Marino Lejarreta

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Marino Lejarreta

Personal information
Full name	Marino Lejarreta Arrizabalaga
Nickname	El Junco de Bérriz
Date of birth	May 14, 1957(1957-05-14)
Country	Spain
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Professional team(s)
1979 1980–1982 1983–1984 1985 1986 1987–1989 1990–1992	Novostil-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) Giro d'Italia, 2 stages Tour de France, 1 stage
Infobox last updated on:
September 5, 2007

Marino Lejarreta Arrizabalaga (born 14 May 1957) 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.

[edit] Major achievements

[edit] References

1. ^ http://www.cvccbike.com/tour/eddy/tourrec.htm

Sporting positions
Preceded by Giovanni Battaglin	Winner of the Vuelta a España 1982	Succeeded by Bernard Hinault