![]() Lejarreta in 1987
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Personal information | |
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Full name | Marino Lejarreta Arrizabalaga |
Nickname | El Junco de Bérriz (The reed of Berriz) |
Born |
Berriz, Spain |
May 14, 1957
Team information | |
Current team | Retired |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider |
Professional team(s) | |
1979 | Novostil-Helios |
1980–1982 | Teka |
1983–1984 | Alfa Lum |
1985 | Alpilatte-Cierre |
1986 | Seat-Orbea |
1987–1989 | Caja Rural |
1990–1992 | O.N.C.E. |
Major wins | |
Vuelta a España (1982), 5 stages
Tour de France, 1 stage |
Vuelta a España (1982), 5 stages
Marino Lejarreta Arrizabalaga (born 14 May 1957 in Berriz, Biscay) is a retired Spanish professional road racing cyclist. His biggest victory was capturing the 1982 Vuelta a España, a Grand Tour stage race, and he is the inaugural and record three-time winner of the Clásica de San Sebastián (1981, 1982, 1987), which is now considered a one-day classic. In 1989, Lejarreta captured the Volta a Catalunya repeating one of his first professional wins in 1980 at the same event.
Until 2015, Lejarreta was the only person in history to complete all three Grand Tours in a single year four times in a career; he did the triple in 1987, 1989, 1990 and 1991.
WD = Withdrew