- Marino Lejarreta
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This name uses Spanish naming customs; the first or paternal family name is Lejarreta and the second or maternal family name is Arrizabalaga.
Marino Lejarreta 
Personal information Full name Marino Lejarreta Arrizabalaga Nickname El Junco de Bérriz Born May 14, 1957
Berriz, SpainTeam information Current team Retired Discipline Road Role Rider Professional team(s) 1979
1980–1982
1983–1984
1985
1986
1987–1989
1990–1992Novostil-Helios
Teka
Alfa Lum
Alpilatte-Cierre
Seat-Orbea
Caja Rural
O.N.C.E.Major wins Vuelta a España (1982), 5 stages
- Points Classification (1983)
Tour de France, 1 stageInfobox last updated on
September 5, 2007Marino Lejarreta Arrizabalaga (born 14 May 1957 in Berriz, Biscay) is a retired Spanish professional road racing cyclist. His biggest victory was capturing the 1982 Vuelta a España, a Grand Tour stage race, and he is the inaugural and record three-time winner of the Clásica de San Sebastián (1981, 1982, 1987), which is now considered a one-day classic. In 1989, Lejarreta captured the Volta a Catalunya repeating one of his first professional wins in 1980 at the same event.
Lejarreta is the only person in history[1] to complete all three Grand Tours in a single year four times in a career; he did the triple in 1987, 1989, 1990 and 1991.
Major achievements
- 1980
- 1st, Overall, Volta a Catalunya
- 1st, Overall, Escalada a Montjuïc (and one stage win)
- 3rd, Vuelta al País Vasco
- 1981
- 1st, Clásica de San Sebastián
- 1st, Subida al Naranco
- 3rd, Vuelta al País Vasco
- 1982
1st, Overall, Vuelta a España- 1st, Clásica de San Sebastián
- 1st, Escalada a Montjuïc
- 5th, World Cycling Championships
- 1983
- 1st, Overall, Escalada a Montjuïc (and two stage wins)
- 2nd, Overall, Vuelta a España (and three stage wins)
- 1st, Points Classification
- 3rd, Vuelta al País Vasco
- 1984
- 4th, Overall Giro d'Italia (and one stage win)
- 1985
- 3rd, Vuelta al País Vasco
- 1986
- 1st, Overall, Vuelta a Burgos
- 1st, Subida al Naranco
- 2nd, Clásica de San Sebastián
- 5th, Overall, Vuelta a España (and one stage win)
- 18th, Overall, Tour de France
- 1987 – Orbea
- 1st, Clásica de San Sebastián
- 1st, Subida a Urkiola
- 1st, Overall, Vuelta a Burgos (and two stage wins)
- 4th, Overall, Giro d'Italia
- 10th, Overall, Tour de France
- 34th, Overall, Vuelta a España
- 1988
- 1st, Subida a Urkiola
- 1st, Escalada a Montjuïc
- 1st, Overall, Vuelta a Burgos (and one stage win)
- 1st, Overall, Tour of Galicia
- 16th, Overall, Tour de France
- 1989 – Paternina-Marcos Eguizabal
- 1st, Overall, Volta a Catalunya
- 5th, Overall, Tour de France
- 10th, Overall, Giro d'Italia
- 20th, Overall, Vuelta a España
- 1990 – ONCE
- 1st, Overall, Escalada a Montjuïc
- 5th, Overall, Tour de France
- 1st, Stage 14
- 7th, Overall, Giro d'Italia
- 55th, Overall, Vuelta a España
- 1991 – ONCE
- 3rd, Overall, Vuelta a España
- 5th, Overall, Giro d'Italia (and one stage win)
- 53rd, Overall, Tour de France
References
Categories:- 1957 births
- Living people
- People from Biscay
- Basque cyclists
- Spanish cyclists
- Doping cases in cycling
- Spanish Tour de France stage winners
- Vuelta a España winners
- Spanish Vuelta a España stage winners
- Spanish Giro d'Italia stage winners
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