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Historic Overview Pedro Delgado Robledo

Rider

Overall Rank51
NamePedro DELGADO ROBLEDO
Country
  Spain
Date of birth15-Apr-1960 - Segovia (Castilla y Leon)
ContemporiesView Contemporary Ranking

Biography

Pedro Delgado Robledo

Pedro Delgado Robledo (pronounced [ˈpeðɾo ðelˈɣaðo roˈβleðo]; born 15 April 1960), also known as Perico ([peˈɾiko]), is a Spanish former professional road bicycle racer. He won the 1988 Tour de France, as well as the Vuelta a España in 1985 and 1989.

Delgado is 171 centimetres tall (5 ft 7-1/2 in) and used to weigh 64 kilograms (141 lb). He was a good climber, with an aggressive style, making cycling a spectacle, which gained him fans. On one hand, there were days when he was extremely successful attacking. On the other, he occasionally suffered from big losses of time due to mistakes or strokes of bad luck. He was also a good time-trialist until the nineties, when it became difficult for him to adapt to technical changes in the time-trial bicycles.

The ending of the 1987 Tour de France and the 1985 Vuelta a España and the whole 1989 Tour are among his more memorable participations in major competitions.

Delgado tested positive for the known masking agent Probenecid during the 1988 tour. The drug, which had been placed on the International Olympic Committee's list of banned substances in January of that year, was not banned by the sport's governing body, the Union Cycliste Internationale (it was a month later); as a consequence, Delgado was allowed to continue racing and was not charged with any doping offence.

Delgado was such a consistently strong rider that he finished in the top 10 of eighteen Grand Tours.

He works now as a sports commentator for Televisión Española during important cycling events.

Delgado inspired the name of the Scottish indie-rock band The Delgados.

source - Wikipedia

Badges

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Major Victories

Setmana Catalana 1993
Tour de France 1988
Vuelta a España 1985, 1989
Setmana Catalana - stages 1990 (1), 1993 (1)
Tour de France - stages 1985 (1), 1986 (1), 1987 (1), 1988 (1)
Tour de l'Avenir - stages 1979 (1)
Vuelta a España - stages 1985 (1), 1989 (3), 1992 (1)
More results

Seasons

Pedro Delgado Robledo - Scores by Season

Year Team Score Rank
1. 1979 Individual 39 432
2. 1981 Teka - Campagnolo 1 1033
3. 1982 Reynolds - Galli 396 136
4. 1983 Reynolds - Galli 1392 23
5. 1984 Reynolds 999 35
6. 1985 Seat - Orbea 2025 11
7. 1986 PDM - Ultima - Concorde 1423 22
8. 1987 PDM - Ultima - Concorde 2233 6
9. 1988 Reynolds - Reynolon - Pinarello 2790 2
10. 1989 Reynolds 2642 3
11. 1990 Banesto 1978 11
12. 1991 Banesto 1411 23
13. 1992 Banesto 2011 7
14. 1993 Banesto 1316 21
15. 1994 Banesto 929 44
Overall: 21585 51