Abraham Olano

Abraham Olano
Personal information
Full nameAbraham Olano Manzano
Born (1970-01-22) 22 January 1970 (age 54)
Anoeta, Spain
Height1.81 m (5 ft 11+12 in)
Weight70 kg (154 lb; 11 st 0 lb)
Team information
Current teamRetired
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeTime-trialist
Amateur team
Kaiku, AVSA
Professional teams
1992CHCS
1992Lotus–Festina
1993CLAS–Cajastur
1994–1997Mapei–CLAS
1997–1998Banesto
1999–2002ONCE–Deutsche Bank
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
1 individual stage (1997)
1 TTT stage (2002)
Vuelta a España
General classification (1998)
6 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
Men's road bicycle racing
Representing  Spain
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 1996 Atlanta Individual Time Trial
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 1995 Duitama Elite Men's Road Race
Gold medal – first place 1998 Valkenburg Elite Men's Time Trial
Silver medal – second place 1995 Duitama Elite Men's Time Trial

Abraham Olano Manzano[a] (born 22 January 1970 in Anoeta, Gipuzkoa) is a Spanish retired professional road racing cyclist, who raced as a professional from 1992 to 2002. He won the World Road Championship in 1995, and the World Time Trial Championship in 1998, becoming the first male cyclist to win both.[1]

He won Vuelta a España in 1998, 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 Critérium International and Tirreno–Adriatico in 2000.


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  1. ^ "1992: Abraham Olano nació en Ordizia / Historia / Noticias del ciclismo / BICI CICLISMO". www.biciciclismo.com. Retrieved 2021-02-01.