Carlos Rodríguez (cyclist)


Carlos Rodríguez Cano is a Spanish cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam.
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Career

Prior to being a road cyclist, Rodríguez was a BMX rider for the Spanish national team.
For his junior years in 2018 and 2019, Rodríguez raced for the Kometa development team run by former cyclist Alberto Contador. 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.
In 2020, he was recruited by UCI WorldTeam at only 18 years old on a four-year contract, while simultaneously working on an engineering degree.
In 2021, he finished second at the Tour de l'Avenir and fourth at the Vuelta a Andalucía. 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. 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.
In March 2023, he crashed in Strade Bianche and sustained a clavicle fracture. 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.
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. Later that month, he won the Tour de Romandie, his first major stage race win, after taking the lead on stage four. He rode in the 2024 Tour de France.

Major results

;2018
;2019
;2021
;2022
;2023
;2024
;2025

General classification results timeline

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