Wevelgem 227 Cancellara came to the race a favorite but his goal of winning the race were erased when it came down to a field sprint where he finished in thirty eighth position 228 229 A week after the Gent Wevelgem Cancellara raced the Tour of Flanders 230 231 On the penultimate climb of the day the Oude Kwaremont Cancellara attacked and only Sep Vanmarcke was able to mark his move 230 231 The pair traveled along the course and caught the leaders on the road and the group of four then rode into the finish together 230 231 Cancellara out sprinted the three other riders to win his third edition of the Tour of Flanders 230 231 Three days later Cancellara raced in the Scheldeprijs 232 Four days following the Scheldeprijs Cancellara began the Paris Roubaix 231 233 234 He made a move in the Carrefour de l Arbre sector and which led to the formation of a lead group 231 234 The group came to the line twenty seconds after the winner with Cancellara managing to sprint to a third place finish 231 234 In September Cancellara announced he would not compete in the World Championship Time Trial event concentrating his energy for the road race which profile he said suited him 235 He withdrew from the Vuelta a Espana before Stage 18 to better prepare for this race 236 2015 Crashes and injuries Edit nbsp Cancellara at the 2015 Tour de SuisseCancellara s 2015 campaign started strong with a victory on Stage 2 of the Tour of Oman He outsprinted a leading ten man group to take the honours 237 In the Italian race Tirreno Adriatico he had a good prologue taking second place behind Adriano Malori by a single second He went on to win the final 10 km time trial of the race 238 In Milan San Remo Cancellara was in the leading group sprinting to seventh place The following week Cancellara crashed badly in E3 Harelbeke suffering two minor fractures in the transverse processes of his lower vertebrae His injuries prevented him from defending his Tour of Flanders title thereby ending his spring classics campaign 239 He came back at the Tour des Fjords in late May without registering a significant result On home soil at the Tour de Suisse he was second in the opening prologue 240 and third in the final individual time trial both times behind new time trial star Tom Dumoulin 241 In the Tour de France Cancellara came in third of stage one s individual time trial 242 On the second stage he was donned the yellow jersey thanks to a third place which gave him four bonus seconds 243 He was involved in a mass pile up on the third stage and finished the race slowly After a visit to the hospital it was revealed that he had suffered two transverse process fractures in two vertebrae in his lower back and he had to abandon 244 He restarted competition at the Vuelta a Espana aiming to regain his form for the world championships A lingering stomach ailment forced him to abandon the race on stage 3 ruling him out of competition for the world championships in Richmond 245 On 11 November 2015 having suffered a season rife with serious injuries and illness Cancellara announced that he would retire at the end of the 2016 season 246 2016 Final season Edit Entering his last season as a professional he started with a win in the Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana part of the Vuelta a Mallorca in late January 247 Two weeks later he won the time trial in the Volta ao Algarve ahead of Tony Martin 248 In early March he claimed his third early season win in the Strade Bianche his third victory in the Tuscan race 249 earning him a sector of the race s gravel roads to be named in his honour 250 He won the final stage of Tirreno Adriatico his sixth Tirreno time trial stage win before entering Milan San Remo 251 At the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro Fabian Cancellara won his third Olympic medal winning gold in the time trial ahead of Tom Dumoulin and Chris Froome 252 Fabian Cancellara raced his final professional road race the Japan Cup criterium on 22 October 2016 253 Personal life EditFabian Cancellara was born to southern Italian parents who lived in Wohlen bei Bern Switzerland 7 His first sport was cross country skiing before he adopted cycling as his main pursuit 7 He married his wife Stefanie in 2006 8 and later in the same year he became a father after Stefanie gave birth to a baby girl 8 whom they named Giuliana 254 Their second daughter Elina was born on 13 July 2012 255 The family now resides in Berne Switzerland 8 Cancellara speaks Italian French English and German fluently 7 Career achievements EditMain article List of career achievements by Fabian CancellaraReferences Edit a b Mathias Froidevaux 11 July 2008 The Swiss Spartacus gears up for success swissinfo SRG SSR Archived from the original on 20 December 2014 Retrieved 3 April 2013 a b c Fabian Cancellara SR Olympic Sports Sports Reference com Archived from the original on 4 November 2013 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Bianche history sbs com au Retrieved 8 March 2016 Brown Gregor Cancellara likes his odds in Sanremo lottery Velonews com Retrieved 15 March 2016 O Shea Sadhbh 10 August 2016 Olympic Games Cancellara wins gold in men s time trial cyclingnews com Archived from the original on 10 August 2016 Retrieved 10 August 2016 Cancellara Bids Adieu in Japan Cup Criterium Cycling News Retrieved 28 November 2016 Fabian Cancellara 14 July 2012 f cancellara Archived from the original on 15 October 2013 Retrieved 2 April 2013 via Twitter Fabian Cancellara 14 July 2012 f cancellara Archived from the original on 16 October 2013 Retrieved 2 April 2013 via Twitter External links Edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Fabian Cancellara Official website nbsp Fabian Cancellara at UCI Fabian Cancellara at Cycling Archives nbsp Fabian Cancellara at CQ Ranking nbsp Fabian Cancellara at ProCyclingStats nbsp Fabian Cancellara at Olympedia nbsp Fabian Cancellara at Olympics com nbsp Fabian Cancellara at Olympic org archived nbsp RadioShack Leopard profile at the Wayback Machine archived 27 July 2013 Awards and achievementsPreceded byRoger FedererStan Wawrinka Swiss Sportsman of the Year20082016 Succeeded byDidier CucheRoger Federer Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Fabian Cancellara amp oldid 1178855478, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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