Juan Manuel Gárate

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Juan Manuel Gárate

Gárate on the Port de Pailhères in 2005
Personal information
Full name	Juan Manuel Gárate Cepa
Date of birth	April 24, 1976 (1976-04-24) (age 32)
Country	Spain
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
Weight	62 kg (140 lb)
Team information
Current team	Quick-Step Innergetic
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Climber
Professional team(s)
2000–2004 2005 2006–	Lampre Saunier Duval Quick Step-Innergetic
Major wins
Spanish Championship (2005) Giro d'Italia, KoM (2006) Tour de Suisse (1 stage) (2002)
Infobox last updated on:
July 8, 2007

Juan Manual Gárate Cepa (born April 24, 1976 in Irun) is a Spanish professional road racing cyclist currently riding for the Quick Step-Innergetic team. He is perceived to be a climbing specialist, and to date his greatest achievements have been in the Giro d'Italia, where he placed fourth overall in 2002, fifth overall in 2005 and won the Mountains classification with a seventh overall at the 2006 Giro d'Italia. He also won the Spanish National Championship road race in 2005.

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[edit] External links

• Palmarès at Trap-Friis.dk

v • d • e Riders on Quick Step Carlos Barredo | Paolo Bettini | Tom Boonen | Matteo Carrara | Wilfried Cretskens | Steven de Jongh | Stijn Devolder | Alexander Efimkin | Addy Engels | Mauro Facci | Juan Manuel Gárate | Dmitry Grabovskiy | Kevin Hulsmans | Alessandro Proni | Sébastien Rosseler | Leonardo Scarselli | Hubert Schwab | Kevin Seeldraeyers | Gert Steegmans | Andrea Tonti | Matteo Tosatto | Jurgen Van de Walle | Kevin van Impe | Davide Viganò | Giovanni Visconti | Wouter Weylandt | Maarten Wynants | Manager: Patrick Lefevere

Persondata
NAME	Gárate, Juan Manuel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Gárate Cepa, Juan Manuel
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Road bicycle racer
DATE OF BIRTH	1976-04-24
PLACE OF BIRTH	Irun, Spain
DATE OF DEATH
PLACE OF DEATH