Abraham Olano

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Abraham Olano

Personal information
Full name	Abraham Olano Manzano
Born	(1970-01-22) 22 January 1970 (age 54) Anoeta, Spain
Height	1.81 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in)
Weight	70 kg (154 lb; 11 st 0 lb)
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Time-trialist
Amateur team
–	Kaiku, AVSA
Professional teams
1992	CHCS
1992	Lotus–Festina
1993	CLAS–Cajastur
1994–1997	Mapei–CLAS
1997–1998	Banesto
1999–2002	ONCE–Deutsche Bank
Major wins
Grand Tours Tour de France 1 individual stage (1997) 1 TTT stage (2002) Vuelta a España General classification (1998) 6 individual stages (1995, 1998, 1999, 2000) Stage races Tour de Romandie (1996) Tirreno–Adriatico (2000) Critérium International (2000) One-day races and Classics World Road Race Championships (1995) World Time Trial Championships (1998) National Road Race Championships (1994) National Time Trial Championships (1994, 1998)
Medal record Men's road bicycle racing Representing  Spain Olympic Games 1996 Atlanta Individual Time Trial World Championships 1995 Duitama Elite Men's Road Race 1998 Valkenburg Elite Men's Time Trial 1995 Duitama Elite Men's Time Trial

Abraham Olano Manzano (born 22 January 1970 in Anoeta, Gipuzkoa) is a Spanish retired professional road racing cyclist, who raced as a professional from 1992 to 2002. He won the World Road Championship in 1995, and the World Time Trial Championship in 1998, becoming the first male cyclist to win both.^[1]

He won Vuelta a España in 1998, was second in 1995, made it twice to the final podium at Giro d'Italia (third in 1996 and second in 2001), and placed three times in the top-ten at Tour de France, with the fourth place in 1997 as his personal best. In total he won six stages in the Vuelta and one in the Tour, all of them time trials.

Olano was also double Spanish Champion in both road (1994) and time trial (1994 and 1998), olympic silver medalist in time trial in Atlanta 1996 and winner of several shorter stage races, like Tour of Romandie in 1996 and Critérium International and Tirreno–Adriatico in 2000.