Bernardo Ruiz

Bernardo Ruiz
Personal information
Full nameBernardo Ruiz
Born (1925-01-08) 8 January 1925
Orihuela, Spain
Team information
Current teamRetired
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeAll-rounder
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
2 individual stages (1951)
Giro d'Italia
1 individual stage (1955)
Vuelta a España
General classification (1948)
Mountains classification (1948)
4 individual stages (1948, 1950)

Stage races

Volta a Catalunya (1945)

One-day races and Classics

National Road Race Championship (1946, 1948, 1951)

Bernardo Ruiz Navarrete (born 8 January 1925) is a Spanish former professional road bicycle racer who won the overall and climbers competition at the 1948 Vuelta a España. He went on to become the first Spaniard to take two wins in a single edition of the Tour de France in 1951, the first to finish on the overall podium at the Tour the following year, and the first to win a stage of the Giro d'Italia in 1955.