Alejandro Valverde Belmonte is a Spanish road racing cyclist for UCI ProTour team Movistar Team. Valverde's biggest wins have been the 2009 Vuelta a Espa�a, the Li�ge?Bastogne?Li�ge in 2006, 2008 and 2006 UCI ProTour series championship. He has twice collected the silver medal in the UCI Road World Championships, in 2003 and 2005. Valverde is rare in combining different specialities in road bicycle racing, being a strong climber, sprinter and time-trialist in his later years. After a lengthy court battle, he was suspended for two years as part of the Operaci�n Puerto blood doping investigation, but he returned to competition in 2012 upon completion of the ban. 

April 25th, 1980 in Murcia (Age 44) as Alejandro Valverde Belmonte