Juan Ayuso Explained

Juan Ayuso
Fullname:Juan Ayuso Pesquera
Birth Date:16 September 2002
Birth Place:Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Height:1.83 m
Weight:65 kg
Discipline:Road
Role:Rider
Amateuryears1:2019–2020
Amateurteam1:Bathco Cycling Team
Proyears1:2021
Proteam1:[1]
Proyears2:2021–
Majorwins:Grand Tours

Vuelta a España

Young rider classification (2023)Stage races

Tour of the Basque Country (2024)One-day races and Classics

Faun-Ardèche Classic (2024)

Juan Ayuso Pesquera (born 16 September 2002) is a Spanish road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam .[2]

Career

Early years

Ayuso started cycling when he was seven or eight years old, and looked up to Alberto Contador.[3] [4] [5]

In 2017, he won the gold medal in the road race and the time trial at the Spanish Cadet Road Championships (15 to 16 years old), and defended his time trial title the following year. Moving up to the junior category, he immediately made an impact, winning the national junior road race title in 2019, and both the road race and time trial the following year.[6] In 2020, he dominated the national junior racing circuit, winning the in addition to several other stage races.

Under-23 (2021)

In 2021, Ayuso joined UCI Continental team, planning to compete at the under-23 level for a year before joining UCI WorldTeam the following year.[7] He quickly found success at this level, winning the overall title of the Giro Ciclistico d'Italia, the under-23 edition of the Giro d'Italia as well as the Giro del Belvedere and Trofeo Piva one-day races. Only several days after his win at the Giro Ciclistico d'Italia, he joined early, on an initial contract lasting through 2025.[8]

UAE Team Emirates (2021–)

Ayuso officially joined on 15 June 2021. On 25 July in his third race with the team, he placed second in the Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia behind Luis León Sánchez. He then returned to the under-23 stage to race the Tour de l'Avenir, where he was considered the top favorite to win. However, he abandoned the race on stage four after crashing.[9] He then competed in the road race at the UEC European Under-23 Road Championships, where he won the bronze medal in a seven-man sprint.[10]

Ayuso showed strong form at the start of the 2022 season, with a fourth-place finish at the La Drôme Classic, then second in the Trofeo Laigueglia, finishing between his teammates Jan Polanc and Alessandro Covi.[11] He then competed in the Volta a Catalunya, his first UCI World Tour stage race, where he finished fifth overall.[12] At the beginning of May, he held second place in the Tour de Romandie going into the final time trial, where he lost time and fell to fourth place. However, he still took home the young rider classification award.[13] He took his first professional victory in the Circuito de Getxo at the end of July in a four-man sprint.[14] He was then selected for his first Grand Tour: the Vuelta a España, where he was the youngest rider in the race. He showed promise for the general classification early on, finishing fourth in the first mountain stage, 55 seconds behind the winner Jay Vine.[15] This put him in fifth place overall. Ultimately, he managed to move up to third by the end of the race, behind Remco Evenepoel and Enric Mas.[16] With this result five days before his 20th birthday, he became the second youngest rider in history to finish on the podium of a Grand Tour, behind Henri Cornet, the winner of the 1904 Tour de France.[17]

Ayuso had a slow start to the 2023 season due to tendinitis in his right Achilles, and did not make his debut until the Tour de Romandie in April.[18] He took the race lead after winning the stage three time trial, but fell back to 16th the following day. His next race was the Tour de Suisse. After having been in difficulty the stage before, he won the fifth stage solo on the day marred by the death of Gino Mäder.[19] He then won the time trial on the eighth and final day, ultimately finishing second overall, nine seconds behind winner Mattias Skjelmose.[20] In August, he entered his second Vuelta a España, where he took third-place finishes in stages three and eight, and finished fourth overall, winning the young rider classification in the process.[21]

In February 2024, he won the Ardèche Classic in a four-way sprint ahead of Romain Grégoire, Mattias Skjelmose and Felix Gall.[22] The following month, he competed in Tirreno–Adriatico, where he won the opening time trial.[23] However, he lost the race lead to Jonas Vingegaard, taking home second.[24] In April, he took part in the Tour of the Basque Country, which saw several of the main favorites abandon following a large crash during the fourth stage.[25] Sitting in third overall going into the final stage, Ayuso was able to drop race leader Mattias Skjelmose on the last climb, securing the overall victory by a margin of 42 seconds to compatriot Carlos Rodríguez.[26] This marked Ayuso's first major stage race win.

