Julián Berrendero
 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Julián Berrendero Martín |
| Born | 8 April 1912 San Agustín del Guadalix, Spain |
| Died | 1 August 1995 (aged 83) Madrid, Spain |
| Team information | |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Major wins | |
| Vuelta a España (1940, 1941) Mountains competition 1936 Tour de France | |
Julián Berrendero Martín (born San Agustín del Guadalix, 8 April 1912, died Madrid, 1 August 1995) was a Spanish road racing cyclist. He is most famous for having won the third and fourth editions of the Vuelta a España in 1941 and 1942.[1] He won the 1941 race after having spent 18 months in a Francoist concentration camp.[2] In addition, he won a total of three mountains jerseys at the Vuelta and the Tour de France
- “Berrendero was a marked man, a public figure who had supported the Republican cause. As soon as he reached the Spanish border, Franco’s men arrested him and threw him into a concentration camp, where he remained for 18 months. He survived the camps, which were characterized by disease, malnourishment and frequent beatings, but to what physical and mental cost? He was only 27 and should have been at the height of his cycling career.”
Major results
[edit]- 1935
- GP de la Bicicleta Eibarresa
- Tour of Galicia
- 1936
- GP Republica (incl. 3 stages)
- Tour de France:
- Winner Mountains classification
- 11th place overall classification
- 1937
- Tour de France:
- Winner stage 15
- 15th place overall classification
- 1938
- Tour de France:
- 29th place overall classification
- 1941
- Circuito de Getxo
- Vuelta Ciclista a Navarra
- Vuelta a España:
- Winner stages 1 and 20
Winner overall classification
- 1942
Spanish National Road Race Championship- Spanish National Cyclo-Cross Championship
- Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
- Vuelta a España:
- Winner overall classification
- Winner Mountains classification
- Winner stages 1 and 9B
- 1943
- Spanish National Road Race Championship
- Volta a Catalunya
- Trofeo Masferrer
- 1944
- Spanish National Road Race Championship
- Spanish National Cyclo-Cross Championship
- Circuito de Getxo
- Clasica a los Puertos de Guadarrama
- 1945
- San Antonio de Durango
- Vuelta a España:
- 2nd place overall classification
- Winner Mountains classification
- Winner stages 1 and 17
- 1946
- Volta a Catalunya
- Vuelta a España:
- 2nd place overall classification
- Winner stages 4, 18B and 20
- 1947
- Clasica a los Puertos de Guadarrama
- Vuelta a España:
- Winner stage 3
- 6th place overall classification
- 1948
- Vuelta a España:
- Winner stage 1A
References
[edit]- ^ Paul Maunder (August 2016). "The climber and the dictator". Peloton Magazine. pp. 96–97.
- ^ "A cycle through Spanish history: retracing the 1941 Vuelta a España". the Guardian. 2021-08-21. Retrieved 2022-07-17.
External links
[edit]- Julián Berrendero at Cycling Archives (archived)
- The climber and the dictator" by Paul Maunder
- "Vuelte Skelter" by Tim Moore
