Movistar team
| Movistar team | |
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| Team data | |
| UCI code | MOV |
| nationality |
 Spain
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| License | UCI WorldTeam |
| operator | Abarca Sports SL |
| First season | 1980 |
| discipline | Street |
| Wheel manufacturer | Canyon bicycles |
| General manager |
Eusebio Unzué
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| Sportl. ladder |
José Luis Arrieta Alfonso Galilea José Vicente García José Luis Jaimerena José Luis Laguia
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| Name story | |
| Years | Surname |
| 1980–1989 1990–2000 2001–2003 2004–2005 2005 2006 2007–2010 2011– |
Reynolds Banesto iBanesto.com Illes Balears-Banesto Illes Balears-Caisse d'Epargne Caisse d'Epargne-Illes Balears Caisse d'Epargne Movistar Team |
| Website | |
| www.movistarteam.com | |
The Movistar Team is a Spanish UCI WorldTeam in road cycling based in Egüés . The team has existed since 1980; since then the team has operated under several names. The team operator Abarca Sports SL also owns the Colombian Movistar Continental team through its subsidiary Abarca Sports Colombia SAS .
Team development
1980-1989: Reynolds
From 1980 until 1989, the team initially operated under the name of the British pipe manufacturer Reynolds . During this time, the team with Pedro Delgado won the Tour de France in 1988 , the following year he finished third.
1990-2004: Banesto
During these years the team drove under the name of the sponsor company Banesto (from 2001 iBanesto.com , from 2004 Illes Balears-Banesto ). Banesto was best known for Miguel Induráin's five victories in the Tour de France from 1991 to 1995.
At the beginning of this era, Delgado was also the captain of the team at Banesto, which he could justify with solid performances on the tour (1990: fourth, 1991: ninth, 1992: sixth, 1993: ninth). But the star of Banesto was Delgado's longtime water carrier Miguel Induráin. The Spaniard had his breakthrough in the 1990 season: He won Paris – Nice , the Clásica San Sebastián and a mountain stage of the 1990 Tour . With the sovereign success at the Tour de France in 1991 , he finally heralded the "Indurain era", during which he was the first athlete to win five Tour victories in a row, two of them in a double with victory at the Giro d'Italia . A whole generation of cyclists failed trying to beat Indurain on the Tour, including Claudio Chiappucci , Gianni Bugno and Tony Rominger . It was not until 1996 that the Telekom team with Bjarne Riis and Jan Ullrich ended the dominance of Indurain and Banesto. At the end of his career, Indurain won the 1996 Olympic Games in the individual time trial.
After Indurain's departure, the Banesto team could not quite build on the enormous success of the early 1990s. The planned successor Abraham Olano , road bike world champion from 1995 , did not get past fourth place in the 1997 Tour de France due to weaknesses in the high mountains . After Olano's move to competitor ONCE in 1999 , Banesto signed the Swiss Alex Zülle , one of the protagonists of the Festina affair, as captain . Zülle achieved second place behind Lance Armstrong a few weeks after his doping ban on the 1999 Tour . Curiously, Zülle had already taken second place in the last tour victory in Indurain in 1995.
From the end of the 1990s, Banesto impressed with its strong Spanish mountain climbers such as José María Jiménez , José Vicente Garcia Acosta , Juan Miguel Mercado , the brothers Aitor Osa and Unai Osa and the Italian Leonardo Piepoli . The captain of the strongly rejuvenated team was now the Spaniard Francisco Mancebo and the Russians Denis Menschow and Wladimir Karpez , who each won the white jersey of the best young professional in the Tour 2000 , Tour 2003 and Tour 2004 .
2004–2010: Illes Baleares & Caisse d'Epargne
In 2004 the Tourist Office of the Balearic Islands Mallorca , Menorca , Formentera and Ibiza took over the sponsorship of the team. The team started under the name "Illes Balears-Banesto". (Banesto remained a co-sponsor for another year and was therefore mentioned at the end of the name). In 2005, the French savings bank Caisse d'Epargne joined as a co-sponsor and became the main sponsor at the beginning of the 2006 season. Until the end of 2006, Illes Balears still appeared as a co-sponsor; then the tourist office withdrew from cycling.
The cycling team has been taking part in the UCI ProTour and the successor series UCI WorldTour since 2005, the overall ranking of which one of the team's riders, Alejandro Valverde, won in 2006 and 2008 . Also in 2006 Óscar Pereiro was able to enter the list of winners of the Tour de France . After Floyd Landis was disqualified because of doping, Óscar Pereiro, who had previously placed second, was declared the winner.
Another great success after the Banesto era is the overall victory at the Vuelta a España 2009 by Alejandro Valverde. The team was also successful with classics. Two victories at Liège – Bastogne – Liège and one at Flèche Wallonne, also by Alejandro Valverde, are recorded. The Clásica San Sebastián were able to win Luis León Sánchez and Alejandro Valverde for the team.
Since 2011: Movistar
The Spanish telecommunications company Movistar has been the new main sponsor since 2011 . The Movistar team celebrated its first victory with the new name at the UCI WorldTour in 2011. Rui Costa won the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal . In 2012 Rui Costa won the Tour de Suisse .
At the Grand Tours, Alejandro Valverde and Nairo Quintana, who signed up in 2012, were particularly successful. Quintana won the Giro d'Italia 2014 and the Vuelta a España 2016 and was on the podium of the Tour de France three times between 2013 and 2016 . After his doping ban expired between 2012 and 2016, Valverde made it onto the podium five times in a major national tour and became world champion in road racing in 2018 , but was unable to repeat his Grand Tour success of 2009. Valverde was also successful in the spring classics and shorter tours.
