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Abraham Olano 
Personal information Full name Abraham Olano Manzano Born January 22, 1970
Anoeta, SpainTeam information Current team Retired Discipline Road Role Rider Rider type Time-trialist Amateur team(s) Kaiku, AVSA Professional team(s) 1992
1992
1993
1994–1997
1997–1998
1999–2001CHCS
Lotus
CLAS Cajastur
Mapei
Banesto
ONCEMajor wins Grand Tours - Tour de France
- 1 Stage
- Vuelta a España
General Classification (1998)- 5 Stages
Road World Championship Time Trial (1998)
Road Race World Champion (1995)
Spanish National Road Race Champion (1994)- Spanish National Time Trial Champion (1994, 1998)
Medal recordCompetitor for 
SpainRoad bicycle racing Olympic Games Silver 1996 Atlanta Individual Time Trial World Championships Gold 1995 Duitama Elite Men's Road Race Gold 1998 Valkenburg Elite Men's Time Trial Silver 1995 Duitama Elite Men's Time Trial Infobox last updated on
20 February 2009Abraham Olano Manzano (born on January 22, 1970 in Anoeta, Gipuzkoa) is a Spanish Basque former professional road racing cyclist. His crowning achievement came in 1995 when he became World Road Champion. In 1998 he won the World Time Trial Championship.
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Amateur career
Olano started racing 11 years old at the Oria Cycling school, and already at junior level he won several races.[1] Later, Olano went to track racing. He became Spanish Champion in pursuit (together with Etxegoyen, Pérez and Juárez), in the 1 km with standing start and in sprint.[1] In road racing, he started as an amateur for Kaiku and AVSA. He was specialized in sprinting.
Professional career
In 1992, Olano started his professional career at CHCS. This team shortly after disbanded, and he moved to Lotus. With Lotus, Olano won his first professional race, the Gran Premio de Villafranca de Ordizia in Gipuzkoa.[1]
In 1993, Olano switched to CLAS Cajastur, which was later merged with Mapei. Here, he started to win important races, such as the Vuelta a Asturias and the Spanish National Road Race Championships, both in road race and time trial.
In 1995, Olano won the World Cycling Championship in Colombia, ahead of his compatriot Miguel Indurain, and won three stages in the Vuelta a España.[1] Olano was seen by many supporters as the successor to five-times Tour de France winner Miguel Indurain.
Olano established his abilities in stage races in 1996; he won the Tour de Romandie, finished third in the Giro d'Italia (leading the race at the second to last day), and finished ninth in the Tour de France. He also won the silver medal in the time trial at the 1996 Olympic Games.[1]
Olano finished fourth in the 1997 Tour de France.
In 1998, he again became world champion, this time in the time trial, and won his only grand tour, the Vuelta a España.[1]
In 1999, Olano switched to the Spanish ONCE team and remained there through the end of his career in 2001. His highest achievement in that period was 2nd place in the 2001 Giro d'Italia.[1]
After his cycling career
Olano is one of the people responsible for designing stages for the Vuelta a España.[1] In November 2006 he ran the San Sebastian marathon in a time of 2:39:19.
Major achievements
- 1994
- Winner, Spanish National Road Race Championships
- Winner, Spanish National Time Trial Championships
- Clásica de Alcobendas
- Vuelta a Asturias
- 1995
- Winner, Road Race World Championship
- Vuelta a España:
- Winner 3 stages
- 2nd place overall classification
- 1996
- Olympic Games
2nd place ITT
- Giro d'Italia:
- 3rd place overall classification
- Tour de France:
- 9th place overall classification
- Tour de Romandie
- Tour of Galicia
- 1997
- Tour de France:
- 4th place overall classification
- winner 1 stage
- Bicicleta Vasca
- Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
- 1998
- Winner, Time Trial World Championship
- Winner, Spanish National Time Trial Championships
- Vuelta a España:
- Winner
- Won 1 stage
- Bicicleta Vasca
- Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
- 1999
- Vuelta a España:
- Winner 1 stage
- Vuelta a Burgos
- 2000
- Vuelta a España:
- Winner 1 stage
- Tirreno–Adriatico
- Critérium International
- Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
- 2001
- Giro d'Italia:
- 2nd place overall classification
- Clásica de Alcobendas
External links
- Tour de France results
- Abraham Olano profile at Cycling Archives
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h "Abraham Olano". Giant Tours. http://www.giant-tours.com/pages/welcome/abraham-olano.php?lang=EN.
