Memorial Manuel Galera facts for kids

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Memorial Manuel Galera

Race details
Region	Province of Granada, Spain
Discipline	Road race
Type	One-day race
History
First edition	1972 (1972)
Editions	33
Last edition	2004 (2004)
First winner	Esteban García Roldán (ESP)
Most recent	Luis Pasamontes (ESP)

The Memorial Manuel Galera was a special bike race held once a year in the Province of Granada, Spain. It was a road race that lasted for just one day. This event took place every year from 1972 until 2004.

For the first few years, from 1972 to 1979, only amateur cyclists could compete. An amateur is someone who does not get paid to play a sport. The race was named to remember Manuel Galera. He was a Spanish cyclist who sadly passed away during another race, the 1972 Vuelta a Andalucía.

Winners of the Race

This table shows all the winners of the Memorial Manuel Galera race. The years highlighted in yellow show when the race was only for amateur cyclists.

Year	Winner	Second Place	Third Place
1972	Esteban García Roldán	Ramón Guerrero Pozas	José Domínguez Pérez
1973	Ramón Guerrero Pozas	Juan Cantero López	Alfonso Vílchez García
1974	Francisco Martín Peregrín	Juan José Ariza Neri	José López Iglesias
1975	Juán Cantero López	Enrique Bayo	Enrique Guerrero
1976	Juán Cantero López	Ramón Guerrero Pozas	Jorge Díaz Aguado
1977	Juán Enrique Bayo
1978	Francisco Martín Peregrín	Juán Cantero López	Juán Enrique Bayo
1979	Miguel Ángel Fernández Vico	Jesús Gómez Vergara	José Luis Blanco
1980	Ángel Arroyo	Enrique Aja	Jesús Manzaneque
1981	Juan Fernández Martín	Ángel Ocaña	Enrique Martínez Heredia
1982	Jesús Guzmán	Francisco Albelda	Ignacio Fandos
1983	Jesús Guzmán	José Recio	Ángel Arroyo
1984	José Luis Navarro	Jerónimo Ibáñez	José María González Barcala
1985	Ángel Ocaña	Francisco Espinosa	José Luis Laguía
1986	Vicente Ridaura	Francisco Espinosa	Eduardo Chozas
1987	Juan Martínez Oliver	Francisco Espinosa	Roque de la Cruz
1988	Miguel Ángel Martínez Torres	Pedro Delgado	Juan Martínez Oliver
1989	Jesús Cruz Martín	Arturo Geriz	Pedro Delgado
1990	Jesús Blanco Villar	Jesús Cruz Martín	Antonio Miguel Díaz
1991	Viktor Klimov	Oleg Petrovich Chuzhda	Enrique Aja
1992	Francisco Cabello	José Luis Rodríguez García	Rafael Ruiz Erencia
1993	Stephen Hodge	José María Jiménez	Viktor Klimov
1994	José María Jiménez	Pedro Delgado	Ignacio García Camacho
1995	Ignacio García Camacho	Asiat Saitov	José Antonio Espinosa
1996	Inaki Ayarzaguena	José Vicente García Acosta	Francisco Cabello
1997	Pablo Lastras	Eladio Jiménez	Txema del Olmo
1998	Iñigo González de Heredia	Francisco Javier Cerezo	Aitor Kintana
1999	Juan Carlos Vicario	Manuel Beltrán	Juan Miguel Mercado
2000	Óscar Sevilla	David Clinger	José Enrique Gutiérrez
2001	Pablo Lastras	César García Calvo	Borislav Vladislav
2002	Carlos García Quesada	Manuel Beltrán	Antonio Tauler
2003	Pedro Díaz Lobato	Francisco Mancebo	David Navas
2004	Luis Pasamontes	José Antonio López	Koldo Fernández