Juan Manuel Gárate Cepa

Juan Manuel Gárate Cepa (born 24 April 1976 in Irun) is a Spanish professional road racing cyclist, who last rode for the team. He is perceived to be a climbing specialist, and to date his greatest achievements have been in the Giro d'Italia, where he placed fourth overall in 2002, tenth overall in the 2004, fifth overall in 2005 and won the Mountains classification with a seventh overall at the 2006 Giro d'Italia. He also won the Spanish National Championship road race in 2005. He has also won stages in the Tour de Suisse, the Vuelta a España, the Giro del Trentino and more recently he finished first on Mont Ventoux in the penultimate stage of the Tour de France 2009.

In February 2014, it was announced that Gárate had backed out of a contract with .

Career achievements Major results

2001 1st Stage 14 Vuelta a España 7th Overall Tour de Suisse 2002 1st Stage 7 Tour de Suisse 1st Stage 3 Giro del Trentino 4th Overall Giro d'Italia 2004 10th Overall Giro d'Italia 2005

5th Overall Giro d'Italia 5th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía

2006 7th Overall Giro d'Italia

1st Stage 19 2007 1st Clásica de San Sebastián National Road Championships 5th Road race 7th Time trial 2008 5th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía 6th Overall Paris–Nice 7th Overall Tour de Romandie 2009 1st Stage 20 Tour de France 2011 9th Overall Vuelta a Castilla y León

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish