José Joaquín Rojas
Spanish road bicycle racer (born 1985)
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José Joaquín Rojas Gil (born 8 June 1985) is a Spanish former professional road racing cyclist, who competed as a professional from 2006 to 2023.
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Rojas at the 2013 Tour de France. | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | José Joaquín Rojas Gil |
| Born | 8 June 1985 Cieza, Murcia, Spain |
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) |
| Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) |
| Cycling career | |
| Sport | Cycling |
| Current team | Retired |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | Sprinter |
| Amateur team | |
| 2005 | Liberty Seguros–Würth (stagiaire) |
| Professional teams | |
| 2006 | Liberty Seguros–Würth |
| 2007–2023 | Caisse d'Epargne[1][2][3] |
| Major wins | |
One-Day Races and Classics
| |
Career
Rojas turned professional in 2006 with Liberty Seguros–Würth. His older brother Mariano Rojas, was a professional cyclist as well, riding for ONCE until 1996. He died in the same year as a result of a traffic accident.[4]
Rojas was selected to ride the 2012 Tour de France, but crashed out on Stage 3, with a fractured left collarbone, the second retirement of the 2012 Tour after Team Sky's Kanstantsin Sivtsov.[5][6]
Rojas was again selected to ride the 2013 Tour de France and finished 79th overall, one of the highest GC placings among the sprinters; he also finished in 7th place in the points classification with 156 points. His best result was a third place on the third stage – in which he contested the bunch sprint – which was one of seven top-ten finishes during the Tour. He was disqualified from the 2014 Tour de France for excessive sheltering behind his team car during the descent of the Tourmalet.[7]
Major results
- 2002
- 1st
Road race, National Junior Road Championships - 2003
- 1st Time trial, National Junior Road Championships
- 4th Road race, UCI Junior Road World Championships
- 2005
- 2nd Overall Vuelta a Extremadura
- 1st Points classification
- 2006
- 1st
Mountains classification Tirreno–Adriatico - 7th Overall Three Days of De Panne
- 10th Circuito de Getxo
- 2007
- 1st Stage 1 Vuelta a Murcia
- 2nd Trofeo Mallorca
- 2nd Trofeo Cala Millor
- 3rd Circuito de Getxo
- 6th Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia
- 9th Overall Tour de Pologne
- 1st
Points classification
- 1st
- 9th Gent–Wevelgem
- 10th Châteauroux Classic
- 2008
- 1st Trofeo Pollença
- 2nd Gran Premio de Llodio
- 3rd Overall Tour Down Under
- 1st
Young rider classification
- 1st
- 4th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
- 4th Overall Tour du Limousin
- 5th Overall Paris–Corrèze
- 5th Trofeo Cala Millor
- 5th Clásica de Almería
- 5th GP Ouest–France
- 5th Vattenfall Cyclassics
- 6th Trofeo Mallorca
- 7th Gent–Wevelgem
- 2009
- 1st Stage 2 Tour de l'Ain
- 3rd Overall Tour Down Under
- 1st Young rider classification
- 1st
- 4th Trofeo Pollença
- 4th Gran Premio de Llodio
- 5th Down Under Classic
- 9th Trofeo Cala Millor
- 2010
- 2nd Gran Premio dell'Insubria-Lugano
- 3rd Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
- 1st Points classification
- 1st
- 4th Trofeo Magaluf-Palmanova
- 5th Trofeo Deià
- 5th GP Ouest–France
- 6th Paris–Camembert
- 7th Trofeo Cala Millor
- 8th Overall Tour du Limousin
- 9th Trofeo Palma
- 2011
- 1st Road race, National Road Championships
- 1st Trofeo Deià
- 1st Stage 6 Volta a Catalunya
- 2nd Clásica de Almería
- 3rd Trofeo Magaluf-Palmanova
- 4th Overall Tour du Haut Var
- 4th Trofeo Palma
- 5th Vattenfall Cyclassics
- 7th Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes
- 7th GP Ouest–France
- 8th Down Under Classic
- 10th Trofeo Cala Millor
- Tour de France
- Held
after Stages 3, 4 & 7
- Held
- 2012
- 1st Stage 1 Tour of the Basque Country
- 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Vuelta a España
- 9th Trofeo Migjorn
- 2013
- 3rd Trofeo Campos–Santanyí–Ses Salines
- 4th Vattenfall Cyclassics
- 5th Trofeo Platja de Muro
- 6th Overall Vuelta a Castilla y León
- 6th Trofeo Palma de Mallorca
- 8th Down Under Classic
- 2014
- Vuelta a Castilla y León
- 1st Points classification
- 1st Stage 1
- 1st
- 4th Overall Paris–Nice
- 4th Circuito de Getxo
- 5th Vuelta a Murcia
- 6th Clásica de Almería
- 2015
- 1st Stage 1 Tour of Qatar
- 3rd Trofeo Santanyi-SesSalines-Campos
- 4th Circuito de Getxo
- 4th Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana
- 5th Gran Piemonte
- 2016
- 1st Road race, National Road Championships
- 10th Clásica de Almería
- 2017
- 3rd Vuelta a La Rioja
- 5th Amstel Gold Race
- 10th GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano
Combativity award Stage 18 Vuelta a España- 2018
- 6th Trofeo Matteotti
- 8th Trofeo Palma
- 9th Vuelta a Murcia
- 2019
- 5th Circuito de Getxo
- 5th Clásica de Almería
- 9th Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana
- 10th Trofeo Palma
- 2021
- 4th Vuelta a Murcia
- 2023
- 4th Clàssica Comunitat Valenciana 1969
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
| — | Did not compete |
|---|---|
| DNF | Did not finish |
| DSQ | Disqualified |
