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Juan Ayuso

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Ayuso and the second or maternal family name is Pesquera.

Juan Ayuso Pesquera (born 16 September 2002) is a Spanish road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam UAE Team Emirates.[2]

Juan Ayuso
Ayuso at the 2023 Vuelta a España
Personal information
Full nameJuan Ayuso Pesquera
Born (2002-09-16) 16 September 2002 (age 22)
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Height1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight65 kg (143 lb)
Team information
Current teamUAE Team Emirates
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider type
  • All-rounder
  • Climber
Amateur team
2019–2020Bathco Cycling Team
Professional teams
2021Team Colpack–Ballan[1]
2021–UAE Team Emirates
Major wins
Grand Tours
Vuelta a España
Young rider classification (2023)

Stage races

Tour of the Basque Country (2024)

One-day races and Classics

Faun-Ardèche Classic (2024)
Medal record
Representing  Spain
Men's road bicycle racing
European Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2021 Trentino Under-23 road race

Career

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Early years

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Ayuso started cycling when he was seven or eight years old, and looked up to Alberto Contador.[3][4][5]

In 2017, he won the gold medal in the road race and the time trial at the Spanish Cadet Road Championships (15 to 16 years old), and defended his time trial title the following year. Moving up to the junior category, he immediately made an impact, winning the national junior road race title in 2019, and both the road race and time trial the following year.[6] In 2020, he dominated the national junior racing circuit, winning the Vuelta al Besaya [es] in addition to several other stage races.

Under-23 (2021)

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In 2021, Ayuso joined UCI Continental team Team Colpack–Ballan, planning to compete at the under-23 level for a year before joining UCI WorldTeam UAE Team Emirates the following year.[7] He quickly found success at this level, winning the overall title of the Giro Ciclistico d'Italia, the under-23 edition of the Giro d'Italia as well as the Giro del Belvedere and Trofeo Piva one-day races. Only several days after his win at the Giro Ciclistico d'Italia, he joined UAE Team Emirates early, on an initial contract lasting through 2025.[8]

 
Ayuso at the 2022 Tour de Romandie

UAE Team Emirates (2021–)

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Ayuso officially joined UAE Team Emirates on 15 June 2021. On 25 July in his third race with the team, he placed second in the Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia behind Luis León Sánchez. He then returned to the under-23 stage to race the Tour de l'Avenir, where he was considered the top favorite to win. However, he abandoned the race on stage four after crashing.[9] He then competed in the road race at the UEC European Under-23 Road Championships, where he won the bronze medal in a seven-man sprint.[10]

Ayuso showed strong form at the start of the 2022 season, with a fourth-place finish at the La Drôme Classic, then second in the Trofeo Laigueglia, finishing between his teammates Jan Polanc and Alessandro Covi.[11] He then competed in the Volta a Catalunya, his first UCI World Tour stage race, where he finished fifth overall.[12] At the beginning of May, he held second place in the Tour de Romandie going into the final time trial, where he lost time and fell to fourth place. However, he still took home the young rider classification award.[13] He took his first professional victory in the Circuito de Getxo at the end of July in a four-man sprint.[14] He was then selected for his first Grand Tour: the Vuelta a España, where he was the youngest rider in the race. He showed promise for the general classification early on, finishing fourth in the first mountain stage, 55 seconds behind the winner Jay Vine.[15] This put him in fifth place overall. Ultimately, he managed to move up to third by the end of the race, behind Remco Evenepoel and Enric Mas.[16] With this result five days before his 20th birthday, he became the second youngest rider in history to finish on the podium of a Grand Tour, behind Henri Cornet, the winner of the 1904 Tour de France.[17]

