Xavier Florencio

Xavier Florencio Cabré (born December 26, 1979, in Tarragona, Catalonia) is a Spanish former professional road bicycle racer, who competed as a professional between 2001 and 2013. Over his career, Florencio competed for , Relax-Fuenlabrada, , , and .

Career Xavier Florencio Cabré is an ex Catalan cyclist, born in Mont-roig del Camp (Tarragona) on 26 December 1979. From a family of cyclists, his father José and his sister Núria were also professional cyclists.

At present he lives in Andorra with his wife Xary, who also rode professionally, and with whom he shares his interest in cycling and sport. His two daughters, Lola and Vera, are his biggest fans.

Xavier started as a professional as part of the ONCE-Eroski team in August 2000 in the Vuelta a Galicia, he remained with this team until the end of 2003. He spent the following two years 2004–2005 with Relax-Bodysol and the next with Relax-Fuenlabrada. After his two years with the Relax Team he was three years with the French team Bouygues Telecom and it was there that he triumphed winning the San Sebastian Classic in 2006, beating a group of illustrious cyclists in the sprint, such as Stefano Garzelli, Andrey Kasheckin and Alejandro Valverde.

After two years with the French team he signed for two seasons with the Cervelo-Test Team after their lead cyclist Carlos Sastre requested that Xavier join the team. Finishing with the Swiss team he signed with Geox for a year following that he signed with Katusha until 25 October 2013 when he announced his retirement from cycling due to a health problem at 33 years old and after 13 seasons as a professional. Nonetheless he has remained linked with Katusha as an assistant in 2014 then in 2015 he became their sports director.

He currently remains active in the cycling world as a sports director and operates as an entrepreneur in the hospitality and services sector.

Career achievements Major results

1996 1st National Junior Road Race Championships 2002 1st, 8th Stage, Tour de l'Avenir 3rd, Vuelta a La Rioja 5th, GP CTT Correios de Portugal 2003 5th, Ronde van Nederland 5th, Vuelta Valenciana 6th Tour Down Under 2006 1st, Clásica de San Sebastián 3rd, Overall, Tour de l'Ain 2007 4th, National Road Race Championships 9th, Clásica de San Sebastián 2008 3rd Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana 1st, Points classification 3rd Overall Tour du Limousin 2012 9th Clásica de San Sebastián

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish