The two Colombians who have won the return to Spain: Lucho Herrera in 1987 and Nairo Quintana, in 2016.
Photo: The spectator
The return to Spain is the youngest among the three great races in stages of world cycling. While the Tour of France and the Tour of Italy were run since the beginning of the last century, the first edition of the Iberian Round was played “barely” in 1935.
That year 50 pedalists participated and the winner, after a 3,425 -kilometer route was the Belgian Gustaof Deloor. The name of Colombia appeared until 1974, when the Antioqueño Giovanni Jiménez, of the French team Bic, took the game in Almería as gregarious of the Portuguese Joachim …
