Luis Herrera (cyclist)

Stage races Luis Alberto "Lucho" Herrera Herrera, known as "El jardinerito" ("the little gardener"; born May 4, 1961, in Fusagasugá, Colombia), is a retired Colombian road racing cyclist.

In 1983 Herrera won Clásico RCN again as well as two stages and finished second overall to Alfonso Florez Ortiz in the 1983 Vuelta a Colombia.

[citation needed] He won the Vuelta a Colombia and the Clásico RCN four times each.

His greatest achievement was in 1987, when he won the Vuelta a España, the first South American to win a Grand Tour.

He is the second rider to win the King of the Mountains jersey in all three Grand Tours.