 A newspaper clipping from after Miquel won the Volta a Catalunya. | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Mució Joseph Emmanuel Miquel |
| Born | 12 March 1902 Barcelona, Spain |
| Died | 27 May 1945(1945-05-27) (aged 43) Lübtheen, Germany |
| Team information | |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Professional teams | |
| 1923 | Individual |
| 1924–1925 | UE Sants |
| 1926 | UE Sant Andreu |
| 1927 | FC Barcelona |
| 1928–1929 | Dilecta–Wolber |
Mució Joseph Emmanuel Miquel (12 March 1902 – 27 May 1945), also known as Muç Miquel and Miguel Mucio, was a Catalan cyclist who most notably won the Volta a Catalunya in 1924 and 1925 as well as the Spanish National Road Race Championships in 1927.
A member of the Unified Socialist Party of Catalonia and Communist Party of Spain, Miquel fled his homeland following the end of the Spanish Civil War. During World War II, he served as a member of the Francs-Tireurs et Partisans. He was imprisoned by the Gestapo in 1944 and imprisoned in Neuengamme concentration camp. Following the liberation of the camp in 1945, German workers murdered Miquel and many other prisoners by poisoning their food.
Major results
- 1923
- 3rd Road race, National Road Championships
- 5th Overall Volta a Catalunya
- 1924
- 1st
Overall Volta a Catalunya
- 1st Stages 1 & 3
- 9th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
- 1925
- 1st Overall Volta a Catalunya
- 1st Stage 1
- 1926
- 2nd Overall Volta a Catalunya
- 2nd Overall Vuelta a Asturias
- 9th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
- 1927
- 1st
Road race, National Road Championships - 1st Overall Vuelta a Asturias
- 1st Stage 1
- 3rd GP Viscaya
- 1928
- 1st Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia
- 2nd Overall Volta a Catalunya
References
- "Mució Miquel". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
- Pereda, Marcos (29 August 2020). "El ciclista español héroe de la Resistencia francesa que acabó en un campo nazi". Público. Retrieved 25 December 2023.
External links
- Mució Miquel at Cycling Archives (archived)
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- Spanish male cyclists
- Cyclists from Barcelona
- Vuelta a Asturias winners
- Spanish communists
- Spanish refugees
- Spanish expatriates in France
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- People who died in Neuengamme concentration camp
- Resistance members who died in Nazi concentration camps
- Deaths by poisoning
- 20th-century Spanish sportsmen
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