Abraham Olano

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Abraham Olano in 2006.

Abraham Olano Manzano (born September 22, 1970 in Anoeta , Spain ) is a former Spanish cyclist .

Career

Olano began his professional career in 1992 in the CHCS-Ciemar team , which, however, disbanded at the beginning of April. At the end of the year he was a trainee at Lotus-Festina . In 1993 he moved to the Spanish team CLAS-Cajastur as domestics of team captain Tony Rominger .

Olano achieved his first significant individual successes in 1993. Among other things, he won the Tour of Asturias and the double at the Spanish road championships ( road races and individual time trials ).

In the following years Olano developed into one of the most successful specialists in stage races and time trials. He won numerous tours and finished - starting with second place at the Vuelta a España in 1995 , in which he won all three time trials - a total of five podium finishes in the "Grand Tours" . His greatest success in stage races was his victory at the Vuelta a España in 1998 . In the same year he underlined his qualities in this discipline with the world title in the time trial .

With a breakaway attempt in the last round of the road race of the 1995 UCI Road World Championships in Duitama , Colombia , Olano was able to achieve his greatest success in a one-day race and won with 35 seconds ahead of his favorite compatriot Miguel Indurain . He benefited from the fact that the competitors concentrated on Indurain and because of the team discipline Olano was not allowed to follow up.

At the end of the 2002 season, he ended his career at the age of 32.

In July 2013, in an investigation report by the Anti-Doping Commission of the French Senate, Olano was accused of being among the 60 or so drivers who, based on follow-up tests in 2004, had doped with the blood formation hormone erythropoietin (EPO for short) at the Tour de France 1998 could be proven. Olano denied the allegations but was relieved of his position as Technical Director of the Tour of Spain 2013 following the publication of the report .

successes

1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - - - 3 - - - - 2 -
Yellow jersey Tour de France DNF 30th - 9 4th DNF 6th 34 - 78
Golden jersey Vuelta a España - 20th 2 - DNF 1 DNF 19th 64 -
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Teams

Web links

Commons : Abraham Olano  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ CHCS-Ciemar in the Radsportseiten.net database , accessed on January 17, 2014
  2. ↑ a b velonews.com of November 29, 2013: Escartin takes over from Olano as technical director at Vuelta
  3. ↑ elpais.com of October 9, 1995: Gesta española en Colombia
personal data
SURNAME Olano, Abraham
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Olano Manzano, Abraham (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH September 22, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Anoeta , Spain