José Joaquín Rojas

José Joaquín Rojas
	José Joaquín Rojas (2013)
To person
Full name	José Joaquín Rojas Gil
Date of birth	June 2nd 1985
nation	Spain
discipline	Street
To the team
Current team	Movistar
function	driver
Team (s)
2006 ; 2007–2010 ; 2011-	Liberty Seguros-Würth ; Caisse d'Epargne ; Movistar
Most important successes
	Spanish champions - road races 2011, 2016
	Last updated: November 9, 2018

José Joaquín Rojas Gil (born June 2, 1985 in Cieza ) is a Spanish cyclist .

Career

Rojas Gil became a professional in 2006 with Team Liberty Seguros-Würth , for whose farm team he drove in 2004 and 2005 and for which he drove as a stagiaire in autumn 2005 . For this team he won the mountain classification of the Tirreno – Adriatico stage race .

In 2007 Rojas Gil moved to the Caisse d'Epargne team and won his first international cycle race with a stage of the Tour of Murcia . In the next few years he was successful in various one-day races and stages. The most important successes included the Spanish championship in 2011 and 2016 as well as a stage of the Tour of the Basque Country in 2012 .

In the course of the doping investigation by the Public Prosecutor of Padua at the end of 2014, he was suspected of having been a customer of the controversial sports medicine specialist Michele Ferrari .

Family and private

José Joaquín Rojas Gil's older brother Mariano was also a professional cyclist and rode for Team Once between 1994 and 1996 . He died in June 1996 while racing for the Spanish Road Championship after colliding head-on with a truck.

In November 2015, Rojas was due to have a heart operation for Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome . However, the operation turned out to be unnecessary.