Jonathan Kléver Caicedo Cepeda (born 28 April 1993) is an Ecuadorian professional

road racing cyclist Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and spectators. The two most comm ...

, who currently rides for

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Career

Caicedo is from the town of Santa Martha de Cuba in Ecuador's

Tulcán Canton Tulcán Canton is a canton of Ecuador, located in Carchi Province. Its capital is the city of Tulcán. The population of the canton in the 2001 census was 77,175 and 86,498 in the 2010 census. The area of the canton is . Most of the populatio ...

, from which he gets his nickname, ''Cubanito'' ("Little Cuban"). Whilst at school, Caicedo was a member of a cycling club founded by one of his teachers, former Olympic racing cyclist Juan Carlos Rosero. The club has also produced a number of other professional riders, including

Richard Carapaz Richard Antonio Carapaz Montenegro (born 29 May 1993) is an Ecuadorian professional road racing cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Carapaz won the 2019 Giro d'Italia, becoming the first Ecuadorian rider to win the race. In July 2021 ...

and

Jhonatan Narváez Jhonatan Manuel Narváez Prado (born 4 March 1997) is an Ecuadorian professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Career Early career Originally from El Playón de San Francisco, situated at an altitude of 2,990 me ...

. Prior to joining EF for 2019, he rode for the Colombian teams and . In May 2019, he was named in the startlist for the

2019 Giro d'Italia The 2019 Giro d'Italia was a three-week Grand Tour cycling stage race organised by RCS Sport that took place mainly in Italy, between 11 May and 2 June 2019. The race was the 102nd edition of the Giro d'Italia and was the first Grand Tour of the ...

. The following month, he won both the road race and the time trial in the

Ecuadorian National Road Championships The Ecuadorian National Road Championships are held annually to decide the cycling champions in both the road race and time trial discipline, across various categories. Men Road race Time trial Women References {{National Road R ...

. Caicedo was again selected by EF for the

2020 Giro d'Italia The 2020 Giro d'Italia was a road cycling stage race that took place between 3 and 25 October, after initially being postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was originally to have taken place from 9 to 31 May 2020, as the 103rd edition of the ...

, where he won the race's third stage, forming part of the day's early breakaway before dropping the remainder of the breakaway riders alongside Giovanni Visconti in the closing stages before dropping Visconti with an attack and reaching the summit finish on

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alone, additionally taking the lead in the

mountains classification The King of the Mountains (KoM) is an award given to the best climbing specialist in a men's cycling road race; in women's cycle racing, Queen of the Mountains (QoM) is used. While the title may be given to the rider who achieves the highest p ...

Major results

Source: ;2015 (1 pro win) : National Road Championships ::1st Ecuador_NC

Time trial ::3rd Road race ;2016 (1) : 1st PanAmericanJersey

Road race,

Pan American Road Championships The Pan American Road Championships are the continental cycling championships for road bicycle racing held annually for member nations of the Pan American Cycling Confederation. Riders competing in the Pan American Cycling Championships are sel ...

: 1st Stage 12

Vuelta a Costa Rica The Vuelta Ciclista a Costa Rica (''English'': Tour of Costa Rica) is a bicycle racing stage race held annually, since 1965, in Costa Rica. The men's Vuelta carries a UCI rating of 2.2 and is part of the UCI America Tour, which is one of six UCI ...

: 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships ;2017 : 4th Overall

Vuelta a Colombia The (Spanish for ''Tour of Colombia'') is an annual cycling road race, run over many stages throughout different regions in Colombia and sometimes Venezuela and Ecuador during the first days of August. It is organized by the Colombian Cyclin ...

;2018 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

: 2nd Overall

Vuelta a Asturias Vuelta Asturias is a professional cycle road race held in Spain in early May each year. The event was first run in 1925 but has not been held consistently until 1968 to present. Since 2005, the race has been organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI ...

::1st

Points classification : 3rd Overall

Vuelta a la Comunidad de Madrid Vuelta a la Comunidad de Madrid is a stage road bicycle race held annually in and around Madrid, Spain. Between 2005 and 2012, the race was organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. In 2013 the event was organised as a single-day race, for ...

: 6th

Winston-Salem Cycling Classic The Winston-Salem Cycling Classic is a one-day race held annually since 2013 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina in the United States. In 2019, it was rated as a 1.2 race by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI), and was part of the UCI America T ...

;2019 (2) : National Road Championships ::1st Ecuador_NC

Road race ::1st Ecuador_NC

Time trial : 4th Overall

Adriatica Ionica Race The Adriatica Ionica Race is an Italian annual professional men's road bicycle race introduced in the 2018 season as a part of the UCI Europe Tour, and currently classified as a 2.1 event. The race is organised by former professional cyclist Mo ...

;2020 (1) :

Giro d'Italia The Giro d'Italia (; ), also known simply as the Giro, is an annual stage race, multiple-stage bicycle racing, bicycle race primarily held in Italy, while also starting in, or passing through, other countries. The first race was organized in 19 ...

::1st Stage 3 ::Held MaillotAzul

after Stages 3–4 : 3rd Overall

Tour Colombia The Tour Colombia, called earlier Colombia Oro y Paz is a multi-day professional cycling race held annually in Colombia since 2018. It is on the UCI America Tour calendar as a category 2.1 event. Winners See also * Vuelta a Colombia ...

::1st Stage 1 ( TTT) ;2022 : 3rd Road race, National Road Championships : 4th Overall

Vuelta a Castilla y León The Vuelta Ciclista a Castilla y León is a professional road bicycle stage race held in Castile and León, Spain. Since 2005, it has been a part of the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions ...

South American Games The South American Games (also known as ODESUR Games; Spanish: ''Juegos Suramericanos''; Portuguese: ''Jogos Sul-Americanos''), formerly the Southern Cross Games (Spanish: ''Juegos Cruz del Sur'') is a regional multi-sport event held between nat ...

::5th Time trial ::6th Road race ;2023 (1) : 1st Ecuador_NC

Time trial, National Road Championships ;2024 (1) : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

Vuelta al Tachira Vuelta, Spanish for "lap" or "roundtrip", is used in the name of a number of cycling races in Spanish speaking countries, as well as a few other contexts: Cycling races * Vuelta a España is an annual cycle race in Spain, one of cycling's prestig ...

::1st Stage 4 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall Vuelta Bantrab ::1st Jersey cyan

Mountains classification ::1st Stages 2 & 4 : 1st Stage 3

Sibiu Cycling Tour The Sibiu Cycling Tour (Cycling Tour of Sibiu until 2015) is a 2.1 category professional bicycle road race held in Sibiu, Romania. Its first edition took place in July 2011, as part of the UCI Europe Tour. The race is organised with the support o ...

: 3rd Overall

: 5th

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;2025 : 7th

Andorra MoraBanc Clàssica The Andorra MoraBanc Clàssica is a one-day road cycling race held annually in Andorra. It is categorized as a 1.1 race as part of the UCI Europe Tour. The first edition was held in 2025, won by Danish rider Mattias Skjelmose Mattias Skjelmose ...

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Caicedo, Jonathan 1993 births Living people Ecuadorian male cyclists Sportspeople from Carchi Province Ecuadorian Giro d'Italia stage winners 21st-century Ecuadorian people