Federico Bahamontes

Federico Martín Bahamontes, born Alejandro Martín Bahamontes on 9 July 1928 in Santo Domingo-Caudilla, Toledo, and died on 8 August 2023, was a Spanish professional road racing cyclist. He won the 1959 Tour de France and eleven Grand Tour stages between 1954 and 1965, won nine mountain classifications, and was the first rider to complete a career triple by winning the mountain classification in all three Grand Tours. He is known by his mother's surname because too many people in his village shared the surname Martín. He bought his first bike in 1946, at 18, to move food between villages on the post-war black market and finished second in his first race in July 1947. After retiring he ran a bicycle and motorcycle shop, and in 2013 a panel organised by L'Équipe named him the best climber in the history of the Tour de France.