Raimondas Rumšas

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Raimondas Rumšas

Personal information
Full name	Raimondas Rumšas
Date of birth	January 14, 1972 (1972-01-14) (age 37)
Country	Lithuania
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Professional team(s)1
1996–1999 2000–2001 2002–2003 2004	Mróz Fassa Bortolo Lampre Acqua e Sapone
Major wins
Giro di Lombardia 3rd place 2002 Tour de France
Infobox last updated on:
April 21, 2009 1 Team names given are those prevailing at time of rider beginning association with that team.

Raimondas Rumšas (born 14 January, 1972 in Šilutė, Lithuania), a professional road bicycle racer since 1996, who came third in the 2002 Tour de France.

Shortly after his third place finish (which he clinched on the last day of the Tour) police discovered a cocktail of performance-enhancing drugs including (growth hormone) in the car of his wife, Edita Rumšienė. Rumšas had already left France but she was jailed for several months before being released, despite her claim that the drugs were for her mother-in-law.

In January 2006 Rumšas has been given a four-month suspended prison sentence by the Bonneville court for the importation of prohibited doping substances. His wife Edita was given the same sentence with a 3,000 euros fine on identical charges, while Polish doctor Krzysztof Ficek was handed a 12-month suspended sentence for prescribing the drugs.

Rumšas failed a dope test after he ranked sixth at the 2003 Giro d'Italia. Rumšas received a one-year ban after testing positive for the banned endurance enhancer Erythropoietin (EPO).

[edit] Victories

[edit] See also

• List of sportspeople sanctioned for doping offences
• List of doping cases in cycling

Persondata
NAME	Raimondas Rumsas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Road bicycle racer
DATE OF BIRTH	14 January 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH	Šilutė, Lithuania
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH

[edit] External links

• Palmarès at Trap-Friis.dk
• Raimondas Rumšas profile at the Cycling Website

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