Jhoan Esteban Chaves Rubio (born 17 January 1990) is a Colombian professional road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam EF Education–EasyPost.[8] Born in Bogotá, Chaves has competed as a professional since the start of the 2012 season, having signed for the Colombia–Coldeportes team as a neo-pro,[9] after three seasons as an amateur with the Colombia es Pasión–Coldeportes team. Chaves is a two-time grand tour podium finisher, and a monument winner.
 Chaves at the 2015 Vuelta a España | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Jhoan Esteban Chaves Rubio[1] |
| Nickname | Chavito,[2] El Chivo, the Smiling Assassin[3] |
| Born | 17 January 1990 Bogotá, Colombia |
| Height | 1.64 m (5 ft 5 in) |
| Weight | 54 kg (119 lb; 8.5 st) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | EF Education–EasyPost |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | Climber |
| Amateur team | |
| 2009–2011 | Colombia es Pasión–Coldeportes |
| Professional teams | |
| 2012–2013 | Colombia–Coldeportes[4] |
| 2014–2021 | Orica–GreenEDGE[5][6][7] |
| 2022– | EF Education–EasyPost |
| Major wins | |
Grand Tours
| |
Career
editEarly career
editAs an amateur, Chaves was the winner of the French Tour de l'Avenir race in 2011, a race previously won by five future winners of the Tour de France. Chaves had been part of the breakaway on the first road stage of the race, taking the mountains jersey after the stage.[10] He surrendered that lead to Garikoitz Bravo the next day, but reclaimed the lead on the third stage, having led the field over the Grand Ballon.[11] Bravo took the lead again after the fourth stage until the end of the race, but Chaves moved into contention for the overall honours with several top-ten stage finishes,[12] and trailed race leader David Boily by seven seconds before the final stage, in Alba, Italy. Chaves was part of a four-rider breakaway that moved clear of the field after the penultimate climb, and although he was beaten to the line by Warren Barguil and Mattia Cattaneo, Chaves's third place, coupled with a 24-second time gap to the field, allowed him to win the race by 17 seconds.[13]
Colombia–Coldeportes (2012–13)
editChaves turned professional with the newly formed Colombia–Coldeportes team for the 2012 season,[14] as his former team Colombia es Pasión–Café de Colombia returned to the domestic ranks in Colombia. He competed in several of the early-season Italian races, including Tirreno–Adriatico, but withdrew from the race on the penultimate day. After finishing 18th in his home race, the Vuelta a Colombia, Chaves returned to Europe for the Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia single-day race in the Basque Country. Chaves made an attack with 10 km (6.2 mi) remaining but Euskaltel–Euskadi's Gorka Izagirre shadowed his move, with Izagirre eventually beating Chaves in the sprint finish.[15] Chaves continued his form into the Vuelta a Burgos, where he won the final stage of the race. Team Sky team-mates Rigoberto Urán and Sergio Henao animated the field on the final climb to Lagunas de Neila, and only Chaves was able to follow the pair; Chaves ultimately beat his former team-mate to take his first professional victory on the line, and allowed him to finish the race in third place overall.[16] The following weekend, Chaves took victory in the Gran Premio Città di Camaiore in Italy, from a five-rider group, after forming the group with Italian national champion Franco Pellizotti of the Androni Giocattoli–Venezuela team, on the Monte Pitoro climb.[17]
