Personal information | |
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Full name | Joan Horrach Ripoll |
Born | Deià, Spain | March 27, 1974
Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) |
Weight | 70 kg (154 lb; 11 st 0 lb) |
Team information | |
Current team | Retired |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider |
Professional teams | |
2000–2003 | União Ciclista da Maia–MSS |
2004–2008 | Illes Balears–Banesto |
2009–2012 | Team Katusha [1] |
2013 | Madison Genesis |
Major wins | |
Grand Tours
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Joan Horrach Ripoll (born March 27, 1974) is a Spanish retired professional road racing cyclist. [2] He last rode for Madison Genesis.
Horrach's biggest win of his career was Stage 11 of the 2006 Giro d'Italia. [3] He won the stage by being in the break of the day and after making it to the final 3 riders he attacked as his companions crashed and held on to win by 5 seconds. [4] As a domestique for his leaders Horrach spent most of his career working for others, occasionally given the opportunity to ride for himself. [5]
After retiring he moved to Mallorca where he works as a Tour guide in Serra de Tramuntana on taking people on Mountain bikes, Road bikes and hiking. [6]
Source: [9]
Grand Tour general classification results | |||||||||||||||||||||
Grand Tour | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | ||||||||||
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Giro d'Italia | — | — | — | 37 | 36 | DNF | 81 | — | 54 | 53 | — | ||||||||||
Tour de France | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 74 | — | — | 119 | ||||||||||
/ Vuelta a España | 33 | 28 | 24 | 27 | 79 | 29 | — | — | 74 | 67 | — |
— | Did not compete |
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DNF | Did not finish |
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