Kaden Groves

Kaden Groves (born 23 December 1998) is an Australian cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Groves is a sprinter with speed on flat races, but who can also climb better than most sprinters.

Career Groves was the 2016 winner of the junior race at the Australian National Road Race Championships. In 2017, Groves finished runner-up in the prologue stage of the Tour de Kumano. He won stage 3 of the Tour of Fuzhou.

In August 2019, Groves joined UCI WorldTeam as a stagiaire for the second half of the season, before joining the team permanently in 2020. In 2022, he won his first Grand Tour stage, when he won stage 11 of the Vuelta a España in a sprint finish. In 2023 he won stage 5 of the Giro d'Italia. He won stage 20 of the Tour de France 2025, which included a Category 2 climb, going out solo with about 17 kilometres remaining in the stage.

Major results

2016 1st Road race, National Junior Road Championships 2017 (1 pro win) 1st Stage 3 Tour of Fuzhou 1st Team time trial, Queensland State Road Championships 2018 (2) 1st Stage 13 Tour of Qinghai Lake 1st Stage 5 Tour of Fuzhou 1st Stage 1 Tour of Quanzhou Bay 3rd Overall Tour of China II 1st Points classification 2019 Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux 1st Stages 1 & 3 1st Stage 1 Ronde de l'Isard 2nd Eschborn–Frankfurt Under-23 4th Overall Circuit des Ardennes 1st Points classification 1st Stages 1 & 4 8th Liège–Bastogne–Liège Espoirs 10th Brussels Cycling Classic 2020 (2) Herald Sun Tour 1st Stages 3 & 5 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Czech Cycling Tour 4th Race Torquay 2021 (1) 1st Criterium, National Road Championships 1st Prologue Okolo Slovenska 2022 (3) 1st Stage 11 Vuelta a España Volta a Catalunya 1st Points classification 1st Stage 2 1st Stage 2 Tour of Turkey 3rd Overall Tour of Estonia 1st Points classification 2023 (7) 1st Volta Limburg Classic Vuelta a España 1st Points classification 1st Stages 4, 5 & 21 1st Stage 5 Giro d'Italia Volta a Catalunya 1st Stages 4 & 6 2nd Münsterland Giro 2nd Famenne Ardenne Classic 3rd Schwalbe Classic 2024 (3) Vuelta a España 1st Points classification 1st Stages 2, 14 & 17 3rd Brussels Cycling Classic 10th Circuit Franco-Belge 2025 (2) 1st Stage 20 Tour de France 1st Stage 6 Giro d'Italia 5th Milan–San Remo

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish