Luis Herrera (cyclist)

Luis Herrera
Personal information
Full name	Luis Alberto Herrera
Nickname	Lucho ; El jardinerito de Fusagasugá
Born	May 4, 1961 (age 63); Fusagasugá, Colombia
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Climbing specialist
Amateur teams
1981	Valyin de Pereira
1982	Lotería de Boyacá
1983	Leche La Gran Vía
1984	Varta Nacional A
Professional teams
1985–1990	Café de Colombia
1991–1992	Ryalco Postobon
Major wins
	Grand Tours Tour de France Mountains classification (1985, 1987) 3 individual stages (1984, 1985) Giro d'Italia Mountains classification (1989) 3 individual stages (1989, 1992) Vuelta a España General classification (1987) Mountains classification (1987, 1991) 2 individual stages (1987, 1991) Stage races Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré (1988, 1991) Vuelta a Colombia (1984, 1985, 1986, 1988) Clásico RCN (1982, 1983, 1984, 1986)

Luis Alberto "Lucho" Herrera Herrera, known as "El jardinerito" ("the little gardener"; born May 4, 1961, in Fusagasugá, Colombia), is a retired Colombian road racing cyclist. Herrera was a professional from 1985 to 1992 but had a successful amateur career before that in Colombia.

He entered his first Vuelta a Colombia in 1981 where he finished 16th overall and 3rd in the New Rider competition.^[1] Although he abandoned his second Vuelta a Colombia in 1982, he won Colombia's second major stage-race, the Clásico RCN. In 1983 Herrera won Clásico RCN again as well as two stages and finished second overall to Alfonso Florez Ortiz in the 1983 Vuelta a Colombia.^[2] In 1984 he won the Vuelta a Colombia, and the Clásico RCN.

In 1984 he won stage 17 to Alpe d'Huez in the 1984 Tour de France, becoming the first Colombian to win a stage of the race, and the first amateur cyclist to win a stage in the history of the Tour de France.^{[citation needed]} He won the Vuelta a Colombia and the Clásico RCN four times each. His greatest achievement was in 1987, when he won the Vuelta a España, the first South American to win a Grand Tour.^[3] Herrera also won the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré in 1988 and 1991.

Herrera won five "King of the Mountains" jerseys from the three Grand Tours. He is the second rider to win the King of the Mountains jersey in all three Grand Tours. The first was Federico Bahamontes of Spain.