Federico Bahamontes facts for kids
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Bahamontes in 1962
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| Nickname | The Eagle of Toledo | ||
| Born | 9 July 1928 Santo Domingo-Caudilla, Spain |
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| Discipline | Road | ||
| Role | Retired | ||
| Rider type | Climber | ||
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Federico Martín Bahamontes (born 9 July 1928) is a Spanish retired professional cyclist. He was the first cyclist to win the "King of the Mountains" competition for best climber in all three Grand Tours, the Tour de France, the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España.
Biography
Bahamontes was born in Santo Domingo-Caudilla, Toledo.
Bahamontes was a climbing specialist. He won the Tour de France in 1959, and won the polka dot jersey for the best climber six times, in 1954, 1958, 1959, 1962, 1963 and 1964. In total, he won seven Tour stages. Reporters gave him the nickname the 'Eagle of Toledo'.
He was second in the 1957 Vuelta a España and won the mountains competition in 1957 and 1958. He won the mountains competition in the Giro d'Italia in 1956.
Bahamontes retired in 1965 to run a bicycle and motorcycle shop in Toledo.
In 2013 he was named the best climber in the history of the Tour de France by L' Équipe Magazine. Members of the jury included current riders, such as Thomas Voeckler, five-times winner of the race Bernard Hinault and the general director of the Tour de France Christian Prudhomme. The award was given by the French President François Hollande.
He is mentioned in the French film Le Fabuleux Déstin d'Amélie Poulain, known in English as Amelie. Amélie finds a box of toys left behind by an owner of her flat. She returns them to the owner and he is reminded of watching Bahamontes win the 1959 Tour de France.
Palmarès
- 1950
Spain national amateur road championship- 1952
- Vuelta a Albacete
- 1953
- Circuito Sardinero
- 1954
- Nice-Mont Agel
- Vuelta a España:
- 2nd overall
- Tour de France:
- Winner Mountains classification
- 1955
- Clasica a los Puertos de Guadarrama
- Monaco - Golf du Mont Agel
- Mont Faron
- Vuelta a Asturias
- 1956
- Tour de France:
- 4th overall
- Giro d'Italia:
- Winner Mountains classification
- Vuelta a España:
- 4th overall
- 1957
- Mont Faron
- Vuelta a España:
- Winner Mountains classification
- Winner stage 3
- 2nd overall
- Vuelta Ciclista Asturias
- 1958
- Spain national time trial champion
- Giro d'Italia:
- Winner stage 4
- Spain National road race championship
- Saint-Junien
- Subida a Arrate
- Tour de France:
- Winner stages 14 and 20
- Winner Mountains classification
- 8th place overall classification
- Vuelta a España:
- Winner Mountains classification
- 6th overall
- 1959
- Subida a Arrate
- Tour de France:
Winner overall classification- Winner Mountains classification
- Winner stage 15
- Vuelta a España:
- Winner stage 4
- 1960
- Subida a Arrate
- Vuelta a España:
- Winner stage 13
- 1961
- Cenon
- Monaco - Golf du Mont Agel
- Nice - Mont Agel
- Riberac
- Subida a Arrate
- 1962
- GP de la Magdaleine
- Juliénas
- Mont-Faron
- Subida a Arrate
- Tour de France:
- Winner stage 13
- Winner Mountains classification
- Ussel
- 1963
- La Touloubre
- Miramas (FRA)
- Mont-Faron (b) (FRA)
- Tour de France:
- 2nd overall
- Winner stage 15
- Winner Mountains classification
- 1964
- Escalada a Montjuich
- Six Days of Madrid (with Rik Van Steenbergen)
- Mont-Faron
- Subida al Naranco
- Tour de France:
- 3rd overall
- Winner stages 8 and 16
- Winner Mountains classification
- Ussel
- 1965
- Escalada a Montjuïc
- Tour du Sud-Est
- Vuelta a España:
- 10th overall
