Eduard Prades

Eduard Prades
	Eduard Pardes (in the background) (2018)
To person
Date of birth	August 9, 1987
nation	Spain
discipline	Street
To the team
Current team	Movistar
function	driver
Most important successes
	Overall ranking Tour of Turkey 2018
	Last updated: August 7, 2020

Eduard Prades (born August 9, 1987 in Tarragona ) is a Spanish cyclist .

Career

Eduard Prades won several races of the Copa de España between 2010 and 2012 , which he won overall in 2012. In 2013 he went to OFM-Quinta da Lixa . In the same year he won the overall standings and a stage win at Troféu Joaquim Agostinho . In 2014 there was another stage win at the Portuguese Volta ao Alentejo .

In 2015, Prades moved to Caja Rural-Seguros RGA . He immediately won a stage of the Tour of Portugal and the Italian one-day race Coppa Sabatini . In 2016 he won the Philadelphia International Cycling Classic in the USA and a stage at the Volta Cova da Beira . He also contested the Vuelta a España 2016 , his first Grand Tour . He finished her at number 127.

In 2018 Prades drove for Euskadi Basque Country-Murias . He won the overall classification of the Tour of Norway and the WorldTour race Tour of Turkey . He was also overall runner-up in the Tour de Yorkshire and the Tour of Luxembourg .

Prades switched to the Movistar team for the 2019 season . He won a stage of the Tour La Provence and the overall ranking of the Tour of Aragon .

In the finish line of the first stage of the Tour of Poland on August 5, 2020 in Katowice , the Dutchman Dylan Groenewegen pushed his compatriot Fabio Jakobsen into the barriers, whereupon he fell and suffered life-threatening injuries; as a result, there was a mass fall in which Eduard Prades suffered a fractured vertebra.