Sérgio Paulinho

Sérgio Paulinho
	Paulinho at the 2010 Tour de Romandie.
Personal information
Full name	Sérgio Miguel Moreira Paulinho
Born	26 March 1980 (age 44); Oeiras, Portugal
Height	1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight	64 kg (141 lb; 10.1 st)
Team information
Current team	Credibom / LA Alumínios / Marcos Car
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	All-rounder
Professional teams
2003	ASC–Vila do Conde
2004	LA Alumínios–Pecol
2005–2006	Liberty Seguros–Würth
2007	Discovery Channel
2008–2009	Astana
2010–2011	Team RadioShack
2012–2016	Team Saxo Bank
2017–2020	Efapel
2021–	LA Alumínios / LA Sport
Major wins
	Grand Tours Tour de France 1 individual stage (2010) 1 TTT stage (2009) Vuelta a España 1 individual stage (2006) One-day races and Classics National Time Trial Championships (2004, 2008)
Medal record
Representing Portugal
Men's road bicycle racing
Olympic Games

Sérgio Miguel Moreira Paulinho, ComIH^[3] (born 26 March 1980) is a Portuguese road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI Continental team Credibom / LA Alumínios / Marcos Car.^[4]^[5] He was a domestique in the 2007, 2009 and 2010 Tour de France and won the silver medal for Portugal in the 2004 Athens Olympic Games.

Career

Paulinho was born in Oeiras. After winning a bronze medal in the 2002 UCI Road World Championships, in under-23, in 2003, he became a professional cyclist and started gaining reference in one of the most important Portuguese teams LA Alumínios–Pecol–Bombarral. In 2004, he was 6th in the Volta a Portugal, winning two stages, including the final Individual time trial. In the 2004 Athens Olympic Games, he was silver medalist (Italy's Paolo Bettini got gold and Axel Merckx bronze) in the cycling road race. In 2004 he also won the Portuguese National Time Trial Championships and stages 7 and 10 of the Volta a Portugal.

Following his Olympic performance, he was signed by the Liberty Seguros–Würth team. He was implicated in the Operación Puerto doping case but was later cleared by Spanish officials of any links to the Operación Puerto doping case.^[6] He took his first Grand Tour stage win in the 2006 Vuelta a España, on stage 10. He joined the Discovery Channel team at the end of the season.

In 2008, he again won the Portuguese National Time Trial Championships. He joined Lance Armstrong's Team RadioShack in 2010,^[7] along with fellow countrymen Tiago Machado and directeur sportif José Azevedo. On 14 July 2010, he won the 10th stage of the Tour de France.^[8]