Major results

2019
  • National Junior Road Championships
  • 1st Road race
  • 3rd Time trial
  • 1st Stage 2 Bizkaiko Itzulia
  • 2nd VII Trofeo Victor Cabedo
  • 3rd Gipuzkoa Klasika
  • 5th Overall Trophée Centre Morbihan
    2020
  • National Junior Road Championships
  • 1st Road race
  • 1st Time trial
  • 1st Overall
  • 1st Points classification
  • 1st Stages 1, 2 & 3
  • 1st Overall Vuelta a Talavera Junior
  • 1st Stages 1, 2, 3 (ITT) & 4
  • 1st Overall Vuelta a la Subbética
  • 1st Stages 1, 2 & 3
  • 1st Overall Circuito del Guadiana Junior
  • 1st Stages 1 & 2 (ITT)
  • 1st Overall Trofeo Victor Cabedo
  • 1st Stages 4 & 5
  • 1st Gipuzkoa Klasika
  • UEC European Junior Road Championships
  • 5th Time trial
  • 7th Road race
    2021
  • 1st Overall Giro Ciclistico d'Italia
  • 1st Points classification
  • 1st Mountains classification
  • 1st Young rider classification
  • 1st Stages 2, 5 & 7
  • 1st Overall Giro di Romagna
  • 1st Mountains classification
  • 1st Stages 2 & 3
  • 1st Trofeo Piva
  • 1st Giro del Belvedere
  • 2nd Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia
  • 3rd Road race, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships
    2022 (1 pro win)
  • 1st Circuito de Getxo
  • 2nd Trofeo Laigueglia
  • 3rd Overall Vuelta a España
  • 4th Road race, National Road Championships
  • 4th Overall Tour de Romandie
  • 1st Young rider classification
  • 4th La Drôme Classic
  • 4th Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia
  • 5th Overall Volta a Catalunya
    2023 (3)
  • 1st Stage 3 (ITT) Tour de Romandie
  • National Road Championships
  • 2nd Road race
  • 4th Time trial
  • 2nd Overall Tour de Suisse
  • 1st Stages 5 & 8 (ITT)
  • 3rd Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia
  • 4th Overall Vuelta a España
  • 1st Young rider classification
    2024 (4)
  • 1st Overall Tour of the Basque Country
  • 1st Young rider classification
  • 1st Faun-Ardèche Classic
  • 2nd Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
  • 1st Young rider classification
  • 1st Stage 1 (ITT)
  • 2nd La Drôme Classic
  • 3rd Trofeo Laigueglia
  • 5th Overall Tour de Luxembourg
  • 1st Stage 4 (ITT)
  • 5th Overall Tour de Romandie

    General classification results timeline

    Sources:[27] [28] [29] [30]

    Grand Tour general classification results
    Grand Tour202220232024
    Giro d'Italia———
    Tour de France——DNF
    Vuelta a España34—
    Major stage race general classification results
    Race202220232024
    Paris–Nice———
    Tirreno–Adriatico——2
    Volta a Catalunya5——
    Tour of the Basque Country——1
    Tour de Romandie4165
    Critérium du DauphinéDNF—DNF
    Tour de Suisse—2—
    Legend
    —Did not compete
    DNFDid not finish

