It's been 25 years since Oscar Sevilla made his professional debut at Kelme in 1998, but the Spaniard won the Hainan Tour 47 weeks after his 1st birthday and is somehow still strong.

The veteran has raced for teams including Phonak, T-Mobile, Relax, Rock Racing, Gobernacion de Antioquia and EPM-UNE during his long career, but has settled on another Colombian team, Medellín-EPM, for the past 7 seasons.

2.Professional-rated race, was taken after 2nd place in 2 early hilly stages, is the 49th of his career. His Palmares dates back to the stage of the 1999 Tour de Romandi and has participated in many lower-ranked races across South America over the past 15 years, including two editions of the 2.2-rated Vuelta a Colombia.

Having won the stage of the tour of the Gila and Guatemala stage races, Vuelta Bantrab, earlier this year, Sevilla took the overall victory in one second from the Israeli Premiattech second-year pro Sebastian Berwick, who was also not born when the Spaniard made a professional bow.

Former IPT Man James Piccoli (Chinese Glory) rounded the podium in eight seconds, while familiar names Ben Hermans (Israel Premiatech) and Valerio Conti (Colatech Serreitalia) rounded the top five.

Once upon a time, Sevilla was a candidate for the Grand Tour and ended up in 2001's Tour de France in 7th place and became 2nd in that year's Vuelta a España En but in 2006 he was one of the few names related to the Operación Puerto doping incident and soon became one of the It was fired by Mobile.

He made a comeback with the Spanish Second Division Team Relax the following year and then moved on to the controversial American Squad Rock Racing. While racing for the team in 2010, he caught a six-month ban after testing positive for plasma expander hydroxyethyl starch.

Returning to the race in 2011, he appeared in the Peloton of Colombia and soon won the Vuelta A Mexico and became 2nd place in the Vuelta A Colombia. At the age of 35, his second career began and Sevilla never looked back.

He's still racing and he's still winning even as he approaches 50. The 29-year-old, who died after being hit by a truck driver, was a marker revealed late last season.