2000 Clásico RCN

2000 Clásico RCN
Race details
Dates		August 11 – August 20
Stages		9
Distance		1,344 km (835.1 mi)
Winning time		36h 08' 11" (37.1924 km/h or 23.1103 mph)
Palmares
	Winner	Juan Diego Ramírez (COL)	(05 Orbitel)
	Second	Elder Herrera (COL)	(05 Orbitel)
	Third	Julio César Aguirre (COL)	(05 Orbitel)

	Points	Elder Herrera (COL)	(05 Orbitel)
	Mountains	Juan Diego Ramírez (COL)	(05 Orbitel)
	Sprints	Víctor Herrera (COL)	(Aguardiente Cristal Chec)
	Team	05 Orbitel

The 40th edition of the annual Clásico RCN was held from August 11 to August 20, 2000 in Colombia. The stage race with an UCI rate of 2.4 started in Medellín and finished in Bogotá. RCN stands for "Radio Cadena Nacional" one of the oldest and largest radio networks in the nation.

Stages

2000-08-11: Medellín — Pueblito Paisa (5.4 km)

Place	Prologue		General Classification
Place	Name	Time	Name	Time
1.	Libardo Niño (COL)	00:08.02	Libardo Niño (COL)	00:08.02
2.	Raúl Montaña (COL)	+ 0.01	Raúl Montaña (COL)	+ 0.01
3.	Dubán Ramírez (COL)	+ 0.02	Dubán Ramírez (COL)	+ 0.02

2000-08-12: Medellín — Jardín (172 km)

Place	Stage 1		General Classification
Place	Name	Time	Name	Time
1.	Julio César Aguirre (COL)	05:05.32	Julio César Aguirre (COL)	05:13.39
2.	Israel Ochoa (COL)	+ 0.08	Israel Ochoa (COL)	+ 0.14
3.	Álvaro Lozano (COL)	+ 0.10	Álvaro Lozano (COL)	+ 0.16

2000-08-13: Jardín — Manizales (210 km)

Place	Stage 2		General Classification
Place	Name	Time	Name	Time
1.	Héctor Palacio (COL)	05:40.19	Julio César Aguirre (COL)	10:54.04
2.	Álvaro Lozano (COL)	—	Álvaro Lozano (COL)	+ 0.14
3.	Julio César Aguirre (COL)	—	Israel Ochoa (COL)	+ 0.18

2000-08-14: Manizales — Cartago (207 km)

Place	Stage 3		General Classification
Place	Name	Time	Name	Time
1.	Jhon García (COL)	05:25.34	Julio César Aguirre (COL)	16:19.33
2.	Israel Ochoa (COL)	—	Álvaro Lozano (COL)	+ 0.12
3.	Ruber Marín (COL)	—	Israel Ochoa (COL)	+ 0.14

2000-08-15: Roldanillo — Cali (131 km)

Place	Stage 4		General Classification
Place	Name	Time	Name	Time
1.	Jhon García (COL)	03:06.18	Julio César Aguirre (COL)	19:25.51
2.	Elder Herrera (COL)	—	Israel Ochoa (COL)	+ 0.12
3.	Ruber Marín (COL)	—	Álvaro Lozano (COL)	+ 0.14

2000-08-16: Palmira — Pereira (182 km)

Place	Stage 5		General Classification
Place	Name	Time	Name	Time
1.	Giovanny Torres (COL)	04:23.02	Julio César Aguirre (COL)	23:52.34
2.	Pedro Pablo Pérez (CUB)	+ 0.08	Israel Ochoa (COL)	+ 0.12
3.	Jorge Martínez (COL)	—	Álvaro Lozano (COL)	+ 0.14

2000-08-17: Pereira — Ibagué (126 km)

Place	Stage 6		General Classification
Place	Name	Time	Name	Time
1.	Jairo Hernández (COL)	03:41.40	Juan Diego Ramírez (COL)	27:34.14
2.	Elder Herrera (COL)	+ 0.28	Julio César Aguirre (COL)	+ 0.21
3.	Juan Diego Ramírez (COL)	—	Álvaro Lozano (COL)	+ 0.30

2000-08-18: Ibagué — Madrid (188 km)

