CYCLIST

Luis Ocaña

1945 - 1994

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Luis Ocaña has received more than 156,055 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Luis Ocaña is the 20th most popular cyclist (up from 27th in 2019), the 577th most popular biography from Spain (up from 695th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Spanish Cyclist.

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Among CYCLISTS

Among cyclists, Luis Ocaña ranks 20 out of 1,613. Before him are Joop Zoetemelk, Henri Cornet, Rik Van Looy, Charly Gaul, Roger De Vlaeminck, and Marco Pantani. After him are Alfredo Binda, Sante Gaiardoni, Tom Simpson, Philippe Thys, Roger Pingeon, and Laurent Fignon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Luis Ocaña ranks 133. Before him are Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Viktor Saneyev, Catherine Spaak, James Avery, George Miller, and Alain Juppé. After him are Yuen Woo-ping, Christine Kaufmann, Radu Lupu, Gal Costa, Barbara Carrera, and Junji Kawano. Among people deceased in 1994, Luis Ocaña ranks 86. Before him are Federica Montseny, Zein Al-Sharaf Talal, Tengiz Abuladze, Jean Borotra, Branko Mikulić, and Yevgeny Leonov. After him are Nikolai Ogarkov, Jack Unterweger, Max Morlock, Innokenty Smoktunovsky, James Clavell, and Andrés Escobar.

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In Spain

Among people born in Spain, Luis Ocaña ranks 577 out of 3,355. Before him are Alfonso, Prince of Asturias (1453), Clemente Domínguez y Gómez (1946), Mary of Jesus of Ágreda (1602), Infanta María de la Paz of Spain (1862), Silo of Asturias (720), and Javier Clemente (1950). After him are Hugh I, Duke of Burgundy (1057), Sebastián de Belalcázar (1480), Federico Mompou (1893), Manuel Marín (1949), Aelia Flaccilla (356), and Eleanor of Aragon, Queen of Castile (1358).

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Among CYCLISTS In Spain

Among cyclists born in Spain, Luis Ocaña ranks 3. Before him are Federico Bahamontes (1928), and Miguel Induráin (1964). After him are Francisco Gabica (1937), Alberto Contador (1982), José Manuel Fuente (1945), Julio Jiménez (1934), Francisco Cepeda (1906), Pedro Delgado (1960), Fernand Sanz (1881), Bernardo Ruiz (1925), and Carlos Sastre (1975).

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