Luis Ocaña
Ocaña at the 1973 Tour de France | |||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Jesús Luis Ocaña Pernía | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 9 June 1945 Priego, Spain | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 19 May 1994 (aged 48) Nogaro, France | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Climber | ||||||||||||||
| Amateur team | |||||||||||||||
| 1966–1967 | Mercier–BP–Hutchinson | ||||||||||||||
| Professional teams | |||||||||||||||
| 1968–1969 | Fagor–Fargas | ||||||||||||||
| 1970–1974 | Bic | ||||||||||||||
| 1975–1976 | Super Ser | ||||||||||||||
| 1977 | Frisol–Thirion–Gazelle | ||||||||||||||
| Managerial teams | |||||||||||||||
| 1984 | Teka | ||||||||||||||
| 1985 | Fagor | ||||||||||||||
| 1987 | AD Renting–Fangio–IOC–MBK | ||||||||||||||
| 1989–1990 | Puertas Mavisa–Galli | ||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Jesús Luis Ocaña Pernía (pronounced [xeˈsus ˈlwis oˈkaɲa peɾˈnia]; 9 June 1945 – 19 May 1994) was a Spanish road bicycle racer who won the 1973 Tour de France and the 1970 Vuelta a España. During the 1971 Tour de France he launched an amazing solo breakaway that put him into the Yellow Jersey and stunned the rest of the main field, including Tour champion Eddy Merckx, but he abandoned in the fourteenth stage after a crash on the descent of the Col de Menté. Ocaña would abandon many Tours, but he finished every Vuelta a España he entered except for his first, and finished in the top 5 seven times in a row.