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Ivan Dominguez Dominguez

Key Stats

Nationality: Cuban
Born: May 28, 1976
Hometown: Havana, Cuba
Residence: Agoura Hills, California
Height: 5-foot-9
Weight: 160 pounds
Strengths: sprinting
Turned Pro: 2001

Palmares

Career Highlights:

1st overall, 2006 USA Crits Series
1st, 2005, CSC Invitational
1st, 2004 Bank of America Invitational
1st, 2002 New York City Cycling Championship
1st, individual pursuit, 1997 Pan-American Games
1st, sprint competition, 2007 Tour of Missouri (2 stage wins)
2008
3rd, Redlands Bicycle Classic, stage 2
2007
1st, sprint Competition, Tour of Missouri (2 stage wins)
1st, USA Crits World Criterium Championship
1st, Stage 7, Amgen Tour of California
1st, Wells Fargo Twilight Criterium

2006
1st, overall, USA Crits Series 

2nd, Commerce Bank Philadelphia International Championship
2nd, Sunny King Criterium
2nd, Historic Roswell Criterium
2nd, McLane Pacific Foothills Road Race
2nd, Central Valley Classic Criterium
3rd overall, Tri-Peaks Challenge

2005
1st, CSC Invitational
2nd, Athens Twilight Criterium

3rd, Historic Roswell Criterium
3rd, Wachovia Invitational

2004
1st, Bank of America Invitational
2nd, Points Competition, Dodge Tour de Georgia


2002
1st, New York City Cycling Championship

Biography

While traveling to the United States with the Cuban national team for the 1998 Goodwill Games, Dominguez chose to defect. Not knowing English and with no one in the United States but an uncle in Miami, he made ends meet by working at a shoe factory. Gradually, he learned English and started to make associations in the cycling world, competing and winning races in Miami. His efforts paid off when, in 2000, he was offered a spot on Saturn.