Leonardo Piepoli

Leonardo Piepoli, born on 29 September 1971, is a former Italian professional road racing cyclist and a specialist climber who last rode for Saunier Duval-Scott on the UCI ProTour. He is a record four-time winner of the Subida a Urkiola, in 1995, 1999, 2003 and 2004. He won two stages of the 2006 Giro d'Italia, took the mountains classification at the 2007 Giro, and has also won stages at the Vuelta a España. At the 2008 Tour de France he won the tenth stage, a mountain stage that climbed the Hautacam. His team left that Tour after his team-mate Riccardo Riccò tested positive for doping, Saunier Duval dismissed him on 18 July 2008, and on 6 October 2008 it was announced that two of his Tour samples had also tested positive for CERA EPO. He acknowledged using CERA in an interview in January 2009 and was suspended for two years, which effectively ended his career.