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Víctor Hugo Peña Grisales (born July 10, 1974 in Bogotá) is a Colombian professional retired road racing cyclist. He last rode for the 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.〔(Team Type 1, Colombia, MTN secure Pro Continental licenses for 2013 )〕 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 20px Mountains Competition – Midre Libre : 1st 20px Mountains Competition – Vuelta a Castilla y Leon : 8th Overall Vuelta a Columbia :: Prolouge & Stage 6 ::: 1st 20px 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 20px Overall Vuelta a Murcia : 3rd Overall Ronde van Nederland :: Stage 4 (ITT) ; 2003 – US Postal : Stage 4 TTT Tour de France :: Held 20px 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 20px 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 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Víctor Hugo Peña」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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