10 Interesting Lance Armstrong Facts

Tuesday, June 3rd 2014. | People


Here are Lance Armstrong facts which give you the information about the famous cyclist in the world. He was born on 18 September 1971 in Plano, Texas. The famous cyclist won many competitions. One of them is Tour de France.

Lance Armstrong Facts 1: parents

Let’s talk about the parents of Lance Armstrong.  His mother is Linda Gunderson. His father is Edward Gunderson. Lance was born with the full name of Lance Edward Gunderson.

Lance Armstrong Facts 2: marriage

Talking about Lance marriage life, he married to Kristin Richard in 1998 to 2003. Both have Luke, Grace and Isabelle. With Anna Hansen, he has Olivia and Max.

Lance Armstrong Cylist

Lance Armstrong Cylist

Lance Armstrong Facts 3: adoptive father

Since his mother married again with his second husband Terry Armstrong, Lance is adopted by him. Therefore, the surname of the family for Lance is Armstrong, not Gunderson.

Lance Armstrong Facts 4: LIVESTRONG Foundation

LIVESTRONG Foundation was called Lace Armstrong foundation in the past. The foundation is established to support the cancer survivors. Since its first establishment in 1997, it had take care 2.5 million people with cancer with the fund of 500 million dollar.

Lance Armstrong Facts

Lance Armstrong Facts

Lance Armstrong Facts 5: skill and talent

Since his childhood, Lance was interested to become an athlete. He became a professional tri athlete in a competition when he was only 16 years old in 1987. Chekc another talented athlete in Larry Bird facts.

Lance Armstrong Facts 6: high school life

His high school life was filled with training and competition. To make his skill great, he practiced with the United States Olympic cycling development team. It was such as wonderful opportunity for he took part at the Moscow Junior World Championship in Russia, 1989.

Lance Armstrong Image

Lance Armstrong Image

Lance Armstrong Facts 7: honors

In his young age, he was named as the National Cycling tea in US in 1989. In 1991, he took the credit as the national amateur champion of US.

Lance Armstrong Facts 8: Tour de France

Tour de France is a famous cycling competition in the world.  On 25 July 2004, he won the sixth consecutive in Tour De France.

Lance Armstrong Pic

Lance Armstrong Pic

Lance Armstrong Facts 9: retirement

On 18 April 2005, he stated that he would retire from Tour De France. On July 24, 2005 he won the sevenths consecutive tour de France.

Lance Armstrong Facts 10: return on cycling

He decided to come back on professional cycling on 9th September 2008.

Lance Armstrong

Lance Armstrong

Even though he has a great career in professional cycling, people always suspect him with doping. What do you think on facts about Lance Armstrong?


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