TOUR·KINETIC

Caja Rural · 2026 Tour de France
Rouleur and TT specialist — sprint-train muscle on the flat, breakaway option
Jakub Otruba

The big Czech diesel from Olomouc is the engine room of this Caja Rural eight: a national time trial champion who will bury himself for Gaviria on the flat stages and drive the team's effort in the opening Barcelona TTT.

Jakub Otruba paper-collage portrait in the 2026 Caja Rural kit

The big Czech diesel from Olomouc is the engine room of this Caja Rural eight: a national time trial champion who will bury himself for Gaviria on the flat stages and drive the team's effort in the opening Barcelona TTT. Since joining from ATT Investments in 2025 he has become one of the team's most reliable breakaway men, as his stage-19 combativity prize at last year's Vuelta attests.

Palmarès

  • Czech national time trial champion (2023)
  • South Aegean Tour overall winner (2023)
  • Combativity award, stage 19 Vuelta a España (2025)
  • Multiple Czech junior & U23 national titles (2015–2020)
Cut-out factAt 1.90 m he is the tallest rider in Caja Rural's Tour squad — and he rode the team time trial at the UCI Road World Championships back in 2018, aged just 20.

The squad

Riding the 2026 Tour with Fernando Gaviria, Abel Balderstone, Sebastian Berwick, Alex Molenaar, Joel Nicolau, Stefano Oldani, José Félix Parra — see the full Caja Rural team page.

Portrait: AI paper-collage render (gpt-image-2) after a reference photograph — source: teamcajarural-segurosrga.com, author: see source, license: see source. A fan project — not affiliated with the Tour de France or A.S.O.