Andy Schleck

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**Andy Schleck**
Personal information
Full name	Andy Schleck
Date of birth	June 16, 1985
Country	Luxembourg
Team information
Current team	Team CSC
Amateur team(s)
2004	Team CSC (stagiaire)
Professional team(s)
2005-	Team CSC

Andy Schleck (born June 16, 1985) is a Luxembourgian professional road bicycle racer who, since 2005, has been riding for the Team CSC outfit in the UCI ProTour race series. Andy is the younger brother of Fränk Schleck, whom he rides alongside at Team CSC. Their father Johnny Schleck was also a road bicycle racer who rode several times as a professional in the Tour de France and Vuelta a España races between 1965 and 1974.

Still an amateur rider, Andy Schleck won the 2004 Flèche de Sud stage race at the age of 18. As the Danish national team were competing in the race, word spread to the Danish Team CSC manager Bjarne Riis. Riis asked Fränk Schleck, who was already on Team CSC, about his brother, and following talks during the Tour de Luxembourg, Andy Schleck started as a stagiaire for Team CSC on September 1, 2004.^[1] He subsequently secured himself a professional contract with CSC. He and brother Fränk shared the 2005 national championships between them, Fränk taking the road race and Andy Schleck won the individual time trial. In the 2006 spring season, Andy Schleck crashed in the GP Cholet and had to take an eight week break before returning for the Volta a Catalunya race in May.