Carlos Rodríguez Cano

Carlos Rodríguez Cano (born 2 February 2001) is a Spanish cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam .

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 1st Time trial, National Junior Road Championships UEC European Road Championships

7th Time trial 4th Overall Tour de Gironde 1st Points classification 1st Young rider classification 1st Stage 1 (TTT) 5th Overall Trophée Centre Morbihan 1st Stage 2b 6th Paris–Roubaix Juniors 2019 1st Time trial, National Junior Road Championships 1st Overall Tour de Gironde 1st Points classification 1st Gipuzkoa Klasika 6th Overall Trophée Centre Morbihan 2021 2nd Overall Tour de l'Avenir 1st Mountains classification 1st Young rider classification 1st Stage 9 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships 4th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía 7th GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano 10th Overall Tour of Britain 1st Stage 3 (TTT) 2022 (2 pro wins) National Road Championships 1st Road race 4th Time trial 1st Stage 5 Tour of the Basque Country 2nd Overall Route d'Occitanie 1st Young rider classification 3rd Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana 4th Overall Vuelta a Burgos 1st Young rider classification 4th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía 5th Giro di Lombardia 5th Clásica de San Sebastián 5th Trofeo Laigueglia 7th Overall Vuelta a España 2023 (2) 4th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía 5th Overall Tour de France 1st Stage 14 7th Giro di Lombardia 9th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné 1st Young rider classification 9th Tre Valli Varesine 10th Overall Tour of Britain 1st Stage 8 10th Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana 2024 (3) 1st Overall Tour de Romandie 1st Young rider classification 2nd Overall Tour of the Basque Country 1st Stage 6 4th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné 1st Stage 8 7th Overall Tour de France 10th Overall Vuelta a España Held after Stages 11–14 & 16–18 2025 6th Overall Tour de Romandie 6th Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana 1st Young rider classification 9th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné 2026 1st Stage 3 (TTT) Paris–Nice 2nd Overall Tour de la Provence 4th Overall Tour of Austria

General classification results timeline Grand Tour general classification results Grand Tour 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Giro d'Italia — — — — — — Tour de France — —57 DNF Vuelta a España —7 —10 — Major stage race general classification results Major stage race 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Paris–Nice — — — 28 — 23 Tirreno–Adriatico — — — — — — Volta a Catalunya — 15 — — — 26 Tour of the Basque Country — 26 —2 — — Tour de Romandie — — —16 12 Critérium du Dauphiné 33 —949 Tour de Suisse — — — — —

+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish