Luis Herrera (cyclist)

Luis Herrera (2009)

Luis Alberto "Lucho" Herrera (born May 4, 1961 in Fusagasugá , Cundinamarca ) is a former Colombian cyclist .

Herrera was considered the best mountain climber of his generation and the pioneer of many of the following Colombian climbers. After he was initially particularly successful in races on the American continent, he started with a Colombian team, with which he spent his entire career, as a formal amateur in the Tour de France in 1984 and won the mountain stage to Alpe d'Huez as a soloist. His considerable deficits in the individual and team time trials prevented a better placement .

His greatest successes include two wins in the mountains and three stages in the Tour de France , in which he was also placed three times in the top ten of the overall standings, the overall victory of the Vuelta a España in 1987 and two overall victories at the Critérium du Dauphiné in 1988 and 1991. In his home country he also won three times at the Vuelta a Colombia and four times at the Clásico RCN .

After his career he was kidnapped together with the cyclist Oliverio Rincón , but was released unharmed.

successes

1980

• Mountain classification Vuelta a Colombia

1981

• a stage Clásico RCN

1982

• Overall classification, three stages and Clásico RCN mountain classification
• a stage Tour de l'Avenir

1983

• Overall classification, one stage and Clásico RCN mountain classification
• two stages, points classification and mountain classification Vuelta a Colombia
• two stages and the Coors Classic mountain classification
• one stage Grand Prix Guillaume Tell

1984

• Overall classification, one stage and Clásico RCN mountain classification
• Overall ranking, three stages, points ranking, mountain ranking and combined ranking Vuelta a Colombia
• a stage Tour de France

1985

• Clásico RCN mountain classification
• Overall classification, two stages, points classification and mountain classification Vuelta a Colombia
• two stages and the Tour de France mountain classification

1986

• Overall classification, prologue two stages, points classification and Clásico RCN mountain classification
• Overall ranking, one stage, points ranking, mountain ranking and combined ranking Vuelta a Colombia

1987

• Overall classification, one stage and mountain classification Vuelta a España
• Prologue Vuelta a Colombia
• Tour de France mountain classification

1988

• Overall ranking and one stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné
• Overall classification, two stages and points classification Vuelta a Colombia

1989

• a stage and mountain classification Giro d'Italia

1990

• Prologue Clásico RCN

1991

• Overall ranking and a stage Dauphiné Libéré
• a stage and mountain classification Vuelta a España
• a stage Volta a Catalunya

1992

• Prologue Vuelta a Colombia
• Overall ranking and a stage Vuelta a Aragón
• a stage of the Giro d'Italia

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992
Vuelta a España	-	DNF	-	1	20th	-	12	13	-
Giro d'Italia	-	-	-	-	-	18th	-	-	8th
Tour de France	27	7th	22nd	5	6th	19th	-	31	-

Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Herbie Sykes: Der Wegbereiter compilation = Procycling , German edition . July, 2017, p. 96 ff .

Web links

• Luis Herrera in the Memoire du cyclisme database
• Luis Herrera in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Luis Herrera in the Tour de France database(French / English )