Pablo Lastras

Pablo Lastras García (born 20 January 1976) is a Spanish former racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 1998 and 2015, entirely for the team and its later iterations. During his career, he recorded stage victories at the three Grand Tours, winning five stages in total.

He now works as a directeur sportif for the team.

Career Born in Madrid, Lastras' idols are Bernard Hinault and Miguel Induráin. As a competitor, the tall Lastras had a resting heart rate of 45bpm, and weighed .

Lastras won a stage in the 2003 Tour de France and picked up two stages in the 2002 Vuelta a España. In 2005 he won stage 8 at Tour de Suisse. He also won the Vuelta a Burgos in 2003. In 2007 the team had announced that they would let him go, but after a stage win in Eneco Tour his contract was renewed for another year. That off-season, in November 2007, Lastras won the second annual Criterium Ciudad de Jaén race, an unofficial two-day competition. In 2008, he won the overall classification in Vuelta a Andalucía, and placed second in a stage of the Giro d'Italia. In 2011, Lastras won stage 3 of the Vuelta a España.

In October 2015, after 18 years as a professional, Lastras announced that he had retired from racing after struggling to recover from pelvic injuries he had sustained in a crash at the Volta a Catalunya in March of that year. He competed in a total of 17 Grand Tours and 29 classics, and took a total of 13 professional victories.

Following his recovery from his accident, in October 2016 it was announced that Lastras would return to Movistar as part of the squad's management team from 2017, becoming a directeur sportif.

Major results

1999 1st Stage 2a Troféu Joaquim Agostinho 1st Stage 12 Volta a Portugal 2000 10th Overall GP do Minho 1st Stage 4 2001 1st Memorial Manuel Galera 1st Stage 11 Giro d'Italia 1st Stage 4 (TTT) Volta a Portugal 3rd Overall GP CTT Correios de Portugal 3rd Giro della Toscana 9th Overall Tour de l'Avenir 2002 Vuelta a España 1st Stages 9 & 11 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Volta a Portugal 7th Clásica de Almería 7th Giro di Lombardia 2003 1st Overall Vuelta a Burgos 1st Stage 18 Tour de France 1st Stage 2 (TTT) Vuelta a Castilla y León 4th Milano–Torino 2004 6th Subida al Naranco 9th Overall Volta a Catalunya 1st Stage 1 (TTT) 10th Trofeo Luis Puig 2005 1st Stage 8 Tour de Suisse 4th Japan Cup 2006 4th Clásica a los Puertos de Guadarrama 6th Overall Escalada a Montjuïc 10th Overall Deutschland Tour 2007 1st Stage 6 Eneco Tour 6th Overall Tour de Pologne 2008 1st Overall Vuelta a Andalucía 2009 5th Trofeo Calvià 5th Japan Cup 8th Paris–Tours 9th Overall Tour de Pologne 10th Giro del Piemonte 2010 3rd Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia 3rd Giro di Lombardia 2011 1st Stage 3 Vuelta a España 3rd Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia 7th Overall Vuelta a Burgos 1st Stage 3 (TTT) 2014 7th Overall Tour de Wallonie 9th Vuelta a La Rioja

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

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