UCI Road World Champions – Men's road race 1927 Alfredo Binda • 1928–1929 Georges Ronsse • 1930 Alfredo Binda • 1931 Learco Guerra • 1932 Alfredo Binda • 1933 Georges Speicher • 1934 Karel Kaers • 1935 Jean Aerts • 1936 Antonin Magne • 1937 Eloi Meulenberg • 1938 Marcel Kint • 1946 Hans Knecht • 1947 Theo Middelkamp • 1948 Briek Schotte • 1949 Rik Van Steenbergen • 1950 Briek Schotte • 1951 Ferdi Kübler • 1952 Heinz Müller • 1953 Fausto Coppi • 1954 Louison Bobet • 1955 Stan Ockers • 1956–1957 Rik Van Steenbergen • 1958 Ercole Baldini • 1959 André Darrigade • 1960–1961 Rik van Looy • 1962 Jean Stablinski • 1963 Benoni Beheyt • 1964 Jan Janssen • 1965 Tom Simpson • 1966 Rudi Altig • 1967 Eddy Merckx • 1968 Vittorio Adorni • 1969 Harm Ottenbros • 1970 Jean-Pierre Monseré • 1971 Eddy Merckx • 1972 Marino Basso • 1973 Felice Gimondi • 1974 Eddy Merckx • 1975 Hennie Kuiper • 1976 Freddy Maertens • 1977 Francesco Moser • 1978 Gerrie Knetemann • 1979 Jan Raas • 1980 Bernard Hinault • 1981 Freddy Maertens • 1982 Giuseppe Saronni • 1983 Greg LeMond • 1984 Claude Criquielion • 1985 Joop Zoetemelk • 1986 Moreno Argentin • 1987 Stephen Roche • 1988 Maurizio Fondriest • 1989 Greg LeMond • 1990 Rudy Dhaenens • 1991–1992 Gianni Bugno • 1993 Lance Armstrong • 1994 Luc Leblanc • 1995 Abraham Olano • 1996 Johan Museeuw • 1997 Laurent Brochard • 1998 Oscar Camenzind • 1999 Óscar Freire • 2000 Romāns Vainšteins • 2001 Óscar Freire • 2002 Mario Cipollini • 2003 Igor Astarloa • 2004 Óscar Freire • 2005 Tom Boonen • 2006–2007 Paolo Bettini • 2008 Alessandro Ballan • 2009 Cadel Evans • 2010 Thor Hushovd • 2011 Mark Cavendish
UCI Road World Champions – Men's time trial 1994: Chris Boardman • 1995: Miguel Indurain • 1996: Alex Zülle • 1997: Laurent Jalabert • 1998: Abraham Olano • 1999: Jan Ullrich • 2000: Serhiy Honchar • 2001: Jan Ullrich • 2002: Santiago Botero • 2003: Michael Rogers • 2004: Michael Rogers • 2005: Michael Rogers • 2006: Fabian Cancellara • 2007: Fabian Cancellara • 2008: Bert Grabsch • 2009: Fabian Cancellara • 2010: Fabian Cancellara • 2011: Tony Martin
Categories:- 1970 births
- Living people
- Basque cyclists
- Spanish cyclists
- Spanish Tour de France stage winners
- Vuelta a España winners
- Olympic cyclists of Spain
- Cyclists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for Spain
- Spanish Vuelta a España stage winners
- UCI World Champions
- Olympic medalists in cycling
- Tour de France
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