# Martín Emilio Rodríguez

Martín Emilio Rodríguez Gutiérrez (born 14 April 1942), known by the nickname Cochise, is a retired Colombian road and track cyclist.
Cochise started his first Vuelta a Colombia in 1961. He would win his first Vuelta two years later in 1963 and would win the event four times in total. He was the road racing champion of Colombia in 1965. He had won gold in the 4,000-metre pursuit at the Central American Games in 1962, the Bolivarian Games in 1965, the American Games in 1965 and 1966 and the Pan-American Games in 1967. Cochise also won Colombia's second most important stage race, the Clásico RCN, in 1963 as well as winning the Vuelta al Táchira in Venezuela three times. On 7 October 1970, Cochise beat the world hour record, with a distance of 47.566 km.
In 1971 in Track World Championships in Varese (Italy), Rodriguez won the Amateurs 4.000ms individual track pursuit beating Swiss Josef Fuchs. Cochise turned professional in 1973 where he won two stages in the Giro d'Italia. Cochise was partnered with the great Italian champion Felice Gimondi for two-man time trial events and won the 1973 Baracchi Trophy and the Verona Grand Prix. Cochise rode the 1975 Tour de France and finished 27th overall. After 1975, Cochise returned to Colombia and competed again as an amateur, winning a final stage in the Vuelta a Colombia in 1980. Cochise is currently involved with a Colombian professional team Indeportes Antioquia that has former time trial world champion Santiago Botero.
The nickname "Cochise" is derived from the fact that he was a great admirer of the Apache chief Cochise.
He also competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics and the 1968 Summer Olympics.

## Major results
### Road
#### 1961

    1st Stage 3 Vuelta a Colombia

#### 1962

    2nd Overall Vuelta a Colombia
       1st Stages 5 & 13
    2nd Team time trial, Central American and Caribbean Games

#### 1963

    1st Overall Vuelta a Colombia
       1st Stages 3, 4, 6, 8, 15 & 16
    1st Overall Clásico RCN

#### 1964

    1st Overall Vuelta a Colombia
       1st Stages 3, 7, 9, 10, 11, 13, 15, 16 & 19

#### 1965

    2nd Overall Vuelta a Colombia
       1st Stage 5

#### 1966

    1st Overall Vuelta a Colombia
       1st Stages 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 13 & 18
    1st Overall Vuelta al Táchira
       1st Stages 3 & 5
    Central American and Caribbean Games
       1st Road race
       1st Team time trial

#### 1967

    1st Overall Vuelta a Colombia
       1st Stages 6, 10, 13 & 18

#### 1968

    1st Overall Vuelta al Táchira
    7th Overall Vuelta a Colombia
       1st Stage 9
    9th Road race, Summer Olympics

#### 1969

    2nd Overall Vuelta a Colombia
       1st Stages 3 & 8

#### 1970

    1st Team time trial, Central American and Caribbean Games
    1st Stage 8 Vuelta a Colombia

#### 1971

    1st Overall Vuelta al Táchira
    1st Stage 11 Vuelta a Colombia

#### 1972

    1st Stages 3 & 9 Vuelta a Colombia
    3rd Overall Clásico RCN

#### 1973

    1st Gran Premio Città di Camaiore
    1st Trofeo Baracchi (with Felice Gimondi)
    1st Stage 15 Giro d'Italia
    3rd Giro di Romagna

#### 1974

    2nd Trofeo Baracchi (with Gösta Pettersson)
    3rd GP du canton d'Argovie
    3rd GP Forli
    5th GP Lugano
    7th Gran Premio Città di Camaiore

#### 1975

    1st Stage 19 Giro d'Italia
    1st Overall Cronostaffetta (TTT)
       1st Stage 1a (ITT)
    9th Milano–Torino
    10th Giro del Veneto

#### 1980

    1st Stage 10 Vuelta a Colombia

### Grand Tour general classification results timeline

| Grand Tour | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 |
| Giro d'Italia | 41 | 18 | 33 |
| Tour de France | — | — | 27 |
| Vuelta a España | — | — | — |

### Track
#### 1962

    1st Individual pursuit, Central American and Caribbean Games

#### 1965

    Bolivarian Games
       1st Individual pursuit
       1st Team pursuit

#### 1966

    1st Individual pursuit, Central American and Caribbean Games

#### 1967

    1st Individual pursuit, Pan American Games

#### 1970

    1st Individual pursuit, Bolivarian Games
    1st Individual pursuit, Central American and Caribbean Games
    World hour record for amateurs, at the Agustín Melgar velodrome, Mexico City, 7 October 1970, 47,566.24 kilometers. 6

#### 1971

    1st Individual pursuit, UCI Amateur Track World Championships
    Pan American Games
       1st Individual pursuit
       1st Team pursuit