Ramón Hoyos
Colombian cyclist (1932–2014)
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Full name | Ramón Hoyos Vallejo | ||||||||||||||
Nickname | El escarabajo de la montaña, Don Ramón de Marinilla | ||||||||||||||
Born | (1932-05-26)26 May 1932 Marinilla, Antioquia, Colombia | ||||||||||||||
Died | 19 November 2014(2014-11-19) (aged 82) | ||||||||||||||
Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 66 kg (146 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
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Antioquia–Coltejer | |||||||||||||||
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Ramón Hoyos Vallejo (26 May 1932 – 19 November 2014) was a Colombian road bicycle racer who won the men's individual road race at the 1959 Pan American Games. He represented his native country twice at the Summer Olympics; in 1956 and 1960.[1][2] He also won the Vuelta a Colombia five times: in 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956 and 1958.
Major results
- 1952
- 1st Stage 9 Vuelta a Colombia
- 1953
- 1st Overall Vuelta a Colombia
- 1st Stages 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 15
- 1954
- 1st Team time trial, Central American and Caribbean Games (with Héctor Mesa, Justo Londoño and Efraín Forero)
- 1st Overall Vuelta a Colombia
- 1st Stages 2, 3, 4, 10, 11, 13
- 1st Overall Vuelta a Puerto Rico
- 1st Stages 2 & 5
- 1955
- 1st Road race, Pan American Games
- 1st Overall Vuelta a Colombia
- 1st Stages 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 18
- 1956
- 1st Overall Vuelta a Colombia
- 1st Stages 3, 5, 7, 8, 11, 12, 16 & 17
- 1st Stages 7 & 14 Vuelta a Mexico
- 1958
- 1st Overall Vuelta a Colombia
- 1st Stages 2, 11 & 14
- 1959
- 1st Team time trial, Central American and Caribbean Games (with Pablo Hurtado and Efraín Forero)
- 1960
- 1st Stage 4 Vuelta a Colombia
References
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- 1951: Oscar Muleiro (ARG)
- 1955: Ramón Hoyos (COL)
- 1959: Ricardo Senn (ARG)
- 1963: Gregorio Carrizalez (VEN)
- 1967: Marcel Roy (CAN)
- 1971: John Howard (USA)
- 1975: Gregorio Aldo Arencibia (CUB)
- 1979: Carlos Cardet (CUB)
- 1983: Luis Rosendo Ramos (MEX)
- 1987: Luis Rosendo Ramos (MEX)
- 1991: Robinson Merchán (VEN)
- 1995: Brian Walton (CAN)
- 1999: Brian Walton (CAN)
- 2003: Milton Wynants (URU)
- 2007: Wendy Cruz (DOM)
- 2011: Marc de Maar (AHO)
- 2015: Miguel Ubeto (VEN)
- 2019: Maximiliano Richeze (ARG)
- 2023: Jhonatan Narváez (ECU)
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