Pedro Torres
Pedro Torres Cruces (born 27 April 1949 in Humilladero) is a Spanish former road bicycle racer. He was a GC contender in Grand Tours.His first was the 1972 Vuelta. In the following year he placed 5th overall in the Vuelta and won the King of the Mountains competition, as well as a stage in the 1973 Tour de France. Late in the year at the World Championships he finished 6th.
In 1975 he took a top 10 in the Volta a Catalunya and then in the Vuelta he came up just short of winning the King of the Mountains while finishing 14th overall. In the Tour he finished 10th while taking a 4th place at the World Championships. In 1976 he started with another top 10 in the Volta a Catalunya, finished 9th in the 1976 Vuelta a España and just inside the top 20 in the Tour.
He began 1977 with another top 10 in the Volta a Catalunya and had a very strong performance in the 77 Vuelta winning stage 15, winning the King of the Mountains and finishing top 10 overall. He then rode the 1977 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré and finished top 10 in a race that included Hinault, Merckx, Zoetemelk, Van Impe, Agostinho, Danguillaume and Thévenet. In the Tour he had his worst finish to date coming in just inside the top 20.
In 1978 he started off the year with a podium placing in the Volta a Catalunya. He also skipped the 78 Vuelta in favor of riding Paris–Nice and the Giro d'Italia for the first time. In the Giro he took two top 5 stage finishes en route to a top 20 finish. In 1979 he had another top 5 in the Volta a Catalunya, rode the Tour de Suisse for the first time and returned to the Vuelta where he finished 6th.
The 1980 Vuelta a España was the final Vuelta of his career as well as his strongest performance. He finished on the stage podium in each of the ITT's and finished in 2nd place overall. The 1980 Tour de France was his 15th and final grand tour. Nearly his entire team abandoned the race with only Jorge Fortia and Vicente Belda finishing with him. Provided by Wikipedia
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41by Marta Albo-Puigserver, Marta Albo-Puigserver, Maria Grazia Pennino, Jose María Bellido, Ana Isabel Colmenero, Ana Giráldez, Manuel Hidalgo, John Gabriel Ramírez, Jeroen Steenbeek, Pedro Torres, Marta Cousido-Rocha, Marta CollGet full text
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44by Joanna Bartkowiak, Ernest Spitzer, Reto Kurmann, Fabian Zürcher, Peter Krähenmann, Victoria Garcia-Ruiz, Jorge Mercado, Christoph Ryffel, Sylvain Losdat, Nassip Llerena, Pedro Torres, Jonas Lanz, Martin Stocker, Ben Ren, Martin Glöckler, Thomas PilgrimGet full text
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45by Rodrigo Velasco-Bucheli, Daniel Hormigo, Jesús Fernández-Lucas, Pedro Torres-Ayuso, Yohana Alfaro-Ureña, Ana I. Saborido, Lara Serrano-Aguirre, José L. García, Fernando Ramón, Carmen Acebal, Antonio Santos, Miguel Arroyo, Isabel de la MataGet full text
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46by Felipe Beccaria Casagrande, Sabrina de Souza Ferreira, Emanuella Sarmento Alho de Sousa, João Pedro Tôrres Guimarães, Lavínia Maria Dal’Mas Romera, Fernando Henrique Galvão Tessaro, Sandro Rogério de Almeida, Stephen Fernandes de Paula Rodrigues, Joilson O. MartinsGet full text
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47by Pedro Torres-Gonzalez, Miguel Enrique Cervera-Hernandez, María Dolores Niembro-Ortega, Francisco Leal-Vega, Luis Pablo Cruz-Hervert, Lourdes García-García, Arturo Galindo-Fraga, Areli Martinez-Gamboa, Miriam Bobadilla-Del Valle, Jose Sifuentes-Osornio, Alfredo Ponce-de-LeonGet full text
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48by Francles Blanco-Guillot, Guadalupe Delgado-Sánchez, Norma Mongua-Rodríguez, Pablo Cruz-Hervert, Leticia Ferreyra-Reyes, Elizabeth Ferreira-Guerrero, Mercedes Yanes-Lane, Rogelio Montero-Campos, Miriam Bobadilla-Del-Valle, Pedro Torres-González, Alfredo Ponce-de-León, José Sifuentes-Osornio, Lourdes Garcia-GarciaGet full text
Published 2017-01-01
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49by Pedro Torres-Gonzalez, Orbelin Soberanis-Ramos, Areli Martinez-Gamboa, Barbara Chavez-Mazari, Ma Teresa Barrios-Herrera, Martha Torres-Rojas, Luis Pablo Cruz-Hervert, Lourdes Garcia-Garcia, Mahavir Singh, Adrian Gonzalez-Aguirre, Alfredo Ponce de Leon-Garduño, José Sifuentes-Osornio, Miriam Bobadilla-Del-ValleGet full text
Published 2013-01-01
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50by Miriam Bobadilla-del Valle, Pedro Torres-González, Miguel Enrique Cervera-Hernández, Areli Martínez-Gamboa, Brenda Crabtree-Ramirez, Bárbara Chávez-Mazari, Narciso Ortiz-Conchi, Luis Rodríguez-Cruz, Axel Cervantes-Sánchez, Tomasa Gudiño-Enríquez, Carmen Cinta-Severo, José Sifuentes-Osornio, Alfredo Ponce de LeónGet full text
Published 2015-09-01
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52by Miriam Bobadilla-del-Valle, Francisco Leal-Vega, Pedro Torres-Gonzalez, Anabel Ordaz-Vazquez, Maria de Lourdes Garcia-Garcia, Ma. de los Angeles Tovar-Vargas, Guadalupe Delgado-Sanchez, Paola Del Carmen Guerra De Blas, Paola Del Carmen Guerra De Blas, Robert S. Wallis, Alfredo Ponce-De-León, José Sifuentes-OsornioGet full text
Published 2021-05-01
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53by Julie E. Bauman, Jonathan Harris, Ravindra Uppaluri, Min Yao, Robert L. Ferris, Josephine Chen, Richard C. Jordan, Nikhil P. Joshi, Srinivas Jujjuvaparu, Dukagjin M. Blakaj, Christina Henson, Jawad Sheqwara, Loren K. Mell, Neilayan Sen, David A. Clump, Madhur K. Garg, Emrullah Yilmaz, Pedro Torres-Saavedra, Quynh-Thu LeGet full text
Published 2021-06-01
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54by Alexis T Weiner, Dylan Y Seebold, Pedro Torres-Gutierrez, Christin Folker, Rachel D Swope, Gregory O Kothe, Jessica G Stoltz, Madeleine K Zalenski, Christopher Kozlowski, Dylan J Barbera, Mit A Patel, Pankajam Thyagarajan, Matthew Shorey, Derek M R Nye, Matthew Keegan, Kana Behari, Song Song, Jeffrey D Axelrod, Melissa M RollsGet full text
Published 2020-03-01
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55by Francles Blanco-Guillot, M Lucía Castañeda-Cediel, Pablo Cruz-Hervert, Leticia Ferreyra-Reyes, Guadalupe Delgado-Sánchez, Elizabeth Ferreira-Guerrero, Rogelio Montero-Campos, Miriam Bobadilla-Del-Valle, Rosa Areli Martínez-Gamboa, Pedro Torres-González, Norma Téllez-Vazquez, Sergio Canizales-Quintero, Mercedes Yanes-Lane, Norma Mongua-Rodríguez, Alfredo Ponce-de-León, José Sifuentes-Osornio, Lourdes García-GarcíaGet full text
