Topic: Joan Llaneras

Joan Llaneras Roselló (born May 17, 1969 in Porreres, Majorca) is a Spanish World and Olympic points race champion track cyclist who specialises in the madison and points race events.

Llaneras began his cycling career on the road with the ONCE professional cycling team, but switched to concentrate on track cycling. A four time world champion in the points race and three times in the Madison. He is a double Olympic champion, winning the event at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and in Beijing in 2008.

Llaneras teamed up with Isaac Gálvez to compete on the lucrative Six Days of Ghent racing circuit on November 2006. It resulted with the death of Gálvez after colliding with Dimitri De Fauw and hitting the railings. Llaneras had decided to quit cycling but a few months later in an interview with Spanish daily newspaper Marca ,he said: