Luis León Sánchez

Luis León Sánchez ok
Personal information
Full name Luis León Sánchez Gil
Born November 24, 1983 (1983-11-24) (age 28)
 Spain
Height 1.87 m (6 ft 1 12 in)
Weight 74 kg (160 lb)
Team information
Current team Rabobank
Discipline Road
Role Rider
Rider type All-Rounder
Professional team(s)
2004–2006
2007–2010
2011–
Liberty Seguros
Caisse d'Epargne
Rabobank
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
4 individual stages

Stage Races

Paris-Nice (2009)
Tour Down Under (2005)

Single-Day Races and Classics

National Time Trial Champion
(2008, 2010, 2011)
Clásica de San Sebastián (2010)
Infobox last updated on
July 14, 2011

Luis León Sánchez Gil (born 24 November 1983 in Mula) is a Spanish road bicycle racer for UCI ProTeam Rabobank. He is also known as Lulu Sanchez. He rode for team Liberty Seguros-Würth from 2004 until 2006, when he moved to the Caisse d'Epargne team following the collapse of the Liberty Seguros-Würth team in the wake of the Operación Puerto doping case. He is a time trial specialist and over the last years has improved his climbing skills.

Leon is not his surname but he carries it as a middle name/second surname as a mark of respect to his Grandfather originally, but since late 2006 also as a tribute to his eldest brother, Leon Sanchez, who died in a motorbike accident. His younger brother, Pedro León Sánchez Gil, is a professional footballer, playing for Real Madrid as of 2010. His other brother, Antonio Leon Sanchez, plays indoor football.

Contents

Palmarès

2004
1st Stage 3 Clásica Internacional de Alcobendas
1st Stage 1 Vuelta a Asturias
2005
1st Overall Tour Down Under
1st Stage 3
1st Young rider's competition
1st Stage 3 Clásica Internacional de Alcobendas
2006
1st Young riders Competition winner, Paris–Nice
2nd Overall Tour Down Under
2nd Overall Vuelta a Castilla y León
3rd Overall Three Days of De Panne
2007
1st Overall Vuelta a Mallorca
3rd Overall Paris–Nice
1st Stage 6
2008
1st Spanish National Time Trial Championships
1st Stage 7 Tour de France
Combative rider for Stage 7
5th Overall Paris–Nice
1st Stage 7
2009
1st Stage 8 Tour de France
1st Overall Tour Méditerranéen
1st Overall Paris–Nice
1st Stage 7
1st Stage 1 Tour du Haut Var
5th Overall Vuelta al País Vasco
1st Stage 1
2010
1st Spanish National Time Trial Championships
1st Overall Circuit de la Sarthe
1st Stage 1
1st Clásica de San Sebastián
2nd Overall Volta ao Algarve
1st Stage 5 (ITT)
2nd Overall Tour Down Under
1st Stage 5
2nd Overall Paris–Nice
4th Overall Volta a Catalunya
10th Overall Vuelta a España
11th Overall Tour de France
2011
1st Spanish National Time Trial Championships
1st Stage 9 Tour de France
6th Overall Tour of Beijing

Grand Tours overall classification results timeline

Grand Tour 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011
Giro - - - - - - -
Tour 108 - - 62 26 11 57
Vuelta - WD 72 - - 10 53

References

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Sporting positions
Preceded by
Iván Gutiérrez
Alberto Contador
Spanish National Time Trial Champion
2008, 2010
Succeeded by
Alberto Contador
Incumbent