Joaquim RodrÃguez
- Mountain jersey Vuelta a España 2005
- 2nd place overall and winning scoring Giro d'Italia 2012
- A stage win Tour de France
- Two stage wins Giro d' Italia
- Eight stage wins Vuelta a España
Spanish Champion - Road Race 2007
La Flèche Wallonne 2012 Tour of Lombardy 2012, 2013
1st place individual ranking in 2010, 2012, 2013
Appreciation Tour of Catalonia 2010
Joaquim Rodriguez Oliver ( born May 12, 1979 in Barcelona ) is a Spanish cyclist.
Career
Rodríguez is professional since 2001 and continues in Katjuscha team since 2010. He is known as a climbing specialist and won at the 2003 Vuelta for the first time a stage in a Grand Tour. In the Vuelta a España 2005 he conquered the mountain jersey for yourself. In 2006, Rodríguez joined the Spanish team Caisse d' Epargne and was able to win a stage in Paris-Nice in the same year.
In July 2007, the 28- year-old Spaniard road champion of his country and was relegated his team captain and compatriot Alejandro Valverde to 2nd place. Tirreno- Adriatico In 2008 he won the arrival at Montelupone (up to 22 % slope) solo where he should be victorious in 2009.
He won in 2010 his first Tour de France stage in Mende before Alberto Contador.
2012 was the most successful year for Rodríguez. After stage victories at smaller tours he won the Fleche Wallonne. He took part in the 2012 Giro d' Italia and the Vuelta a España and two tours in the meantime, it looked as if he could win his first Grand Tour victory overall. At the Giro he missed the overall victory by a mere 16 seconds after he was gone from the lead in the final time trial. In the Vuelta a España, he took over already on the fourth stage of the overall lead, which he was able to expand by victories in three heavy mountain top finishes and also about the time trial, he could yet save one second ahead in contrast to the Giro. On the 17th stage, in profile very spectacular, from sporting history here but even more, he lost more than two minutes for Alberto Contador and Alejandro Valverde, so that he had to ultimately settle for third place overall. End of the season he was winning the Tour of Lombardy to still clinch their first win at one of the monuments and at the same time thus securing the first place in the final of the UCI World Tour 2012. 2013 he won a stage in each of the Tour of Oman and Tirreno- Adriatico and denied its only the second Tour de France. Here, he was third overall behind Chris Froome and Nairo Quintana. Thus he once stood at all three major country tours on the podium.
Achievements
- Escalada a Montjuïc
- A stage of Paris-Nice
- A stage in the Vuelta a España
- Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme
- Subida Urkiola
- Mountain jersey Vuelta a España
- A stage of Paris-Nice
- Klasika Primavera
- Spanish Champion - Road Race
- Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia
- A stage of Tirreno- Adriatico
- A stage of Tirreno- Adriatico
- A stage in the Vuelta a Burgos
- Appreciation Volta Ciclista a Catalunya
- Gran Premio Miguel Indurain
- A stage in the Vuelta al País Vasco
- A stage of the Tour de France
- A stage in the Vuelta a España
- Winner of the individual competition of the UCI World Rankings
- A stage in the Vuelta al País Vasco
- Two stages, mountain and Critérium du Dauphiné Scoring
- A stage and Appreciation Burgos Tour
- Two stages of the Vuelta a España
- A stage of Tirreno- Adriatico
- Vuelta al País Vasco two stages
- La Flèche Wallonne
- Two stages and scoring Giro d' Italia
- Three stages Vuelta a España
- Tour of Lombardy
- Winner of the individual competition of the UCI World Tour
- A stage in the Tour of Oman
- A stage of Tirreno- Adriatico
- A stage in the Vuelta a España
- UCI Road World Championships 2013 in the road race
- Tour of Lombardy
- Winner of the individual competition of the UCI World Tour
- A stage and Appreciation Volta Ciclista a Catalunya