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Víctor Hugo Peña
Road bicycle racer

Víctor Hugo Peña

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Road bicycle racer
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Gender
Male
Place of birth
Bogotá
Age
50 years
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Biography

Víctor Hugo Peña Grisales (born July 10, 1974 in Bogotá) is a Colombian professional retired road racing cyclist. He last rode for the Colombia professional cycling team. In 2003, Peña became the first Colombian to wear the yellow jersey at the Tour de France. He held the yellow jersey for three days following the 4th, 5th and 6th stages of that year's tour.
Peña's 2003 Tour de France, where he served as domestique for Lance Armstrong, is described in detail in Matt Rendell's book A Significant Other. The book also describes the rider's amateur and early professional career.
He is named after both his father Hugo and the author Victor Hugo. He earned his nickname "El Tiburon" ("the shark") due to his looks and the other sport he excelled at besides cycling – swimming. Peña finished 7th in the 100 meter freestyle Pan American swimming championships for juniors in 1991.
At the end of the season in 2012, Peña retired. Later, Pena was implicated in the 2012 USADA Reasoned Report into doping on the US Postal team and was concluded to worked with Dr. Michele Ferrari and received blood transfusions during his Tour de France participations.

Results and Teams

1998 – Telecom-Kelme
1st Jersey polkadot.svg Mountains Competition – Midre Libre
1st Jersey polkadot.svg Mountains Competition – Vuelta a Castilla y Leon
8th Overall Vuelta a Columbia
Prolouge & Stage 6
1st Jersey green.svg Points Classification
10th Overall Volta a Catalunya
2000 – Vitalicio Seguros
15th Overall Giro d'Italia
Stage 11 (ITT)
2001 – US Postal
2002 – US Postal
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Vuelta a Murcia
3rd Overall Ronde van Nederland
Stage 4 (ITT)
2003 – US Postal
Stage 4 TTT Tour de France
Held Jersey yellow.svg Jersey for 3 Days
2nd Overall Volta ao Algarve
6th Overall Vuelta a Murcia
Stage 4
10th Overall Ronde van Nederland
2004 – US Postal
Stage 1 (TTT) Vuelta a España
2nd Overall Volta ao Algarve
4th Overall Tour of Belgium
2005 – Phonak
10th ITT World Cycling Championships
2006 – Phonak
9th Overall – Giro d'Italia
2007 – Unibet
1st Jersey green.svg Sprint Classification, Volta a Catalunya
2008 – Café de Colombia-Colombia es Pasión
1st stage 7 Vuelta a Colombia
2009 – Café de Colombia-Colombia es Pasión
15th Overall Vuelta a Colombia
Stage 12

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