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Luis Alberto "Lucho" Herrera Herrera, known as "El jardinerito" ("the little gardener") (born May 4, 1961 in
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Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
::1st Stage 6b
: 1st Overall 
Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
::1st Stage 5
: Overall
Fusagasugá
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, Colombia
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), is a retired Colombia
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n road racing cyclist
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. 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. Although he abandoned his second Vuelta a Colombia in 1982, he won Colombia's second major stage-race the Clásico RCN
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. In 1983 Herrera won Clásico RCN
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The event is sponsored b ...
again as well as two stages and finishing second overall to Alfonso Florez Ortiz
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in the 1983 Vuelta a Colombia
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. In 1984 he would win the Vuelta a Colombia
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, the Clásico RCN
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The event is sponsored b ...
as well as winning stage 17 to Alpe d'Huez
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in the 1984 Tour de France
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, 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
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. He would win the Vuelta a Colombia
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and the Clásico RCN
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The event is sponsored b ...
four times each but his greatest achievement was in 1987, when he won the Vuelta a España
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, the first South American to win a Grand Tour
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. Herrera also won the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré in 1988 and 1991 and five "King of the Mountains
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" jerseys from the three Grand Tours.
Luis Herrera is the second rider to win the King of the Mountains
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jersey in all three Grand Tours
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. The first was Federico Bahamontes
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of Spain.
Career achievements
Major results
;1981 : 1st Stage 5Clásico RCN
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;1982
: 1st Overall Clásico RCN
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The event is sponsored b ...
::1st Stages 2, 7 & 10
: 4th Overall Tour de l'Avenir
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::1st Stage 10
;1983
: 1st Overall Clásico RCN
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The event is sponsored b ...
::1st Stage 8
: Coors Classic
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::1st Stages 1 & 3
: 1st Stage 6b Grand Prix Guillaume Tell
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: 2nd Overall Vuelta a Colombia
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::1st Stages 9 & 14
;1984
: 1st Overall Clásico RCN
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The event is sponsored b ...
::1st Stage 8
: 1st Overall Vuelta a Colombia
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::1st Stages 6, 9 & 10
: 1st Stage 17 Tour de France
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;1985
: 1st Overall Vuelta a Colombia
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::1st Stages 5 & 8
: 2nd Overall Clásico RCN
The Clásico RCN (Spanish for ''RCN Classic'') is an annual cycling road race that takes place over many stages through different regions of Colombia during October. It is organized by the Colombian Cycling Federation.
The event is sponsored b ...
: 7th Overall Tour de France
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::1st Mountains classification
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::1st Stages 11 & 14
;1986
: 1st Overall Clásico RCN
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The event is sponsored b ...
::1st Prologue, Stages 2 & 4 ( ITT)
: 1st Overall Vuelta a Colombia
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::1st Stage 6
;1987
: 1st Overall Vuelta a España
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::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
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::1st Stage 11
: 2nd Overall Vuelta a Colombia
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::1st Prologue
: 5th Overall Tour de France
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::1st Mountains classification
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A woman is an adult female human. Prior to adulthood, a female human is referred to as a girl (a femal ...
;1988
: 1st Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
::1st Stage 6b
: 1st Overall Vuelta a Colombia
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::1st Stages 2 & 11
: 6th Overall Tour de France
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;1989
: Giro d'Italia
::1st Mountains classification
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::1st Stages 13 & 18 ( ITT)
;1990
: 4th Overall Clásico RCN
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The event is sponsored b ...
::1st Prologue
;1991
: 1st Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
::1st Stage 5
: Vuelta a España
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::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 16
: 1st Stage 6 Volta a Catalunya
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It is one of three World Tour stage races in Spain, together with the Vuelta a España and the Tour of th ...
: 6th Overall Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme
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: 9th Overall Vuelta a Murcia
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;1992
: 1st Overall Vuelta a Aragón
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::1st Stage 5
: 1st Prologue Vuelta a Colombia
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: 8th Overall Giro d'Italia
::1st Stage 9
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Herrera, Luis 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