Fabian Cancellara (born 18 March 1981) is a Swiss professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour Team Saxo Bank. A time trial specialist, he has been three time World Time Trial Champion and is the current Olympic gold medalist. He is also a winner of Paris-Roubaix, Milan-Sanremo, Tirreno-Adriatico, Monte Paschi Eroica, and three prologues of the Tour de France.
Cancellara and his wife Stefanie have one daughter, Giuliana.
Cancellara was born in...
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Fabian Cancellara (born 18 March 1981) is a Swiss professional road bicycle racer for UCI ProTour Team Saxo Bank. A time trial specialist, he has been three time World Time Trial Champion and is the current Olympic gold medalist. He is also a winner of Paris-Roubaix, Milan-Sanremo, Tirreno-Adriatico, Monte Paschi Eroica, and three prologues of the Tour de France.
Cancellara and his wife Stefanie have one daughter, Giuliana.
Cancellara was born in Wohlen bei Bern, a municipality near the city of Berne, Switzerland, Europe, to Italian parents that had emigrated from San Fele. He discovered cycling at the age of 13 after falling in love with an old family bike that he had found in the garage and immediately gave up football to concentrate on cycling.
Cancellara's cycling skills began to blossom at an early age, when he impressed as a time trialist and dominated Swiss junior cycling. Yvan Girard, Swiss national junior team coach from 1997 to 2005, was quoted saying that Cancellara was...
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