Published 2018-01-01
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56by Pierluigi Carbonara, Walter Zupa, Aikaterini Anastasopoulou, Andrea Bellodi, Isabella Bitetto, Charis Charilaou, Archontia Chatzispyrou, Romain Elleboode, Antonio Esteban, Maria Cristina Follesa, Igor Isajlovic, Angélique Jadaud, Cristina García-Ruiz, Amalia Giannakaki, Beatriz Guijarro, Sotiris Elias Kiparissis, Alessandro Ligas, Kelig Mahé, Andrea Massaro, Damir Medvesek, Chryssi Mytilineou, Francesc Ordines, Paola Pesci, Cristina Porcu, Panagiota Peristeraki, Ioannis Thasitis, Pedro Torres, Maria Teresa Spedicato, Angelo Tursi, Letizia SionGet full text
Published 2019-12-01
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57by María Martínez-Hoyos, Esther Perez-Herran, Gulcin Gulten, Lourdes Encinas, Daniel Álvarez-Gómez, Emilio Alvarez, Santiago Ferrer-Bazaga, Adolfo García-Pérez, Fátima Ortega, Iñigo Angulo-Barturen, Joaquin Rullas-Trincado, Delia Blanco Ruano, Pedro Torres, Pablo Castañeda, Sophie Huss, Raquel Fernández Menéndez, Silvia González del Valle, Lluis Ballell, David Barros, Sundip Modha, Neeraj Dhar, François Signorino-Gelo, John D. McKinney, Jose Francisco García-Bustos, Jose Luis Lavandera, James C. Sacchettini, M. Soledad Jimenez, Nuria Martín-Casabona, Julia Castro-Pichel, Alfonso Mendoza-LosanaGet full text
Published 2016-06-01
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58by Pedro Torres-González, María Dolores Niembro-Ortega, Areli Martínez-Gamboa, Víctor Hugo Ahumada-Topete, Jaime Andrade-Villanueva, Javier Araujo-Meléndez, Alberto Chaparro-Sánchez, Brenda Crabtree-Ramírez, Sofia Cruz-Martínez, Armando Gamboa-Domínguez, Oscar I Flores-Barrientos, Jesús Enrique Gaytán-Martínez, Luz Alicia González-Hernández, Christian Hernández-León, Víctor Hugo Lozano-Fernandez, Marisol Manríquez-Reyes, Martin Magaña-Aquino, Pedro Martínez-Ayala, Juan Pablo Ramírez-Hinojosa, Andrea Rangel-Cordero, Norma Erendira Rivera-Martínez, Edgardo Reyes-Gutiérrez, Gustavo Reyes-Terán, Patricia Rodríguez-Zulueta, Jesús Ruíz-Quiñones, Janeth Santiago-Cruz, Nancy Guadalupe Velázquez-Zavala, José Sifuentes-Osornio, Alfredo Ponce de LeónGet full text
Published 2018-11-01
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59by Areli Martínez-Gamboa, María Dolores Niembro-Ortega, Pedro Torres-González, Janeth Santiago-Cruz, Nancy Guadalupe Velázquez-Zavala, Andrea Rangel-Cordero, Brenda Crabtree-Ramírez, Armando Gamboa-Domínguez, Edgardo Reyes-Gutiérrez, Gustavo Reyes-Terán, Víctor Hugo Lozano-Fernandez, Víctor Hugo Ahumada-Topete, Pedro Martínez-Ayala, Marisol Manríquez-Reyes, Juan Pablo Ramírez-Hinojosa, Patricia Rodríguez-Zulueta, Christian Hernández-León, Jesús Ruíz-Quiñones, Norma Eréndira Rivera-Martínez, Alberto Chaparro-Sánchez, Jaime Andrade-Villanueva, Luz Alicia González-Hernández, Sofia Cruz-Martínez, Oscar Flores-Barrientos, Jesús Enrique Gaytán-Martínez, Martín Magaña-Aquino, Axel Cervantes-Sánchez, Antonio Olivas-Martínez, Javier Araujo-Meléndez, María Del Rocío Reyes-Montes, Esperanza Duarte-Escalante, María Guadalupe Frías-De León, José Antonio Ramírez, María Lucia Taylor, Alfredo Ponce de León-Garduño, José Sifuentes-OsornioGet full text
Published 2021-03-01
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