Luis Herrera (cyclist)

Luis Alberto "Lucho" Herrera Herrera, known as "El jardinerito" ("the little gardener") (born May 4, 1961 in Fusagasugá, Colombia), is a retired Colombian road racing cyclist. Herrera was a professional from 1985 to 1992 but had a successful amateur career before that in Colombia.

This article uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Herrera and the second or maternal family name is Herrera.

Luis Herrera

Personal information
Full name	Luis Alberto Herrera
Nickname	Lucho El jardinerito de Fusagasugá
Born	(1961-05-04) May 4, 1961 Fusagasugá, Colombia
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Climbing specialist
Amateur teams
1981	Valyin de Pereira
1982	Lotería de Boyacá
1983	Leche La Gran Vía
1984	Varta Nacional A
Professional teams
1985-1990	Café de Colombia
1991-1992	Ryalco Postobon
Major wins
Grand Tours Tour de France Mountains classification (1985, 1987) 3 individual stages Giro d'Italia Mountains classification (1989) 3 individual stages Vuelta a España General classification (1987) Mountains classification (1987, 1991) 2 individual stages Stage races Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré (1988, 1991) Vuelta a Colombia (1984, 1985, 1986, 1988) Clásico RCN (1982, 1983, 1984, 1986)

He entered his first Vuelta a Colombia in 1981 where he finished 16th overall and 3rd in the New Rider competition.[1] Although he abandoned his second Vuelta a Colombia in 1982, he won Colombia's second major stage-race the Clásico RCN. In 1983 Herrera won Clásico RCN again as well as two stages and finishing second overall to Alfonso Florez Ortiz in the 1983 Vuelta a Colombia.[2] In 1984 he would win the Vuelta a Colombia, the Clásico RCN as well as winning stage 17 to Alpe d'Huez in the 1984 Tour de France, 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. He would win the Vuelta a Colombia and the Clásico RCN four times each but his greatest achievement was in 1987, when he won the Vuelta a España, the first South American to win a Grand Tour.[3] Herrera also won the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré in 1988 and 1991 and five "King of the Mountains" jerseys from the three Grand Tours.

Luis Herrera is the second rider to win the King of the Mountains jersey in all three Grand Tours. The first was Federico Bahamontes of Spain.

Career achievements

Major results

1984

1st Stage 17 Tour de France

1985

7th Overall Tour de France

1st Mountains classification

1st Stages 11 & 14

1987

1st Overall Vuelta a España

1st Mountains classification

1st Stage 11

5th Overall Tour de France

1st Mountains classification

1988

1st Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré

1st Stage 6b

6th Overall Tour de France

1989

Giro d'Italia

1st Mountains classification

1st Stages 13 & 18

1991

1st Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré

1st Stage 5

Vuelta a España

1st Mountains classification

1st Stage 16

1st Stage 6 Volta a Catalunya

1992

8th Overall Giro d'Italia

1st Stage 9

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992
Vuelta a España	—	DNF	—	1	20	—	12	13	DNF
Giro d'Italia	—	—	—	—	—	18	—	—	8
Tour de France	27	7	22	5	6	19	—	31	—

Legend

—	Did not compete
DNF	Did not finish

References

1. "31a Vuelta a Colombia 1981". Archived from the original on March 8, 2012. Retrieved October 20, 2007.
2. "33a Vuelta a Colombia". Archived from the original on March 8, 2012. Retrieved October 20, 2007.
3. "Luis Herrera: Ex-cyclist says sun exposure caused his skin cancer". BBC Sport. 26 September 2017. Retrieved 26 September 2017.

External links

• Luis Herrera at Cycling Archives