Eduardo Sepúlveda


Eduardo Sepúlveda is an Argentine racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam. He rode at the 2014 UCI Road World Championships.
Sepúlveda took his first professional win in February 2015 with a solo victory in the Classic Sud-Ardèche. Later that year, he took a fine second place in the overall classification of the Tour of Turkey, 32 seconds down on Kristijan Đurasek. He participated in the 2015 Tour de France, but was disqualified on stage 14 for riding in a car instead of pedaling his bike.

Early life

Sepúlveda was born in Rawson, the capital of Chubut, in the Patagonia of Argentina. He started to ride a bike under the advice of his father Eduardo. In 2007, aged 16 years old, Sepúlveda won the Copa Nacional Infanto Juvenil for young riders in Argentina. However, his father was killed in a car accident while returning home after the event.
Sepúlveda recovered from this and later was selected as one of the best young riders of the country and invited to the CeNARD in Buenos Aires, some away from his home in Rawson.
After a series of good results, in 2012 Sepúlveda was invited for the Union Cycliste Internationale to the World Cycling Centre in Aigle, Switzerland among many other riders from developing countries, including Natnael Berhane, Youcef Reguigui and Josip Rumac. Also in 2012, he won the silver medal in the individual time trial at the Pan American Road Championships in Mar del Plata, losing out to Magno Nazaret from Brazil.

Professional career

In 2013, Sepúlveda began his career with the French team and signed an initial two-year contract. In a 2014 interview, Sepúlveda said thanks to the Tour de San Luis, in allowing him a chance to train at the World Cycling Centre and to sign with French second division team.
For the 2018 season, Sepúlveda joined one of the UCI WorldTeams, from Spain, and signed a two-year contract, a move predicted for many insiders in the UCI World Tour. In May 2018, he was named in the startlist for the Giro d'Italia for the first time in his career.
He was expected to ride Vuelta a España, but was not selected and, after this omission, 2019 was the first year in his professional career that Sepúlveda did not ride one Grand Tour. For the 2020 season, Eduardo re-signed for one year with the Spanish based team, he announced the news in his social media pages just before the 2019 UCI Road World Championships in Yorkshire.

Career achievements

Major results

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Grand Tour general classification results timeline

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