Fabian Cancellara

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Fabian Cancellara is a famous professional cyclist who has won the ‘UCI Road World Championship’ Time Trial event on four occasions

Mar 18, 1981

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Biography

Personal Details

  • Birthday: March 18, 1981
  • Nationality: Swiss
  • Famous: Bicycler, Sportspersons, Cyclists
  • Spouses: Stefanie Cancellara
  • Known as: Spartacus
  • Childrens: Elina Cancellara, Giuliana Cancellara
  • Birth Place: Wohlen bei Bern

Fabian Cancellara born at

Wohlen bei Bern

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Birth Place

Fabian Cancellara and his wife Stefanie Cancellara are married since 2006. The couple is blessed with two daughters, Giuliana and Elina. Currently, the family lives in Bern, Switzerland.

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Personal Life

He communicates in languages such as Italian, French, German and English.

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Personal Life

This sports personality is one of the ambassadors of ‘Laureus Foundation’ of Switzerland. This foundation comprises the ‘Laureus World Sports Academy’, the ‘Laureus Sport for Good Foundation’ and the ‘Laureus World Sports Awards’, which together work towards providing education and coaching to deprived and under-privileged children, and help them by binding the power of sport.

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Personal Life

Cancellara was born on 18th March, 1981 in Wohlenbei Bern, Switzerland, to parents of Italian origin. An old bicycle in his garage attracted this boy when he was in his early teens, and almost immediately he developed an interest for cycling.

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Childhood & Early Life

In 1998, he won the ‘Individual World Time Trial Championship’ (junior), and the next year too, he retained the position.

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Childhood & Early Life

He finished second at the ‘Under-23 Individual World Time Trial Championship’ in the year 2000 and the same year, he signed with the ‘Mapei-Quick Step’ team. Hence, his professional career as a racer started.

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Childhood & Early Life

The following year, he contested in a racing event for the 2001 season, and was placed first at the prologue and also the overall winner at the ‘Tour of Rhodes’.

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Career

The same year, he also won the ‘GP Eddy Merckx’ and the ‘Duo Normad’.

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Career

Fabian was a member of the ‘Gruppo Giovani’ team after the ‘Mapei’ was fragmented into theTT1 ‘Top Team’ and the TT3 ‘Gruppo Giovani’, in accordance with the ‘UCI’ (‘Union Cycliste Internationale’) guidelines.

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Career

In the 2001 racing season, he was victorious on 4 occasions, and the following year he was successful nine times.

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Career

This rising sports star entered the ‘Fassa Bortolo’ team as a lead out man for Alessandro Petacchi in 2003. The same year, he led his team to the finals of the event ‘Tour Mediterraneen’, and finally emerged victorious in the ‘team time trial’.

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Career

In the 2008 Olympics Fabian had won a gold medal in the ‘Men's Time Trial’ (Individual), and also a silver under ‘Men's Road Race’ (Individual) category.

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Awards & Achievements

Cancellara was honoured with the ‘Swiss Male Athlete of the Year’ title at the ‘Credit Suisse Sports Awards’ ceremony.

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Awards & Achievements