Miguel Indurain

Miguel Induráin

Induráin in 2009
Personal information
Full name	Miguel Induráin Larraya
Nickname	Miguelón, Big Mig (English)
Born	(1964-07-16) 16 July 1964 (age 52) Villava, Navarre, Spain
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight	80 kg (176 lb)
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	All-rounder
Amateur team(s)
1978–1983	CC Villavés
Professional team(s)
1984–1996	Reynolds
Major wins
Grand Tour Tour de France General classification (1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995) 12 individual stages (1989–1995) Giro d'Italia General classification (1992, 1993) Intergiro classification (1992) 4 individual stages (1992, 1993) Stage races Volta a Catalunya (1988, 1991, 1992) Paris–Nice (1989, 1990) Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré (1995, 1996) Critérium International (1991) Grand Prix du Midi Libre (1995) One-day races and Classics World Time Trial Championships (1995) National Road Race Championships (1992) Clásica de San Sebastián (1990) Other Hour record 53.040 km (2 September 1994)
Medal record Representing Spain Road bicycle racing Olympic Games 1996 Atlanta Time trial World Championships 1995 Duitama Elite time trial 1993 Oslo Elite road race 1995 Duitama Elite road race 1991 Stuttgart Elite road race

Grand Tour

Stage races

One-day races and Classics

Other

Miguel Induráin Larraya (Spanish pronunciation: [miˈɣel induˈɾain laˈraʝa]; born 16 July 1964) is a retired Spanish road racing cyclist.

Induráin won five consecutive Tours de France from 1991 to 1995, the fourth, and last, to win five times. He won the Giro d'Italia twice, becoming one of seven people to achieve the Giro-Tour double in the same season. He wore the race leader's yellow jersey in the Tour de France for 60 days. Since the revoking of Lance Armstrong's seven wins, he now holds the record for the most consecutive Tour de France wins and shares the record for most wins with Jacques Anquetil, Bernard Hinault and Eddy Merckx.

Induráin's ability and physical size—1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) and 80 kilograms (176 lb)—earned him the nickname "Miguelón" or "Big Mig". He was the youngest rider ever to win the Spanish amateur national road championship, when he was 18, at 20 the youngest rider to lead the Vuelta a España, and at 20 he won a stage of the Tour de l'Avenir.

Miguel Indurain was born in the village of Villava (now Villava – Atarrabia), which is now an outlying area of Pamplona. He has three sisters – Isabel, María Dolores and María Asunción – and a brother, Prudencio, who also became a professional cyclist. His first bicycle was a green secondhand Olmo given to him for his 10th birthday. It was stolen when he was 11 and he worked in the fields with his father to pay for a new one.

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