Luis Ocaña
Spanish racing cyclist
Died when: 48 years 344 days (587 months)Star Sign: Gemini
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Jesús Luis Ocaña Pernía (pronounced [xe'sus 'lwis o'ka?a pe?'nia]; 9 June 1945 – 19 May 1994) was a Spanish road bicycle racer who won the 1973 Tour de France and the 1970 Vuelta a España.
During the 1971 Tour de France he launched an amazing solo breakaway that put him into the Yellow Jersey and stunned the rest of the main field, including back to back Tour champion Eddy Merckx, but abandoned in the fourteenth stage after a crash on the descent of the Col de Menté.
Ocaña would abandon as many Tours as he entered, but he finished every Vuelta a España he entered except for his first, and finished in the top 5 seven times in a row.
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