Emilio Rodriguez was a professional road bicycle racer from Spain who won the King of the Mountains classification at Vuelta a España three times and captured the overall title at the 1950 Vuelta. Road bicycle racing is a popular bicycle racing sport held on the road (following the geography of the area), using racing bicycles. ... The King of the Mountains is the title given to the best climber in a cycling road race. ... The Vuelta a España bicycle race is one of the three Grand Tours of Europe and, after the Tour de France and the Giro dItalia, is the third most important road cycling stage race in the world. ... The General Classification (or GC) in bicycle racing is the category that tracks overall times for bicycle riders in multi-stage bicycle races. ...
Emilio Carranza Rodriguez was the fourth child born to Sebastián Carranza Cepeda (1882-1973) and María Dolores Rodríguez Gómez (1877-1975).
Emilio's grandfather, Sebastián Carranza de la Garza (1848-1921) was brother of Venustiano Carranza (1859-1920), who was President of Mexico from 1917 until his assassination in 1920.
Emilio's father was a businessman and government official who, at the time of Emilio's death in 1928, was an accountant at the Mexican Consulate in New York City.
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