Cycling in Colombia
The cycling in Colombia since the 1950s as a competitive sport , and since the 1970s as a popular sport become popular. Metropolitan areas have developed their own cycling culture. Large events take place regularly, and Colombian cycling teams have international successes. Racing events within Colombia are the Vuelta a Colombia and the Clásico RCN , international teams start in the Tour de France , the Vuelta a España or the Giro d'Italia . In 2013, Colombia was third in the UCI World Tour 2013 nation ranking .
history
The beginnings of Colombian cycling can be traced back to the end of the 19th century, when the local horse racing track Hipódromo de la Gran Sabana in Bogotá was open to sports cyclists on the weekend days.
The Second World War brought an interruption in development, which only started again with long-distance races such as the one between Bogotá and Tunja (336 km). In 1929 Rafael Borda was able to win there. In the 1930s there were other races, such as B. with the routes Bogotá- Cúcuta or Bogotá- Quito in Ecuador.
In 1938 the first Juegos Bolivarianos took place in Bogotá , a multi-sport event of South American countries including Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, Peru and Venezuela. Colombia did not win any medals in the cycling discipline. In the same year, the first Colombian cycling association was founded, the Asociación Colombiano de Ciclismo (Aciclismo). The seat of the association was Cali , which developed into a center of cycling in the next few years, which then, after the establishment of the Federación Colombiana de Ciclismo , the organizer of later major events, moved to Bogotá.
Colombian cycling caught international attention in the late 1940s when the Colombian team won the first gold medal in a road race at the Central American Games in 1948 . A Colombian tour was requested at the end of 1950 by the journalists of the newspaper El Tiempo , which then organized the first Colombia tour, the Vuelta a Colombia , which Efraín Forero , called "El Zipa", won. This was the first race in South America to be run in stages in 1951 in Colombia . The Frenchman José Beyaert won the second edition of the tour , became head of the Colombian national cycling team and one of the most important protagonists in the following years. Efraín Forero's victory marked the beginning of Colombian enthusiasm for cycling.
Cycling disciplines
Road cycling
In road cycling ( Spanish ciclismo de ruta ) the first Vuelta a Colombia was held in 1951 and is still carried out today.
In 1961, the second major cycling stage race , the Clásico RCN (RCN classic), sponsored by the radio station Radio Cadena National , which Rubén Darío Gómez won twice in a row right from the start , started in 1961 .
Success abroad
- 1977-1988
The first internationally known Colombian cyclist in the Tour de France was Cochise Rodríguez , who finished 27th in the 1977 race. Under the name Colombia-Varta , a Colombian team started the tour for the first time in 1983 . It was the nominally composed of amateurs national team of Colombia. The best driver in the overall standings was Edgar Corredor in 16th place ahead of Patrocinio Jimenez in 17th. In the 1988 Tour, Fabio Parra won three stages and finished the tour in third overall. Luis "Lucho" Alberto Herrera won the dotted jersey in 1985 and 1987 and took five victories at mountain stages. He was also the winner of the Vuelta a España in 1987.
- 2000
At the end of the 1990s , Santiago Botero, from Medellín , was known . Among other things, he secured three stages of the Vuelta a España and the Tour de France , in which he also reached the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris in 2000 as the winner of the mountain classification . In the time trial at the road cycling world championship in Zolder , Belgium , he became time trial world champion in 2002.
- 2005
In 2005 the Colombian Iván Parra won two stages in the Giro d'Italia .
- 2007
In 2007 the Colombian Mauricio Soler won one of the most difficult stages of the Tour de France , the 9th stage (159.5 km) in Val-d'Isère Briançon. He received the dotted jersey of the tour as a representative of the traditional "escarabajos" (beetles), as the mountain specialists are called in Colombia.
- 2013
In 2013, Nairo Quintana won a stage of the Tour de France , came second overall and won the mountain and junior class
- 2014
Nairo Quintana was the first Colombian to win the Giro d'Italia . Rigoberto Urán came second .
