José María Jiménez

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José María Jiménez

Personal information
Full name	José María Jiménez Sastre
Nickname	'El Chaba'
Date of birth	February 6, 1971(1971-02-06)
Date of death	December 6, 2003 (aged 32)
Country	Spain
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Climbing specialist
Professional team(s)
1993–2000 2001–2002	Banesto iBanesto.com
Major wins
Spain National Road Race Championship (1997) Vuelta a España King of the Mountains (1997, 1998, 1999 and 2001) Points classification (2001) 10 stages Volta a Catalunya (2001)
Infobox last updated on:
November 12, 2007

José María Jiménez Sastre (February 6, 1971 in El Barraco, Spain - December 6, 2003 in Madrid) was a professional road bicycle racer. His nickname was "El Chaba" which means "The wild one", referring to his style of attacking.

When he turned professional he was considered a potential successor of Miguel Indurain.^{[citation needed]} He won the points jersey (2001) and the mountains jersey (1997-1999, 2001) of the Vuelta a España, finishing 3rd overall in 1998, 5th in 1999, and 17th in 2001.

He often attacked without considering the consequences, which sometimes resulted in spectacular wins in the toughest mountain stages. During stage eight of the 1999 Vuelta a España Jiménez attacked the 23% grade of the Angliru in rain and fog to catch Pavel Tonkov's long solo break at the line and take the stage in a two-man sprint. However, he would subsequently pay for his attacking style in the next stage, where he would often lose by 10 or more minutes. Jiménez received psychological treatment for depression, and retired from professional cycling in 2002, at which point he got married. He died of a heart attack in a clinic in Madrid at the age of 32.^[1]

Spanish cyclist Carlos Sastre is Jimenez's brother-in-law.

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[edit] External links

• Profile by world-of-cycling.com
• Palmarès by memoire-du-cyclisme.net (French)

Persondata
NAME	Jimenez, Jose Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Road bicycle racer
DATE OF BIRTH	1971-02-06
PLACE OF BIRTH	El Barraco, Spain, Spain
DATE OF DEATH	2003-12-06
PLACE OF DEATH	Madrid, Spain