Fernando Escartín

Fernando Escartín Coti, born on 24 January 1968 in Biescas in Aragon, is a Spanish former road racing cyclist. Between 1995 and 2000 he finished in the top ten of the Tour de France five times, and in the same years he took second place at the Vuelta a España twice. He placed fifth in the 1997 Tour de France as leader of the Kelme team, and in 1999 he won a stage and finished third overall. Of the riders who reached the Tour podium in the years when Lance Armstrong won seven times, he is described as the only one not implicated in a doping scandal. He rode his last race at a criterium in Llobregat on 4 November 2002 and has since worked as a race co-designer for the Vuelta a España.