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Luis Herrera (cyclist)

Colombian cyclist (born 1961) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Luis Herrera (cyclist)
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Luis Alberto "Lucho" Herrera Herrera, known as "El jardinerito" ("the little gardener"; born May 4, 1961, in Fusagasugá, Colombia), is a retired Colombian road racing cyclist. Herrera was a professional from 1985 to 1992 but had a successful amateur career before that in Colombia.

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He entered his first Vuelta a Colombia in 1981 where he finished 16th overall and 3rd in the New Rider competition.[1] Although he abandoned his second Vuelta a Colombia in 1982, he won Colombia's second major stage-race, the Clásico RCN. In 1983 Herrera won Clásico RCN again as well as two stages and finished second overall to Alfonso Florez Ortiz in the 1983 Vuelta a Colombia.[2] In 1984 he won the Vuelta a Colombia, and the Clásico RCN.

In 1984 he won stage 17 to Alpe d'Huez in the 1984 Tour de France, becoming the first Colombian to win a stage of the race, and the first amateur cyclist to win a stage in the history of the Tour de France.[citation needed] He won the Vuelta a Colombia and the Clásico RCN four times each. His greatest achievement was in 1987, when he won the Vuelta a España, the first South American to win a Grand Tour.[3] Herrera also won the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré in 1988 and 1991.

Herrera won five "King of the Mountains" jerseys from the three Grand Tours. He is the second rider to win the King of the Mountains jersey in all three Grand Tours. The first was Federico Bahamontes of Spain.

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Career achievements

Major results

1981
1st Stage 5 Clásico RCN
1982
1st Overall Clásico RCN
1st Stages 2, 7 & 10
4th Overall Tour de l'Avenir
1st Stage 10
1983
1st Overall Clásico RCN
1st Stage 8
Coors Classic
1st Stages 1 & 3
1st Stage 6b Grand Prix Guillaume Tell
2nd Overall Vuelta a Colombia
1st Stages 9 & 14
1984
1st Overall Clásico RCN
1st Stage 8
1st Overall Vuelta a Colombia
1st Stages 6, 9 & 10
1st Stage 17 Tour de France
1985
1st Overall Vuelta a Colombia
1st Stages 5 & 8
2nd Overall Clásico RCN
7th Overall Tour de France
1st Mountains classification
1st Stages 11 & 14
1986
1st Overall Clásico RCN
1st Prologue, Stages 2 & 4 (ITT)
1st Overall Vuelta a Colombia
1st Stage 6
1987
1st Overall Vuelta a España
1st Mountains classification
1st Stage 11
2nd Overall Vuelta a Colombia
1st Prologue
5th Overall Tour de France
1st Mountains classification
1988
1st Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
1st Stage 6b
1st Overall Vuelta a Colombia
1st Stages 2 & 11
6th Overall Tour de France
1989
Giro d'Italia
1st Mountains classification
1st Stages 13 & 18 (ITT)
1990
4th Overall Clásico RCN
1st Prologue
1991
1st Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
1st Stage 5
Vuelta a España
1st Mountains classification
1st Stage 16
Volta a Catalunya
1st Mountains classification
1st Stage 6
6th Overall Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme
9th Overall Vuelta a Murcia
1992
1st Overall Vuelta a Aragón
1st Stage 5
1st Prologue Vuelta a Colombia
8th Overall Giro d'Italia
1st Stage 9

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

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Grand Tour record

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Legend
1Winner
2–3Top three-finish
4–10Top ten-finish
11–Other finish
DNEDid not enter
DNF-xDid not finish (retired on stage x)
DNS-xDid not start (not started on stage x)
HDFinished outside time limit (occurred on stage x)
DSQDisqualified
N/ARace/classification not held
NRNot ranked in this classification
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