Abraham Olano

Abraham Olano Manzano, born on 22 January 1970, is a Spanish retired professional road racing cyclist who raced as a professional from 1992 to 2002. He won the World Road Championship in 1995, riding the last kilometre solo with a flat tyre, and the World Time Trial Championship in 1998, becoming the first male cyclist to win both. He won the Vuelta a España in 1998, his only Grand Tour, after finishing second in 1995, reached the final podium of the Giro d'Italia twice, and placed three times in the top ten of the Tour de France, with fourth in 1997 as his best. In total he won six stages in the Vuelta and one in the Tour, all of them time trials. He also won the silver medal in the time trial at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, 12 seconds behind Miguel Indurain, and won the Tour of Romandie in 1996.