José Enrique Gutiérrez Cataluña (born 18 June 1974) is a Spanish former professional road racing cyclist. His career highlights include second place overall at the 2006 Giro d'Italia, winning a stage of the Vuelta a España and two stages at the Dauphiné Libéré.
Gutiérrez's name was brought up in the 2006 Operación Puerto doping case, and he was immediately made "non-active" (although not, according to team manager John Lelangue, suspended or fired) and so did not compete in any further events in 2006. Due to the Floyd Landis doping case of the 2006 Tour de France, Phonak withdrew their sponsorship of the team and it hence folded. Gutiérrez then moved down a division to .
In 2010, Gutiérrez retired, but later came out of retirement to ride for in 2011.
Major results
1997 1st Time trial, National Road Championships 2000 Giro d'Italia Held after Stage 8 2001 5th Gran Premio de Llodio 2002 1st Stage 7 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré 4th Classique des Alpes 6th Paris–Tours 2003 3rd Overall Giro della Provincia di Lucca 2004 1st Stage 20 Vuelta a Espana 3rd Classique des Alpes 6th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré 1st Combination classification 1st Stage 2 6th Overall Clásica Internacional de Alcobendas 2005 5th Overall Escalada a Montjuïc 2006 2nd Overall Giro d'Italia 4th Overall Tour de Georgia 2007 5th Monte Paschi Eroica 5th Grand Prix de Wallonie 6th Grand Prix de Fourmies 2009 7th Overall Vuelta a la Comunidad de Madrid 10th Overall Vuelta Mexico Telmex 2011 1st Stage 3 (TTT) Vuelta a Colombia
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
Grand Tour 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 Giro d'ItaliaDNF—DNF—————2 Tour de France———2529412849— / Vuelta a España——36DNFDNF3431DNF—
+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish
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