José Ángel Gómez Marchante

José Ángel Gómez Marchante (born 30 May 1980) is a Spanish former road bicycle racer, who competed professionally between 2004 and 2010 for the , , and squads. His career highlight was his win in the 2006 Tour of the Basque Country, in which he took victory in the time trial on the final stage to clinch the general classification.

Career In 2004, while riding for the team, he finished eighth in the general classification in the Vuelta a España.

In the 2005 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré, he finished second behind Alexander Vinokourov on the stage to Mont Ventoux, and finished seventh in the general classification.

Marchante was selected by his team to ride the 2006 Vuelta a España. During Stage 5 with 6 km to go he ride across to Sérgio Paulinho and David Arroyo who were the leaders on the road. Marchante rode the two off his wheel. With 3 km to go he was caught by two riders, Danilo Di Luca and Janez Brajkovič, Marchante tried to attack them but dropped off with the high pace. In the last kilometre he was passed by Andrey Kashechkin finishing fourth in the stage. Later in the race during Stage 18 Marchante was the only rider who was working with Alejandro Valverde to catch Alexandre Vinokourov who was up the road.

Following on from his great 2006 season he was named as a key domestique in the Grand Tours for 2007.

Marchante joined the for the 2009 season.

Major results Sources:

1998 2nd Road race, National Junior Road Championships 2000 7th Overall Volta a Portugal do Futuro 2002 1st Stage ? Vuelta a la Comunidad de Madrid 2nd Overall Vuelta a Albacete 1st Stage 3 2003 1st Overall Vuelta a Extremadura 1st Overall Bizkaiko Bira 1st Stages 3 & 4b 1st Aiztondo Klasica 2nd Overall Circuito Montañés 1st Stage 5b 4th Overall Vuelta a la Comunidad de Madrid 2004 1st Stage 2 GP CTT Correios de Portugal 2nd Overall Vuelta a la Rioja 4th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía 5th Overall Vuelta a Asturias 6th Clásica de Almería 8th Overall Vuelta a España 10th Overall Clásica Internacional Alcobendas 2005 2nd Overall Clásica Internacional Alcobendas 7th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré 7th Overall Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme 7th Trofeo Soller 9th Overall Paris–Nice 2006 1st Overall Tour of the Basque Country 1st Stage 6 5th Overall Vuelta a España 10th Klasika Primavera 2007 1st Subida a Urkiola 2008 5th Overall Vuelta a Chihuahua 2009 5th Overall Volta a Catalunya 9th Overall Tour de Langkawi

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish