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Miguel Indurain Larraya ((:miˈɣel induˈɾain laˈraʝa); born 16 July 1964) is a retired Spanish road racing cyclist. Indurain won five consecutive Tours de France from 1991 to 1995, the fourth, and last, to win five times.〔 He won the Giro d'Italia twice, becoming one of only seven people in history to achieve the Giro-Tour double in the same season. He wore the race leader's yellow jersey in the Tour de France for 60 days.〔 Since the revoking of Lance Armstrong's seven wins, he now holds the record for the most consecutive Tour de France wins.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Miguel Indurain Olympic Results )〕 Indurain's ability and physical size— and —earned him the nickname "Miguelón" or "Big Mig". He was the youngest rider ever to win the Spanish amateur national road championship, when he was 18,〔L'Équipe, France, 8 July 2001〕 at 20 the youngest rider to lead the Vuelta a España,〔 and at 20 he won a stage of the Tour de l'Avenir.〔〔〔The race was known at the time as the Tour of the European Community.〕 ==Early life and amateur career== Miguel Indurain was born in the village of Villava (now Villava – Atarrabia), which is now an outlying area of Pamplona. He has three sisters – Isabel, María Dolores and María Asunción〔Het Volk, Belgium, 31 December 1991〕 – and a brother, Prudencio, who also became a professional cyclist.〔Cycling Weekly, UK, undated cutting〕 His first bicycle was a green secondhand Olmo given to him for his 10th birthday. It was stolen when he was 11 and he worked in the fields with his father to pay for a new one.〔 Indurain tried running, basketball, javelin and football from nine to 14. Then he joined the local CC Villavés and rode his first race in July 1978,〔〔L'Équipe reported on 8 July 2001 that 2,000 children had taken up cycling in the town because of Indurain's fame.〕 an event for unlicensed riders in which he came second.〔 He won his second race and competed every week thereafter.〔 His hero in cycling was Bernard Hinault.〔Cycling Weekly, UK, 9 February 2002〕 At 18 he was the youngest winner of the national amateur road championship.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Miguel Indurain」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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