# Luis Herrera (cyclist)

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. 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. 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. 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. 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.

## Career achievements
### Major results
#### 1981

    1st Stage 5 Clásico RCN

#### 1982

    1st Overall Clásico RCN
       1st Stages 2, 7 & 10
    4th Overall Tour de l'Avenir
       1st Stage 10

#### 1983

    1st Overall Clásico RCN
       1st Stage 8
    Coors Classic
       1st Stages 1 & 3
    1st Stage 6b Grand Prix Guillaume Tell
    2nd Overall Vuelta a Colombia
       1st Stages 9 & 14

#### 1984

    1st Overall Clásico RCN
       1st Stage 8
    1st Overall Vuelta a Colombia
       1st Stages 6, 9 & 10
    1st Stage 17 Tour de France

#### 1985

    1st Overall Vuelta a Colombia
       1st Stages 5 & 8
    2nd Overall Clásico RCN
    7th Overall Tour de France
       1st Mountains classification
       1st Stages 11 & 14

#### 1986

    1st Overall Clásico RCN
       1st Prologue, Stages 2 & 4 (ITT)
    1st Overall Vuelta a Colombia
       1st Stage 6

#### 1987

    1st Overall Vuelta a España
       1st Mountains classification
       1st Stage 11
    2nd Overall Vuelta a Colombia
       1st Prologue
    5th Overall Tour de France
       1st Mountains classification

#### 1988

    1st Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
       1st Stage 6b
    1st Overall Vuelta a Colombia
       1st Stages 2 & 11
    6th Overall Tour de France

#### 1989

    Giro d'Italia
       1st Mountains classification
       1st Stages 13 & 18 (ITT)

#### 1990

    4th Overall Clásico RCN
       1st Prologue

#### 1991

    1st Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
       1st Stage 5
    Vuelta a España
       1st Mountains classification
       1st Stage 16
    Volta a Catalunya
       1st Mountains classification
       1st Stage 6
    6th Overall Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme
    9th Overall Vuelta a Murcia

#### 1992

    1st Overall Vuelta a Aragón
       1st Stage 5
    1st Prologue Vuelta a Colombia
    8th Overall Giro d'Italia
       1st Stage 9

### Grand Tour general classification results timeline

| Grand Tour | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 |
| Vuelta a España | — | DNF | — | 1 | 20 | — | 12 | 13 | DNF |
| Giro d'Italia | — | — | — | — | — | 18 | — | — | 8 |
| Tour de France | 27 | 7 | 22 | 5 | 6 | 19 | — | 31 | — |
Legend :
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |