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1997 Vuelta A Castilla Y León
The 1997 Vuelta a Castilla y León was the 12th edition of the Vuelta a Castilla y León cycle race and was held on 4 August to 8 August 1997. The race started in Valladolid and finished in Aranda de Duero Aranda de Duero is a city and municipality, capital of the Ribera del Duero comarca, in the south of the province of Burgos, in Castile and León, Spain. It has a population of roughly 33,000 people and lies on the River Duero. The closest in .... The race was won by Ángel Casero. General classification References Further reading * Vuelta a Castilla y León Vuelta a Castilla y León by year 1997 in Spanish sport {{Spain-cycling-race-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ángel Casero
Ángel Luis Casero Moreno (born 27 September 1972 in Albalat dels Tarongers, Province of Valencia) is a retired Spanish road bicycle racer who raced professionally between 1994 and 2005. His first win was at the 1995 Clásica a los Puertos de Guadarrama followed by the 1997 Vuelta a Castilla y León. In 1998 and 1999, he was Spanish national champion; in 1999, he finished fifth in the Tour de France. He finished second in the Vuelta a España in 2000 and won it in 2001. His name was later tied to the Operation Puerto doping case. Career achievements Major results ;1993 : 8th Overall Tour de l'Avenir ;1994 : 1st Overall Tour de l'Avenir : 3rd Overall Vuelta a Mallorca : 10th Overall Tour de Luxembourg ;1995 : 1st Clásica a los Puertos de Guadarrama : 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships ;1996 : 8th Overall Critérium International ;1997 : 1st Overall Vuelta a Castilla y León ::1st Stage 3 ( ITT) : 2nd Overall Volta a Catalunya ;1998 : National Road Championships ::1st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francisco Cabello (cyclist)
Francisco Cabello Luque (born 20 May 1969, in La Zubia) is a Spanish former professional road cyclist who competed from 1990 to 2006. Major results ;1992 : 1st Memorial Manuel Galera ;1993 : 6th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía ;1994 : 1st Overall Vuelta a Mallorca : 1st Stage 4 Tour de France : 3rd Overall Vuelta a Andalucía ;1996 : 1st Overall Vuelta a Mallorca ::1st Trofeo Soller : 1st Stage 2 Vuelta a La Rioja ;1998 : 5th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía ;1999 : 1st Trofeo Calvià : 5th Overall Vuelta a La Rioja ;2000 : 1st Overall Vuelta a Mallorca ::1st Trofeo Andratx : 2nd Overall Vuelta a Andalucía ::1st Mountains classification : 7th Overall Vuelta a Murcia ::1st Stage 2 ;2001 : 2nd Circuito de Getxo : 5th Overall Vuelta a Murcia ::1st Mountains classification ::1st Stage 4 ;2002 : 1st Overall Vuelta a Mallorca : 4th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía : 7th Trofeo Calvià ;2003 : 7th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía : 8th Klasika Primavera : 9th Trofeo Calvià ;2005 : 1st Overall Vuelta a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1997 In Spanish Road Cycling
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Manuel Beltrán
Manuel Beltrán Martinez (born 28 May 1971) is a former professional road bicycle racer from Spain. His finishes in the Tour de France are somewhat misleading as he was a lieutenant for his team leader. He was the team leader for numerous Vuelta a España rides and performed well. Beltrán tested positive for EPO after the first stage of the 2008 Tour de France, according to ''L'Équipe'' 11 July 2008. The same date as the news broke, a spokesman for his team Liquigas said he would be suspended from the team and thrown out of that year's tour. It was later confirmed that his B-sample also tested positive. Beltrán was suspended for two years. In 2010, he had to pay his former team 100.000 euros because of his positive doping test in the Tour de France. His name was also on the list of doping tests published by the French Senate on 24 July 2013 that were collected during the 1998 Tour de France and found positive for EPO when retested in 2004. Career achievements Major resu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francisque Teyssier
Francisque Teyssier (born 2 January 1969 in Salon-de-Provence) is a French former professional racing cyclist. He competed in the 1995 Giro d'Italia, 1996 Tour de France and the 1997 Vuelta a España. He also won the French National Time Trial Championships twice, in 1997 and 2000. Major results ;1992 : 1st Overall Rhône-Alpes Isère Tour : 1st Grand Prix de France : 2nd Overall Vuelta a los Pirineos ;1993 : 3rd Road race, National Road Championships ;1994 : 1st Stages 3 & 6 Tour du Poitou-Charentes : 7th Overall Route du Sud ;1995 : 1st Stage 5 Tour de l'Ain : 4th Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise ;1997 : 1st Time trial, National Road Championships : 3rd Chrono des Nations ;1998 : 1st Grand Prix des Nations : 1st Stage 3b Regio-Tour ( ITT) : 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships : 3rd Chrono des Nations : 10th Grand Prix de Villers-Cotterêts ;2000 : 1st Time trial, National Road Championships : 8th Chrono des Herbiers Chrono des Nations – Les Herbiers Vend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juan Carlos Domínguez
Juan Carlos Domínguez Domínguez (born 13 April 1971 in Íscar, Spain) is a former professional road racing cyclist. He was a professional rider from 1995 to 2006. In the 2006 Eneco Tour of Benelux he had a hematocrit above 50 before the start of stage 5 and he was suspended for 15 days. His daughter, Estela, was killed in a collision with a lorry at a lorry at Villares de la Reina in February 2023 at the age of 19, while training for her first year as a professional with the Sopela team. Major results ;1994 :1st GP Capodarco ;1996 :3rd Overall Vuelta a Aragón :7th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships :9th Overall Tour of the Basque Country :9th Subida al Naranco ;1997 :1st Overall Vuelta a Murcia ::1st Mountains classification ::1st Stage 5 ( ITT) :1st Overall Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme ::1st Stage 5b ( ITT) :1st Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana :4th Overall Tour of Galicia :5th Overall Vuelta a Aragón :10th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships ;1998 :1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Javier Pascual Rodríguez
Javier Pascual Rodríguez (born 14 November 1971) is a Spanish former cyclist. Major results ;1998 : 1st Stage 5 Vuelta a Colombia ;1999 : 1st Overall Vuelta a Andalucía : 2nd Overall Vuelta a Murcia ::1st Stage 2 : 3rd Overall Vuelta a la Comunidad Valenciana ;2000 : 2nd Overall Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme : 5th Overall Paris–Nice ;2001 : 1st Stage 3 Vuelta a Castilla y León ;2002 : 3rd Overall Vuelta a Andalucía ::1st Stage 4 : 5th Klasika Primavera : 5th Overall Vuelta a la Comunidad Valenciana : 10th Trofeo Luis Puig ;2003 : 6th Züri-Metzgete : 7th Liège–Bastogne–Liège : 10th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía ;2004 : 1st Stage 18 Vuelta a España : 3rd Circuito de Getxo : 10th Overall Vuelta a Murcia ;2005 : 1st Overall Vuelta a La Rioja ::1st Stage 1 : 1st GP Miguel Indurain : 3rd Gran Premio de Llodio : 4th GP Villafranca de Ordizia Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia – Clásica de Ordizia is a Spanish professional cycle road race held in Ordizia, Basque Country. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Melcior Mauri
Melcior Mauri Prat (born 8 April 1966 in Vic) is a Spanish retired cyclist who won the 1991 Vuelta a España, as well as numerous smaller stage races, mainly due to his abilities as a time triallist. He won the silver medal at the time trial World Championship (1998), and was also Spanish national champion in this discipline (1995). In November 2007 he won the second edition of the Titan Desert mountain bike 5 stage race over 293 km in Morocco. Career achievements Major results ;1988 : 3rd Circuito de Getxo ;1990 : 4th Overall Vuelta a Aragón : 7th Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana ;1991 : 1st Overall Vuelta a España ::1st Stages 1 ( TTT), 8 ( ITT) & 19 ( ITT) : 1st Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana ::1st Stage 6 : Vuelta a Andalucía ::1st Stages 3 & 6 : 9th Grand Prix des Nations ;1992 : 1st Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana ::1st Stage 5b ( ITT) : 1st Stage 1 Vuelta Ciclista a La Rioja : 2nd Overall Tour du Limousin : 3rd Overall Vuelta a Murcia : ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georg Totschnig
Georg Totschnig (born 25 May 1971) is an Austrian former road bicycle racer who raced professionally between 1993 and 2006. He won the Austrian National Road Race Championships in 1997 and 2003. He also rode at three Olympic Games. Career In 1989, Totschnig became the Junior Austrian National Time Trial Champion. He turned professional with the Italian Lampre - Polti team in 1993, remaining with the team in 1994 when Polti became the main sponsor for the first time. He finished 5th in the 1994 edition of the Tour DuPont and a few weeks later entered his first Grand Tour, which was the 1994 Giro where he finished 13th overall helped by a top 10 on the final ITT. The following year he rode the Giro again where he finished in the top 10 on five stages ending up in 9th overall. He finished 37th in his first Tour entry and was 4th in the Young Rider Classification. The following year he abandoned the Giro prior to the final ITT and missed the Tour but had a very strong performance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laurent Jalabert
Laurent Jalabert (born 30 November 1968) is a French former professional road racing cyclist, from 1989 to 2002. Affectionately known as ''"Jaja"'' (slang for a glass of wine; when he continued drinking wine as a professional, the nickname stuck because of the similarity to his name), he won many one-day and stage races and was ranked number 1 in the world in 1995, 1996, 1997 and 1999. Although he never won the Tour de France, where he suffered altitude sickness, he won the Vuelta a España in 1995; as well as the leader's jersey, he won the sprinter's jersey and climber's jersey in the same race — only the third rider to have done this in a Grand Tour. With Alessandro Petacchi, Eddy Merckx, Djamolidine Abdoujaparov and Mark Cavendish, he is one of only five riders to win the points classification in all three grand tours. Biography He turned professional with the French Toshiba team in 1989 and quickly established himself as a daring sprinter. He moved on to the Spanis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aranda De Duero
Aranda de Duero is a city and municipality, capital of the Ribera del Duero comarca, in the south of the province of Burgos, in Castile and León, Spain. It has a population of roughly 33,000 people and lies on the River Duero. The closest international airport is Madrid Barajas. Description The municipality of Aranda de Duero is made up of three towns: Aranda de Duero (seat or capital), La Aguilera and Sinovas. Aranda de Duero is the capital of the Ribera del Duero wine region. The town is unique for having wine cellars that interconnect below the streets of the town centre. Wine clubs (''peñas'') celebrate special events in these cellars. Location Aranda de Duero is at the junction of several transport routes across Spain. The N1 ''autovía'' (known as A-1) runs north / south by Aranda, along which visitors and import/export goods travel between Madrid and the south coast. Another important road running east to west connects Portugal with important cities on the way (e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valladolid
Valladolid () is a Municipalities of Spain, municipality in Spain and the primary seat of government and de facto capital of the Autonomous communities of Spain, autonomous community of Castile and León. It is also the capital of the province of Valladolid, province of the same name. It has a population around 300,000 people (2021 est.). Population figures from 1 January 2013. The city is located roughly in the centre of the northern half of the Iberian Peninsula's Meseta Central, at the confluence of the Pisuerga River, Pisuerga and Esgueva rivers before they join the Duero, surrounded by winegrowing areas. The area was settled in pre-Roman times by the Celtic Vaccaei people, and then by Ancient Rome, Romans themselves. The settlement was purportedly founded after 1072, growing in prominence within the context of the Crown of Castile, being endowed with fairs and different institutions such as a collegiate church, University of Valladolid, University (1241), Court (royal), Ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
