José Enrique Gutiérrez

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José Enrique Gutiérrez Cataluña Road cycling
Gutiérrez leads the field in the 2009 Tour of California
Gutierrez leads the field in the California Tour 2009 at
To person
Nickname Quique Gutierrez; El Bufalo
Date of birth June 18, 1974
nation SpainSpain Spain
discipline Street
doping
2006 Operación Puerto
Team (s)
1998–2003
2004–2006
2007–2008
2009–2010
2011–2012 		Kelme
Phonak Cycling Team
L.PR Brakes-Farnese Vini
Rock Racing-Murcia
Gobernación de Antioquia
Most important successes

SpainSpanish Champion ( EZF ) 1997
a stage Vuelta a España

Last updated: March 6, 2013

José Enrique Gutiérrez Cataluña (born June 18, 1974 in Valencia ) is a former Spanish cyclist .

Career

Gutiérrez was able to attract attention as a U-23 driver especially in 1997, when he surprisingly beat all Spanish professionals in the national elite championships in the individual time trial and secured the title ahead of Joseba Beloki . Then he received his first contract as a professional racing driver in 1998 with the Spanish cycling team Kelme-Costa Blanca . In his first season he competed in the Giro d'Italia , which he had to leave after the 18th stage. At the UCI Road World Championships in 1999 in Treviso , he was world champion in the U-23 class in the individual time trial with just 1.5 seconds ahead of Michael Rogers .

In 2000 he competed in his second Giro d'Italia , in which he was able to take over the Maglia Rosa of the overall leader, but had to give up the race on the 18th stage.

In September 2004 he celebrated one of the greatest successes of his career on the Puerto de Navacerrada by winning the penultimate stage of the Vuelta a España , where he reached the summit as a soloist.

At the Giro d'Italia 2006 and finished third in Seraing's prologue behind Paolo Savoldelli and Bradley McGee . After the race returned to Italy, he was also one of the best drivers in the more difficult sections that followed, he finished fourth on the seventh stage, the mountain finish on Passo Lanciano the following day in third and thus took second place in the overall standings behind Ivan Basso . Surprisingly, Gutiérrez was able to defend this position until the end of the race and ultimately only had to admit defeat to the superior Basso.

After that came Gutiérrez 2006 suspected of being a client of Eufemiano Fuentes to be him so in the Spanish doping scandal was involved pulled him to be His team Phonak Cycling Team pulled him then from racing back and he completed no more bets for the resolution at end of season team.

For the 2007 season Gutiérrez moved to the second-rate Swiss racing team Team LPR and in 2009 to Team Rock Racing from the USA , where he did not achieve any particular successes. After the Rock Racing team did not get a new license from the Union Cycliste Internationale in 2010, Gutiérrez announced his retirement from active cycling in March 2010, but started in 2011 and 2012 for the Colombian formation Gobernación de Antioquia . In his first year in South America he won the team time trial at the Vuelta a Colombia with his team. He celebrated a personal stage win at the Vuelta a Santander .

Trivia

José Enrique Gutiérrez 'nicknames are Quique or El Bufalo (Eng .: "The Buffalo"). He is the older brother of José Ignacio Gutiérrez , with whom he was active at Kelme-Costa Blanca , Phonak and LPR .

successes

1997
1999
2000
2001
2004
2011

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia DNF - DNF - - - - - 2
Yellow jersey Tour de France - - - 25th 29 41 28 49 -
Golden jersey Vuelta a España - - 36 DNF 37 34 31 DNF -
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Teams

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ nzz.ch of December 4, 2006: New employer for ex-Phonak professional Gutierrez
  2. ↑ Radsport-News.com: "José Enrique Gutiérrez declares his resignation" queried on March 6, 2010
  3. ↑ "Gutierrez comes out of retirement" on cyclingnews.com (English)
  4. ↑ elpedaldefrodo.com of February 9, 2011: Quique Gutiérrez (G. de Antioquia) (G. de Antioquia) ( Memento of the original of January 26, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / elpedaldefrodo.com
  5. ↑ Relationships in (professional) cycling on live-radsport.ch
personal data
SURNAME Gutiérrez, José Enrique
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gutiérrez Cataluña, José Enrique (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Valencia