Abraham Olano

Personal information

Full name

Abraham Olano Manzano

Born

January 22, 1970 (age 47)
Anoeta, Spain

Height

1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)

Weight

70 kg (150 lb; 11 st)

Team information

Current team

Retired

Discipline

Road

Role

Rider

Rider type

Time-trialist

Amateur team(s)

Kaiku, AVSA

Professional team(s)

1992

CHCS

1992

Lotus

1993

CLAS Cajastur

1994–1997

Mapei

1997–1998

Banesto

1999–2001

ONCE

Major wins

Grand Tours

Tour de France

1 individual stage (1997)

1 TTT stage (2002)

Vuelta a España

General classification (1998)

5 individual stages (1995, 1998, 1999, 2000)

Stage races

Tour de Romandie (1996)

Tirreno–Adriatico (2000)

Critérium International (2000)

One-day races and Classics

World Road Race Championships (1995)

World Time Trial Championships (1998)

National Road Race Championships (1994)

National Time Trial Championships (1994, 1998)

Medal record

Representing Spain
Road bicycle racing
Olympic Games
	1996 Atlanta	Individual Time Trial
World Championships
	1995 Duitama	Elite Men's Road Race
	1998 Valkenburg	Elite Men's Time Trial
	1995 Duitama	Elite Men's Time Trial

Grand Tours

Stage races

One-day races and Classics

Abraham Olano Manzano (born January 22, 1970 in Anoeta, Gipuzkoa) is a Spanish former professional road racing cyclist, who raced between 1992 and 2002. He won the World Road Championship in 1995, and the World Time Trial Championship in 1998, becoming the first and so far only male cyclist to win both.

He also played a great role in Grand Tours: he won Vuelta a España in 1998 and was second in 1995, made it twice to the final podium at Giro d'Italia (third in 1996 and second in 2001), and placed three times in the top-ten at Tour de France, with the fourth place in 1997 as his personal best. In total he won six stages in the Vuelta and one in the Tour, all of them time trials.

Olano was also double Spanish Champion in both road (1994) and time trial (1994 and 1998), olympic silver medalist in time trial in Atlanta 1996 and winner of several shorter stage races, like Tour of Romandie in 1996 and Criterium International and Tirreno-Adriatico in 2000.

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