Oscar Camenzind

Oscar Camenzind

Oscar Camenzind at 1997 Paris–Nice
Personal information
Full name	Oscar Camenzind
Born	September 12, 1971 (1971-09-12) (age 40)  Switzerland
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Medal record Men's Road bicycle racing Competitor for  Switzerland World Championships Gold 1998 Valkenburg Elite Men's Road Race
Infobox last updated on April 7, 2009

Oscar Camenzind (born 12 September 1971 in Schwyz, Switzerland) is a former professional road racing cyclist from Switzerland. He is national road champion of 1997. In 1998 he won the World Road Championship and the Giro di Lombardia, in 2000 he won the Tour de Suisse and he won 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, "I made the stupidest of mistakes", in 2005 he was sued in Swiss court in order to name his supplier, which he refused to do fearing retribution.

Teams

• Ceramica Panaria-Vinavil (1996)
• Mapei-GB (1997)
• Mapei-Bricobi (1998)
• Lampre-Daikin (1999–2001)
• Phonak Hearing Systems (2002–2004)

See also

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

External links

• Oscar Camenzind profile at Cycling Archives

Awards
Preceded by Michael von Grünigen	Swiss Sportsman of the Year 1998	Succeeded by Marcel Schelbert

Persondata
Name	Camenzind, Oscar
Alternative names
Short description	Road bicycle racer
Date of birth	1971-09-12
Place of birth	Schwyz, Switzerland
Date of death
Place of death