- Fotheringham, Alasdair (2013) The Eagle of Toledo: The Life and Times of Federico Bahamontes, the Tour's Greatest Climber , London, Aurum Press, [1]
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1903 Maurice Garin · 1904 Henri Cornet · 1905 Louis Trousselier · 1906 René Pottier · 1907-1908 Lucien Petit-Breton · 1909 François Faber · 1910 Octave Lapize · 1911 Gustave Garrigou · 1912 Odile Defraye · 1913-1914 Philippe Thys · 1915-1918 World War I · 1919 Firmin Lambot · 1920 Philippe Thys · 1921 Léon Scieur · 1922 Firmin Lambot · 1923 Henri Pélissier · 1924-1925 Ottavio Bottecchia · 1926 Lucien Buysse · 1927-1928 Nicolas Frantz · 1929 Maurice De Waele · 1930 André Leducq · 1931 Antonin Magne · 1932 André Leducq · 1933 Georges Speicher · 1934 Antonin Magne · 1935 Romain Maes · 1936 Sylvère Maes · 1937 Roger Lapébie · 1938 Gino Bartali · 1939 Sylvère Maes · 1940-1946 World War II · 1947 Jean Robic · 1948 Gino Bartali · 1949 Fausto Coppi · 1950 Ferdinand Kübler · 1951 Hugo Koblet · 1952 Fausto Coppi · 1953-1955 Louison Bobet · 1956 Roger Walkowiak · 1957 Jacques Anquetil · 1958 Charly Gaul · 1959 Federico Bahamontes · 1960 Gastone Nencini · 1961-1964 Jacques Anquetil · 1965 Felice Gimondi · 1966 Lucien Aimar · 1967 Roger Pingeon · 1968 Jan Janssen · 1969-1972 Eddy Merckx · 1973 Luis Ocaña · 1974 Eddy Merckx · 1975 Bernard Thévenet · 1976 Lucien Van Impe · 1977 Bernard Thévenet · 1978-1979 Bernard Hinault · 1980 Joop Zoetemelk · 1981-1982 Bernard Hinault · 1983-1984 Laurent Fignon · 1985 Bernard Hinault · 1986 Greg LeMond · 1987 Stephen Roche · 1988 Pedro Delgado · 1989-1990 Greg LeMond · 1991-1995 Miguel Indurain · 1996 Bjarne Riis · 1997 Jan Ullrich · 1998 Marco Pantani · 1999-2005 Lance Armstrong, disqualified · 2006 Óscar Pereiro (Floyd Landis, disqualified) · 2007 Alberto Contador · 2008 Carlos Sastre · 2009–10 Alberto Contador · 2011 Cadel Evans · 2012 Bradley Wiggins · 2013 Chris Froome · 2014 Vincenzo Nibali |
 Tour de France Maillot Grimpeur (Polka dot jersey) winners |
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1933 Trueba | 1934 Vietto | 1935 Vervaecke | 1936 Berrendero | 1937 Vervaecke | 1938 Bartali | 1939 Maes | 1947 Brambilla | 1948 Bartali | 1949 Coppi | 1950 Bobet | 1951 Géminiani | 1952 Coppi | 1953 Lorono | 1954 Bahamontes | 1955 Gaul | 1956 Gaul | 1957 Nencini | 1958 Bahamontes | 1959 Bahamontes | 1960 Massignan | 1961 Massignan | 1962 Bahamontes | 1963 Bahamontes | 1964 Bahamontes | 1965 Jimenez | 1966 Jimenez | 1967 Jimenez | 1968 Gonzalez | 1969 Merckx | 1970 Merckx | 1971 Van Impe | 1972 Van Impe | 1973 Torres | 1974 Perurena | 1975 Van Impe | 1976 Bellini | 1977 Van Impe | 1978 Martinez | 1979 Battaglin | 1980 Martin | 1981 Van Impe | 1982 Vallet | 1983 Van Impe | 1984 Millar | 1985 Herrera | 1986 Hinault | 1987 Herrera | 1988 Rooks | 1989 Theunisse | 1990 Claveyrolat | 1991 Chiappucci | 1992 Chiappucci | 1993 Rominger | 1994 Virenque | 1995 Virenque | 1996 Virenque | 1997 Virenque | 1998 Rinero | 1999 Virenque | 2000 Botero | 2001 Jalabert | 2002 Jalabert | 2003 Virenque | 2004 Virenque | 2005 Rasmussen | 2006 Rasmussen | 2007 Soler | 2008 Kohl, disqualified | 2009 Pelizotti, disqualified | 2010 Charteau | 2011 Sánchez | 2012 Voeckler | 2013 Quintana | 2014 Majka |
Images for kids
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Riders at the start of stage one of the 1954 Tour de France
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Bahamontes in 1960
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Monument of Federico Bahamontes in Toledo (Spain) donated by Fundación Soliss
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Bahamontes in his bicycle shop in Toledo in 2005
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