Luis Ocaña was a Spanish road racing cyclist, born Jesús Luis Ocaña Pernía in Priego, Cuenca, on 9 June 1945, who won the 1970 Vuelta a España and the 1973 Tour de France. His family moved to Mont-de-Marsan in France in 1957, and he turned professional in 1968 with the Spanish Fagor team. In the 1971 Tour he built a huge lead over Eddy Merckx before a crash on the descent of the Col de Menté ended his race. He won the 1973 Tour with a margin of about fifteen minutes over Bernard Thévenet, and retired in 1977 having won 110 races, nine of them Tour de France stages. He died in France on 19 May 1994.
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