In 2019, the Ecuadorian Richard Carapaz won the Giro d'Italia for Movistar , which he had already finished in fourth place last year, ahead of the nominal captain Mikel Landa , who had joined the team as another tour specialist for the 2018 season.
Movistar won the UCI WorldTour team championship four times in a row between 2013 and 2016 , while Alejandro Valverde also won the drivers’s championship in 2014 and 2015.
2020 season
Success in the UCI Continental Circuits
| date | run | Cat . | winner |
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| February 1st |
Trofeo Pollenca
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1.1 |
Marc Soler
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team
 Team roster | |||
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| Surname | Date of birth | country | Previous team |
| Juan Diego Alba | September 11, 1997 |
 Colombia |
Coldeportes-Zenú (2019) |
| Jorge Arcas | July 8, 1992 |
 Spain |
Lizarte (2015) |
| Carlos Betancur | October 13, 1989 |
Colombia |
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| Héctor Carretero | May 28, 1995 |
Spain |
Lizarte (2016) |
| Dario Cataldo | March 17, 1985 |
 Italy |
Astana (2019) |
| Gabriel Cullaigh | April 8, 1996 |
 United Kingdom |
Team Wiggins Le Col (2019) |
| Íñigo Elosegui | March 6, 1998 |
Spain |
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| Imanol Erviti | November 15, 1983 |
Spain |
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| Juri Hollmann | August 30, 1999 |
 Germany |
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| Johan Jacobs | March 1, 1997 |
 Switzerland |
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| Matteo Jorgenson | July 1, 1999 |
 United States |
Jelly Belly-Maxxis (2018) |
| Lluís Mas | October 15, 1989 |
Spain |
Caja Rural-Seguros RGA (2018) |
| Enric Mas | January 7, 1995 |
Spain |
Deceuninck-Quick-Step (2019) |
| Sebastián Mora | 19th February 1988 |
Spain |
Caja Rural-Seguros RGA (2019) |
| Mathias Norsgaard | May 5, 1997 |
 Denmark |
Riwal Readynez (2019) |
| Nélson Oliveira | March 6, 1989 |
 Portugal |
Lampre-Merida (2015) |
| Antonio Pedrero | October 23, 1991 |
Spain |
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| Eduard Prades | August 9, 1987 |
Spain |
Euskadi-Murias (2018) |
| Jürgen Roelandts | 2nd July 1985 |
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BMC Racing Team (2018) |
| José Joaquín Rojas | June 8, 1985 |
Spain |
ONCE (2006) |
| A Rubio | February 22, 1998 |
Colombia |
Vejus-TMF-Cicli Magnum (2018) |
| Sergio Samitier | August 31, 1995 |
Spain |
Euskadi Basque Country-Murias (2019) |
| Eduardo Sepúlveda | June 13, 1991 |
 Argentina |
Arkéa-Samsic (2017) |
| Marc Soler | November 22, 1993 |
Spain |
Lizarte-AD Galibier (2014) |
| Albert Torres | April 26, 1990 |
Spain |
Inteja-Dominican cycling team (2018) |
| Alejandro Valverde | April 25, 1980 |
Spain |
Comunidad Valenciana-Kelme (2004) |
| Carlos Verona | 4th November 1992 |
Spain |
Mitchelton-Scott (2018) |
| Davide Villella | June 27, 1991 |
Italy |
Astana (2019) |
| Source: UCI | |||
Placements in UCI rankings
UCI world rankings (until 2004)
| season | Team ranking | Driver ranking |
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| 1995 | 5. |
Miguel Indurain (3rd)
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| 1996 | 17th |
Miguel Indurain (14.)
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| 1997 | 9. |
Abraham Olano (10th)
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| 1998 | 6th |
Abraham Olano (3rd)
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| 1999 | 8th. |
José María Jiménez (28th)
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| 2000 | 9. |
 Leonardo Piepoli (30.)
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| 2001 | 6th |
Juan Carlos Domínguez (23rd)
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| 2002 | 8th. |
Francisco Mancebo (34th)
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| 2003 | 5. |
Francisco Mancebo (19.)
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| 2004 | 11. |
Francisco Mancebo (14.)
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UCI ProTour
| season | Team ranking | Driver ranking |
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| 2005 | 10. |
Francisco Mancebo (15th)
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| 2006 | 2. |
Alejandro Valverde (1st)
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| 2007 | 3. |
Alejandro Valverde (4th)
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| 2008 | 1. |
Alejandro Valverde (1st)
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UCI World Calendar
| season | Team ranking | Driver ranking |
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| 2009 | 2. |
Alejandro Valverde (2nd)
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| 2010 | 9. |
Luis León Sánchez (4th)
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UCI WorldTour
| season | Team ranking | Driver ranking |
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| 2011 | 13. |
Beñat Intxausti (37th)
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| 2012 | 5. |
Alejandro Valverde (5th)
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| 2013 | 1. |
Alejandro Valverde (3rd)
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| 2014 | 1. |
Alejandro Valverde (1st)
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| 2015 | 1. |
Alejandro Valverde (1st)
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| 2016 | 1. |
 Nairo Quintana (2nd)
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| 2017 | 6th |
Alejandro Valverde (7th)
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| 2018 | 8th. |
Alejandro Valverde (3rd)
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| season | Team ranking | Driver ranking |
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| 2019 | 7th |
Alejandro Valverde (5th)
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Web links
- Official website
- Movistar team in the ProCyclingStats.com database
- Movistar Team in the UCI database
