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1995 Clásico RCN
The 35th edition of the Clásico RCN was held from March 11 to March 20, 1995, in Colombia. The stage race, with an UCI rate of 2.4, started in Medellín, and finished in Bogotá. RCN stands for "Radio Cadena Nacional" one of the oldest and largest radio networks in the nation. Stages 1995-03-11: Medellín — Cerro Nutibara (5.8 km) 1995-03-12: Caldas — Pereira (234 km) 1995-03-13: Pereira — Cali (201.4 km) 1995-03-14: Cali — Armenia (185.6 km) 1995-03-15: Armenia — Espinal (166.5 km) 1995-03-16: Espinal — Mosquera (137 km) 1995-03-17: Tocancipá — Sogamoso (175 km) 1995-03-18: Circuito Mundiales Ciclismo Duitama (138 km) 1995-03-19: Paipa — Tunja (42 km) 1995-03-20: Circuito Parque Nacional (136 km) Final classification Teams ;Pony Malta-Kelme PRF ;Le Groupement (Francia) PRF ;Manzana Postobón PRF ;Aguardiante Antioqueño-Lotería de Medellín ;Gasesosas Glacial ;Lituania - Mixto ;Manzana Postobón Af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raúl Montaña
Raúl Alexander Montaña Herrera (born September 22, 1971 in Bogotá) is a retired male road racing cyclist from Colombia, who became a professional rider in 1994. Career ;1992 :1st in General Classification Vuelta a Colombia Sub-23 (COL) ;1993 :1st in General Classification Vuelta a Boyacá (COL) ;1995 :1st in Stage 3 Clásico RCN, Armenia (COL) :1st in General Classification Clásico RCN (COL) ;1996 :1st in Stage 9 Vuelta a Colombia, Palmira (COL) ;1997 : 1st in Stage 2 Clásico RCN, Monguí (COL) : 1st in Stage 5 Clásico RCN, Barrancabermeja (COL) : 1st in Stage 10 Clásico RCN, Bogotá (COL) :1st in General Classification Clásico RCN (COL) :1st in General Combination Classification Vuelta a Colombia (COL) :6th in General Classification Vuelta a Colombia (COL) ;1998 :1st in Stage 10 Vuelta a Colombia, Barrancabermeja (COL) :1st in Stage 5 Clásico RCN, Buenaventura (COL) :1st in Stage 7 Clásico RCN, Armenia (COL) :1st in Stage 8 Clásico RCN, Espinal (COL) :1st in General ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Efraím Rico
Efraím Rico Lizarazo (born December 3, 1967, in Villapinzón, Cundinamarca) is a retired male road cyclist from Colombia, who was a professional rider from 1990 to 1998. He was nicknamed "El Cuerito" during his career. Career ;1988 :1st in General Classification Vuelta Ciclista a Costa Rica (CRC) ;1994 :3rd in Stage 8 Vuelta a Colombia, Armenia (COL) :1st in Stage 12 Vuelta a Colombia, Alto de Patios (COL) :5th in General Classification Vuelta a Colombia (COL) ;1995 :1st in Stage 1 Clásico RCN, Pereira (COL) :3rd in Stage 5 Clásico RCN, Mosquera (COL) :3rd in Stage 7 Clásico RCN, Duitama (COL) :9th in General Classification Clásico RCN (COL) :2nd in Stage 9 Vuelta a Colombia, Buga (COL) :1st in National Championships, Road, Elite, Colombia (COL) ;1996 :7th in General Classification Vuelta a Colombia The Vuelta a Colombia (Spanish for ''Tour of Colombia'') is an annual cycling road race, run over many stages throughout different regions in Colombia and sometimes Ven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruber Marín
Ruber Albeiro Marín Valencia (born June 7, 1968 in Argelia, Valle del Cauca) is a Colombian cyclist who competed in the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics. Major results ;1991 :1st Stage 1 Vuelta a Colombia ;1992 :Vuelta a Colombia ::1st Stages 1 & 7 ;1993 :Clásico RCN ::1st Stages 2 & 3 :10th Overall Vuelta a Colombia ::1st Stages 4 & 9 ;1994 :1st Stage 10 Vuelta a Colombia ;1995 :1st Stage 1 Vuelta a Colombia :1st Stage 9 Clásico RCN ;1999 :1st Stage 3 Vuelta a Colombia ;2000 :1st Stage 13 Vuelta a Colombia :1st Stage 10 Vuelta al Táchira ;2002 :9th Overall Tour de Langkawi ;2003 :1st Stage 6 Vuelta al Táchira :9th Overall Tour de Langkawi ;2004 :6th Overall Tour de Langkawi The Tour de Langkawi is a multiple stage bicycle race held in Malaysia. It is named after the archipelago Langkawi, where the first edition started and finished. The race has been held annually since 1996, primarily in February. It usually co ... ::1st Stage 9 Referencessports-reference External ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tunja
