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Luis Ocaña

Luis Ocaña

Spanish Cyclist


Dead at 48 years
Birthday
Saturday
He is born 79 years, 5 months and 12 days ago
Death date
Thursday

He is dead since 30 years, 6 months and 2 days

Cause of death: suicide

Birthplace
Priego, Spain
Nationality: spanish Espagne
Categorie
Sportsmen » Cyclists
Birth sign: Gemini
Chinese birth sign: Rooster

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 back to back Tour champion Eddy Merckx, but 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.

Source : Wikipedia