![]() In 2011, Costa performed well in the Vuelta a la Comunidad de Madrid: after second places in the first and third stages, he won the overall classification. ![]() 2011 Costa on the podium after winning the 2011 Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal Further testing proved that to be the case, and he re-signed with his former team, then known as Movistar Team, in April 2011 after five months of suspension. Īt the Portuguese national championships in June 2010 Costa and his brother Mário tested positive for the banned substance methylhexanamine, which they claimed to have ingested inadvertently due to a tainted food supplement. Both were fined 300 francs for the incident. In 2010, Costa was involved with an altercation with Carlos Barredo at the end of Stage 6 of the Tour de France, with Barredo removing his front wheel and attempting to club Costa with it before both riders lobbed blows at each other. In 2009, Costa won the Four Days of Dunkirk followed by a win on stage 8 of the 2010 Tour de Suisse. Professional career 2007–10: Early years Ĭosta became a professional cyclist at Benfica in 2007, and switched to Caisse d'Epargne in 2009. Early life and amateur career īorn in Aguçadoura, Póvoa de Varzim, Costa started his career at Guilhabreu, a civil parish of Vila do Conde, then went to Santa Maria da Feira. He is best known for winning the 2013 UCI Road World Championships in Tuscany, Italy (the first Portuguese rider to do so), three stages of the Tour de France in 20, and the 2012, 20 editions of the Tour de Suisse, becoming the first cyclist to win the event for three consecutive years. Rui Alberto Faria da Costa, ComIH (born 5 October 1986) is a Portuguese professional road bicycle racer, who rides for UCI WorldTeam Intermarché–Circus–Wanty.
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