Martín Emilio Rodríguez Gutiérrez (born 14 April 1942), known by the nickname Cochise, is a retired Colombian road and track cyclist.
Cochise started his first Vuelta a Colombia in 1961. He would win his first Vuelta two years later in 1963 and would win the event four times in total. He was the road racing champion of Colombia in 1965. He had won gold in the 4,000-metre pursuit at the Central American Games in 1962, the Bolivarian Games in 1965, the American Games in 1965 and 1966 and the Pan-American Games in 1967. Cochise also won Colombia's second most important stage race, the Clásico RCN, in 1963 as well as winning the Vuelta al Táchira in Venezuela three times. On 7 October 1970, Cochise beat the world hour record, with a distance of 47.566 km.
In 1971 in Track World Championships in Varese (Italy), Rodriguez won the Amateurs 4.000ms individual track pursuit beating Swiss Josef Fuchs. Cochise turned professional in 1973 where he won two stages in the Giro d'Italia. Cochise was partnered with the great Italian champion Felice Gimondi for two-man time trial events and won the 1973 Baracchi Trophy and the Verona Grand Prix. Cochise rode the 1975 Tour de France and finished 27th overall. After 1975, Cochise returned to Colombia and competed again as an amateur, winning a final stage in the Vuelta a Colombia in 1980. Cochise is currently involved with a Colombian professional team Indeportes Antioquia that has former time trial world champion Santiago Botero.
The nickname "Cochise" is derived from the fact that he was a great admirer of the Apache chief Cochise.
He also competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics and the 1968 Summer Olympics.
Major results Road
1961 1st Stage 3 Vuelta a Colombia 1962 2nd Overall Vuelta a Colombia 1st Stages 5 & 13 2nd Team time trial, Central American and Caribbean Games 1963 1st Overall Vuelta a Colombia 1st Stages 3, 4, 6, 8, 15 & 16 1st Overall Clásico RCN 1964 1st Overall Vuelta a Colombia 1st Stages 3, 7, 9, 10, 11, 13, 15, 16 & 19 1965 2nd Overall Vuelta a Colombia 1st Stage 5 1966 1st Overall Vuelta a Colombia 1st Stages 3, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 13 & 18 1st Overall Vuelta al Táchira 1st Stages 3 & 5 Central American and Caribbean Games 1st Road race 1st Team time trial 1967 1st Overall Vuelta a Colombia 1st Stages 6, 10, 13 & 18 1968 1st Overall Vuelta al Táchira 7th Overall Vuelta a Colombia 1st Stage 9 9th Road race, Summer Olympics 1969 2nd Overall Vuelta a Colombia 1st Stages 3 & 8 1970 1st Team time trial, Central American and Caribbean Games 1st Stage 8 Vuelta a Colombia 1971 1st Overall Vuelta al Táchira 1st Stage 11 Vuelta a Colombia 1972 1st Stages 3 & 9 Vuelta a Colombia 3rd Overall Clásico RCN 1973 1st Gran Premio Città di Camaiore 1st Trofeo Baracchi (with Felice Gimondi) 1st Stage 15 Giro d'Italia 3rd Giro di Romagna 1974 2nd Trofeo Baracchi (with Gösta Pettersson) 3rd GP du canton d'Argovie 3rd GP Forli 5th GP Lugano 7th Gran Premio Città di Camaiore 1975 1st Stage 19 Giro d'Italia 1st Overall Cronostaffetta (TTT) 1st Stage 1a (ITT) 9th Milano–Torino 10th Giro del Veneto 1980 1st Stage 10 Vuelta a Colombia
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
Grand Tour 1973 1974 1975 Giro d'Italia411833 Tour de France——27 Vuelta a España———
Track
1962 1st Individual pursuit, Central American and Caribbean Games 1965 Bolivarian Games 1st Individual pursuit 1st Team pursuit 1966 1st Individual pursuit, Central American and Caribbean Games 1967 1st Individual pursuit, Pan American Games 1970 1st Individual pursuit, Bolivarian Games 1st Individual pursuit, Central American and Caribbean Games World hour record for amateurs, at the Agustín Melgar velodrome, Mexico City, 7 October 1970, 47,566.24 kilometers. 6 1971 1st Individual pursuit, UCI Amateur Track World Championships Pan American Games 1st Individual pursuit 1st Team pursuit
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