José Joaquín Rojas
.jpg) Rojas at the 2013 Tour de France. | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | José Joaquín Rojas Gil |
| Born |
8 June 1985 Cieza, Murcia, Spain |
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) |
| Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Movistar Team |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | Sprinter |
| Amateur team(s) | |
| 2005 | Liberty Seguros–Würth (stagiaire) |
| Professional team(s) | |
| 2006 | Liberty Seguros–Würth |
| 2007– | Caisse d'Epargne |
| Major wins | |
| |
José Joaquín Rojas Gil (born 8 June 1985) is a Spanish professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Movistar Team.[1]
Career
Rojas turned professional in 2006 with Liberty Seguros–Würth. His older brother Mariano Rojas, was a professional cyclist as well, riding for ONCE until 1996. He died in the same year as a result of a traffic accident.[2]
Rojas was selected to ride the 2012 Tour de France, but crashed out on Stage 3, with a fractured left collarbone, the second retirement of the 2012 Tour after Team Sky's Kanstantsin Sivtsov.[3][4]
Rojas was again selected to ride the 2013 Tour de France and finished 79th overall, one of the highest GC placings among the sprinters; he also finished in 7th place in the points classification with 156 points. His best result was a third place on the third stage – in which he contested the bunch sprint – which was one of seven top-ten finishes during the Tour. He was disqualified from the 2014 Tour de France for excessive sheltering behind his team car during the descent of the Tourmalet.[5]
Career achievements
Major results
- 2003
- 1st
Time trial, National Under–17 Road Championships - 2006
- 1st
Mountains classification Tirreno–Adriatico - 2007
- 1st Stage 1 Vuelta a Murcia
- 9th Gent–Wevelgem
- 9th Overall Tour of Poland
- 1st
Points classification
- 1st
- 2008
- 1st Trofeo Pollença
- 3rd Overall Tour Down Under
- 1st
Young rider classification
- 1st
- 5th Vattenfall Cyclassics
- 7th Gent–Wevelgem
- 2009
- 1st Stage 2 Tour de l'Ain
- 3rd Overall Tour Down Under
- 1st Young rider classification
- 1st
- 2010
- 2nd Gran Premio dell'Insubria-Lugano
- 3rd Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
- 1st Points classification
- 1st
- 2011
- 1st Road race, National Road Championships
- 1st Stage 6 Volta a Catalunya
- 1st Trofeo Deià
- 2nd Clásica de Almería
- 3rd Trofeo Magaluf-Palmanova
- 4th Overall Tour du Haut Var
- 5th Vattenfall Cyclassics
- 7th Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes
- 7th GP Ouest–France
- 8th Cancer Council Helpline Classic
- 10th Trofeo Cala Millor
- 2012
- 1st Stage 1 Tour of the Basque Country
- 2013
- 3rd Trofeo Campos–Santanyí–Ses Salines
- 4th Vattenfall Cyclassics
- 5th Trofeo Platja de Muro
- 6th Overall Vuelta a Castilla y León
- 6th Trofeo Palma de Mallorca
- 8th Cancer Council Helpline Classic
- 2014
- Vuelta a Castilla y León
- 1st
Points classification - 1st Stage 1
- 1st
- 4th Overall Paris–Nice
- 5th Vuelta a Murcia
- 6th Clásica de Almería
- 2015
- 1st Stage 1 Tour of Qatar
- 3rd Trofeo Santanyi-SesSalines-Campos
- 4th Circuito de Getxo
- 4th Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana
- 5th Gran Piemonte
- 2016
- 1st Road race, National Road Championships
- 10th Clásica de Almería
- 2017
- 3rd Vuelta a La Rioja
- 5th Amstel Gold Race
- 10th GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
| Grand Tour | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Giro d'Italia |
DNF | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 49 | 50 |
 Tour de France |
— | — | 84 | 68 | 80 | DNF | 79 | DSQ | — | — | — |
| Vuelta a España |
— | — | — | — | — | DNF | — | — | 43 | DNF | — |
| — | Did not compete |
|---|---|
| DNF | Did not finish |
; DSQ = Disqualified
References
- ↑ "Movistar Team (MOV) – ESP". UCI World Tour. Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 7 January 2013.
- ↑ Jose Rocamora (22 June 1996). "Muere otra promesa del ciclismo español". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 17 April 2012.
- ↑ "Tour de France: Peter Sagan earns his second Tour stage win". BBC Sport. BBC. 3 July 2012. Retrieved 4 July 2012.
- ↑ "Tjallingii, Rojas out after crash-filled Tour de France stage". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. 3 July 2012. Retrieved 4 July 2012.
- ↑ "Rojas objects to "unjust" expulsion from Tour de France". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 25 July 2014. Retrieved 12 September 2014.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jose Rojas. |
- Official website (in Spanish)
- José Joaquín Rojas at Cycling Archives
| Sporting positions | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Iván Gutiérrez |
Spanish National Road Race Champion 2011 |
Succeeded by Francisco Ventoso |