Luis Herrera

Luis Herrera
Personal information
Full name	Luis Alberto Herrera
Nickname	Lucho El jardinerito de Fusagasugá
Born	(1961-05-04) May 4, 1961 (age 53) Fusagasugá, Colombia
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Climbing specialist
Amateur team(s)
1981 1982 1983 1984	Valyin de Pereira Lotería de Boyacá Leche La Gran Vía Varta Nacional A
Professional team(s)
1985-1990 1991-1992	Café de Colombia Ryalco Postobon
Major wins
Grand Tours Tour de France Mountain Classification (1985, 1987) 3 Individual Stages Giro d'Italia Mountain Classification (1989) 3 Individual Stages Vuelta a España General Classification (1987) Mountains Classification (1987, 1991) 2 Individual Stages Stage races Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré General classification (1988, 1991) Vuelta a Colombia General classification (1984, 1985, 1986, 1988) Clásico RCN General classification (1982, 1983, 1984, 1986)
Infobox last updated on January 10, 2007

Luis Alberto "Lucho" Herrera Herrera known as "el jardinerito" (the little gardener) (born May 4, 1961 in Fusagasugá, Colombia) is a retired Colombian road racing cyclist. Herrera was a professional from 1985 to 1992 but had a successful amateur career before that in Colombia.

He entered his first Vuelta a Colombia in 1981 where he finished 16th overall and 3rd in the New Rider competition.^[1] Although he abandoned his second Vuelta a Colombia in 1982, he won Colombia's second major stage-race the Clásico RCN. In 1983 Herrera won Clásico RCN again as well as two stages and finishing second overall to Alfonso Florez Ortiz in the 1983 Vuelta a Colombia.^[2] In 1984 he would win the Vuelta a Colombia, the Clásico RCN as well as winning stage 17 to Alpe d'Huez in the 1984 Tour de France, becoming the first Colombian to win a stage of the race, and the first amateur cyclist to win a stage in the history of the Tour de France. He would win the Vuelta a Colombia and the Clásico RCN four times each but his greatest achievement was in 1987, when he won the Vuelta a España, the first South American to win a Grand Tour. Herrera also won the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré in 1988 and 1991 and five "King of the Mountains" jerseys from the three Grand Tours.

Luis Herrera is the second rider to win the "King of the Mountains jersey in all three Grand Tours. The first was Federico Bahamontes of Spain.

Major accomplishments

Grand Tours overall classification results timeline

Grand Tour	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992
Vuelta	-	WD	-	1	20	-	12	13	WD
Giro	-	-	-	-	-	18	-	-	8
Tour	27	7	22	5	6	19	-	31	-

WD = Withdrew

References

1. Jump up ^ "31a Vuelta a Colombia 1981". Retrieved 2007-10-20. 
2. Jump up ^ "33a Vuelta a Colombia". Retrieved 2007-10-20. 

External links

• Palmarès
• Luis Herrera profile at Cycling Archives