Roberto Laiseka Jaio is a Spanish

Spain

Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...

 former professional road bicycle racer. He retired on 2006 after he couldn't recover from a knee injury in 2006 Giro d'Italia

2006 Giro d'Italia

The 2006 Giro d'Italia was the 89th running of the Giro d'Italia, one of cycling's Grand Tours. It was held from 6 May to 28 May 2006, and covered , beginning in the Belgian mining town of Seraing and ending in Milan...

.http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/news.php?id=news/2007/jan07/jan10news He spent his whole professional career in Euskaltel-Euskadi

Euskaltel-Euskadi

Euskaltel-Euskadi is a professional road bicycle racing team from Spain. The team is commercially sponsored, but also works as an unofficial Basque national team and is partly funded by the Basque Government. Its riders are either from Basque Country, or at least have grown up in the cycling...

 cycling team.

Major results

1999 - Euskaltel-Euskadi

1st, Stage 18, Vuelta a España

1999 Vuelta a España

The 1999 Vuelta a España was the 54th Vuelta a España, taking place from September 4 starting in Murcia and finishing in Madrid on September 26, 1999. It consisted of 21 stages over 3576 km, ridden at an average speed of 39.449 km/h. The favourites were Laurent Jalabert, Alex Zülle, Jan...

1st, Subida al Txitxarro

2000 - Euskaltel-Euskadi

Vuelta a España

2000 Vuelta a España

The 55th Vuelta a España , a long-distance bicycle stage race and one of the 3 grand tours, was held from August 26 to September 17, 2000. It consisted of 21 stages covering a total of 2,904 km, and was won by Roberto Heras of the cycling team.-External links:**...

1st, Stage 11

6th, Overall

2001 - Euskaltel-Euskadi

1st, Stage 14, Tour de France

2001 Tour de France

The 2001 Tour de France was particularly difficult, having contained a 67-km long team time trial, two individual time trials and five mountain-top finishes on consecutive days, the second of which being the Chamrousse special category climb time trial. Thus, all the high-mountain stages were...

2004 - Euskaltel-Euskadi

Euskal Bizikleta

Euskal Bizikleta

Euskal Bizikleta is an annual cycling stage race held in the Basque Country in June. Since 2005, the race has been organized as a 2.HC event on the UCI Europe Tour....

1st, Stage 5

2nd, Overall

3rd, Overall, Volta a Catalunya

2005 - Euskaltel-Euskadi

1st, Stage 11, Vuelta a España

External links

• Roberto Laiseka Palmarès by urtekaria.com