Ramón Hoyos Explained

Ramón Hoyos
Full Name:	Ramón Hoyos Vallejo
Nickname:	El escarabajo de la montaña, Don Ramón de Marinilla
Birth Date:	26 May 1932
Birth Place:	Marinilla, Antioquia, Colombia
Height:	1.71 m
Weight:	66 kg
Discipline:	Road
Role:	Rider
Proteam1:	Antioquia–Coltejer

Ramón Hoyos Vallejo (26 May 1932 – 19 November 2014) was a Colombian road bicycle racer who won the men's individual road race at the 1959 Pan American Games. He represented his native country twice at the Summer Olympics; in 1956 and 1960.^[1] ^[2] He also won the Vuelta a Colombia five times: in 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956 and 1958.

Major results

1952

1st Stage 9 Vuelta a Colombia

1953

1st Overall Vuelta a Colombia

1st Stages 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 15

1954

1st Team time trial, Central American and Caribbean Games (with Héctor Mesa, Justo Londoño and Efraín Forero)

1st Overall Vuelta a Colombia

1st Stages 2, 3, 4, 10, 11, 13

1st Overall Vuelta a Puerto Rico

1st Stages 2 & 5

1955

1st Road race, Pan American Games

1st Overall Vuelta a Colombia

1st Stages 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, 18

1956

1st Overall Vuelta a Colombia

1st Stages 3, 5, 7, 8, 11, 12, 16 & 17

1st Stages 7 & 14 Vuelta a Mexico

1958

1st Overall Vuelta a Colombia

1st Stages 2, 11 & 14

1959

1st Team time trial, Central American and Caribbean Games (with Pablo Hurtado and Efraín Forero)

1960

1st Stage 4 Vuelta a Colombia

Notes and References

Web site: Ramón Hoyos Olympic Results . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418122920/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ho/ramon-hoyos-1.html . dead . 18 April 2020 . 25 July 2014 . sports-reference.com.
News: Murió Ramón Hoyos Vallejo, leyenda del ciclismo colombiano. 19 November 2014. elespectador.com. Spanish.