Eduardo Sepúlveda (born 13 June 1991) is an Argentine racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam . He rode at the

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Early life

Sepúlveda was born in Rawson, the capital of

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, in the Patagonia of Argentina. He started to ride a bike under the advice of his father, Eduardo. In 2007, aged 16 years old, Sepúlveda won the Copa Nacional Infanto Juvenil for young riders in Argentina. However, his father was killed in a car accident while returning home after the event. Sepúlveda recovered from this and later was selected as one of the best young riders of the country and invited to the

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in Buenos Aires, some away from his home in Rawson. After a series of good results, in 2012, Sepúlveda was invited for the Union Cycliste Internationale to the World Cycling Centre in Aigle, Switzerland, among many other riders from developing countries, including

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, Youcef Reguigui and

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. Also in 2012, he won the silver medal in the individual time trial at the

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, losing out to

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from Brazil.

Professional career

In 2013, Sepúlveda began his career with the French team and signed an initial two-year contract. In a 2014 interview, Sepúlveda said thanks to the Tour de San Luis for allowing him a chance to train at the World Cycling Centre and to sign with the French second division team . Sepúlveda took his first professional win in February 2015 with a solo victory in the Classic Sud-Ardèche. Later that year, he took a fine second place in the overall classification of the Tour of Turkey, 32 seconds down on Kristijan Đurasek (). He participated in the

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, but was disqualified on stage 14 for riding in a car instead of pedaling his bike. For the 2018 season, Sepúlveda joined one of the UCI WorldTeams, from Spain, and signed a two-year contract, a move predicted for many insiders in the UCI World Tour. In May 2018, he was named in the start list for the Giro d'Italia for the first time in his career. He was expected to ride the

2019 Vuelta a España The 2019 Vuelta a España was a three-week Grand Tour cycling stage race that took place in Spain, Andorra and France between 24 August and 15 September 2019. The race was the 74th edition of the Vuelta a España and is the final Grand Tour of t ...

but was not selected, and, after this omission, 2019 was the first year in his professional career that Sepúlveda did not ride one Grand Tour. For the 2020 season, Sepúlveda re-signed for one year with the Spanish-based team before moving to for the 2021 season. In November 2022, Sepúlveda signed with for the 2023 season.

Major results

;2010 : 3rd Bronze medal america

Individual pursuit,

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;2011 : 3rd Bronze medal america

Team pursuit,

: 7th Overall Rutas de América ;2012 :

::1st

Under-23 time trial ::2nd Silver medal america

Time trial : 2nd ZLM Tour : 5th Overall Coupe des nations Ville Saguenay : 8th

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;2013 :

::1st

Individual pursuit ::1st PanAmericanJersey

Team pursuit ::2nd Silver medal america

Madison : 6th Overall Kreiz Breizh Elites : 9th Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes : 10th Time trial, UCI Under-23 Road World Championships : 10th Circuito de Getxo ;2014 : 4th Overall Tour Méditerranéen ::1st Jersey white

Young rider classification : 5th Overall Critérium International : 6th Overall Tour de San Luis ;2015 : 1st Classic Sud-Ardèche : 1st Tour du Doubs : 2nd Overall Tour of Turkey : 4th Overall Tour de San Luis : 5th Overall Route du Sud ;2016 : 2nd Overall Tour de San Luis ::1st Jersey red

Mountains classification ::1st Stage 4 : 4th Tour du Doubs ;2017 : 4th Classic Sud-Ardèche ;2019 : 2nd Overall

Tour of Austria The Tour of Austria (german: Internationale Österreich Rundfahrt) is a stage cycling race held in Austria. From 1949 to 1995 it was a race for amateur cyclists, turning into a professional event in 1996. In 2005 and 2006 it was organised as a 2 ...

;2021 : 3rd Overall Tour of Turkey : 4th Overall Tour of Romania : 8th Overall Adriatica Ionica Race : 10th Giro dell'Appennino ;2022 : 3rd Overall Tour of Turkey ::1st Stage 4 : 7th Overall Tour de Langkawi : 8th Overall

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Grand Tour general classification results timeline

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sepulveda, Eduardo 1991 births Living people Argentine male cyclists Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists of Argentina Pan American Games bronze medalists for Argentina Pan American Games medalists in cycling South American Games bronze medalists for Argentina South American Games medalists in cycling Cyclists at the 2011 Pan American Games Competitors at the 2010 South American Games People from Rawson, Chubut Medalists at the 2011 Pan American Games