Egan Bernal

Egan Bernal
Bernal in 2019
Personal information
Full nameEgan Arley Bernal Gómez
Born (1997-01-13) 13 January 1997 (age 27)
Bogotá, Colombia[1]
Height1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[2]
Weight60 kg (132 lb; 9 st 6 lb)[3]
Team information
Current teamIneos Grenadiers
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeClimbing specialist
Professional teams
2016–2017Androni Giocattoli–Sidermec
2018–Team Sky[4][5]
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
General classification (2019)
Young rider classification (2019)
Giro d'Italia
General classification (2021)
Young rider classification (2021)
2 individual stages (2021)

Stage races

Paris–Nice (2019)
Tour de Suisse (2019)
Tour of California (2018)

One-day races and Classics

National Time Trial Championships (2018)
Gran Piemonte (2019)
Medal record
Representing  Colombia
Men's mountain bike racing
World Junior Championships
Silver medal – second place 2014 Lillehammer-Hafjell Cross-country
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Vallnord Cross-country
Pan American Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place 2015 Cota Cross-country
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Londrina Cross-country
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Bernal and the second or maternal family name is Gómez.

Egan Arley Bernal Gómez (born 13 January 1997) is a Colombian professional cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam Ineos Grenadiers.[6] In 2019 he won the Tour de France, becoming the first Latin American rider to do so, and the youngest winner since 1909. At the 2021 Giro d'Italia, Bernal took his second Grand Tour win.

  1. ^ "Egan Bernal, un campeón desde antes de nacer". Elespectador.com (in Spanish). 26 August 2017. Retrieved 29 December 2017.
  2. ^ "Egan Bernal – Team INEOS". Retrieved 15 July 2019.
  3. ^ "Egan Bernal". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
  4. ^ "Team Sky". Cyclingnews.com. Archived from the original on 5 January 2019. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  5. ^ "Team Ineos". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 2 January 2020. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  6. ^ "Ineos Grenadiers". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 2 January 2021. Retrieved 2 January 2021.