In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Rojas and the second or maternal family name is Gil.
.jpg) Rojas at the 2013 Tour de France. | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | José Joaquín Rojas Gil |
| Born | (1985-06-08) 8 June 1985 (age 39) Cieza, Murcia, Spain |
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) |
| Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Retired |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | Sprinter |
| Amateur team | |
| 2005 | Liberty Seguros–Würth (stagiaire) |
| Professional teams | |
| 2006 | Liberty Seguros–Würth |
| 2007–2023 | Caisse d'Epargne |
| Major wins | |
One-Day Races and Classics
| |
José Joaquín Rojas Gil (born 8 June 1985) is a Spanish former professional road racing cyclist, who competed as a professional from 2006 to 2023.
Career
Rojas turned professional in 2006 with Liberty Seguros–Würth. His older brother Mariano Rojas, was a professional cyclist as well, riding for ONCE until 1996. He died in the same year as a result of a traffic accident.
Rojas was selected to ride the 2012 Tour de France, but crashed out on Stage 3, with a fractured left collarbone, the second retirement of the 2012 Tour after Team Sky's Kanstantsin Sivtsov.
Rojas was again selected to ride the 2013 Tour de France and finished 79th overall, one of the highest GC placings among the sprinters; he also finished in 7th place in the points classification with 156 points. His best result was a third place on the third stage – in which he contested the bunch sprint – which was one of seven top-ten finishes during the Tour. He was disqualified from the 2014 Tour de France for excessive sheltering behind his team car during the descent of the Tourmalet.
Major results
- 2002
- 1st
Road race, National Junior Road Championships - 2003
- 1st Time trial, National Junior Road Championships
- 4th Road race, UCI Junior Road World Championships
- 2005
- 2nd Overall Vuelta a Extremadura
- 1st Points classification
- 2006
- 1st
Mountains classification Tirreno–Adriatico - 7th Overall Three Days of De Panne
- 10th Circuito de Getxo
- 2007
- 1st Stage 1 Vuelta a Murcia
- 2nd Trofeo Mallorca
- 2nd Trofeo Cala Millor
- 3rd Circuito de Getxo
- 6th Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia
- 9th Overall Tour de Pologne
- 1st
Points classification
- 1st
- 9th Gent–Wevelgem
- 10th Châteauroux Classic
- 2008
- 1st Trofeo Pollença
- 2nd Gran Premio de Llodio
- 3rd Overall Tour Down Under
- 1st
Young rider classification
- 1st
- 4th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
- 4th Overall Tour du Limousin
- 5th Overall Paris–Corrèze
- 5th Trofeo Cala Millor
- 5th Clásica de Almería
- 5th GP Ouest–France
- 5th Vattenfall Cyclassics
- 6th Trofeo Mallorca
- 7th Gent–Wevelgem
- 2009
- 1st Stage 2 Tour de l'Ain
- 3rd Overall Tour Down Under
- 1st Young rider classification
- 1st
- 4th Trofeo Pollença
- 4th Gran Premio de Llodio
- 5th Down Under Classic
- 9th Trofeo Cala Millor
- 2010
- 2nd Gran Premio dell'Insubria-Lugano
- 3rd Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
- 1st Points classification
- 1st
- 4th Trofeo Magaluf-Palmanova
- 5th Trofeo Deià
- 5th GP Ouest–France
- 6th Paris–Camembert
- 7th Trofeo Cala Millor
- 8th Overall Tour du Limousin
- 9th Trofeo Palma
- 2011
- 1st Road race, National Road Championships
- 1st Trofeo Deià
- 1st Stage 6 Volta a Catalunya
- 2nd Clásica de Almería
- 3rd Trofeo Magaluf-Palmanova
- 4th Overall Tour du Haut Var
- 4th Trofeo Palma
- 5th Vattenfall Cyclassics
- 7th Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes
- 7th GP Ouest–France
- 8th Down Under Classic
- 10th Trofeo Cala Millor
- 2012
- 1st Stage 1 Tour of the Basque Country
- 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Vuelta a España
- 9th Trofeo Migjorn
- 2013
- 3rd Trofeo Campos–Santanyí–Ses Salines
- 4th Vattenfall Cyclassics
- 5th Trofeo Platja de Muro
- 6th Overall Vuelta a Castilla y León
- 6th Trofeo Palma de Mallorca
- 8th Down Under Classic
- 2014
- Vuelta a Castilla y León
- 1st
Points classification - 1st Stage 1
- 1st
- 4th Overall Paris–Nice
- 4th Circuito de Getxo
- 5th Vuelta a Murcia
- 6th Clásica de Almería
- 2015
- 1st Stage 1 Tour of Qatar
- 3rd Trofeo Santanyi-SesSalines-Campos
- 4th Circuito de Getxo
- 4th Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana
- 5th Gran Piemonte
- 2016
- 1st Road race, National Road Championships
- 10th Clásica de Almería
- 2017
- 3rd Vuelta a La Rioja
- 5th Amstel Gold Race
- 10th GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano
Combativity award Stage 18 Vuelta a España- 2018
- 6th Trofeo Matteotti
- 8th Trofeo Palma
- 9th Vuelta a Murcia
- 2019
- 5th Circuito de Getxo
- 5th Clásica de Almería
- 9th Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana
- 10th Trofeo Palma
- 2021
- 4th Vuelta a Murcia
- 2023
- 4th Clàssica Comunitat Valenciana 1969
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
| Grand Tour | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Giro d'Italia
|
DNF | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 49 | 50 | — | 50 | — | — | 69 | 79 |
 Tour de France
|
— | — | 84 | 68 | 80 | DNF | 79 | DSQ | — | — | — | DNF | — | 70 | — | — | |
 / Vuelta a España
|
— | — | — | — | — | DNF | — | — | 43 | DNF | 22 | — | 30 | 32 | 56 | — |
| — | Did not compete |
|---|---|
| DNF | Did not finish |
| DSQ | Disqualified |
References
- "Movistar Team launches 2019 season with highest hopes". Telefónica. Telefónica, S.A. 18 December 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
- "Movistar Team ready to open new era in 2020". Movistar Team. Abarca Sports SL. 19 December 2019. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
- "Movistar Team". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 1 January 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- Jose Rocamora (22 June 1996). "Muere otra promesa del ciclismo español". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 17 April 2012.
- "Tour de France: Peter Sagan earns his second Tour stage win". BBC Sport. BBC. 3 July 2012. Retrieved 4 July 2012.
- "Tjallingii, Rojas out after crash-filled Tour de France stage". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. 3 July 2012. Retrieved 4 July 2012.
- "Rojas objects to "unjust" expulsion from Tour de France". Cyclingnews.com. 25 July 2014. Retrieved 12 September 2014.
External links
- Official website (in Spanish)
- José Joaquín Rojas at ProCyclingStats
- José Joaquín Rojas at Cycling Archives (archived)
| Sporting positions | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded byIván Gutiérrez | Spanish National Road Race Championships Winner 2011 |
Succeeded byFrancisco Ventoso |