- 2019
Egan Bernal was the first Colombian who the Tour de France won
Track racing
The track cycling ( Spanish ciclismo de pista ) experienced large by new Velodrome an upswing: 1970 was Velódromo Alcides Nieto Patiño in Cali built 1995 Velódromo Luis Carlos Galán in Bogotá, plus there is more in Colombia gyms like the Velódromo Aníbal Gaviria in Medellin .
BMX
In BMX Colombia is also well represented. Mariana Pajón Londoño won the gold medal and Carlos Oquendo the bronze in the 2012 Summer Olympics .
Cycling polo
The South American tournament Torneo Sudamericano has been taking place since 2011 . The Hagame Famoso team came third in 2011 and 2013.
Views
Professional cycling in Colombia has declined significantly since the 1990s. There is a lack of sponsors for international teams, and the high costs of modern equipment make it difficult to enter professional sport. Despite this, Colombia was in third place in the nations ranking of the UCI World Tour 2013 .
Bicycle culture and popular sport
In Colombia, cycling is both a spectator and, from the 1970s, a popular sport. For example, in the capital Bogotá, which calls itself “bike-friendly city”, the Ciclovía has been organized every Sunday and public holiday since 1976 . For this purpose, over 120 kilometers of the road network in 18 of the 20 districts will be closed to motorized traffic from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. in order to give cyclists free roads. Of the average of 1.6 million participants, 0.5 million are cyclists. In addition, the capital has built 376 kilometers of cycle paths since 1998, and over 90,000 cyclists are on the road every day in the Kennedy district.
The Colombian model of car-free days for cyclists and pedestrians has been adopted by many other cities around the world.
literature
- Matt Rendell: Kings of the Mountains. How Colombia's cycling heroes changed their nation's history. Aurum Press, London 2002, ISBN 1-85410-837-9
Web links
- Arcotriunfal: Ciclismo , sports history portal on the subject of Colombian cycling (Spanish)
- Clásico RCN 1961-2010. 50 años de ciclismo. Zetta comunicadores SA 2010, ISBN 978-958-44-7624-1 . Contains 5 digitized volumes on the history of the Clásico RCN (Spanish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Camará de Comercio de Bogotá: Movilidad en bicicleta en Bogotá. ( Memento of the original from May 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 2009. (PDF; 6.9 MB). Retrieved January 27, 2014 (Spanish).
- ↑ a b UCI WorldTour Ranking 2013: Nation . Retrieved January 29, 2014.
- ↑ a b Escarabajos de dos ruedas: los velocipedistas. In: Revista Credencial Historia No. 181, 2005. Retrieved January 26, 2014 (Spanish).
- ↑ a b c El primer campeón de la Vuelta a Colombia. ( Memento of the original from February 1, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website www.arcotriunfal.com . Retrieved January 26, 2014 (Spanish).
- ↑ José Beyaert in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original ). Retrieved January 27, 2014.
- ↑ Tobías Carvajal Crespo: Luto en el ciclismo nacional: Murió Rubén Darío Gómez. ( Memento of the original from April 22, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website www.arcotriunfal.com . Retrieved February 2, 2014 (Spanish).
- ↑ 70eme Tour de France . Memoire du cyclisme. Archived from the original on April 22, 2007. Retrieved September 9, 2007.
- ↑ Team profile: Hagame Famoso (Make me Famous) ( Memento of the original from February 19, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , on goalhole.com on March 29, 2013.
- ↑ Análisis costo-beneficio del ahorro en salud pública por actividad física para usuarios de la Ciclovía PDF (Spanish) accessed on January 27, 2014
- ↑ Cifras de interés sobre el uso de la Bicicleta in Bogotá. 2011 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. PDF (Spanish) accessed on January 27, 2014
- ^ Javier C. Hernandez: Car-Free Streets, a Colombian Export, Inspire Debate. In: The New York Times, June 24, 2008. Retrieved January 27, 2014.
