Giuseppe Muraglia is an Italian

Italy

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 racing cyclist currently riding for the Italian team D'Angelo & Antenucci-Nippo. In October 2007 he was suspended from riding for two years following a positive test after winning the Clásica de Almería

Clásica de Almería

The Clásica de Almería is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in March in Almería, Spain, starting and finishing in Almería itself. Since 2005, the race is organised as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. Established in 1986, the race was run as an amateur event in its first six years...

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Professional career

In 2007 he tested positive for hCG

Human chorionic gonadotropin

Human chorionic gonadotropin or human chorionic gonadotrophin is a glycoprotein hormone produced during pregnancy that is made by the developing embryo after conception and later by the syncytiotrophoblast .. Some tumors make this hormone; measured elevated levels when the patient is not...

 after winning the 2007 edition of Clásica de Almería

Clásica de Almería

The Clásica de Almería is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in March in Almería, Spain, starting and finishing in Almería itself. Since 2005, the race is organised as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. Established in 1986, the race was run as an amateur event in its first six years...

. On late 2007 he was suspended from racing for two years and he was also sacked from his team, Acqua & Sapone.

Palmarès

2002

1st, Baby Giro

2005

1st, Stage 2, Giro del Trentino

Giro del Trentino

The Giro del Trentino is an Italian cycle road race. It is run typically mid-to-late April over four stages in the Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol region of Italy....

2007

1st, Clásica de Almería

Clásica de Almería

The Clásica de Almería is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in March in Almería, Spain, starting and finishing in Almería itself. Since 2005, the race is organised as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. Established in 1986, the race was run as an amateur event in its first six years...

2010

1st, Stage 3, Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria

Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria

The Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria is a road bicycle race held annually in Province of Reggio Calabria, Italy. The race as a single-day race until 2005. It wasn't held in 2006 or 2007, but returned in 2008 as a three day stage race. In 2009, the Giro was a single-day race, and in 2010, it...

See also

• List of doping cases in cycling
• List of sportspeople sanctioned for doping offences

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