Eduardo Sepúlveda

This article is about the Argentinian cyclist. For the Spanish fencer, see Eduardo Sepulveda Puerto.

Eduardo Sepúlveda (born 13 June 1991) is an Argentine racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Lotto. He rode at the 2014 UCI Road World Championships.

Eduardo Sepúlveda

Sepúlveda in 2015
Personal information
Born	(1991-06-13) 13 June 1991 (age 33) Rawson, Chubut, Argentina[1]
Weight	62 kg (137 lb)[1]
Team information
Current team	Lotto
Disciplines	Road Track
Role	Rider
Rider type	Climber
Amateur teams
2012	World Cycling Centre[2]
2012	FDJ–BigMat (stagiaire)[2]
Professional teams
2013–2017	Bretagne–Séché Environnement
2018–2020	Movistar Team[3][4]
2021–2022	Androni Giocattoli–Sidermec[5]
2023–	Lotto–Dstny
Medal record Representing  Argentina Men's track cycling Pan American Championships 2013 Mexico City Individual pursuit 2013 Mexico City Team pursuit 2013 Mexico City Madison 2010 Aguascalientes Individual pursuit 2011 Medellin Team pursuit Men's road bicycle racing Pan American Games 2023 Santiago Road race Pan American Championships 2012 Mar del Plata Time trial

Early life

Sepúlveda was born in Rawson, the capital of Chubut Province, in Argentine Patagonia. 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.^[6] Sepúlveda recovered from this and later was selected as one of the best young riders of the country and invited to the CeNARD in Buenos Aires, some 1,400 kilometres (870 miles) away from his home in Rawson.^[7]

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 Natnael Berhane, Youcef Reguigui and Josip Rumac. Also in 2012, he won the silver medal in the individual time trial at the Pan American Road Championships in Mar del Plata, losing out to Magno Nazaret from Brazil.^[8]

Professional career

In 2013, Sepúlveda began his career with the French team Bretagne–Séché Environnement 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 Bretagne–Séché Environnement.^[9]

Sepúlveda took his first professional win in February 2015 with a solo victory in the Classic Sud-Ardèche.^[10] Later that year, he took a fine second place in the overall classification of the Tour of Turkey, 32 seconds down on Kristijan Đurasek (Lampre–Merida).^[11] He participated in the 2015 Tour de France,^[12] but was disqualified on stage 14 for riding in a car instead of pedaling his bike.^[13]

For the 2018 season, Sepúlveda joined one of the UCI WorldTeams, Movistar Team from Spain, and signed a two-year contract, a move predicted for many insiders in the UCI World Tour.^[14][15] In May 2018, he was named in the start list for the Giro d'Italia for the first time in his career.^[16]

He was expected to ride the 2019 Vuelta a España 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 Androni Giocattoli–Sidermec for the 2021 season.^[17]

In November 2022, Sepúlveda signed with Lotto–Dstny for the 2023 season.^[18]

Major results

2010

3rd Individual pursuit, Pan American Track Championships

2011

3rd Team pursuit, Pan American Track Championships

7th Overall Rutas de América

2012

Pan American Road Championships

1st Under-23 time trial

2nd Time trial

2nd ZLM Tour

5th Overall Coupe des nations Ville Saguenay

8th Chrono Champenois

2013

Pan American Track Championships

1st Individual pursuit

1st Team pursuit

2nd 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 Young rider classification

5th Overall Critérium International

6th Overall Tour de San Luis

2015 (2 pro wins)

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 (1)

2nd Overall Tour de San Luis

1st Mountains classification

1st Stage 4

4th Tour du Doubs

2017

4th Classic Sud-Ardèche

2019

2nd Overall Tour of Austria

2021

3rd Overall Tour of Turkey

4th Overall Tour of Romania

8th Overall Adriatica Ionica Race

10th Giro dell'Appennino

2022 (1)

3rd Overall Tour of Turkey

1st Stage 4

7th Overall Tour de Langkawi

8th Overall Tour of Antalya

2023 (2)

1st Overall Vuelta a Castilla y León

1st Stage 2

2nd Road race, Pan American Games

7th Overall Sibiu Cycling Tour

Vuelta a España

Held after Stages 4–10

2024

8th Overall Sibiu Cycling Tour

9th Tour du Doubs

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023
Giro d'Italia	—	—	—	96	—	57	47	76	—
Tour de France	DSQ	59	66	—	—	—	—	—	—
Vuelta a España	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	102

Legend

—	Did not compete
DNF	Did not finish
DSQ	Disqualified