Ángel Ibáñez

Ángel Ibáñez
Personal information
Full name	Ángel Ibáñez Lahoz
Born	3 January 1939 (age 85); Bárboles, Aragon, Spain
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Professional teams
1962	CC Tarragona–FHIMSSA
1963–1966	Picadero Jockey Club
1966-1968	Ferrys
1969	Pepsi-Cola
Major wins
	1 stage Vuelta a España (1967)

Ángel Ibáñez (born 3 January 1939)^[2] is a Spanish former cyclist, who was professional between 1962 and 1969.^[3] In the 1967 Vuelta a España, Ibáñez won the 13th stage and finished 41st overall. Finally, Angel Ibáñez manages to reach the foot of the Basilica of El Pilar two and a half minutes before the dozen pursuers who, in turn, lead the great platoon in thirty-eight seconds more. Competed in Vallmoll near Tarragona for 80 kilometers, Ángel Ibáñez won with more than three minutes ahead of his closest pursuers.^[4]

Biography

Ángel Ibáñez was born in Bárboles, Aragon on January 3, 1939.^[5] Ángel Ibáñez started in Torredembarra in 1959. As an amateur Ángel Ibáñez was the amateur 1961, 1964 and mountain 1961 champion of Catalonia, and the provincial champion 1963-65. Ibáñez competed professionally with the Ferrys team from 1966 to 1968 and Pepsi-Cola in 1969. Ángel Ibáñez was champion of Spain by region 1968 and won a stage of the Vuelta a Andalucía 1966, the Vuelta a España 1967, the Euskal Bizikleta 1967 and the race of San Salvador del Valle 1968. Ángel Ibáñez contested four Vueltas a España 1966-69 and a Tour de France 1967.^[6] The modest Aragonese Angel Ibáñez, from the Ferrys team, undertakes a solo adventure, a crazy chimera, when just four kilometers of race have been covered.^{[citation needed]}