Antonio Suárez

Antonio Suárez
Personal information
Full nameAntonio Suárez Vázquez
Born(1932-05-20)20 May 1932
Madrid, Spain
Died6 January 1981(1981-01-06) (aged 48)
Madrid, Spain
Team information
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Professional teams
1957Guardio de Franco
1958Lube–NSU
1959Licor 43
1960–1961Faema
1962Ghigi
1963Flandria–Faema
1964IBAC
1965Tedi Montjuich
Major wins
Grand Tours
Vuelta a España
General classification (1959)
Mountains classification (1959)
Points classification (1961)
5 individual stages (1995, 1959, 1960, 1961)
Giro d'Italia
1 individual stage (1961)

One-day races and Classics

National Road Race Championships (1959–1961)

Antonio Suárez Vázquez (20 May 1932 – 6 January 1981) was a professional road racing cyclist from Spain between 1956 and 1965. He is most famous for winning the overall title and the mountains classification of the 1959 Vuelta a España. In addition, Suarez won the points classification at the 1961 Vuelta and a career total of five stages at the Vuelta.

Suárez also won a stage and finished on the podium in third place at the 1961 Giro d’Italia behind Arnaldo Pambianco of Italy and Jacques Anquetil of France.

Major results

1956
2nd Overall Vuelta a Asturias
1st Stage 1
1957
1st Stage 16 Vuelta a España
1st Stages 1 & 8 Vuelta a Levante
1st Stage 1 Vuelta a La Rioja
3rd Overall Vuelta a Andalucía
1st Stage 7
1958
1st Stage 7 Vuelta a Andalucía
1st Stage 2 Circuito Montañés
3rd Overall Eibarko Bizikleta
1st Stage 5
1959
1st Overall Vuelta a España
1st Mountains classification
1st Stages 5 & 10
1st Road race, National Road Championships
1960
1st Road race, National Road Championships
1st Overall Barcelona–Madrid
1st Stage 1
1st Stage 14 Vuelta a España
1st Stage 3 Eibarko Bizikleta
1961
1st Road race, National Road Championships
3rd Overall Giro d'Italia
1st Stage 7
4th Overall Vuelta a España
1st Points classification
1st Stage 12 (ITT)
1962
2nd Giro della Provincia di Reggio Calabria
3rd Giro dell'Emilia
1963
2nd Trofeo Jaumendreu
6th Overall Vuelta a España
1964
3rd Clásica a los Puertos de Guadarrama


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