Inaki Lejarreta, 29, was Spain’s 2007 mountain bike champion and a competitor in the 2008 Beijing Olympics. He died on Dec. 16, 2012 after being hit by a car.(Photo: Carl de Souza, AFP/Getty Images)
Story Highlights
- Former Spanish national mountain bike champion Inaki Lejarreta was killed in an accident
- The 29-year-old old was cycling when he was hit by a car
- Lejarreta competed in cross-country cycling at the 2008 Beijing Olympics
MADRID (AP) — The Spanish cycling federation says former national mountain bike champion Inaki Lejarreta was killed when he was hit by a car while cycling.
The federation says the 29-year-old Lejarreta was riding Sunday in the town of Iurreta in the northern Basque region.
Lejarreta was Spain’s mountain bike champion in 2007. He competed in cross-country cycling at the 2008 Beijing Olympics and professionally with the Orbea team.
He was the nephew of cyclist Marino Lejarreta, who won the Spanish Vuelta in 1982.
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