Luis Herrera (cyclist)

Luis Alberto "Lucho" Herrera Herrera, known as "El jardinerito" ("the little gardener"; born May 4, 1961, in Fusagasugá, Colombia), is a retired Colombian road racing cyclist. Herrera was a professional from 1985 to 1992 but had a successful amateur career before that in Colombia.

He entered his first Vuelta a Colombia in 1981 where he finished 16th overall and 3rd in the New Rider competition. Although he abandoned his second Vuelta a Colombia in 1982, he won Colombia's second major stage-race, the Clásico RCN. In 1983 Herrera won Clásico RCN again as well as two stages and finished second overall to Alfonso Florez Ortiz in the 1983 Vuelta a Colombia. In 1984 he won the Vuelta a Colombia, and the Clásico RCN.

In 1984 he won stage 17 to Alpe d'Huez in the 1984 Tour de France, becoming the first Colombian to win a stage of the race, and the first amateur cyclist to win a stage in the history of the Tour de France. He won the Vuelta a Colombia and the Clásico RCN four times each. His greatest achievement was in 1987, when he won the Vuelta a España, the first South American to win a Grand Tour. Herrera also won the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré in 1988 and 1991.

Herrera won five "King of the Mountains" jerseys from the three Grand Tours. He is the second rider to win the King of the Mountains jersey in all three Grand Tours. The first was Federico Bahamontes of Spain.

Major results

 * 1981
 * 1st Stage 5 Clásico RCN


 * 1982
 * 1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Clásico RCN
 * 1st Stages 2, 7 & 10
 * 4th Overall Tour de l'Avenir
 * 1st Stage 10


 * 1983
 * 1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Clásico RCN
 * 1st Stage 8
 * Coors Classic
 * 1st Stages 1 & 3
 * 1st Stage 6b Grand Prix Guillaume Tell
 * 2nd Overall Vuelta a Colombia
 * 1st Stages 9 & 14


 * 1984
 * 1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Clásico RCN
 * 1st Stage 8
 * 1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Vuelta a Colombia
 * 1st Stages 6, 9 & 10
 * 1st Stage 17 Tour de France


 * 1985
 * 1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Vuelta a Colombia
 * 1st Stages 5 & 8
 * 2nd Overall Clásico RCN
 * 7th Overall Tour de France
 * 1st Jersey polkadot.svg Mountains classification
 * 1st Stages 11 & 14


 * 1986
 * 1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Clásico RCN
 * 1st Prologue, Stages 2 & 4 (ITT)
 * 1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Vuelta a Colombia
 * 1st Stage 6


 * 1987
 * 1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Vuelta a España
 * 1st Jersey red.svg Mountains classification
 * 1st Stage 11
 * 2nd Overall Vuelta a Colombia
 * 1st Prologue
 * 5th Overall Tour de France
 * 1st Jersey polkadot.svg Mountains classification


 * 1988
 * 1st Jersey yellow-bluebar.svg Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
 * 1st Stage 6b
 * 1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Vuelta a Colombia
 * 1st Stages 2 & 11
 * 6th Overall Tour de France


 * 1989
 * Giro d'Italia
 * 1st Jersey green.svg Mountains classification
 * 1st Stages 13 & 18 (ITT)


 * 1990
 * 4th Overall Clásico RCN
 * 1st Prologue


 * 1991
 * 1st Jersey yellow-bluebar.svg Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
 * 1st Stage 5
 * Vuelta a España
 * 1st Jersey green.svg Mountains classification
 * 1st Stage 16
 * 1st Stage 6 Volta a Catalunya
 * 6th Overall Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme
 * 9th Overall Vuelta a Murcia


 * 1992
 * 1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Vuelta a Aragón
 * 1st Stage 5
 * 1st Prologue Vuelta a Colombia
 * 8th Overall Giro d'Italia
 * 1st Stage 9