    Notes and References

    1. Web site: Team Colpack Ballan. UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. 26 February 2021. https://archive.today/20210226224147/https://www.uci.org/road/teams/TeamDetail/15333/2003307/276. 26 February 2021.
    2. Web site: AYUSO PESQUERA Juan . UCI . 29 June 2021 . en.
    3. Web site: es. "Lo que tiene no lo encuentras en el súper". El salto de Juan Ayuso, el ciclista que viene. elconfidencial.com. 12 May 2020. Christian Giner.
    4. Web site: es. Juan Ayuso, otro diamante del ciclismo español camino del World Tour. ciclismoafondo.es. 9 June 2020. Carlos de Torres.
    5. Web site: La Vuelta - Protégé de Pogacar, choyé par Contador : Ayuso-Rodriguez, terreurs de demain ?. eurosport.fr. 26 August 2022. Christophe Gaudot.
    6. https://www.marca.com/ciclismo/2020/09/06/5f552775268e3e9a758b45c6.html Juan Ayuso, con un doblete, y Eva Anguela, campeones de España junior
    7. Web site: UAE Team Emirates sign Juan Ayuso. . 30 April 2020. 19 December 2020.
    8. Web site: 17-year-old junior rider signs five-year deal with UAE Team Emirates. Alex. Ballinger. CyclingWeekly. 30 April 2020. 19 December 2020.
    9. https://www.directvelo.com/actualite/90341/le-tour-de-l-avenir-perd-son-grand-favori Le Tour de l’Avenir perd son grand favori
    10. https://www.directvelo.com/actualite/91041/juan-ayuso-je-reviens-en-forme Juan Ayuso : « Je reviens en forme »
    11. Web site: Jan Polanc wins Trofeo Laigueglia with late attack. Stephen. Farrand. CyclingNews. Future plc. 2 March 2022. 2 March 2022.
    12. Web site: Higuita secures Volta a Catalunya victory in Barcelona. Alasdair. Fotheringham. Alasdair Fotheringham. Daniel. Ostanek. CyclingNews. Future plc. 27 March 2022. 27 March 2022.
    13. Web site: Tour de Romandie 2022 Stage 5 Results. Tissot Timing. 1 May 2022. 1 May 2022.
    14. Web site: Juan Ayuso claims first pro win at Circuito de Getxo . cyclingnews.com . 31 July 2022 . 31 July 2022.
    15. Web site: Vine wins stage 6 atop Pico Jano summit, Evenepoel takes overall lead at Vuelta a España. Stephen. Puddicombe. CyclingNews. 25 August 2022. 25 August 2022.
    16. Web site: Remco Evenepoel wins 2022 Vuelta a España. Katy. Madgwick. CyclingNews. 11 September 2022. 11 September 2022.
    17. https://as.com/ciclismo/mas_ciclismo/el-ciclismo-espanol-ilusiona-pais-con-mas-podios-en-grandes-vueltas-en-2022-n/ El ciclismo español ilusiona: país con más podios en grandes vueltas en 2022
    18. Web site: Juan Ayuso ne sera pas au départ du Tour de Catalogne. lequipe.fr. 8 March 2023. L'Équipe. .
    19. Web site: Tour de Suisse: Ayuso conquers Albulapass as Skjelmose takes yellow. Patrick. Fletcher. CyclingNews. 15 June 2023. 15 June 2023.
    20. Web site: Mattias Skjelmose wins Tour de Suisse. Daniel. Ostanek. CyclingNews. 18 June 2023. 18 June 2023.
    21. Web site: Sepp Kuss wins 2023 Vuelta a España . Lyne . Lamoureux . CyclingNews . 17 September 2023 . 17 September 2023.
    22. Web site: Juan Ayuso wins four-up sprint to secure victory at Faun-Ardèche Classic. CyclingNews. Future plc. 24 February 2024. 24 February 2024.
    23. Web site: Tirreno-Adriatico: Juan Ayuso storms to opening time trial victory, takes first leader's jersey. CyclingNews. Laura. Weislo. 4 March 2024. 4 March 2024.
    24. Web site: Tirreno-Adriatico: Vingegaard claims overall as Milan wins stage 7 sprint. CyclingNews. Stephen. Farrand. 10 March 2024. 10 March 2024.
    25. Web site: Itzulia Basque Country: Meintjes wins subdued stage 4 after major crash neutralises peloton. CyclingNews. Kirsten. Frattini. 4 April 2024. 4 April 2024.
    26. Web site: Itzulia Basque Country: Juan Ayuso secures overall, Carlos Rodríguez wins stage 6 finale. CyclingNews. Alasdair. Fotheringham. 6 April 2024. 6 April 2024.
    27. Web site: Grand tour starts Juan Ayuso . www.procyclingstats.com . 19 August 2022 . en.
    28. Web site: Ryan . Barry . Almeida and McNulty headline UAE Team Emirates at Vuelta a Espana . cyclingnews.com . 19 August 2022 . en . 13 August 2022.
    29. Web site: List of starters - La Vuelta 2022 . www.lavuelta.es . 19 August 2022 . en.
    30. Web site: Vuelta a España 2022 . cyclingnews.com . 19 August 2022 . en . 19 August 2022.

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