Ángel Arroyo has died at 70 after a serious illness linked in media reports to cancer. The Reynolds rider finished second in the 1983 Tour de France and helped open the road for the generation led by Delgado and Indurain.
At an Ávila hospital, Ángel Arroyo died during the night of October 4 to 5, 2026. He was 70. Reports say he had spent about two weeks there and that doctors diagnosed the illness roughly six months earlier. Media reports linked it to cancer.
His death closes the story of a rider who revived interest in cycling across Spain in the early 1980s. For many teenagers who followed the sport then, Arroyo was the first Spanish climber to make the mountains feel personal.
His career had faded by the time Miguel Indurain turned cycling into a mass phenomenon. The road to that moment ran through Arroyo's hard-edged style and his best mountain rides.
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