1. Santiago Botero Echeverry was born on October 27,1972 and is a Colombian former professional road bicycle racer.
15 Facts About Santiago Botero
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Santiago Botero was a pro from 1996 to 2010, during which he raced in three editions of the Tour de France and four editions of the Vuelta a Espana.
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Santiago Botero is best known for winning the mountains' classification in the Tour de France, and the Time Trial World Championship 2002.
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Santiago Botero looked like a robot at this point in the test and hardly felt tired.
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Uribe insisted that Botero should train in Europe and not in Colombia, so Santiago decided to go to that continent to make his professional debut in 1996 with the Spanish team Kelme.
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Santiago Botero joined the American domestic team, Rock Racing, for the 2008 season.
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Santiago Botero finished his professional career riding for the Colombian team Indeportes Antioquia.
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Santiago Botero carried that form into the 2005 edition of the Criterium du Dauphine Libere when he won the individual time trial ahead of Americans Levi Leipheimer and Lance Armstrong as well as winning the mountainous sixth stage which brought him into second overall in the general classification.
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On February 28,2007, Santiago Botero was presented with his new team UNE Orbitel in Bogota, Colombia.
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Santiago Botero outlined that his ambitions for the year would be to win the Vuelta a Colombia, to be the Colombian national champion and a podium place in the UCI World championships individual time trial event.
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Santiago Botero dominated the event by winning the prologue and two stages along the way as well as wearing the leaders jersey for most of the race.
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On October 2,2006, Santiago Botero was cleared by the disciplinary committee of the Federacion Colombiana de Ciclismo.
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Santiago Botero retired from his professional career in 2010 and that same year was awarded by Coldeportes as one of the most outstanding sportspersons in Colombia.
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Santiago Botero is a business administrator graduated from Eafit University, in his country.
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Santiago Botero studied service management at the University of Medellin.