Pablo Lastras García (born 20 January 1976) is a Spanish former racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 1998 and 2015, entirely for the team and its later iterations. During his career, he recorded stage victories at the three Grand Tourss, winning five stages in total.

He now works as a directeur sportif for the team.

Career

Born in Madrid, Lastras' idols are Bernard Hinault and Miguel Induráin. As a competitor, the tall Lastras had a resting heart rate of 45bpm, and weighed .

Lastras won a stage in the 2003 Tour de France and picked up two stages in the 2002 Vuelta a España. In 2005 he won stage 8 at Tour de Suisse. He also won the Vuelta a Burgos in 2003. In 2007 the team had announced that they would let him go, but after a stage win in Eneco Tour his contract was renewed for another year. That off-season, in November 2007, Lastras won the second annual Criterium Ciudad de Jaén race, an unofficial two-day competition. In 2008, he won the overall classification in Vuelta a Andalucía, and placed second in a stage of the Giro d'Italia. In 2011, Lastras won stage 3 of the Vuelta a España.

In October 2015, after 18 years as a professional, Lastras announced that he had retired from racing after struggling to recover from pelvic injuries he had sustained in a crash at the Volta a Catalunya in March of that year. He competed in a total of 17 Grand Tours and 29 classics, and took a total of 13 professional victories.

Following his recovery from his accident, in October 2016 it was announced that Lastras would return to Movistar as part of the squad's management team from 2017, becoming a directeur sportif.

Major results

1. 1999

2. 1st Stage 2a Troféu Joaquim Agostinho

3. 1st Stage 12 Volta a Portugal

4. 2000

5. 10th Overall GP do Minho

   1. 1st Stage 4

   2001

6. 1st Memorial Manuel Galera

7. 1st Stage 11 Giro d'Italia

8. 1st Stage 4 (TTT) Volta a Portugal

9. 3rd Overall GP CTT Correios de Portugal

10. 3rd Giro della Toscana

11. 9th Overall Tour de l'Avenir

12. 2002

13. Vuelta a España

    1. 1st Stages 9 & 11

    1st Stage 1 (TTT) Volta a Portugal

14. 7th Clásica de Almería

15. 7th Giro di Lombardia

16. 2003

17. 1st Overall Vuelta a Burgos

18. 1st Stage 18 Tour de France

19. 1st Stage 2 (TTT) Vuelta a Castilla y León

20. 4th Milano–Torino

21. 2004

22. 6th Subida al Naranco

23. 9th Overall Volta a Catalunya

    1. 1st Stage 1 (TTT)

    10th Trofeo Luis Puig

24. 2005

25. 1st Stage 8 Tour de Suisse

26. 4th Japan Cup

27. 2006

28. 4th Clásica a los Puertos de Guadarrama

29. 6th Overall Escalada a Montjuïc

30. 10th Overall Deutschland Tour

31. 2007

32. 1st Stage 6 Eneco Tour

33. 6th Overall Tour de Pologne

34. 2008

35. 1st Overall Vuelta a Andalucía

36. 2009

37. 5th Trofeo Calvià

38. 5th Japan Cup

39. 8th Paris–Tours

40. 9th Overall Tour de Pologne

41. 10th Giro del Piemonte

42. 2010

43. 3rd Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia

44. 3rd Giro di Lombardia

45. 2011

46. 1st Stage 3 Vuelta a España

47. 3rd Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia

48. 7th Overall Vuelta a Burgos

    1. 1st Stage 3 (TTT)

    2014

49. 7th Overall Tour de Wallonie

50. 9th Vuelta a La Rioja

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

References

External links

• Rider bio