Eddie Dunbar
Edward Dunbar is an Irish road racing cyclist who rides for on the UCI World Tour. Dunbar won two stages at the 2024 Vuelta a España and was the 2024 Irish National Time Trial Champion.
Career
Amateur career
Hailing from Banteer, County Cork, Dunbar joined local amateur team O'Leary Stone Kanturk in 2013. He quickly shot to prominence on the national junior scene, winning the Irish National Championships Junior Time Trial the same year. He followed this up with victory in the junior Road Race and third in the junior Time Trial in 2014. He was named 2014 Irish Male Cyclist of the Year at the Cycling Ireland Awards.Aqua Blue Sport & Team Sky (2018–22)
Dunbar joined Irish team for the 2018 season. However, the team encountered financial difficulties and was given dispensation by the governing body UCI to allow riders to move to other teams. Dunbar was transferred to in September 2018. He competed in the 2019 Giro d'Italia and came third on stage twelve of the race.Team Jayco–AlUla
In August 2022, it was announced that Dunbar was to join from the 2023 season, on a three-year contract.He finished 7th in the 2023 Giro d’Italia.
Race wins
Dunbar has five professional wins, and a further win in a professional race while temporarily riding as an amateur. These include two general classification victories, three stage wins and a national time trial championship.He won two stages at the 2024 Vuelta a España, finishing first on stages eleven and twenty. On stage eleven, he was in a large group that broke clear of the peloton early in the stage and stayed ahead of the main field for over 100km. Approaching the finish in a group of fourteen riders, he sprinted clear with one kilometre to go and held on to win the stage ahead of Quinten Hermans and Max Poole.
His win on stage twenty came after he moved clear of the race leader's group with five kilometres to go and started to chase down stage leader Pavel Sivakov. Dunbar made up the deficit of forty seconds and continued to push on the hilly terrain as Sivakov faded, ultimately taking the win by seven seconds from Enric Mas. Race leader and eventual champion Primož Roglič was a further three seconds behind in third place.
He took his first general classification win at the 2022 Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali, a five-stage race in Italy. Dunbar finished second to Mauro Schmid on stage one and moved into the race lead after the second stage. He held the lead from there until the end of the race, finishing nine seconds ahead of Ben Tulett. His second overall victory came a few weeks later at the 2022 Tour de Hongrie. The first four stages were won by sprinters, with the fifth and final stage proving decisive. Dunbar took the overall victory after a second place finish on the last day, winning by twenty-three seconds ahead of Óscar Rodríguez.
Dunbar was the 2024 Irish National Time Trial Champion. Raced on a 36.6km course around Athea, Dunbar finished 15 seconds ahead of Ryan Mullen to take his first elite national title. Dunbar had finished second in the race behind six-time winner Mullen on three previous occasions.
His first win in a professional race came at the 2016 An Post Rás. Dunbar won stage seven from Dungarvan to Baltinglass and finished fourth in the general classification. At the time, Dunbar was riding professionally with American team Axeon Hagens Berman. However, the team did not enter the race and Dunbar rode as part of the nominally amateur Irish National Team.
Grand Tour participation
In addition to the 2024 Vuelta a España where he finished eleventh and scored two stage victories, Dunbar also competed in the 2023 Vuelta and the 2019, 2023 and 2024 editions of the Giro d'Italia.In his first Grand Tour appearance at the 2019 Giro, Dunbar finished the race in 22nd place and was the second-highest overall finisher on the Ineos Grenadiers team. He finished third on stage twelve from Cuneo to Pinerolo, his first stage podium in a Grand Tour race. Dunbar finished the race ahead of future Grand Tour winners Jai Hindley and Sepp Kuss.
His second appearance at one of cycling's showpiece three-week races came at the Giro in 2023, taking five top-ten stage results on his way to seventh place overall. He finished fourth on stage 16 from Sabbio Chiese to Monte Bondone, his best stage result of the race. He returned to the Giro in 2024 but withdrew early in the race after crashing on stage two. He remounted and completed the stage but did not take the start for stage three.
His first Vuelta appearance came in 2023. He was in 42nd place overall after stage four but crashed in the neutral zone before the official start of stage five and withdrew from the race.
Major results
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Grand Tour general classification results timeline
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