Juan Miguel Mercado

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Mercado in his Polka Dot King of the Mountains leader jersey signing in at the 2006 Tour de France
Mercado in his Polka Dot King of the Mountains leader jersey signing in at the 2006 Tour de France

Juan Miguel Mercado-Martin (born 7 July 1978 in Armilla, Granada) is a Spanish professional road bicycle racer since 1998. In 2006, he rides on the Agritubel team, a UCI Continental team that rides in UCI Europe Tour and invited UCI ProTour events. At the Tour de France, Mercado won Stage 18 at the 2004 Tour and captured a surprise win on Stage 10 (the first mountain stage) of the 2006 Tour de France in an early breakaway with Cyril Dessel (Ag2r Prévoyance).

[edit] Major achievements

2006 – Agritubel
2005 – Quick Step-Innergetic
  • Overall and Stage win – Tour of Austria
2004 – Quick Step-Davitamon
2003 – iBanesto.com
2002 – iBanesto.com
2001 – iBanesto.com
  • Stage win – Vuelta a España
  • Stage win – Volta ao Alentejo
  • Overall and Stage win – Vuelta a Burgos
2000 – Vitalicio Seguros
1999 – Vitalicio Seguros
1998 – Vitalicio Seguros


Riders on Agritubel

Linas Balciunas | Aivaras Baranauskas | Emilien Benoit Berges | Freddy Bichot | Manuel Calvente | Cedric Coutouly | Hans Dekkers | Moisés Dueñas | Romain Feillu | Mikel Gaztanaga | Eduardo Gonzalo | Cédric Herve | Nicolas Jalabert | José Alberto Martinez | Juan Miguel Mercado | Samuel Plouhinec | Freddy Ravaleu | Anthony Ravard | Denis Robin | Benoît Sinner | Benoît Salmon |  Nicolas Vogondy

Manager
David Fornes