Miguel Indurain Larraya

1. Miguel Indurain Larraya Spanish cyclist 

2. Miguel Indurain Larraya  Was born on July 16, 1964 in the Navarrese town of Villava, near Pamplona (Spain), locality in which started practicing cycling as a member of the Club Ciclista Villavés. The first card of the Spanish cycling Federation, in the Cadet category is 1978. He started in the world of cycling from an early age, winning the first Championship of Spain in 1983, when he was still a teenager. He participated in theOlympic Games of Los Angeles (United States) in 1984, and was that same year when he took professional. 

3. Miguel Indurain Larraya  He went to the Tour of the future and won a time trial stage. A year later, in addition to winning two stages in that same race, he participated in his first Tour de France. Unlike other big three of the cycling world, Jacques Anquetil,Eddy Merckx and Bernard Hinault, who won the Tour on his first attempt, Indurain, at the express wish of its technical director, José Miguel Echávarri, began a long training plan, in the shadow of what was then the best Spanish cyclist Pedro Delgado.

4. Miguel Indurain Larraya  In 1985, only participated in four stages of the Tour, and in 1986, eleven. After some time began to run as gregarious Delgado for three years; in 1989, he won the first stage, and in 1990 it had become the man of confidence of his team-mate. He won the grueling arrival of Luz Ardiden and was tenth in the final standings. 

5. Miguel Indurain Larraya In 1991, his team, Banesto, started the French round with Indurain and Delgado as heads of rows and was established that the own career would be who would dictate a sentence. Indurain won his first Tourand two stages. Itsleader status was reaffirmed at the Spanish cycling team, which that year won the Medal of bronze in the World Championship of road fund played in Stuttgart (Germany). 

6. Miguel Indurain Larraya In 1992, Indurain won, again, the Tour, as well as stage prologue and time trial two, one of which got more than three minutes ahead of the runner-up. That same season he won also in the Giro of Italy, becoming the sixth rider in history achieved this doublet; He also won the Volta a Catalunya and the Championship of Spain, among other tests. In 1993, he repeated triumphs in the Giro and Tour, and got the silver medal in the test at World Championshipsroute. 

7. Miguel Indurain Larraya In 1994, he was again champion in the Tour, and was third in the Giro, which had focused clearly as preparation race for the French test. He also broke the hour record, classic test route runners had left, and that after him have followed others, as Swiss Tony Rominger, who later snatched the record. 

8. Miguel Indurain Larraya In 1995, he won his fifth Tour, as well as evidence of great prestige, such as the Midi Libre, the Dauphiné Libéré, and in the World of Colombia achieved the gold medal in the time trial test and La Plata in the background on the road, after covering a getaway of mate selection, Abraham Olano, that allowed him to proclaim himself world champion. 

9. Miguel Indurain Larraya Spanish cyclist  His record was completed in 1996, in a year in which the non-achievement of a new Tour did presage some its decline as a cyclist. He participated in the Atlanta 96 Olympic Games, where he won the gold medal in the time trial test. On 2 January 1997, Miguel Induráin announced his intention to retire from active professional cycling. He was awarded the Prize Prince of Asturias of sports.