Luis Herrera (cyclist)
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Personal information | |
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Full name | Luis Alberto Herrera |
Nickname | Lucho El jardinerito de Fusagasugá |
Born | Fusagasugá, Colombia | May 4, 1961
Team information | |
Current team | Retired |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider |
Rider type | Climbing specialist |
Amateur teams | |
1981 | Valyin de Pereira |
1982 | Lotería de Boyacá |
1983 | Leche La Gran Vía |
1984 | Varta Nacional A |
Professional teams | |
1985–1990 | Café de Colombia |
1991–1992 | Ryalco Postobon |
Major wins | |
Grand Tours
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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.
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 finishing second overall to Alfonso Florez Ortiz in the 1983 Vuelta a Colombia.[2] In 1984 he would win the Vuelta a Colombia, the Clásico RCN as well as winning 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. He would win the Vuelta a Colombia and the Clásico RCN four times each but 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 and five "King of the Mountains" jerseys from the three Grand Tours.
Luis Herrera is the second rider to win the King of the Mountains jersey in all three Grand Tours. The first was Federico Bahamontes of Spain.
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
- 1st
- 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
- 1st
- 2nd Overall Vuelta a Colombia
- 1st Prologue
- 5th Overall Tour de France
- 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)
- 1st
- 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
- 1st
- 1st Stage 6 Volta a Catalunya
- 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[]
Grand Tour | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 |
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— | DNF | — | 1 | 20 | — | 12 | 13 | DNF |
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— | — | — | — | — | 18 | — | — | 8 |
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27 | 7 | 22 | 5 | 6 | 19 | — | 31 | — |
— | Did not compete |
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DNF | Did not finish |
References[]
- ^ "31a Vuelta a Colombia 1981". Archived from the original on March 8, 2012. Retrieved October 20, 2007.
- ^ "33a Vuelta a Colombia". Archived from the original on March 8, 2012. Retrieved October 20, 2007.
- ^ "Luis Herrera: Ex-cyclist says sun exposure caused his skin cancer". BBC Sport. 26 September 2017. Retrieved 26 September 2017.
External links[]
- Luis Herrera at Cycling Archives
- 1961 births
- Colombian Tour de France stage winners
- Colombian male cyclists
- Colombian Giro d'Italia stage winners
- Vuelta a España winners
- Colombian Vuelta a España stage winners
- Vuelta a Colombia stage winners
- Living people
- People from Cundinamarca Department