Luis Herrera

Luis Alberto Herrera Herrera, known as Lucho Herrera and nicknamed El Jardinerito, the little gardener, is a retired Colombian road racing cyclist, born on 4 May 1961 in Fusagasugá. He raced as a professional from 1985 to 1992 after a successful amateur career in Colombia, where he won the Vuelta a Colombia and the Clásico RCN several times. In 1984 he won the stage to Alpe d'Huez at the Tour de France, becoming the first Colombian to win a stage of the race and the first amateur to do so. His greatest achievement came in 1987 when he won the Vuelta a España, the first South American winner of a Grand Tour. He also won the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré in 1988 and 1991 and took five King of the Mountains jerseys across the three Grand Tours, the second rider after Federico Bahamontes to win the mountains classification in all three. In 2025 an ex-paramilitary fighter accused him of involvement in killings in Fusagasugá in 2003.