Jorge Soto (cyclist)
Jorge Adelbio Soto Pereira (born 8 August 1986, in Salto, Uruguay) is a Uruguayan road bicycle racer and track cyclist.[1]
 Jorge Soto during the 2011 Pan American Road and Track Championship | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Jorge Adelbio Soto Pereira |
| Born | 8 August 1986 Salto, Uruguay |
| Team information | |
| Discipline | Road and track |
| Role | Rider |
| Amateur teams | |
| 2004 | Salto Nuevo |
| 2005 | Villa Teresa |
| 2006 | C.C. Fénix |
| 2006–2007 | Champagnat |
| 2008–2010 | Villa Teresa |
| 2010–2012 | Porongos |
| 2014 | Fénix |
| 2015–2016 | Club Social Amanecer |
| 2018 | Ciudad del Plata |
| 2019 | Avenida Artigas de Guichón |
| 2021–2022 | Ciudad del Plata |
He has won several stages of both Rutas de América as Vuelta Ciclista del Uruguay. In 2005, he received a grant for a month in Switzerland in the World Cycling Centre of the UCI to improve his performance, which ultimately became more than a year.[2]
Soto represented Uruguay at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Men's road race. He won the Rutas de América in 2011 and 2012.[3]
Major results
- 2005
- 1st Stage 3 Rutas de América
- Pan American Under-23 Road Championships
- 2nd
Road race - 2nd Time trial
- 2nd
- 2008
- 1st Stage 5 Vuelta del Uruguay
- 10th Time trial, Pan American Road Championships
- 2009
- 6th Overall Vuelta del Uruguay
- 1st Stages 6 & 8
- 2010
- 1st
Time trial, National Road Championships - 3rd Overall Vuelta del Paraguay
- 1st Stage 1 (ITT)
- 9th Overall Rutas de América
- 1st Stage 4
- 2011
- 1st
Overall Rutas de América
- 1st Stage 5b (ITT)
- 3rd Overall Vuelta del Uruguay
- 2012
- 1st Time trial, National Road Championships
- 1st Overall Rutas de América
- 1st
Points classification - 1st
Mountains classification - 1st Stage 2
- 1st
- 4th Time trial, Pan American Road Championships
- 6th Copa América de Ciclismo
- 2013
- 1st Time trial, National Road Championships
- 2014
- 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
- 10th Overall Vuelta del Uruguay
- 1st Stage 12
- 2015
- 1st Stage 4 Rutas de América
- 2019
- 1st Time trial, National Road Championships
- 2021
- 5th Road race, National Road Championships
- 2022
- 1st Stages 3 & 5 Vuelta del Uruguay
References
- "Flash: Jorge Soto" (in Spanish). ovaciondigital.com.uy. 22 November 2010. Archived from the original on 27 November 2010. Retrieved 9 July 2012.
- "Ciclista Jorge Soto viajó a perfeccionarse a Suiza" (in Spanish). lr21.com.uy. 9 November 2005. Retrieved 9 July 2012.
- "Soto ganó Rutas de América" (in Spanish). elobservador.com.uy. 26 February 2012. Retrieved 9 July 2012.
External links
- Jorge Soto at Cycling Archives
- Jorge Soto at ProCyclingStats
- Jorge Soto at Cycling Quotient
- Jorge Soto at Olympedia
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