Ángel Madrazo Ruiz (born 30 July 1988) is a Spanish former professional road racing cyclist, who competed as a professional from 2009 to 2023.

Ángel Madrazo
Madrazo in 2015
Personal information
Full nameÁngel Madrazo Ruiz
Nickname
  • El Gorrion de Cazoña
  • (English: The sparrow of Cazoña)[1]
Born (1988-07-30) 30 July 1988 (age 35)
Santander, Cantabria, Spain
Height1.72 m (5 ft 7+12 in)
Weight63 kg (139 lb)
Team information
Current teamRetired
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Amateur teams
2007–2008Saunier Duval–Prodir amateur
2008Scott–American Beef (stagiaire)
Professional teams
2009–2013Caisse d'Epargne
2014–2016Caja Rural–Seguros RGA[3]
2017–2018Delko–Marseille Provence KTM[4]
2019–2023Burgos BH[5][6][7]
Major wins
Grand Tours
Vuelta a España
1 individual stage (2019)

Madrazo left the Movistar Team at the end of the 2013 season,[8] and joined Caja Rural–Seguros RGA for the 2014 season.[3] In August 2016 Delko–Marseille Provence KTM announced that Madrazo would join them for the 2017 and 2018 seasons.[4][9]

Major results edit

2008
8th Overall Circuito Montañés
1st Stage 5
2011
5th GP Miguel Induráin
5th Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia
2012
3rd GP Miguel Induráin
5th Overall Tour Méditerranéen
5th Klasika Primavera
6th Tre Valli Varesine
2013
Tour of Britain
1st   Sprints classification
1st   Mountains classification
2nd Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia
2014
2nd Giro dell'Emilia
8th Overall Tour du Gévaudan Languedoc-Roussillon
1st   Mountains classification
2015
1st Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia
1st   Mountains classification Tour du Gévaudan Languedoc-Roussillon
3rd Giro dell'Emilia
7th Circuito de Getxo
  Combativity award Stages 8 & 18 Vuelta a España
2016
1st Stage 4 Étoile de Bessèges
2nd Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia
4th Circuito de Getxo
7th Overall Vuelta a Asturias
2017
1st Mountains classification Circuit de la Sarthe
2nd Circuito de Getxo
9th Overall Tour of Austria
2018
7th Overall Tour of Austria
7th Tour du Gévaudan Occitanie
8th Overall Vuelta a Aragón
8th Overall Tour of Almaty
2019
Vuelta a España
1st Stage 5
Held   after Stages 2–15
  Combativity award Stages 2, 3 & 16
6th Overall Troféu Joaquim Agostinho
2021
2nd Vuelta a Murcia
  Combativity award Stage 4 Vuelta a España
2022
4th Overall Tour du Rwanda

Grand Tour general classification results timeline edit

Grand Tour 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
  Giro d'Italia Has not contested during career
  Tour de France
  Vuelta a España DNF 44 DNF 119 43 63
Legend
Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

References edit

  1. ^ "Angel Madrazo – El Gorrion de Cazoña". Retrieved 4 January 2011.
  2. ^ "Blazin' Saddles: The 2019 Vuelta awards – Primoz Roglic, QuickStep, Angel Madrazo, Movistar & more". www.eurosport.com. 16 September 2019. Retrieved 17 September 2019.
  3. ^ a b Torre Poo, Rafa (25 September 2013). "Ángel Madrazo ficha por el Caja Rural" [Ángel Madrazo signs for Caja Rural]. El Diario Montañés. Editorial Cantabria Interactiva S.L. Retrieved 6 November 2013.
  4. ^ a b "Cyclisme : l'Espagnol Madrazo arrive chez Delko Marseille" [Cycling: Spaniard Madrazo arrives at Delko Marseille]. La Provence (in French). 13 August 2016. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
  5. ^ "Primera concentración del Burgos-BH 2019" [First concentration of Burgos-BH 2019]. Ciclismo a Fondo (in Spanish). Motorpress Ibérica. 7 December 2018. Retrieved 9 January 2019.
  6. ^ "Cubero y Gibson completan la plantilla de 20 ciclistas del Burgos BH" [Cubero and Gibson complete the roster of 20 cyclists from Burgos BH]. Burgos BH (in Spanish). Burgos Pro Team. 4 December 2019. Retrieved 5 January 2020.
  7. ^ "Burgos-BH". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 4 January 2021. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
  8. ^ "Movistar Team (MOV) – ESP". UCI World Tour. Union Cycliste Internationale. Retrieved 8 January 2013.
  9. ^ "Delko Marseille-Provence KTM". DirectVelo (in French). Association Le Peloton. Retrieved 10 January 2018.

External links edit

  Media related to Ángel Madrazo at Wikimedia Commons