Chaves suffered severe injuries in a crash at the Trofeo Laigueglia in February 2013. The team doctor revealed that he had a compound fracture to his right clavicle, fractures in his left petrous bone, right cheekbone, maxillary sinuses and sphenoid bone, and also received pulmonary compressions, abrasions and suspected rib fractures.[18]
Orica–GreenEDGE (2014–2021)
editChaves moved to the Orica–GreenEDGE team for the 2014 season, on an initial two-year contract.[19]
2015
editAt the Vuelta a España, Chaves won stage 2 by outsprinting Tom Dumoulin (Team Giant–Alpecin) and Nicolas Roche (Team Sky) at the summit of the final third category climb of Caminito del Rey. By doing so he took the overall race lead.[20] Chaves lost the race lead on stage 5, as he was caught out in a split in the peloton at the finish and dropped 6 seconds to Dumoulin.[21] However, on stage 6 Chaves attacked 2 kilometres (1.2 miles) from the summit of the final climb to Sierra de Cazorla and held off Dan Martin (Cannondale–Garmin) and Dumoulin by five seconds for his second stage win and retake the race lead.[22] During the Vuelta Chaves extended his contract for a further three years.[23] He eventually finished the Vuelta in fifth place overall.[24]
2016–2017
edit2016 was a strong season for him as he finished second in the Giro d'Italia and third in the Vuelta a España. On 1 October, Chaves won Il Lombardia, his – and Colombia's – first victory in one of cycling's "monuments".[25]
In June 2017, he was named in the startlist for the Tour de France.[26] He struggled at the event, eventually finishing 62nd in the general classification, almost two-and-a-half hours down on winner Chris Froome.[27] He returned to the Vuelta a España later in the year. He showed good form in the opening stages,[28] but later slipped back to finish eleventh overall.[29]
2018
editChaves started his 2018 campaign at the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race, before starting the Herald Sun Tour. He broke away from the peloton at the final ascent of the penultimate stage, taking the victory and the lead in the overall classification.[30] He held on to his lead to win the event overall the next day,[31] his second victory in a stage race. Chaves also rode the Giro d'Italia as his season highlight, winning stage 6.
2019
editOn 31 May, Chaves won stage 19 of the Giro d'Italia from the breakaway, his first victory in over a year.[32]
EF Education–EasyPost
editAfter eight seasons with Team BikeExchange and its precursors, Chaves signed for the EF Education–EasyPost team for the 2022 season.[33]
Major results
edit- 2006
- 2nd Road race, National Novice Road Championships
- 2009
- 1st Stage 1 Vuelta a Cundinamarca
- 2010
- 5th Overall Circuito de Combita
- 2011
- 1st
Overall Tour de l'Avenir
- 1st Stage 1 Clásica Club Deportivo Boyacá
- 3rd Overall Circuito de Combita
- 2012 (2 pro wins)
- 1st Gran Premio Città di Camaiore
- 1st
Young rider classification, Vuelta a Colombia
- 2nd Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia
- 3rd Overall Vuelta a Burgos
- 1st
Young rider classification
- 1st Stage 5
- 1st
- 5th Memorial Marco Pantani
- 6th Road race, UCI Under-23 Road World Championships
- 2014 (2)
- 1st Stage 8 Tour de Suisse
- 3rd Overall Tour of Beijing
- 1st
- 1st
- 4th Overall Tour de Langkawi
- 7th Overall Tour of California
- 1st Stage 6
- 2015 (4)
- 1st
Overall Abu Dhabi Tour
- 1st
- 1st Stage 3
- 1st
- Giro d'Italia
- 1st Stage 1 (TTT)
- Held
- 5th Overall Vuelta a España
- 1st Stages 2 & 6
- Held
- Held
after Stages 2–3 & 7–14
- Held
after Stage 2
- Held
- 8th Giro di Lombardia
- 2016 (3)
- 1st Giro di Lombardia
- 1st Giro dell'Emilia
- 2nd Overall Giro d'Italia
- 1st Stage 14
- Held
after Stage 19
- 3rd Overall Vuelta a España
- 9th UCI World Tour
- 2017
- 2nd Overall Tour Down Under
- 9th Overall Herald Sun Tour
- 2018 (3)
