Marino Lejarreta

Marino Lejarreta
Lejarreta in 1987
Personal information
Full nameMarino Lejarreta Arrizabalaga
NicknameEl Junco de Bérriz (The Reed of Berriz)[1]
Born (1957-05-14) 14 May 1957 (age 67)
Berriz, Spain
Team information
Current teamRetired
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Professional teams
1979Novostil–Helios
1980–1982Teka
1983–1985Alfa Lum–Olmo
1986–1989Seat–Orbea
1990–1992ONCE
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
1 individual stage (1990)
Giro d'Italia
2 individual stages (1984, 1991)
Vuelta a España
General classification (1982)
Points classification (1983)
5 individual stages (1982, 1983, 1986)

Stage races

Volta a Catalunya (1980, 1989)

One-day races and Classics

Clásica de San Sebastián (1981, 1982, 1987)

Marino Lejarreta Arrizabalaga (born 14 May 1957) 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.

  1. ^ Vergne, Laurent (22 July 2015). "Cannibale, Chéri-pipi, Wookie, Andy torticolis... le Top 20 des surnoms mythiques du cyclisme" [Cannibal, Chéri-pipi, Wookie, Andy Torticollis... the Top 20 mythical nicknames of cycling]. Eurosport (in French). Retrieved 11 April 2016.