José Herrada

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José Herrada
Herrada at the 2015 Tour de France
Personal information
Full nameJosé Herrada López
Born (1985-10-01) 1 October 1985 (age 39)
Mota del Cuervo, Spain
Height1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight65 kg (143 lb; 10.2 st)
Team information
Current teamRetired
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeClimber
Amateur team
2004–2005Enypesa–El Mundo
Professional teams
2006–2007Viña Magna–Cropu
2008–2009Contentpolis–Murcia
2010–2011Caja Rural
2012–2017Movistar Team[1]
2018–2023Cofidis[2][3][4]

José Herrada Lopez (born 1 October 1985) is a Spanish former professional road bicycle racer, who competed as a professional from 2006 to 2023. His brother Jesús Herrada is also a professional cyclist, and also competes for Cofidis.[2]

Career

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Born in Mota del Cuervo, Herrada has been competing as a professional since the 2006 season, competing for the Viña Magna–Cropu, Contentpolis–Murcia and Caja Rural teams prior to joining the Movistar Team for the 2012 season.[5] Herrada made his Grand Tour début at the 2012 Giro d'Italia; during the sixteenth stage, Herrada was part of the stage-long breakaway, and ended up finishing the stage in fifth place.[6][7]

He was named in the start list for the 2015 Tour de France,[8] which was his only appearance at the race. During the 2023 Vuelta a España, it was announced that Herrada would retire from professional cycling at the conclusion of the season.[9]

Major results

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Source: [10]

2005
9th Overall Ruban Granitier Breton
2006
10th Overall Vuelta a León
2007
1st Stage 6 Tour de l'Avenir
2nd Overall Tour des Pyrénées
1st Points classification
1st Mountains classification
1st Young rider classification
2009
3rd Klasika Primavera
6th Overall Vuelta a Asturias
2010
1st Overall Cinturó de l'Empordà
1st Stage 2
1st Stage 5 Volta a Portugal
3rd Overall Tour de Normandie
4th Overall Circuito Montañés
6th Overall Vuelta a Asturias
7th Overall Vuelta a la Comunidad de Madrid
8th Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia
10th Subida al Naranco
10th Klasika Primavera
2011
4th Overall Route du Sud
6th Overall Vuelta a Asturias
7th Gran Premio de Llodio
9th Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia
10th Overall Vuelta a Murcia
2013
5th Klasika Primavera
2014
1st Stage 1 (TTT) Vuelta a España
3rd Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia
2015
1st Klasika Primavera
2016
3rd Circuito de Getxo
2017
3rd Circuito de Getxo
4th Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia
2019
8th Overall Vuelta a Murcia
Combativity award Stage 5 Vuelta a España

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

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Grand Tour 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023
A pink jersey Giro d'Italia 44 25 23 62 61
A yellow jersey Tour de France 65
A red jersey Vuelta a España 12 32 91 57 75 26 57 DNF 132
Legend
Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

References

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  1. ^ "Movistar Team 2013 holds get-together". Movistar Team. Abarca Sports S.L. 12 November 2012. Retrieved 7 January 2013.
  2. ^ a b "Jesus and Jose Herrada leave Movistar for Cofidis". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 30 August 2017. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
  3. ^ Bacon, Ellis (30 December 2019). "2020 Team Preview: Cofidis". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
  4. ^ "Cofidis". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 1 January 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  5. ^ "El Movistar Team se hace con los servicios de Javi Moreno y José Herrada" [The Movistar Team is serviced by Javi Moreno and Jose Herrada]. Marca (in Spanish). Unidad Editorial. Reuters. 21 August 2011. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
  6. ^ Westemeyer, Susan (22 May 2012). "Izagirre triumphs in Giro stage 16 to Falzes". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. Archived from the original on 25 May 2012. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
  7. ^ Atkins, Ben (22 May 2012). "Jon Izagirre takes breakaway stage sixteen as the peloton sleeps". VeloNation. VeloNation LLC. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
  8. ^ "2015 Tour de France start list". Velo News. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
  9. ^ Tyson, Jackie (1 September 2023). "Vuelta a España: Geoffrey Soupe breaks Groves' sprint streak on stage 7". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 1 October 2023. For Herrada, his motivation was perhaps knowing this Vuelta would be his final Grand Tour, and race, the 37-year-old having announced retirement from the pro peloton at the conclusion of the race.
  10. ^ "Jose Herrada". FirstCycling.com. FirstCycling AS. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
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