The 'Locomotive of Carchi' is one of the great stage-race champions of his generation: Giro winner, Olympic champion, and the only rider to pair road-race Olympic gold with podiums in all three Grand Tours. A perineal cyst forced him out of the 2026 Giro, so the Ecuadorian arrives in Barcelona off a long altitude block with unfinished business. Expect trademark long-range violence in the high mountains, with stage wins and a second polka-dot jersey the targets.
Palmarès
- Giro d'Italia GC winner (2019)
- Olympic road race champion, Tokyo (2021)
- Tour de France 3rd overall (2021)
- Tour de France stage win + mountains classification (2024)
- Giro d'Italia stage 11 win + 3rd overall (2025)
- Vuelta a España 2nd overall (2020)
Cut-out factCarapaz learned to race on a battered borrowed bike on the dirt roads of El Carchi in the Andes near the Colombian border, and in 2019 became the first Ecuadorian ever to win a Grand Tour.
The squad
Riding the 2026 Tour with Kasper Asgreen, Alex Baudin, Ben Healy, Sean Quinn, Georg Steinhauser, Michael Valgren, Max Walker — see the full EF Education–EasyPost team page.
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