- 1st
- 1st Stage 3
- Giro d'Italia
- 1st Stage 6
- Held
after Stages 6–8
- 2019 (1)
- 1st Stage 19 Giro d'Italia
- 6th Overall Tour of Slovenia
- 2020
- 4th Overall Vuelta a Burgos
- 5th Time trial, National Road Championships
- 7th Overall Tour Colombia
- 2021 (1)
- 3rd Grand Prix of Aargau Canton
- 6th Overall Volta a Catalunya
- 1st
Points classification
- 1st
Mountains classification
- 1st Stage 4
- 1st
- 8th La Flèche Wallonne
- 9th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
- 10th Overall Tour de Suisse
- 2022
- National Road Championships
- 2nd Time trial
- 3rd Road race
- 2nd Mont Ventoux Dénivelé Challenge
- 4th Coppa Sabatini
- 5th Giro della Toscana
- 6th Overall Tour de Langkawi
- 7th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné
- 9th Overall Tour of Norway
- 2023 (1)
- 1st
Road race, National Road Championships
- 2024
- 8th Overall Tour Colombia
General classification results timeline
edit| Grand Tour general classification results | |||||||||||||
| Grand Tour | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | — | — | 55 | 2 | — | 72 | 40 | — | — | — | — | 35 | |
| — | — | — | — | — | 62 | — | — | 23 | 13 | — | DNF | ||
| — | — | 41 | 5 | 3 | 11 | — | 19 | 27 | — | DNF | |||
| Major stage race general classification results | |||||||||||||
| Race | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
| — | — | — | — | — | — | DNF | 51 | — | — | — | — | ||
| DNF | — | — | — | 30 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
| — | — | 46 | 13 | 48 | — | DNF | 34 | NH | 6 | 44 | 11 | ||
| — | — | 101 | 21 | — | — | — | — | 9 | — | 12 | |||
| Has not contested during his career | |||||||||||||
| — | — | — | — | — | 26 | — | — | — | — | 7 | 32 | ||
| — | — | 16 | 14 | — | — | — | — | NH | 10 | — | — | ||
Monuments results timeline
edit| Monument | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Milan–San Remo | Has not contested during his career | |||||||||||
| Tour of Flanders | ||||||||||||
| Paris–Roubaix | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | NH | — | — | — |
| Liège–Bastogne–Liège | — | — | — | 68 | — | — | — | — | — | 14 | — | 45 |
| Giro di Lombardia | DNF | — | — | 8 | 1 | — | — | 70 | — | — | — | |
| — | Did not compete |
|---|---|
| IP | In progress |
| DNF | Did not finish |
| NH | Not held |
References
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- ^ "EF Education–EasyPost". UCI. Archived from the original on 11 January 2022. Retrieved 11 January 2022.
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- ^ "Caleb Ewan takes maiden Grand Tour victory on Vuelta a España stage five - Cycling Weekly". 26 August 2015.
- ^ "Esteban Chaves regains Vuelta a España lead from Tom Dumoulin". Reuters. 27 August 2015 – via The Guardian.
- ^ Windsor, Richard (8 September 2015). "Esteban Chaves earns extended contract with Orica-GreenEdge after Grand Tour breakthrough". Cycling Weekly. Time Inc. (UK) Ltd. Retrieved 8 September 2015.
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- ^ "Esteban Chaves impresses on challenging Vuelta a Espana stage into Gruissan". Eurosport. 21 August 2017. Archived from the original on 26 February 2018. Retrieved 26 February 2018.
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- ^ "Chaves seals Herald Sun Tour overall victory". Cycling Weekly: 14. 8 February 2018.
- ^ "Relentless Esteban Chaves takes summit finish victory on stage 19 of the Giro d'Italia 2019". 31 May 2019.
- ^ "EF Education-Nippo signs Esteban Chaves". 9 August 2021.
External links
edit- Esteban Chaves at UCI
- Esteban Chaves at Cycling Archives
- Esteban Chaves at ProCyclingStats
- Esteban Chaves at Cycling Quotient
- Esteban Chaves at CycleBase
- Esteban Chaves on Twitter