Oier Lazkano (Vitoria, 24 years old) put her name in history of Tourmalet when leading and alone the mythical Tour port, at 2,115 meters above sea level and after a 19-kilometer climb at 7.4 percent.
Lazkano, who responded to an attack by the Frenchman Gaudu 500 meters from the top, crossed the port banner, becoming the fourteenth Spanish cyclist to conquer the Tourmalet. This time, the Alava cyclist won the Jacques Goddet Prize, worth 5,000 euros.
The last Spaniard to conquer the Tourmalet was the Cantabrian David de la Fuente, in 2006. The history among the Spaniards was opened by Vicente Trueba in 1933. And the first in the entire history of the “grande boucle” was the Frenchman Octave Lapize in 1910.
In the Spanish peloton, Bahamontes, the “Eagle of Toledo”, stood out with 4 passes in the Tourmalet, within his career of 6 mountain awards in the Tour, while Julio Jiménez won the crown in 3 occasion.
.- Spaniards first crowned at Tourmalet
– 1933. Vicente Trueba
– 1937. Julián Berrendero
– 1954. Bahamontes
– 1955. Miguel Poblet
– 1962. Bahamontes
– 1963. Bahamontes
– 1964. Bahamontes and Julio Jiménez
– 1965. Julio Jimenez
– 1966. Julio Jiménez
– 1970. Andres Gandarias
– 1974. Gonzalo Aja
– 1976. Paco Galdós
– 1985. Peio Ruiz Cabestany
– 1988. Lale Cubino
– 1990. Miguel Ángel Martínez Torres
– 1997. Javier Pascual Rodríguez
– 2006. David de la Fuente
– 2024. Oier Lazkano. EFE
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Source: La Verdad
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