Jorge Soto (cyclist) explained
| Jorge Soto |
| Fullname: | Jorge Adelbio Soto Pereira |
| Birth Date: | 1986 8, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Salto, Uruguay |
| Discipline: | Road and track |
| Role: | Rider |
| Amateuryears1: | 2004 |
| Amateurteam1: | Salto Nuevo |
| Amateuryears2: | 2005 |
| Amateurteam2: | Villa Teresa |
| Amateuryears3: | 2006 |
| Amateurteam3: | C.C. Fénix |
| Amateuryears4: | 2006–2007 |
| Amateurteam4: | Champagnat |
| Amateuryears5: | 2008–2010 |
| Amateurteam5: | Villa Teresa |
| Amateuryears6: | 2010–2012 |
| Amateurteam6: | Porongos |
| Amateuryears7: | 2014 |
| Amateurteam7: | Fénix |
| Amateuryears8: | 2015–2016 |
| Amateurteam8: | Club Social Amanecer |
| Amateuryears9: | 2018 |
| Amateurteam9: | Ciudad del Plata |
| Amateuryears10: | 2019 |
| Amateurteam10: | Avenida Artigas de Guichón |
| Amateuryears11: | 2021–2022 |
| Amateurteam11: | Ciudad del Plata |
Jorge Adelbio Soto Pereira (born 8 August 1986, in Salto, Uruguay) is a Uruguayan road bicycle racer and track cyclist.[1]
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
- 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
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 UruguayNotes and References
- News: Flash: Jorge Soto. ovaciondigital.com.uy. 9 July 2012. 22 November 2010. Spanish. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20101127200420/http://www.ovaciondigital.com.uy/101122/masdeporte-530293/masdeportes/flash-jorge-soto. 27 November 2010.
- News: Ciclista Jorge Soto viajó a perfeccionarse a Suiza . lr21.com.uy . 9 July 2012. 9 November 2005. Spanish.
- News: Soto ganó Rutas de América . elobservador.com.uy . 9 July 2012. 26 February 2012. Spanish.
