José Luis Rubiera

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José Luis Rubiera Vigil Road cycling
José Luis Rubiera.jpg
To person
Nickname Chechu
Date of birth January 27, 1973
nation SpainSpain Spain
discipline Street
Driver type Mountain riders
To the team
Current team End of career
function driver
Team (s)
1995–2000
2001–2004
2005–2007
2008–2009
2010 		Kelme
US Postal Service Pro Cycling Team
Discovery Channel Pro Cycling Team
Team Astana
Team RadioShack
Last updated: May 30, 2011

José Luis Rubiera (born January 27, 1973 in Gijón ) is a former Spanish cyclist . Above all else, he was a strong mountain climber.

Career

Rubiera began to pursue a cycling career at the age of 14.

After his victory at the Spanish tour of Bidasoa Itzulia, Rubiera became a professional in 1994 with the Kelme team , which at that time was still called Artiach. He celebrated his first professional victory in the same year at the Memorial Valenciaga criterion race.

His breakthrough came when he finished tenth at the Giro d'Italia in 1997 and was able to win a difficult mountain stage in Pfalzen . In 1997 he was also victorious in the Oviedo criterion .

He continued to prove his potential in the big tours, when he was 13th in the 1998 Giro d'Italia , where he got three more top ten placements on stages, and in 1999 sixth in the Vuelta a España . In 2000 Chechu even won a stage at the Giro d'Italia and came in eighth overall. He also won victories at the Subida al Naranco in 1998 and 2000 and the Volta ao Alentejo in Portugal , where he was also the first to finish a part of the day.

After these extremely successful early years as a professional, he switched to US Postal in 2001 because of financial problems at Kelme, where he worked as a helper for Lance Armstrong and Roberto Heras . Although he drove as a helper (" water carrier ") on the big tours, he managed a seventh place in the Vuelta a España 2001 and two 19th places in four Tour de France participations, in which he first took part in 2001. In 2003, 2004 and 2005 he and his team won the team time trial there, and twice he was ninth in the stage. Rubiera reached the finish of the tour in Paris five times as domestique of the victorious Armstrong . In 2004 he won the Jaén criterion and in 2005 in Las Rozas . At the Tour of Qinghai Lake , Rubiera achieved a stage win in 2007.

Rubiera was also from 2005 together with Jens Voigt driver spokesman for the CPA and elected representative of the drivers at the UCI World Cycling Federation and the UCI ProTour Council.

After the end of the Discovery Channel team in late 2007, Rubiera signed with Team Astana , where the former Discovery manager Johan Bruyneel also moved. For the new team, he was successful in a section of the Vuelta a Murcia and played the Vuelta a España .

Good results followed in 2009 with tenth place in the California Tour after a sixth stage rank . At the Giro d'Italia , Rubiera accompanied his long-time captain Lance Armstrong, who had returned, as a helper. However , he had to give up the Vuelta a España after the eleventh day.

For the 2010 season Rubiera Armstrong accompanied to his new team RadioShack . He finished tenth at the Vuelta a Castilla y León before ending his professional cycling career with the Oviedo criterion at the end of the season .

Trivia

Rubiera got his nickname "Chechu" from his mother.

successes

1994

  • Winner Bisadoa Itzulia

1995

  • Winner Memorial Valenciaga

1997

1998

1999

2000

2004

2005

  • Las Rozas Criterion Winner

2007

2008

  • Winner of the second stage of the Tour of Murcia

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.chechurubiera.info/profile.html Biography on Rubiera's official website

Web links
personal data
SURNAME Rubiera, José Luis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Gijón , Asturias, Spain