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A Spanish cycling legend is leaving: Luis León Sánchez announces his retirement after an extraordinary career
CyclingMonday, 11 September 2023 at 12:45
Luis León Sánchez has just announced that 2023 will be his last year as a professional cyclist. The current Astana Qazaqstan Team rider, who is currently racing the Vuelta a España, will thus bring to an end a long and successful career.
The second most illustrious Murcian in the international peloton after Alejandro Valverde has accumulated 20 seasons as a professional in which he has accumulated 47 victories to date, having raced a total of 31 grand tours.
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His greatest successes were achieved racing for Caisse d'Epargne (now Movistar Team) and Rabobank (now Jumbo-Visma), teams with which he managed to win 4 stages of the Tour de France between 2008 and 2012 and the Clásica de San Sebastián twice (10' and 12').
He has also won stages in the Itzulia (2), Paris-Nice (4) or Tour de Romandie (2). He won a total of five stage races, the most outstanding of them being Paris-Nice 2009 and the Tour Down Under in 2005. He was Spanish road champion in 2020 (perhaps his last great triumph) and up to four times against the clock. A great of Spanish cycling is gone.
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