Joaquim Francisco Fernandes Agostinho was a Portuguese professional bicycle racer who died on 10 May 1984. He was champion of Portugal in six successive years and became one of the most durable Grand Tour riders of his era, riding the Tour de France thirteen times and finishing all but one of those races. He finished third overall in the Tour twice, and in 1979 he won a stage finishing on the famous climb of Alpe d'Huez. Counting the Vuelta a Espana and the Tour de France together, he won seven stages in total, placed in the top ten of a Grand Tour eleven times and reached the podium of a Grand Tour on three occasions.
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He was champion of Portugal in six successive years.
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was a Portuguese professional bicycle racer
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was a Portuguese professional bicycle racer
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He rode the Tour de France 13 times and finished all but once
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won a total of seven stages between the Vuelta and Tour
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