Gorka Verdugo

Gorka Verdugo
	Verdugo at the 2007 Tour de France
Personal information
Full name	Gorka Verdugo Markotegui
Born	4 November 1978 (age 43); Etxarri-Aranatz, Spain
Height	1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight	69 kg (152 lb)
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Climber
Professional team
2004–2013	Euskaltel–Euskadi

Gorka Verdugo Markotegui (born 4 November 1978) is a Spanish professional road bicycle racer, who last rode for UCI ProTour team Euskaltel–Euskadi.^[1]

Born in Etxarri-Aranatz, Navarre, Verdugo has not yet won any races, but made his Giro d'Italia debut in 2005 (86th) and his Tour de France debut in 2006 (75th). His highest placing in the Tour de France was in 2011 (25th), however despite completing it an impressive 6 times he has never had a top ten finish in any stage of the race. Considered a reliable team rider, his is best individual tour performance was on stage 16 in the 2007 Tour de France where in a breakaway he gained enough points in the mountains classification to finish 11th overall in Paris. He finished 11th overall in the 2012 Vuelta a Espana, marking his best grand tour finish yet.

Career achievements[]

Major results[]

2006: 10th Overall Clásica Internacional de Alcobendas
2008: 5th Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana; 7th Overall Paris–Nice; 10th Overall Volta a Catalunya; 10th Subida a Urkiola
2009: 8th Klasika Primavera
2012: 3rd Gran Piemonte
2013: 7th Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia

Grand Tour general classification results timeline[]

Grand Tour	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013
Giro d'Italia	68	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	64
Tour de France	—	74	47	70	60	35	24	DNF	—
Vuelta a España	—	—	—	—	—	83	36	11	63

Legend
—	Did not compete
DNF	Did not finish

References[]

^ Urraburu, Benito (21 October 2012). "Euskaltel ya tiene completo su equipo para 2013 con diez nuevos fichajes" [Euskaltel team already full for 2013 with ten new signings]. El Diario Vasco (in Spanish). Grupo Vocento. Retrieved 4 January 2013.

External links[]

Media related to Gorka Verdugo at Wikimedia Commons
Gorka Verdugo at Cycling Archives

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[1] Urraburu, Benito (21 October 2012). "Euskaltel ya tiene completo su equipo para 2013 con diez nuevos fichajes" [Euskaltel team already full for 2013 with ten new signings]. El Diario Vasco (in Spanish). Grupo Vocento. Retrieved 4 January 2013.

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