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Samuel Sánchez
Sign in to saveAlso known as Samuel Sanchez, Samuel Sánchez González, Samuel Sanchez Gonzalez, Samu, Sammy
Spanish former professional road bicycle racer
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 3
Top works
- Diez Relatos y uno Mas
- Secret Manuscript
- Loco Amor
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 2
- Total plays
- 3
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 19,944x
- Radiotherapy plus Concomitant and Adjuvant Temozolomide for Glioblastoma
· 2005 · cited 18,369x
- Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 15,320x
- Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance in 2019: a systematic analysis
· 2022 · cited 13,054x
- Potent and specific genetic interference by double-stranded RNA in Caenorhabditis elegans
· 1998 · cited 12,285x
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Key facts
- Full name
- Samuel Sánchez González
- Nickname
- Samu, Sammy
- Born
- ( 1978-02-05 ) 5 February 1978 (age 48) , Oviedo, Spain
- Height
- 1.81 m (5 ft 11 + 1 ⁄ 2 in)
- Weight
- 68 kg (150 lb; 10 st 10 lb)
- Current team
- Retired
- Discipline
- Road
- Role
- Rider
- Rider type
- All-rounder
- 2000 2013
- Euskaltel–Euskadi
- 2014 2017
- BMC Racing Team
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Mass
- 65
- Official website
- www.samusanchez.com
- Image
- Samuel Sánchez - Critérium du Dauphiné 2010.jpg
- Height
- 178
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- Samuel Sánchez
- date of birth
- 1978-02-05
- birth name
- Samuel Sánchez González
- nickname
- Samu
- name in native language
- Samuel Sánchez
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Samuel "Samu" Sánchez González (born 5 February 1978) is a Spanish former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally in the sport between 2000 and 2017 for the Euskaltel–Euskadi and BMC Racing Team squads. He was the gold medal winner in the road race at the 2008 Beijing Olympics. In the following years Sánchez proved himself in hilly classics and stage races as one of the most important riders in the peloton. He was also known as one of the best descenders in the peloton. He finished in the top 6 of the Tour de France three times and in the top 10 of the Vuelta a España 6 times. Other notable achievements include winning the Vuelta a Burgos in 2010, the 2012 Tour of the Basque Country and five stages of the Vuelta a España.
Career