Place	Stage 7		General Classification
Place	Name	Time	Name	Time
1.	Elkin Barrera (COL)	05:19.55	Juan Diego Ramírez (COL)	30:56.41
2.	Julio César Aguirre (COL)	+ 1.20	Julio César Aguirre (COL)	+ 0.26
3.	Elder Herrera (COL)	+ 1.35	Álvaro Lozano (COL)	+ 0.58

2000-08-19: Circuito Parque Nacional, Bogotá (102 km)

Place	Stage 8		General Classification
Place	Name	Time	Name	Time
1.	Luis Espinosa (COL)	02:36.25	Juan Diego Ramírez (COL)	35:33.18
2.	Miguel Ángel Niño (COL)	—	Julio César Aguirre (COL)	+ 0.26
3.	Graciano Fonseca (COL)	—	Álvaro Lozano (COL)	+ 0.58

2000-08-20: Plaza de Bolívar — Patios, Bogotá (18.5 km)

Place	Stage 9 (Individual Time Trial)		General Classification
Place	Name	Time	Name	Time
1.	Elder Herrera (COL)	00:35.12	Juan Diego Ramírez (COL)	36:08.31
2.	Juan Diego Ramírez (COL)	+0.01	Elder Herrera (COL)	+ 0.57
3.	Jairo Hernández (COL)	+0.01	Julio César Aguirre (COL)	+ 1.19

Final classification

RANK	NAME	TEAM	TIME
1.	Juan Diego Ramírez (COL)	05 Orbitel	36:08:11
2.	Elder Herrera (COL)	05 Orbitel	+ 0.57
3.	Julio César Aguirre (COL)	05 Orbitel	+ 1.19
4.	Álvaro Lozano (COL)	Aguardiente Cristal Chec	+ 1.43
5.	Álvaro Sierra (COL)	Lotería de Boyacá	+ 2.10
6.	Héctor Castaño (COL)	05 Orbitel	+ 2.27
7.	Israel Ochoa (COL)	Aguardiente Néctar Café Aguila Roja	+ 3.15
8.	Miguel Ángel Sanabria (COL)	05 Orbitel	+ 7.37
9.	Libardo Niño (COL)	Aguardiente Néctar Café Aguila Roja	+ 8.05
10.	Jairo Hernández (COL)	05 Orbitel	+ 8.27

Teams

05 Orbitel

Lotería de Boyacá

Aguardiente Antioqueño—Lotería de Medellín

Aguardiente Néctar—Café Águila Roja

Raúl Montaña
Libardo Niño
Israel Ochoa
Jairo Pérez
José Luis Vanegas
Fredy González
Elkin Barrera
César Goyeneche
Juan Fonseca

Aguardiente Cristal—Chec

Cuba de Aviación

Pedro Pablo Pérez
Eliécer Valdéz
Giovanny Falcón
Rolando Basulto
Luis Alberto Romero
Iddis Tabares

Club Ciclo Guachucal Nariño

Carlos Estancio
Germán Canchalá
Wálter Barco
Euler Herrera
Luis Alonso Irúa
Jorge Aguirre
Jorge Ceballos

Ron Boyacá—Covarachía—Dosmopar

Luis Espinosa
José Florencio Franco
Jairo Camargo
Néstor Bernal
Augusto Bohórquez
Gustavo Guzmán

Santa Fe Ron Añejo ELC

Víctor Hugo González
Edward Ruiz
José Ibáñez
Rigoberto Ibáñez
Javier Guerrero
Miguel Ángel Niño

Mixto Antioquia

Olmedo Capacho
Jorge Iván González
Luis Castañeda
Jorge Eliécer
José Diego Marín
John Freddy Restrepo
Otoniel Soto
Juan Carlos Arias

Mixto Cauca—Cicloases

Ricardo Arcila
Julio Viveros
Alfredo Muñoz
Freddy Rincón
Gerson Sánchez
Javier Castiblanco
Hildebrando Rodríguez

Kazakhstan—Mixto Boyacá

Sergey Tretyakov
Sergey Lavrenenko
Vadim Kravchenko
Mikhail Andreyev
Graciano Fonseca
Luis Ernesto Cely

References

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