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1996 Vuelta A Castilla Y León
The 1996 Vuelta a Castilla y León was the 11th edition of the Vuelta a Castilla y León cycle race and was held on 4 August to 8 August 1996. The race started in Valladolid and finished in Villablino. The race was won by Andrea Peron. General classification References Further reading * * * * Vuelta a Castilla y León The Vuelta Ciclista a Castilla y León is a professional road bicycle stage race held in Castile and León, Spain. Since 2005, it has been a part of the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions ... Vuelta a Castilla y León by year 1996 in Spanish sport {{Spain-cycling-race-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrea Peron (cyclist, Born 1971)
Andrea Peron (born 14 August 1971) is an Italian former professional road bicycle racer. He competed in the team time trial at the 1992 Summer Olympics winning a silver medal. Peron turned professional in 1993, riding for team Gatorade. He is best remembered for leading the sombre peloton across the finish line in the neutralised Stage 16 of the 1995 Tour de France, the day after the death of his team- and roommate Fabio Casartelli in a fall. He was a strong time trialist, with good results in the Italian championships, as well as a 5th place at the 1996 World Time Trial Championships. From 2002 until his retirement in 2006, he was a domestique on Team CSC. In January 2010 he joined as assistant general manager. Drug use allegations Before the 2004 Tour de France, rumours surfaced in the French newspaper ''Le Monde'' that Peron, alongside other riders, was still under suspicion for doping following a police raid in Sanremo, Italy in June 2001. This would prevent Andrea Per ... [...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 bicycle racing, road cyclist who competed from 1990 to 2006. Major results ;1992 : 1st Memorial Manuel Galera ;1993 : 6th Overall 1993 Vuelta a Andalucía, Vuelta a Andalucía ;1994 : 1st Overall Vuelta a Mallorca : 1st Stage 4 1994 Tour de France, Tour de France : 3rd Overall 1994 Vuelta a Andalucía, Vuelta a Andalucía ;1996 : 1st Overall Vuelta a Mallorca ::1st Trofeo Soller : 1st Stage 2 Vuelta a La Rioja ;1998 : 5th Overall 1998 Vuelta a Andalucía, Vuelta a Andalucía ;1999 : 1st Trofeo Calvià : 5th Overall Vuelta a La Rioja ;2000 : 1st Overall Vuelta a Mallorca ::1st Trofeo Andratx : 2nd Overall 2000 Vuelta a Andalucía, 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 2002 Vuelt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1996 In Spanish Road Cycling
1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kinshasa, killing around 300 people. * January 9– 20 – Serious fighting breaks out between Russian soldiers and rebel fighters in Chechnya. * January 11 – Ryutaro Hashimoto, leader of the Liberal Democratic Party, becomes Prime Minister of Japan. * January 13 – Italy's Prime Minister, Lamberto Dini, resigns after the failure of all-party talks to confirm him. New talks are initiated by President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro to form a new government. * January 14 – Jorge Sampaio is elected President of Portugal. * January 16 – President of Sierra Leone Valentine Strasser is deposed by the chief of defence, Julius Maada Bio. Bio promises to restore power following elections scheduled for February. * January 19 ** Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis María Díaz De Otazu
Luis is a given name. It is the Spanish form of the originally Germanic name or . Other Iberian Romance languages have comparable forms: (with an accent mark on the i) in Portuguese and Galician, in Aragonese and Catalan, while is archaic in Portugal, but common in Brazil. Origins The Germanic name (and its variants) is usually said to be composed of the words for "fame" () and "warrior" () and hence may be translated to ''famous warrior'' or "famous in battle". According to Dutch onomatologists however, it is more likely that the first stem was , meaning fame, which would give the meaning 'warrior for the gods' (or: 'warrior who captured stability') for the full name.J. van der Schaar, ''Woordenboek van voornamen'' (Prisma Voornamenboek), 4e druk 1990; see also thLodewijs in the Dutch given names database Modern forms of the name are the German name Ludwig and the Dutch form Lodewijk. and the other Iberian forms more closely resemble the French name Louis, a derivat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