Tunja () is a city on the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes, in the region known as the Altiplano Cundiboyacense, 130 km northeast of Bogotá. In 2018 it had a population of 172,548 inhabitants. It is the capital of Boyacá department and the Central Boyacá Province. Tunja is an important educational centre of well-known universities. In the time before the Spanish conquest of the Muisca, there was an indigenous settlement, called Hunza, seat of the ''hoa'' Eucaneme, conquered by the Spanish conquistadors on August 20, 1537. The Spanish city was founded by captain Gonzalo Suárez Rendón on August 6, 1539, exactly one year after the capital Santafé de Bogotá. The city hosts the most remaining Muisca architecture: Hunzahúa Well, Goranchacha Temple and Cojines del Zaque. Tunja is a tourist destination, especially for religious colonial architecture, with the Casa Fundador Gonzalo Suárez Rendón as oldest remnant. In addition to its religious and historical ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paipa
Paipa is a town and municipality in the Tundama Province, a part of the Colombian Departments of Colombia, department of Boyacá Department, Boyacá. Paipa borders Duitama, Firavitoba, Tibasosa, Sotaquirá and Tuta, Boyacá, Tuta.Official website Paipa Geography Paipa is located 15 km west of Duitama and to the northeast of Tunja, the capital of the department, in the Cordillera Oriental (Colombia), Cordillera Oriental (Eastern Ranges) of the Colombian Andes. It is the main tourist center of the region, with a number of large hotels and hot springs. At an elevation of 2525 m, the climate is mild with an average of 14° Celsius.Climate Etymology Paipa is named after the ''cacique'' (leader) of the Paipa people.[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duitama
Duitama () is a city and municipality in the department of Boyacá. It is the capital of the Tundama Province. Duitama is located northeast of Bogotá, the capital city of Colombia and northeast of Tunja, the capital Boyacá. Duitama has existed since pre-Columbian times, when the Muisca inhabited the hills surrounding a former lake in the valley. The original name of Duitama was "Tundama", named after ''cacique'' Tundama. The elevation of the city is about above sea level and the average temperature is 16 °C. Duitama is known as "The Pearl of Boyacá". Etymology The name of Duitama means "to me the tribute" in muyskkubun (Muisca language). In its beginnings, Duitama corresponded to a Muisca village ruled by the cacique Tundama, a word that changed for Duitama, absolute and powerful lord that he had as bosses tributaries to the Onzaga, Soatá, Chitagoto, Susacón or Cabita, Icabuco, Lupachoque, Sátiva, Tutazá and Cerinza caciques. The natives lived in bohíos, looki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcel Wüst
Marcel Wüst (born 6 August 1967) is a German former road bicycle racer. He won stages in all of the three Grand Tours; twelve stages in the Vuelta a España, one stage in the Tour de France and a stage in the Giro d'Italia. In 2000, a crash left him without sight in one eye and prematurely ended his professional career. In 2002 and 2003, Wüst worked as a team manager for Team Coast. He also had a career as an analyst in broadcasting until 2008. Early life and family Wüst was born in Cologne. He got his first taste for cycling when his family visited the 1973 Tour de France during vacation in France. He received his first racing bike at the age of ten, in 1977, before joining the local cycling club a year later. In 1984, Wüst won the opening stage of a stage race in Luxembourg. Three years later, he and fellow Cologne-based cyclist Heike Gasel became a couple. They married in January 1990. The two have a son, Alexander, who was born in 1998. Wüst spends three months a year ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sogamoso
Sogamoso () is a city in the department of Boyacá of Colombia. It is the capital of the Sugamuxi Province, named after the original Sugamuxi. Sogamoso is nicknamed "City of the Sun", based on the original Muisca tradition of pilgrimage and adoring their Sun god Sué at the Sun Temple. The city is located at an altitude of on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense in the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes. Etymology Sogamoso is named after Sugamuxi or Suamox, the original name in Chibcha for the city and Sugamuxi, the last ''iraca'' of the sacred City of the Sun. Suamuxi means "Dwelling of the Sun".Etymology Sogamoso - Excelsio.net Knowledge about Sugamuxi has been provided by ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tocancipá
