Federico Martín Bahamontes, born Alejandro Martín Bahamontes, was a Spanish professional road racing cyclist. He won the 1959 Tour de France and 11 Grand Tour stages between 1954 and 1965.
Bahamontes was born in Santo Domingo-Caudilla, Toledo, to Julián Martín and Victoria Bahamontes. Unlike the usual custom of calling a Spaniard by the first of two surnames, Bahamontes is known by his second; there were too many with the surname Martín in his village so he took up his mother’s surname.
Federico Bahamontes wife
Federico Bahamontes was married to Fermina Aguilar Sánchez, she became famous because of her husband.
After being limited to his home for a long time, Bahamontes returned to dark marketeering and contended in his most memorable cycling race after two other dark marketeers welcomed him. On 18 July 1947, he cycled to a nearby town where the race started and figured out how to complete the second with just a banana and lemon as food.
Federico Bahamontes children
Federico Bahamontes’s children’s names are hidden from the media. As apportioning was set up because of monetary ruin, the bootleg market for food prospered.
Federico Bahamontes parents
Federico Bahamontes’s parents are Julian Martín (father), and his mother Victoria Bahamontes, they have been in support for him throughout his life and career.
Federico Bahamontes siblings
There is not much information about Federico Bahamontes’s siblings and it seems his parents only have him as their child.
In 1946, at 18 years old, Bahamontes purchased his most memorable bicycle for 150 pesetas (generally identical to £250 or US$342.47 in 2014) to ship food wrongfully between towns.
It was during this action that Bahamontes got an obscure sickness which he accepted to be typhoid. While stowing away from the Common Gatekeeper, who had requests to capture anybody dark marketeering, he remained in stale water and was chomped by a mosquito (despite the fact that typhoid isn’t spread through mosquitoes). This prompted outrageous weight reduction, loss of hair, and fever.
