Eduardo Sepúlveda

Eduardo Sepúlveda
	Sepúlveda in 2015
Personal information
Born	13 June 1991 (age 30); Rawson, Chubut, Argentina
Weight	62 kg (137 lb)
Team information
Current team	Drone Hopper–Androni Giocattoli
Disciplines	Road; Track;
Role	Rider
Rider type	Climber
Amateur teams
2012	Centre Mondial du Cyclisme
2012	FDJ–BigMat (stagiaire)
Professional teams
2013–2017	Bretagne–Séché Environnement
2018–2020	Movistar Team
2021–	Androni Giocattoli–Sidermec
Medal record
Representing Argentina
Men's track cycling
Pan American Championships
Men's road bicycle racing
Pan American Championships

Eduardo Sepúlveda (born 13 June 1991) is an Argentine racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Drone Hopper–Androni Giocattoli.^[5] He rode at the 2014 UCI Road World Championships.

Early life[]

Sepúlveda was born in Rawson, the capital of Chubut, in the Patagonia of Argentina. 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, in allowing him a chance to train at the World Cycling Centre and to sign with 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 startlist 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]