Juan Mauricio Soler Hernández is a Colombian professional road
bicycle racer for UCI Professional Continental team Barloworld. He competed
in the Tour de France for the first time in 2007, winning stage 9 having
broken away on the Col du Galibier. He won that year's King of the Mountains
title. Soler stated the stage win was "a victory from heaven. It
is the biggest win of my life, and in my first Tour de France. I didn't
think it would come so quickly."
Soler began
racing at the age of 17, he stated a race in his village is what made
him decide to become a professional cyclist. Upon becoming a professional,
Soler spent a year racing in his native Colombia and soon after joined
the Acqua & Sapone team where he was guided by Claudio Corti,
who later brought him to his current team, Barloworld.