Tocancipá () is a municipality and town of Colombia in the Central Savanna Province, part of the department of Cundinamarca. Tocancipá is situated in the northern part of the Bogotá savanna, part of the Altiplano Cundiboyacense in the Eastern Ranges of the Colombian Andes with the urban centre at an altitude of . The capital Bogotá, which metropolitan area includes Tocancipá, is to the south. Tocancipá borders Gachancipá and Nemocón in the north, Zipaquirá in the west, Guasca and Guatavita in the east and Guasca and Sopó in the south. Etymology The name Tocancipá comes from Muysccubun and means "Valley of the joys of the ''zipa''". History The area of Tocancipá was inhabited early in the history of inhabitation of the Altiplano. The archaeological site Tibitó is located within the boundaries of Tocancipá and evidence of inhabitation has been dated to 11,740 ± 110 years BP.Aceituno & Rojas, 2012, p.127 At the time of arrival of the Spanish conqui ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chepe González
José Jaime González Pico (born July 28, 1968, in Sogamoso, Boyacá), also known as Chepe González, is a Colombian former road bicycle racer. He won stages in Tour de France and Giro d'Italia. He also won the Vuelta a Colombia in 1994 and 1995. Major results ;1990 : 1st Stage 5 Vuelta a Colombia ;1991 : 2nd Overall Clásico RCN ::1st Stages 3 & 7 ;1992 : 6th Subida a Urkiola : 8th Overall Vuelta a Colombia ::1st Stage 5 : 8th Overall Tour du Limousin ;1993 : 5th Overall Vuelta a Colombia ;1994 : 1st Overall Vuelta a Colombia ::1st Points classification ::1st Mountains classification ::1st Combination classification ::1st Stages 5, 6 & 8 ( ITT) ;1995 : 1st Overall Vuelta a Colombia ::1st Stages 2 & 11 : 1st Stage 5 Clásico RCN ;1996 : 1st Stage 11 Tour de France : 5th Overall Vuelta a Colombia ;1997 : Giro d'Italia ::1st Mountains classification ::1st Stage 20 ;1999 : Giro d'Italia ::1st Mountains classification ::1st Stage 5 : 1st Stage 7 Vuelta a Colombia : 6 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mosquera
Mosquera is a Spanish surname (first name) originally from Galicia (Spain). The family crest states (Spanish) Gallego. It derives from the mansion of the family's founder, Ramiro de Mosquera. In the fifth century, it was already linked to ''Moscoso'', one of Galicia's oldest notable families. Mosquera spread around Galicia, Castile (historical region), Las Castillas, Extremadura and Americas, America. In Galicia, one of the oldest houses was in Coto de Villar de Payo Muniz, ''a dos leguas'' from Ourense. Another existed at villa de Vilariño de Conso. Etymology According to etymologists, the name ''Mosquera'' is an allusion to a place where the greatest quantity of "aces" grows, and derives itself from the word "moscon", which originally referred to a type of tree. Family Part of the family settled in Portugal where the name changed to "Mosqueira". The following names are in the lists of the Order of Charles III, Order of Carlos III: Gabriel Mosquera and Luis Mosquera y Juliá ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
El Espinal, Tolima
Espinal is a Colombian city located in the Department of Tolima, 146 km southwest from Bogotá. It is the second most important city of the department and is the rice capital of the center of the country. It is flanked by the Magdalena and Coello rivers. El Espinal is known for the manufacture of typical musical instruments and its cuisine is known for tamales and the suckling pig, which are the typical dishes of the region. It has a total length of 231 km², an urban area of 4.26 km², and a rural area of 212.74 km². The town is the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Espinal. Climate Despite its low elevation, El Espinal has a temperate climate with abundant rainfall from March to May and from October to November. The increased solar radiation during these months due to the position of the sun increases temperatures in the jungle and favors the formation of storms in the mountainous areas. In contrast, the more dry seasons of the year are from Janu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
