Juan Manuel Gárate

Juan Manuel Gárate

Gárate at the 2011 Critérium du Dauphiné
Personal information
Full name	Juan Manuel Gárate Cepa
Born	(1976-04-24) 24 April 1976 Irun, Spain
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	62 kg (137 lb)
Team information
Current team	Belkin Pro Cycling
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Climber
Professional team(s)
2000–2004 2005 2006–2008 2009–	Lampre-Daikin Saunier Duval-Prodir Quick Step-Innergetic Rabobank
Major wins
Grand Tours Giro d'Italia 1 individual stage (2006) Mountains classification (2006) Tour de France 1 individual stage (2009) Vuelta a España 1 individual stage (2001) One-day races and Classics National Road Race Championships (2005)
Infobox last updated on 1 January 2014

Juan Manuel Gárate Cepa (born 24 April 1976 in Irun) is a Spanish professional road racing cyclist. He currently rides for the Belkin Pro Cycling team.^[1] 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, tenth overall in the 2004, 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. He has also won stages in the Tour de Suisse, the Vuelta a España, the Giro del Trentino and more recently he finished first on Mont Ventoux in the penultimate stage of the Tour de France 2009.

Palmarès

Grand Tour General Classification Results Timeline

Grand Tour	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013
Giro	—	20	4	—	10	5	7	—	37	—	—	—	59	31
Tour	—	—	—	—	—	66	72	21	—	62	35	WD	—	—
Vuelta	62	37	WD	69	23	—	—	30	15	38	46	66	42	71

WD = Withdrew; IP = In Progress

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Juan Manuel Gárate.

• Official website
• Juan Manuel Gárate at Trap-Friis.dk. Archive copy at the Wayback Machine (archived 24 May 2011)