Lance Armstrong

**Lance Edward Armstrong** (born September 18, 1971 in Plano, Texas, USA) is an American former bicycle rider. He used drugs which helped him in competition. In 2012 the US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) took away all his titles from 1998 to 2006. In 2012, he was also banned forever from cycling competitions.

Before his titles were taken away, he won the Tour de France seven times in a row, from 1999 to 2005. He did this several years after having brain surgery, testicular surgery, and a long course of chemotherapy in 1996. The chemotherapy was to treat testicular cancer that spread to his brain and lungs. Armstrong used to race for the Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team, but was only team leader during the Tour de France.

Armstrong retired from professional cycling in 2011.

## Teams and victories 
### Major results 
;1992 - Motorola
: Settimana Bergamasca (stage 6)
: Vuelta a Galicia (Stage 4a)
: Trittico Premondiale (Stage 2) (or GP Sanson)
: First Union Grand Prix (Atlanta)
: Fitchburg-Longsjo Classic (overall, 1 stage win)

;1993 - Motorola
:  World Cycling Champion - UCI Road World Championships
:  US National Cycling Champion - CoreStates USPRO National Road Championships
:Tour de France (Stage 8)
:Tour of America (overall)
:Trofeo Laigueglia
:Tour du Pont (2nd overall, 1 stage win)
:Tour of Sweden (3rd overall, 1 stage win)
:Thrift Drug Classic
:Kmart West Virginia Classic (overall, 2 stage wins)

;1994 - Motorola
:Thrift Drug Classic
:Tour du Pont (1 stage win)

;1995 - Motorola
:Tour de France (Stage 18)
:Clásica de San Sebastián
:Paris-Nice (Stage 5)
:Tour du Pont (overall, mountains, 3 stage wins)
:Kmart West Virginia Classic (overall, 2 stage wins)
:Tour of America (overall)

;1996 - Motorola
:Tour du Pont (overall, 5 stage wins)
:La Flèche Wallonne

;1997 - Cofidis
: Sprint 56K Criterium (Austin, TX)

;1998 - U.S. Postal Service Pro Cycling Team
:Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt (overall)
:Tour de Luxembourg (overall, 1 stage win)
:Cascade Classic
:Vuelta a España (4th overall)

;1999 - U.S. Postal Service Pro Cycling Team
:Tour de France (overall, 4 stage wins)
:Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré (ITT) (Prologue)
:Route du Sud (Stage 4)
:Circuit de la Sarthe (ITT) (Stage 4)

;2000 - U.S. Postal Service Pro Cycling Team
:Tour de France (overall, 1 stage win)
:GP des Nations
:GP Eddy Merckx (with Viatcheslav Ekimov)
:Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré (ITT) (Stage 3)
:Bronze medal in the 2000 Summer Olympics Individual Time Trial, Men

;2001 - U.S. Postal Service Pro Cycling Team
:Tour de France (overall, 4 stage wins)
:Tour de Suisse (overall, 2 stage wins)

;2002 - U.S. Postal Service Pro Cycling Team
:Tour de France (overall, 4 stage wins)
:Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré (Stage 6)
:GP du Midi Libre (overall)
:Profronde van Stiphout (*post-Tour criterium*)

;2003 - US Postal Service Pro Cycling Team
:Tour de France (overall, 1 stage win, Team Time Trial)
:Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré (overall, Stage 3 ITT)

;2004 - US Postal Service pro Cycling Team
:Tour de France (overall, 5 stage wins, Team Time Trial)
:Tour de Georgia (overall, 2 stage wins)
:Tour du Languedoc-Roussillon (Stage 5)
:Volta ao Algarve (ITT) (Stage 4)
:Profronde van Stiphout (*post-Tour criterium*)

;2005 - Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team
:Tour de France (overall, 1 stage win, Team Time Trial)
:Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré (points classification)

;2009 - Astana Prop Cycling Team
:Tour Down Under
:Tour of California 7th place

### Amateur cycling and triathlon years 
;1991 - Subaru-Montgomery / US National Team
:  National Amateur Road Race Champion
: Settimana Bergamasca (overall and youth classifications)
: Tour de Gastown criterium (Vancouver, BC)
: Challenge of Champions Triathlon (Monterey, CA)
;1990 - Subaru-Montgomery
:  National Sprint Triathlon Champion
: Stonebridge Ranch Triathlon (McKinney, TX)
;1989
:  National Sprint Triathlon Champion
: Waco Triathlon (Waco, TX)
;1988
: Athens YMCA Triathlon (Athens, TX) (course record)
: River Triathlon (Shreveport, LA) (course record)
;1987
: Hillcrest Tulsa Triathlon
;1984
: IronKids Triathlon National Champion

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