Carlos Rodríguez Cano (born 2 February 2001) is a Spanish cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Ineos Grenadiers.[3]
 Rodríguez at the start of the 2019 Paris–Roubaix Juniors | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Carlos Rodríguez Cano |
| Nickname |
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| Born | 2 February 2001 Almuñécar, Spain |
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) |
| Weight | 67 kg (148 lb) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Ineos Grenadiers |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type |
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| Amateur team | |
| 2018–2019 | Kometa U19 |
| Professional team | |
| 2020– | Team Ineos[2] |
| Major wins | |
Grand Tours
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Career
editPrior to being a road cyclist, Rodríguez was a BMX rider for the Spanish national team.[4] [5]
For his junior years in 2018 and 2019, Rodríguez raced for the Kometa development team run by former cyclist Alberto Contador.[6] During these two seasons, he was a two-time national junior time trial champion and won the Tour de Gironde and the Gipuzkoa Klasika in 2019. He was also the bronze medalist at the 2018 European Junior Road Race Championships.[7]
In 2020, he was recruited by UCI WorldTeam Team Ineos at only 18 years old on a four-year contract, while simultaneously working on an engineering degree.[8]
In 2021, he finished second at the Tour de l'Avenir and fourth at the Vuelta a Andalucía.[9] The following year, he took his first senior-level wins, being crowned the elite national road race champion in addition to winning stage five of the Tour of the Basque Country.[10] In August, he was selected for his first Grand Tour, the Vuelta a España, finishing 7th overall. In his final race of the season in October, he placed fifth in his first Monument, the Giro di Lombardia.[11]
In March 2023, he crashed in Strade Bianche and sustained a clavicle fracture.[12] In June, he returned to racing, placing ninth at the Critérium du Dauphiné. He next rode in the Tour de France, where he finished fifth overall in the general classification and won stage 14 ahead of Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard.[13]
In April 2024, he won the final stage and finished second overall at the Tour of the Basque Country, being the only rider able to follow Juan Ayuso up the final climb.[14] Later that month, he won the Tour de Romandie, his first major stage race win, after taking the lead on stage four.[15] He rode in the 2024 Tour de France.
Major results
edit- 2018
- 1st
Time trial, National Junior Road Championships
- UEC European Road Championships
- 3rd
Road race
- 7th Time trial
- 3rd
- 4th Overall Tour de Gironde
- 1st
Points classification
- 1st
Young rider classification
- 1st Stage 1 (TTT)
- 1st
- 5th Overall Trophée Centre Morbihan
- 1st Stage 2b
- 6th Paris–Roubaix Juniors
- 2019
- 1st
- 1st
Overall Tour de Gironde
- 1st
- 1st
- 1st Gipuzkoa Klasika
- 6th Overall Trophée Centre Morbihan
- 2021
- 2nd Overall Tour de l'Avenir
- 1st
Mountains classification
- 1st
- 1st Stage 9
- 1st
- 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
- 4th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía
- 7th GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano
- 10th Overall Tour of Britain
- 1st Stage 3 (TTT)
- 2022 (2 pro wins)
- National Road Championships
- 1st
Road race
- 4th Time trial
- 1st
- 1st Stage 5 Tour of the Basque Country
- 2nd Overall Route d'Occitanie
- 1st
- 1st
- 3rd Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
- 4th Overall Vuelta a Burgos
- 1st
- 1st
- 4th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía
- 5th Giro di Lombardia
- 5th Clásica de San Sebastián
- 5th Trofeo Laigueglia
- 7th Overall Vuelta a España
- 2023 (2)
- 4th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía
- 5th Overall Tour de France
- 1st Stage 14
- 7th Giro di Lombardia
- 9th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné
- 1st
- 1st
- 9th Tre Valli Varesine
- 10th Overall Tour of Britain
- 1st Stage 8
- 10th Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
- 2024 (3)
- 1st
- 1st
- 1st
- 2nd Overall Tour of the Basque Country
- 1st Stage 6
- 4th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné
- 1st Stage 8
- 7th Overall Tour de France
- 10th Overall Vuelta a España
- Held
- Held
General classification results timeline
edit| Grand Tour general classification results | |||||||
| Grand Tour | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | — | — | ||||
| — | — | 5 | 7 | ||||
| — | 7 | — | 10 | ||||
| Major stage race general classification results | |||||||
| Race | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | |||
| — | — | — | 28 | ||||
| — | — | — | — | ||||
| — | 15 | — | — | ||||
| — | 26 | — | 2 | ||||
| — | — | — | 1 | ||||
| 33 | — | 9 | 4 | ||||
| — | — | — | — | ||||
| — | Did not compete |
|---|---|
| DNF | Did not finish |
References
edit- ^ Hoy, Granada (22 July 2023). "La Costa se vuelca con el 'león de Almuñécar'". Granada Hoy (in European Spanish). Retrieved 13 November 2023.
- ^ "Team Ineos". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 2 January 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
- ^ "Ineos Grenadiers". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 2 January 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2021.
- ^ "Quién es Carlos Rodríguez y cómo ha llegado a pelear por el podio del Tour". brujulabike.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 July 2024.
- ^ Vern Pitt (15 July 2023). "Carlos Rodriguez credits BMX skills with Tour de France stage win". cyclingweekly.com. Retrieved 3 July 2024.
- ^ Christophe Gaudot (26 August 2022). "La Vuelta – Protégé de Pogacar, choyé par Contador : Ayuso-Rodriguez, terreurs de demain ?". eurosport.fr.
- ^ Carlos Rodriguez, une nouvelle pépite chez Ineos
- ^ Team Ineos sign 18-year-old Carlos Rodríguez
- ^ Goddard, Ben (22 May 2021). "Miguel Ángel López wins Ruta del Sol". CyclingNews. Retrieved 22 May 2021.
- ^ Ryan, Barry (8 April 2022). "Itzulia Basque Country: Carlos Rodriguez solos to first pro win on stage 5". CyclingNews. Future plc. Retrieved 8 April 2022.
- ^ "Tadej Pogacar wins Lombardia again as Alejandro Valverde finishes career with top-10 finish in Como". Eurosport UK. 8 October 2022. Retrieved 9 October 2022.
- ^ Clément Labat-Gest (6 March 2023). "Infirmerie – Carlos Rodriguez s'est fracturé une clavicule aux Strade". cyclismactu.net.
- ^ "Carlos Rodriguez wins Tour de France stage 14; Pogacar move on Vingegaard stifled by motorbikes". NBC Sports.
- ^ Fotheringham, Alasdair (6 April 2024). "Itzulia Basque Country: Juan Ayuso secures overall, Carlos Rodríguez wins stage 6 finale". CyclingNews. Retrieved 6 April 2024.
- ^ "Tour de Romandie: Carlos Rodríguez wins overall". Cycling News. 28 April 2024. Retrieved 28 April 2024.
External links
edit- Carlos Rodríguez Cano at UCI
- Carlos Rodríguez Cano at Cycling Archives
- Carlos Rodríguez Cano at ProCyclingStats
- Carlos Rodríguez Cano at Cycling Quotient
- Carlos Rodríguez Cano at CycleBase