Oscar Camenzind

Oscar Camenzind (born 12 September 1971) is a former professional road racing cyclist from Switzerland. He became national road champion in 1997. In 1998 he won the World Road Championship and the Giro di Lombardia, in 2000 the Tour de Suisse and Liège–Bastogne–Liège in 2001. His career came to an abrupt end when he retired from pro cycling after a positive doping test in July 2004 for erythropoietin, leading into the Athens Olympics. After confessing to the use, in 2005 he was sued in Swiss court in order to name his supplier, which he refused to do fearing retribution.

Major results

1989 2nd Road race, National Junior Road Championships 1994 2nd Gran Premio Palio del Recioto 1996 2nd Overall Grand Prix Guillaume Tell 1st Stages 2, 3b & 4 2nd À travers Lausanne 3rd Road race, National Road Championships 7th Overall Giro di Puglia 1997

1st Stage 4b 1st Breitling Grand Prix (with Johan Museeuw) 2nd Overall Tour de Suisse 1st Prologue & Stage 8 3rd Overall Tour of Austria 1st Prologue & Stage 5 4th Overall À travers Lausanne 4th Rund um Köln 1998

1st Giro di Lombardia 2nd Milano–Torino 2nd Tour de Berne 3rd GP du canton d'Argovie 4th Overall Giro d'Italia 6th Trofeo Melinda 1999 1st Stage 3 Giro del Trentino 3rd Tour de Berne 4th Giro di Lombardia 4th La Flèche Wallonne 4th Gran Premio di Chiasso 4th Breitling Grand Prix (with Marco Serpellini) 5th Overall Tour de Suisse 1st Stage 7 5th Overall Tour de Romandie 6th Road race, UCI Road World Championships 8th Liège–Bastogne–Liège 9th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico 2000

2nd À travers Lausanne 2nd EnBW Grand Prix (with Robbie Hunter) 7th Züri-Metzgete 2001 1st Liège–Bastogne–Liège 1st Stage 10 Tour de Suisse 3rd Luk-Cup Bühl 7th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico 9th EnBW Grand Prix (with Gilberto Simoni) 10th Overall Tour de Romandie 2002

1st Stage 2 2nd Milano–Torino 3rd Overall Vuelta a Murcia 3rd Giro di Lombardia 8th Züri-Metzgete 9th Overall Tour Méditerranéen 2003 1st Stage 3 Sachsen Tour International 3rd Coppa Placci 3rd Gran Premio Industria e Commercio di Prato 4th Road race, National Road Championships 4th Tre Valli Varesine 4th Giro del Veneto 7th Züri-Metzgete 7th Trofeo Matteotti 9th Giro dell'Emilia 2004 3rd Road race, National Road Championships 3rd Trofeo Matteotti 9th Overall Tour de Suisse

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Monuments results timeline Monument 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 Milan–San Remo 154 — — 29 28 40 — 36 26 Tour of Flanders 94 — — — 11 — — DNF 83 Paris–RoubaixDid not contest during his career Liège–Bastogne–Liège — — —8 131 — — 54 Giro di Lombardia 15 DNF14 15 —3 DNF —

+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish