José Joaquín Rojas

José Joaquín Rojas Gil (born 8 June 1985) is a Spanish professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Movistar Team.[3]

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Rojas and the second or maternal family name is Gil.
José Joaquín Rojas
Rojas at the 2013 Tour de France.
Personal information
Full nameJosé Joaquín Rojas Gil
Born (1985-06-08) 8 June 1985
Cieza, Murcia, Spain
Height1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight70 kg (154 lb)
Team information
Current teamMovistar Team
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeSprinter
Amateur team
2005Liberty Seguros–Würth (stagiaire)
Professional teams
2006Liberty Seguros–Würth
2007–Caisse d'Epargne[1][2]
Major wins
One-Day Races and Classics
National Road Race Championships (2011, 2016)

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.[4]

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.[5][6]

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.[7]

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
9th Gent–Wevelgem
10th Châteauroux Classic
2008
1st Trofeo Pollença
2nd Gran Premio de Llodio
3rd Overall Tour Down Under
1st Young rider classification
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
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
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
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
A pink jersey Giro d'Italia DNF — — — — — — — — 49 50 — 50 — — 69 79
A yellow jersey Tour de France — — 84 68 80 DNF 79 DSQ — — — DNF — 70 — —
A gold jersey/A red jersey Vuelta a España — — — — — DNF — — 43 DNF 22 — 30 32 56 —
Legend
— Did not compete
DNF Did not finish
DSQ Disqualified

References
  1. "Movistar Team launches 2019 season with highest hopes". Telefónica. Telefónica, S.A. 18 December 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
  2. "Movistar Team ready to open new era in 2020". Movistar Team. Abarca Sports SL. 19 December 2019. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
  3. "Movistar Team". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 1 January 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  4. Jose Rocamora (22 June 1996). "Muere otra promesa del ciclismo español". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 17 April 2012.
  5. "Tour de France: Peter Sagan earns his second Tour stage win". BBC Sport. BBC. 3 July 2012. Retrieved 4 July 2012.
  6. "Tjallingii, Rojas out after crash-filled Tour de France stage". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. 3 July 2012. Retrieved 4 July 2012.
  7. "Rojas objects to "unjust" expulsion from Tour de France". Cyclingnews.com. 25 July 2014. Retrieved 12 September 2014.
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