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Levi Leipheimer

Key Stats

Team: Astana
Nationality: American
Born: October 24, 1973
Hometown: Butte, Montana
Residence: Santa Rosa, California
Height: 5-foot-7
Weight: 135 pounds
Strengths: Climbing, time trialing, stage racing
Turned Pro: 1997

Palmares

Career Highlights:

3rd overall, Tour de France 2007
1st, overall, Tour of California 2007
1st, overall, Tour of California 2008
1st overall, Dauphiné Libéré 2006
1st overall, Deutschland Tour 2005

2008
1st overall, Amgen Tour of California
4th, Prologue, Amgen Tour of California
4th overall, Vuelta a Castilla y León
2nd, stage 1, Vuelta a Castilla y Leon

2007
1st overall, Amgen Tour of California (plus prologue and stage 5)
1st, stage 19, Tour de France
1st, stage 4 and 5, Tour de Georgia
1st, stage 3, Tour of Missouri
2nd overall, Deutschland Tour
2nd, stage 16, Tour de France
2nd, prologue, Dauphiné Libéré
2nd, stage 3, Tour of California
3rd overall, Tour de France
3rd, stage 8, Deutschland Tour
4th, stage 14, Tour de France

2006
1st overall, Dauphiné Libéré
1st, prologue, Amgen Tour of California
1st, mountains competition, Amgen Tour of California
1st, stage 5, Deutschland Tour
2nd overall, Deutschland Tour
2nd, mountains competition, Dauphiné Libéré
2nd, stage 11, Tour de France
2nd, stage 6, Deutschland Tour
3rd, stages 3 and 4, Dauphiné Libéré
4th, stage 6, Dauphiné Libéré
5th, stage 7, Deutschland Tour

2005
1st overall, Deutschland Tour (plus stage 4)
2nd overall, Tour of Georgia
2nd, prologue and stage 3, Dauphiné Libéré
2nd, stage 5, Tour of Georgia
3rd overall, Dauphiné Libéré
3rd, stage 8, Deutschland Tour
4th, stage 7, Deutschland Tour
5th, stage 14, Tour de France
6th overall, Tour de France

2004
1st, stage 4, Setmana Catalana
5th overall, Vuelta al Pais Vasco
5th, stage 15 in Tour de France
8th overall, Dauphiné Libéré
9th overall, Tour de France
10th overall, Tour Mediterraneen

2003
7h overall, Dauphiné Libéré

2002
1st overall, Route du Sud (plus stage 3)
5th overall, Vuelta a Murcia
8th overall, Tour de France
8th overall, Tour de Luxembourg

2001
1st, mountains competition and stages 6, Redlands Bicycle Classic
1st, stage 1, Sea Otter Classic
2nd overall, Vuelta a Castilla y Leon
2nd, stages 1, 7 and 21, Vuelta a España
2nd, stage 3b, Three Days of de Panne
2nd, stages 1 and 3, Redlands Bicycle Classic
3rd overall, Vuelta a España
4th, world time trial championship
4th, stage 8, Vuelta a España
5th, stage 12, Vuelta a España
6th overall, Vuelta a Burgos
9th overall, Tour de Picarde

2000
1, stage 2, Circuit Franco-Belge
2nd, stage 4, Tour de Luxembourg

1999
1st overall, GP de Beauce (plus stage 3)
3rd overall, Sea Otter Classic
5th overall, Tour de Langkawi

1998
1st, GP de Beauce (plus stage 3)

Biography

Leipheimer is the most accomplished American stage racer active today. His career began Stateside in 1998 with Saturn. From there he jumped into the big leagues with the American U.S. Postal (2000-2001), the Dutch Rabobank (2002-2004) and the German Gerolsteiner (2005-2006) squads before returning to the former U.S. Postal squad then known as Discovery Channel (2007). Along with Tour de Franc champion Alberto Contador, Leipheimer was one of a few Discovery directors to follow their directuer sportif Johan Bruyneel to Astana for 2008.