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Mariano Díaz
Personal information
Born (1939-09-17)17 September 1939
Villarejo de Salvanés, Spain
Died 5 April 2014(2014-04-05) (aged 74)
Madrid, Spain
Height 1.59 m
Weight 63 kg
Team information
Discipline Road
Role Rider
Rider type Climber
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
1 individual stage (1969)
Vuelta a España
Mountains classification (1967)
2 individual stages (1967, 1969)

Stage races

Volta a Catalunya (1969)

Mariano Díaz Díaz (17 September 1939 – 5 April 2014) was a Spanish professional road bicycle racer. In 1967, he won a stage of the 1967 Vuelta a España, and also won the mountains classification. He also competed in the individual road race and team time trial events at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Major results

1963
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Vuelta a Navarra
1964
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Vuelta a Navarra
1965
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Tour de l'Avenir
1st Jersey polkadot.svg Mountains classification
1st Stages 2 & 10
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Vuelta a Navarra
3rd Overall Circuit de la Sarthe
7th Subida al Naranco
1966
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Vuelta a los Valles Mineros
1st Stage 5 Eibarko Bizikleta
1st Stage 4 Vuelta a Ávila [es]
4th Subida al Naranco
10th Overall Volta a Catalunya
1967
9th Overall Vuelta a España
1st Jersey green.svg Mountains classification
1st Stage 11
1968
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Vuelta a Levante
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme
4th Overall Tour de Romandie
5th Overall Eibarko Bizikleta
1969
1st MaillotVolta.png Overall Volta a Catalunya
1st Stage 7 Tour de France
1st Stage 15 Vuelta a España
1st Stage 7 Tour de Suisse
3rd Overall Tour of the Basque Country
3rd Gran Premio Nuestra Señora de Oro [es]
3rd GP Leganés
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