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Jose María Jiménez Sastre (February 6, 1971 in
El Barraco, Spain El Barraco is a municipality in the province of Ávila, Castile and León, Spain. , the municipality has a population of 2,152 inhabitants. It is located in the local valley of the Alberche The Alberche is a river in the provinces of Ávila, Ma ...
- December 6, 2003 in Madrid) was a professional
road bicycle racer Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and spectators. The two most common ...
. During his career he excelled as a climber, winning numerous mountain stages. His nickname was "El Chava".


Career

After a four month spell as a stagiaire (trainee), Jiménez turned professional at the beginning of the 1993 season with the Spanish team
Banesto Banco Español de Crédito, S.A. (), “Spanish Credit Bank”) better known as Banesto, was a Spanish multinational financial services company. Prior to the Spanish Government's historical intervention in 1993, the very first in the history of ...
which he would be a part of for the rest of his career. In his first year, his teammates included Tour de France champions Pedro Delgado and Miguel Induráin. Even at an early point in his career, Jiménez was considered a potential successor of Induráin.


Vuelta a España

Jiménez was particularly successful in the Vuelta a España, winning nine stages in total, the points classification in
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and the
mountains classification The King of the Mountains (KoM) is an award given to the best climbing specialist in a men's cycling road race; in women's cycle racing A woman is an adult female human. Prior to adulthood, a female human is referred to as a girl (a femal ...
in
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,
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and
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. His four triumphs in the mountains classification of the Vuelta places him behind only José Luis Laguía as the rider with the most wins in the competition in the history of the race. His best year in the Vuelta was 1998. Here, he took the overall lead for the first time in his career after winning stage 6. However, he acknowledged that the individual time trial on stage 9 would inevitably cost him the lead, as this was a weakness of his. As expected, Jiménez found himself just over three minutes down on his Banesto teammate Abraham Olano after the time trial. But Jiménez then won stages 10, 11 and 16, before finally taking back the overall lead from Olano with just two stages remaining. However, the following stage was another time trial in which he lost 2.50 to Olano and consequently the overall victory. Kelme rider Fernando Escartín also bested Jiménez by enough to knock him down into 3rd place overall, his final placing. Jiménez would never again lead the Vuelta. His second best overall performance was in 1999, in which he was 5th. Prior to that he was 12th in
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and 21st in 1997. He concluded his Vuelta career with three stage wins on his way to 17th place overall in 2001.


Other races

Of other noteworthy results, Jiménez won the Spanish National Road Race Championships in 1997 and secured overall victories in the 2000 Volta a Catalunya and in the Vuelta a La Rioja in both 1994 and 1997. He also competed in both of the other Grand Tours, the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia. After a modest Giro d'Italia debut with 26th place in
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, he was appointed leader of his Banesto team for the 1999 race and started off well by finishing 2nd after Marco Pantani on stage 8.http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/results/1999/giro99/stage8.html However, a time trial and then a disastrous stage 14 followed, during which he lost over 20 minutes, making him drop to 38th overall. He eventually finished 33rd overall, never to return to the race. He had more luck in his Tour de France starts, finishing 8th overall in
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after a consistent performance which included four top 10 results on individual stages. He also challenged for stage wins in the 2000 edition, managing 3rd on the mountainous stage 10 and 2nd on stage 15, only beaten by Marco Pantani. Nonetheless, he finished 23rd overall, some 52 minutes down on winner Lance Armstrong.


Style

Both on and off the bike, Jiménez was, with only a few exceptions, too erratic to ride consistently in stage races. He often attacked without considering the consequences, which however sometimes resulted in spectacular wins in the toughest mountain stages. A particularly memorable instance of this occurred during stage eight of the
1999 Vuelta a España The 1999 Vuelta a España was the 54th edition of the Vuelta a España, taking place from 4 September starting in Murcia and finishing in Madrid on 26 September 1999. It consisted of 21 stages over , ridden at an average speed of . The favourites ...
. Jiménez attacked the 23% gradient of the
Angliru Alto de L'Angliru ( ast, L'Angliru; es, el Angliru) is a steep mountain road in Asturias, near La Vega-Riosa, in northern Spain. It is considered one of the most demanding climbs in professional road bicycle racing and is often used in the Vuelta a ...
in rain and fog to catch Pavel Tonkov's long solo break at the line and take the stage in a two-man sprint. As he crossed the line, he did not have the energy for the victory pose. It was the first time in the history of the race that the Angliru was used. However, he would subsequently pay for his attacking style in the next stage, where he would often lose by 10 or more minutes.


