Spanish road racing cyclist
José Herrada Lopez (born 1 October 1985) is a Spanish former professional road bicycle racer, who competed as a professional from 2006 to 2023. His brother Jesús Herrada is also a professional cyclist, and also competes for Cofidis.[2]
Career
Born in Mota del Cuervo, Herrada has been competing as a professional since the 2006 season, competing for the Viña Magna–Cropu, Contentpolis–Murcia and Caja Rural teams prior to joining the Movistar Team for the 2012 season.[5] Herrada made his Grand Tour début at the 2012 Giro d'Italia; during the sixteenth stage, Herrada was part of the stage-long breakaway, and ended up finishing the stage in fifth place.[6][7]
He was named in the start list for the 2015 Tour de France,[8] which was his only appearance at the race. During the 2023 Vuelta a España, it was announced that Herrada would retire from professional cycling at the conclusion of the season.[9]
Major results
Source: [10]
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
References
- ^ "Movistar Team 2013 holds get-together". Movistar Team. Abarca Sports S.L. 12 November 2012. Retrieved 7 January 2013.
- ^ a b "Jesus and Jose Herrada leave Movistar for Cofidis". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 30 August 2017. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
- ^ Bacon, Ellis (30 December 2019). "2020 Team Preview: Cofidis". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
- ^ "Cofidis". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 1 January 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- ^ "El Movistar Team se hace con los servicios de Javi Moreno y José Herrada" [The Movistar Team is serviced by Javi Moreno and Jose Herrada]. Marca (in Spanish). Unidad Editorial. Reuters. 21 August 2011. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
- ^ Westemeyer, Susan (22 May 2012). "Izagirre triumphs in Giro stage 16 to Falzes". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. Archived from the original on 25 May 2012. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
- ^ Atkins, Ben (22 May 2012). "Jon Izagirre takes breakaway stage sixteen as the peloton sleeps". VeloNation. VeloNation LLC. Retrieved 23 May 2012.
- ^ "2015 Tour de France start list". Velo News. Retrieved 2 July 2015.
- ^ Tyson, Jackie (1 September 2023). "Vuelta a España: Geoffrey Soupe breaks Groves' sprint streak on stage 7". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
For Herrada, his motivation was perhaps knowing this Vuelta would be his final Grand Tour, and race, the 37-year-old having announced retirement from the pro peloton at the conclusion of the race.
- ^ "Jose Herrada". FirstCycling.com. FirstCycling AS. Retrieved 1 October 2023.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to José Herrada.
- José Herrada at UCI
- Cofidis profile
- José Herrada at ProCyclingStats
- José Herrada at Cycling Archives
- José Herrada at CQ Ranking