Ayuso had a slow start to the 2023 season due to tendinitis in his right Achilles, and did not make his debut until the Tour de Romandie in April.[18] He took the race lead after winning the stage three time trial, but fell back to 16th the following day. His next race was the Tour de Suisse. After having been in difficulty the stage before, he won the fifth stage solo on the day marred by the death of Gino Mäder.[19] He then won the time trial on the eighth and final day, ultimately finishing second overall, nine seconds behind winner Mattias Skjelmose.[20] In August, he entered his second Vuelta a España, where he took third-place finishes in stages three and eight, and finished fourth overall, winning the young rider classification in the process.[21]

In February 2024, he won the Ardèche Classic in a four-way sprint ahead of Romain Grégoire, Mattias Skjelmose and Felix Gall.[22] The following month, he competed in Tirreno–Adriatico, where he won the opening time trial.[23] However, he lost the race lead to Jonas Vingegaard, taking home second.[24] In April, he took part in the Tour of the Basque Country, which saw several of the main favorites abandon following a large crash during the fourth stage.[25] Sitting in third overall going into the final stage, Ayuso was able to drop race leader Mattias Skjelmose on the last climb, securing the overall victory by a margin of 42 seconds to compatriot Carlos Rodríguez.[26] This marked Ayuso's first major stage race win.

Major results

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2019
National Junior Road Championships
1st   Road race
3rd Time trial
1st Stage 2 Bizkaiko Itzulia
2nd VII Trofeo Victor Cabedo
3rd Gipuzkoa Klasika
5th Overall Trophée Centre Morbihan
2020
National Junior Road Championships
1st   Road race
1st   Time trial
1st   Overall Vuelta al Besaya [es]
1st   Points classification
1st Stages 1, 2 & 3
1st   Overall Vuelta a Talavera Junior
1st Stages 1, 2, 3 (ITT) & 4
1st   Overall Vuelta a la Subbética
1st Stages 1, 2 & 3
1st   Overall Circuito del Guadiana Junior
1st Stages 1 & 2 (ITT)
1st   Overall Trofeo Victor Cabedo
1st Stages 4 & 5
1st Gipuzkoa Klasika
UEC European Junior Road Championships
5th Time trial
7th Road race
2021
1st   Overall Giro Ciclistico d'Italia
1st   Points classification
1st   Mountains classification
1st   Young rider classification
1st Stages 2, 5 & 7
1st   Overall Giro di Romagna
1st   Mountains classification
1st Stages 2 & 3
1st Trofeo Piva
1st Giro del Belvedere
2nd Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia
3rd   Road race, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships
2022 (1 pro win)
1st Circuito de Getxo
2nd Trofeo Laigueglia
3rd Overall Vuelta a España
4th Road race, National Road Championships
4th Overall Tour de Romandie
1st   Young rider classification
4th La Drôme Classic
4th Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia
5th Overall Volta a Catalunya
2023 (3)
1st Stage 3 (ITT) Tour de Romandie
National Road Championships
2nd Road race
4th Time trial
2nd Overall Tour de Suisse
1st Stages 5 & 8 (ITT)
3rd Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia
4th Overall Vuelta a España
1st   Young rider classification
2024 (4)
1st   Overall Tour of the Basque Country
1st   Young rider classification
1st Faun-Ardèche Classic
2nd Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
1st   Young rider classification
1st Stage 1 (ITT)
2nd La Drôme Classic
3rd Trofeo Laigueglia
5th Overall Tour de Luxembourg
1st Stage 4 (ITT)
5th Overall Tour de Romandie

General classification results timeline

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Sources:[27][28][29][30]

Grand Tour general classification results
Grand Tour 2022 2023 2024
  Giro d'Italia — — —
  Tour de France — — DNF
  Vuelta a España 3 4 —
Major stage race general classification results
Race 2022 2023 2024
  Paris–Nice — — —
  Tirreno–Adriatico — — 2
  Volta a Catalunya 5 — —
  Tour of the Basque Country — — 1
  Tour de Romandie 4 16 5
  Critérium du Dauphiné DNF — DNF
  Tour de Suisse — 2 —
Legend
— Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

References

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  1. ^ "Team Colpack Ballan". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 26 February 2021. Retrieved 26 February 2021.
  2. ^ "AYUSO PESQUERA Juan". UCI. Retrieved 29 June 2021.
  3. ^ Christian Giner (12 May 2020). ""Lo que tiene no lo encuentras en el súper". El salto de Juan Ayuso, el ciclista que viene". elconfidencial.com (in Spanish).
  4. ^ Carlos de Torres (9 June 2020). "Juan Ayuso, otro diamante del ciclismo español camino del World Tour". ciclismoafondo.es (in Spanish).
  5. ^ Christophe Gaudot (26 August 2022). "La Vuelta - Protégé de Pogacar, choyé par Contador : Ayuso-Rodriguez, terreurs de demain ?". eurosport.fr.
  6. ^ Juan Ayuso, con un doblete, y Eva Anguela, campeones de España junior
  7. ^ "UAE Team Emirates sign Juan Ayuso". UAE Team Emirates. 30 April 2020. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  8. ^ Ballinger, Alex (30 April 2020). "17-year-old junior rider signs five-year deal with UAE Team Emirates". CyclingWeekly. Retrieved 19 December 2020.
  9. ^ Le Tour de l’Avenir perd son grand favori
  10. ^ Juan Ayuso : « Je reviens en forme »
  11. ^ Farrand, Stephen (2 March 2022). "Jan Polanc wins Trofeo Laigueglia with late attack". CyclingNews. Future plc. Retrieved 2 March 2022.
  12. ^ Fotheringham, Alasdair; Ostanek, Daniel (27 March 2022). "Higuita secures Volta a Catalunya victory in Barcelona". CyclingNews. Future plc. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
  13. ^ "Tour de Romandie 2022 Stage 5 Results". Tissot Timing. 1 May 2022. Retrieved 1 May 2022.
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  15. ^ Puddicombe, Stephen (25 August 2022). "Vine wins stage 6 atop Pico Jano summit, Evenepoel takes overall lead at Vuelta a España". CyclingNews. Retrieved 25 August 2022.
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  17. ^ El ciclismo español ilusiona: país con más podios en grandes vueltas en 2022
  18. ^ "Juan Ayuso ne sera pas au départ du Tour de Catalogne". lequipe.fr. L'Équipe. 8 March 2023..
  19. ^ Fletcher, Patrick (15 June 2023). "Tour de Suisse: Ayuso conquers Albulapass as Skjelmose takes yellow". CyclingNews. Retrieved 15 June 2023.
  20. ^ Ostanek, Daniel (18 June 2023). "Mattias Skjelmose wins Tour de Suisse". CyclingNews. Retrieved 18 June 2023.
  21. ^ Lamoureux, Lyne (17 September 2023). "Sepp Kuss wins 2023 Vuelta a España". CyclingNews. Retrieved 17 September 2023.
  22. ^ "Juan Ayuso wins four-up sprint to secure victory at Faun-Ardèche Classic". CyclingNews. Future plc. 24 February 2024. Retrieved 24 February 2024.
  23. ^ Weislo, Laura (4 March 2024). "Tirreno-Adriatico: Juan Ayuso storms to opening time trial victory, takes first leader's jersey". CyclingNews. Retrieved 4 March 2024.
  24. ^ Farrand, Stephen (10 March 2024). "Tirreno-Adriatico: Vingegaard claims overall as Milan wins stage 7 sprint". CyclingNews. Retrieved 10 March 2024.
  25. ^ Frattini, Kirsten (4 April 2024). "Itzulia Basque Country: Meintjes wins subdued stage 4 after major crash neutralises peloton". CyclingNews. Retrieved 4 April 2024.
  26. ^ Fotheringham, Alasdair (6 April 2024). "Itzulia Basque Country: Juan Ayuso secures overall, Carlos Rodríguez wins stage 6 finale". CyclingNews. Retrieved 6 April 2024.
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  30. ^ "Vuelta a España 2022". cyclingnews.com. 19 August 2022. Retrieved 19 August 2022.
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