Death

Jiménez received psychological treatment for depression, and retired from professional cycling in 2002, at which point he got married. He died of a heart attack in a psychiatric hospital in Madrid at the age of 32, in December 2003. Spanish cyclist Carlos Sastre is Jiménez's brother-in-law. He dedicated his victory in the
2008 Tour de France The 2008 Tour de France was the 95th running of the race. The event took place from 5 to 27 July. Starting in the French city of Brest, the tour entered Italy on the 15th stage and returned to France during the 16th, heading for Paris, its regu ...
to Jiménez.


Career achievements


Major results

;1992 : 1st Overall Circuito Montañés ;1993 : 3rd
Subida al Naranco Subida al Naranco is a professional cycle road race held in Spain in early June each year. The event was first run in 1941 but was not held consistently until 1981. Between 2005 and 2010, the race has been organised as a 1.1 event on the UCI Euro ...
: 5th Subida a Urkiola ;1994 : 1st Overall Vuelta a La Rioja ::1st Stage 2a : 1st Subida a Urkiola : 3rd Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia : 10th
Subida al Naranco Subida al Naranco is a professional cycle road race held in Spain in early June each year. The event was first run in 1941 but was not held consistently until 1981. Between 2005 and 2010, the race has been organised as a 1.1 event on the UCI Euro ...
;1995 : 1st Overall Colorado Classic ::1st Stages 1 & 3 : 2nd Overall Vuelta a La Rioja : 2nd Road race, National Road Championships : 9th
Subida al Naranco Subida al Naranco is a professional cycle road race held in Spain in early June each year. The event was first run in 1941 but was not held consistently until 1981. Between 2005 and 2010, the race has been organised as a 1.1 event on the UCI Euro ...
: 10th Overall Tour of the Basque Country : 10th Overall Volta a Catalunya ::1st Stage 4 ;1996 : 1st Subida a Urkiola : 1st Mountains classification Vuelta a Burgos : 9th Overall Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme ;1997 : 1st National Road Race Championship : 1st Overall Vuelta a La Rioja ::1st Stage 2 : Vuelta a España :: 1st
Mountains classification The King of the Mountains (KoM) is an award given to the best climbing specialist in a men's cycling road race; in women's cycle racing A woman is an adult female human. Prior to adulthood, a female human is referred to as a girl (a femal ...
::1st Stage 19 : 2nd
Subida al Naranco Subida al Naranco is a professional cycle road race held in Spain in early June each year. The event was first run in 1941 but was not held consistently until 1981. Between 2005 and 2010, the race has been organised as a 1.1 event on the UCI Euro ...
: 2nd Subida a Urkiola : 3rd Classique des Alpes : 5th Overall Vuelta a Asturias : 8th Overall Tour de France ;1998 : 2nd Overall Vuelta a Asturias ::1st Stage 5 : 3rd Overall Vuelta a España ::1st
Mountains classification The King of the Mountains (KoM) is an award given to the best climbing specialist in a men's cycling road race; in women's cycle racing A woman is an adult female human. Prior to adulthood, a female human is referred to as a girl (a femal ...
::1st Stages 6, 10, 11 & 16 : 5th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré ::1st Mountains classification ::1st Combination classification ::1st Stage 3 : 7th Overall Vuelta a Burgos ::1st Mountains classification : 9th Overall Route d'Occitanie ;1999 : 2nd Overall Vuelta a Aragón : 3rd Overall Volta a Catalunya : 3rd Subida a Urkiola : 5th Overall Vuelta a España ::1st
Mountains classification The King of the Mountains (KoM) is an award given to the best climbing specialist in a men's cycling road race; in women's cycle racing A woman is an adult female human. Prior to adulthood, a female human is referred to as a girl (a femal ...
::1st Stage 8 : 8th Overall Vuelta a Burgos ;2000 : 1st Overall Volta a Catalunya ::1st Stages 7 & 8 (
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) : 1st Classique des Alpes ;2001 : Vuelta a España ::1st Points classification ::1st
Mountains classification The King of the Mountains (KoM) is an award given to the best climbing specialist in a men's cycling road race; in women's cycle racing A woman is an adult female human. Prior to adulthood, a female human is referred to as a girl (a femal ...
::1st Stages 8, 11 & 12 (
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) : 2nd Subida a Urkiola : 3rd Overall Vuelta a La Rioja


Grand Tour general classification results timeline


References


External links


Profile by world-of-cycling.comPalmarès by memoire-du-cyclisme.net
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