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LANCE ARMSTRONG
Height: 5-10 Weight: 165
Born: Sept. 18, 1971 in Plano, Texas
Hometown: Austin, Texas
Residence: Austin, Texas/Nice, France
Team: United States Postal Service
Web sites: Lance Armstrong web site
Lance Armstrong Foundation
- Olympics: 1992, 1996, 2000 (bronze, individual time trial)
- Tour de France champion: 1999, 2000, 2001
- World Professional Road Race champion: 1993
- World Road Cycling Championships: 1990-91, 1993-94; 1998
- World Junior Road Cycling Championships: 1989
- National Road Cycling champion: 1991 (road race)
- Junior National Road Cycling champion: 1990 (individual time trial, team time trial)
- U.S. National Team: 1991-92, 1998-99
2002
Criterium International (France): second
Milan-San Remo (Italy): 44th
Tour of Flanders (Belgium): 59th
Paris-Camembert (France): 75th
2001
UCI World Road Ranking (15 November): fourth
Tour de France: first; four stage wins
Tour de Suisse (Switzerland): first
Amstel Gold Race (Netherlands): second
Classique des Alpes (France): second
Semana-Catalana (Spain): eighth
Bicicleta Vasca (Spain): 20th
Tour of Burgos (Spain): 58th
Vuelta Ciclista a Murcia (Spain): 64th
2000
UCI World Road rankings (30 November): fourth
Olympic Games (Sydney): third, individual time trial; 13th, road race
Tour de France: first; won stage 19; sixth, King of the Mountain
GP Des Nations (France): first
GP Eddy Merckx (Belgium): first (teamed with Viatcheslav Ekimov of Russia)
Paris-Camembert (France): second (top U.S. rider)
Classique des Alpes (France): third (top U.S. rider)
Dauphine Libere (France): third, won mountain jersey
GP Kanton Aargau/GP Gippingen (Switzerland): fourth (top U.S. rider)
World Cup (Zurich, Switzerland): fifth (top U.S. rider)
Gran Premio Miguel Indurain (Spain): seventh (top U.S. rider)
Amstel Gold Race (Netherlands): 39th (top U.S. rider)
Setmana Catalana (Spain): 51st
Tour of Burgos (Spain): 69th
1999
UCI World Road Ranking: seventh (top U.S. rider)
Tour de France: first; won prologue, won stage 8, 9 and 19
Boxmeer Criterium (Netherlands): first
Amstel Gold Race (Netherlands): second
BMC Software Downtown Crtierium (Austin, Texas): second
Vuelta Ciclista Aaragon (Spain): seventh; one stage race win
Route de Sud (France): won one stage race
Circuit de la Sarthe (France): one stage race win
Chevy Trucks National Championship Series (Mount Snow, Vt. - MTB): fourth, short-track cross-country; sixth, cross-country
King of the Rockies Series (Winter Park, Colo. - MTB): second
1998
UCI Final Ranking: 25th
World Road Championships (Valkenburg, The Netherlands): fourth, road race; fourth, individual time
trial
Tour of Luxembourg: first, one stage race win
Cascade Cycling Classic: first, one stage race win
Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfarht: first
Austin Sprint 56k Criterium: first
First Union Invitational: second
Tour of Spain: fourth
Tour of Netherlands: fourth
Ruta del Sol (Spain): 15th
USCF National Racing Calendar standings: 25th
Tour of America Standings: 13th
1997
Did not compete
1996
Olympic Games (Atlanta): sixth, individual time trial; 12th, road race
UCI World Rankings: ninth
UCI World Cup: seventh
Fleche Wallonne (Belgium): first
Tour DuPont: first, five stage race wins
Tour de France participant
Paris-Nice (France): second
Liege-Bastogne-Liege (Belgium): second
Tour of Netherlands: second
Grand Prix Eddy Merckx (Belgium): second
Leeds International Classic (Great Britain): fourth
Grand Prix of Switzerland: fourth
GP E3 (Belgium): eighth
Milan-San Remo (Italy): 11th
Clasica San Sebastian (Spain): 14th
USPRO Points Series: fourth
1995
Clasica San Sebastian (Spain): first
Tour de France: 36th, one stage race win
K-Mart Classic: first, one stage race win
Tour DuPont: first, three stage race wins, won mountain jersey
CoreStates USPRO Championships (Philadelphia): fifth, road race
Thrift Drug Classic: second
Liege-Bastogne-Liege (Belgium): sixth
GP Zurich (Switzerland): 10th
Tour of America: first overall
1994
World Road Cycling Championships (Palermo, Italy): seventh, professional road race
UCI World Rankings: 25th
UCI World Cup standings: sixth
Tour de France participant
Tour DuPont: second
Thrift Drug Classic: first
Liege-Bastogne-Liege (Belgium): second
Clasica San Sebastian (Spain): second
Tour of Switzerland: seventh
GP Zurich (Switzerland): ninth
1993
World Road Cycling Championships (Hamar, Norway): first, professional road race
CoreStates USPRO Championships (Philadelphia, Pa.): first, road race
Tour de France: one stage race win
UCI World Rankings: 21st
Trophee Laiguegila (Italy): first
Thrift Drug Classic: first
K-Mart Classic: first, one stage race win
Tour DuPont: second, one stage race win, three top-three finishes
Tour of Sweden: third, one stage race win
Leeds International Classic (Great Britain): fifth
1992
Olympic Games (Barcelona, Spain): 14th, individual road race
U.S. Olympic Road Trials and National Championships (Altoona, Pa.): second, national
championship road race; 10th, Olympic
selection road race; third, Olympic points standings
Vuelta La Ribera (Spain): first, three stage race wins
Thrift Drug Classic: first
First Union Grand Prix: first
GP Zurich (Switzerland): second
Tour DuPont: 12th
1991
World Road Cycling Championships (Stuttgart, Germany): seventh, team time trial
USCF National Road Cycling Championships (Salt Lake City): first, road race; second,
criterium, team time trial;
seventh, individual time trial
Settimana Bergamasca (Italy): first
National Prestige Classic: first
Regio Tour (Germany): one stage race win
1990
World Road Cycling Championships (Utsunomiya, Japan): 11th, amateur road race
USCF National Road Cycling Championships (Albany, N.Y.): second, team time trial; fifth,
individual time trial
Tour of Sweden: eighth
1989
Junior World Road Cycling Championships (Moscow): fifth, team time trial
USCF Junior National Road Cycling Championships (Colorado Springs, Colo.): first, individual
time trial (17-18), team time trial
1989 graduate of Bending Oaks Private Academy in Dallas, Texas ... captured his third successive
Tour de France in 2001, including winning four stages ... first U.S. cyclist since Andy Hampsten (1992) to
win a mountain stage race ... 19th cyclist to win mutiple Tour de France titles ...
winner of the Arete Award for Courage in Sport for his miraculous recovery to the
elite level of cycling after being diagnosed with testicular cancer in October 1996. …
placed second in 1998 USOC SportsMan of the Year voting, and placed sixth in 1993 …
finished among top 60 most compelling sport stories, people and issue of 1998 (USA TODAY)
… won ESPY Award as Comeback of the Year (1999) … named 2000 espn.com's Internet athlete of the year
… made appearance at the National Championship Series (NCS) mountain bike event in Deer Valley, Utah (1998)
… underwent chemotherapy in 1996 ... automatically qualified for 1996 U.S. Olympic
Team by placing in UCI World Cup top 15 in spring events … first American to win a
one-day classic (1995 Clasica San Sebastian) ... ranked No. 1 in the world in the UCI
year-to-date rankings after winning 1996 Tour DuPont ... twice finished among the top 10
in the UCI World Cup (1994, 1996) ... driving force behind Lance Armstrong Junior Olympic
Race Series, a nationwide race series aimed at increasing junior participation ... won
million in 1993 for Thrift Drug’s “Triple Crown of Cycling” by winning
Thrift Drug, K-Mart and the CoreStates U.S. National Championship ... first American to
win Italian stage race Settimana Bergamasca, which he did in 1991 ... two-time National
Sprint Triathlon Champion (1989-1990) ... named 1988 Rookie of the Year by Triathlete
Magazine ... childhood friend of 2000 Tour de france participant Chann McRae ... hobbies
include water skiing and music... began cycling in 1986 ...website address is
www.lancearmstrong.com, and website address for Lance Armstrong Foundation is www.laf.com
... married, wife, Kristin ... children, one son, David Luke and twin daughters, Isabelle Rose and Grace Elizabeth.
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