Joaquim Rodríguez

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Joaquim Rodríguez Road cycling
Joaquim Rodríguez at the Critérium du Dauphiné 2011
Joaquim Rodríguez at the Critérium du Dauphiné 2011
To person
Nickname Purito
Date of birth May 12, 1979
nation SpainSpain Spain
discipline Street
Driver type Mountain riders
Team (s)
2001–2003
2004–2005
2006–2009
2010–2016 		ONCE-Eroski
Saunier Duval-Prodir
Caisse d'Epargne
Katusha Alpecin
Most important successes

Grand Tours

UCI Road World Championships

Spanish championships

classic

UCI series

Last updated: December 6, 2016

Joaquim Rodríguez Oliver (born May 12, 1979 in Barcelona ) is a former Spanish cyclist . The mountain specialist finished all three Grand Tours on the podium during his career , won the Union Cycliste Internationale's annual ranking for road riders three times and won three classics .

Career

Rodríguez received his first contract in 2001 with an international cycling team , the Spanish ONCE team , for which he rode until the end of the 2003 season. For this team he won a stage each at Paris-Nice in 2003 and the Vuelta a España in 2003 and thus for the first time a stage in a Grand Tour .

In the 2004 and 2005 seasons he drove for Saunier Duval-Prodir . During this time he won the general classification of the Catalan Week 2004 and the mountain classification of the Vuelta a España in 2005 .

In 2006 Rodríguez moved to the Spanish team Caisse d'Epargne . Among other things, he won stages in the UCI ProTour - Paris-Nice and Tirreno-Adriatico tours . He was also the Spanish road champion in 2007.

In July 2007 the 28-year-old Spaniard became his country's road champion and relegated his team captain and compatriot Alejandro Valverde to second place. At Tirreno-Adriatico 2008 he won the arrival at Montelupone (up to 22 percent incline) single-handedly, where he should also be victorious in 2009. At the Vuelta a España in 2008 and 2009 , he finished sixth and seventh, placing him in the top ten of a Grand Tour .

In 2010 he joined the Russian team Katusha and won his first Tour de France - stage in Mende against Alberto Contador . He finished the tour in seventh place. He also won the overall ranking of the Volta a Catalunya and a stage of the Vuelta a España , which he finished third overall. As a result of these results, he won the 2010 UCI World Calendar season ranking . In 2011 he finished fourth in the Giro d'Italia and won two more stages of the Vuelta a España .

2012 turned out to be the most successful year for Rodríguez. After stage wins in smaller tours, he won the classic Flèche Wallonne . He took part in the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España in 2012 and on both tours it looked as if he could achieve his first overall Grand Tour victory. At the Giro, he missed overall victory by just 16 seconds after going into the final time trial as the leader. At the Vuelta a España , he already took over the overall lead on the fourth stage, which he was able to expand with victories in three difficult mountain finishes and, in contrast to the Giro, he was also able to save a second lead in the time trial. On the 17th stage, not very spectacular in profile, but all the more in terms of the sporting course, he lost more than two minutes each to Alberto Contador and Alejandro Valverde , so that he ultimately had to be content with third place overall. At the end of the season, by winning the Tour of Lombardy , he was able to win his first victory at one of the monuments and at the same time secure first place in the final accounts of the UCI WorldTour 2012 .

In 2013 he won a stage each on the Tour of Oman and one in Tirreno-Adriatico and contested his second Tour de France . Here he was third overall behind Chris Froome and Nairo Quintana . Thus, he was on the podium once in all three major country tours. In the subsequent Vuelta a España , he was fourth overall. Rodriguez also repeated his victory in the Lombardy Tour last year and came second in the road world championships in the two-man sprint in Rui Costa . Again he won the overall ranking of the UCI WorldTour .

In 2014 Rodriguez won the overall ranking of the Volta a Catalunya and was again fourth in the Vuelta a España . In 2015 he was successful in the Tour of the Basque Country and finished second in the Vuelta a España 57 seconds behind Fabio Aru and also won two stages.

During the 2016 Tour de France , which he finished seventh, Rodriguez announced that he would retire as a cyclist at the end of the year. In autumn, he announced that he had made a change and that he would compete for the Bahrain-Merida team in 2017 . In December 2016, however, the "resignation from resignation from resignation" followed. He rejected speculation that Bahrain Merida had only signed Rodriguez because of his WorldTour points in order to receive a UCI license . It is now planned to employ Rodriguez in the team's supervisory staff, says manager Brent Copeland .

successes

2001

2003

2004

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

Grand Tours placements

Grand Tour 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia 80 - - - 80 - - 17th 26th - 4th 2 - DNF - -
Yellow jersey Tour de France - - - - - - - - - 7th - - 3 54 29 7th
Red jersey Vuelta a España - - 26th 42 37 17th - 6th 7th 3 19th 3 4th 4th 2 -
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Web links

Commons : Joaquim Rodríguez  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Will a mountain specialist win the Tour de France? roadcycling.de, June 13, 2014, accessed on February 12, 2017 .
  2. ^ Vuelta coup by Contador - Spaniards in the red jersey , radnet from September 5, 2012, accessed on October 2, 2012
  3. ↑ Joaquim Rodríguez ends his career. In: rad-net.de. July 11, 2016, accessed December 6, 2016 .
  4. ↑ Rodriguez now with the end of his career. In: rad-net.de. December 10, 2016, accessed December 10, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Rodríguez, Joaquim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rodríguez, Joaquín
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH May 12, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Barcelona , Spain