Enric Mas

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Enric Mas
TdB 2014 - Enric Mas.jpg
Mas in 2014.
Personal information
Full nameEnric Mas Nicolau
Born (1995-01-07) 7 January 1995 (age 27)
Artà, Spain
Height1.77 m (5 ft 9+12 in)[1]
Weight61 kg (134 lb; 9 st 8 lb)[1]
Team information
Current teamMovistar Team
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeClimber
Amateur teams
2012Sepelaco
2013–2015Specialized–Fundación Alberto Contador
Professional teams
2016Klein Constantia
2017–2019Quick-Step Floors[2]
2020–Movistar Team[3]
Major wins
Grand Tours
Vuelta a España
Young rider classification (2018, 2020)
1 individual stage (2018)

Stage races

Tour of Guangxi (2019)

Enric Mas Nicolau (Catalan: [ənˈrik mas nikoˈlaw]) (born 7 January 1995) is a Spanish racing cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Movistar Team.[4] He is a talented climber, and has finished in top 10 in prestigious world tour stage races, and has also won a stage at the Tour of the Basque Country. He is regarded as the next Alberto Contador, by the man himself, however Mas stated he would rather be the first Enric Mas.[5] Having previously ridden for the Specialized–Fundación Alberto Contador team, Contador knows the strength of Enric Mas, believing he has a bright future.

Career[]

Mas was born in Artà, a small town of about 7,500 people, which is the administrative seat of Llevant, on the island of Majorca, one of the Balearic Islands of Spain. In the past twenty years this small town has produced four professional athletes, three footballers and the pro cyclist Enric Mas.

Quick-Step Floors (2017–2019)[]

2017[]

On 19 July 2016, UCI World Tour team Quick-Step Floors announced the signing of Mas for 2017 season.[6] The 2017 season became the first season for Mas in the World Tour. His best result came at the Vuelta a Burgos, where he finished 2nd on the final stage and therefore finished 2nd overall. He was named in the startlist for the 2017 Vuelta a España.[7] He won the Combativity Award on stages 6 and 20 at the Vuelta a España; on the penultimate stage to Angliru, Mas was in the breakaway and helped Alberto Contador win the stage.

2018[]

Mas (left) on the podium at the 2018 Vuelta a España.

The 2018 season was Enric Mas's second on the World Tour, and his first top 10 result came at the Tour of the Basque Country. He won the final stage to Arrate, which was his first professional victory. He moved up to 6th place in the general classification after the last stage, which meant he got his first ever top 10 world tour stage race finish; he also won the young rider classification. He continued his form, 2 months later when he placed 4th overall at the Tour de Suisse, and won the Young rider classification. He also managed to finish 2nd on stage 5 behind Diego Ulissi.

At the Vuelta a España, Mas was outside top 10 before the last two stages of the second week. He finished 7th on the Stage to Las Praeres, and moved up to 8th place. On the following Stage to the Lakes of Covadonga, he finished 6th and moved up to 6th place. On the Time trial he once again showed he had great form when he finished 6th. He moved up another place in the general classification. The race visited a new climb Balcón de Bizkaia on Stage 17. Mas was the strongest of the General classification contenders, and moved up to 3rd position overall. However he dropped to 4th place on Stage 19 which visited Naturlandia, Andorra. At the start of Stage 20, the gap between him and the 3rd placed rider Steven Kruijswijk was only 17 seconds. He attacked on the final climb together with Miguel Ángel López and Simon Yates. Mas rode together to the finish line with Lopez and outsprinted him, to take his first stage victory in a Grand Tour. With his performance on stage 20, Mas moved from 4th to 2nd place overall in the Vuelta, finishing on the podium in just his second Grand Tour.

2019-2020[]

Mas earned top 10 places in both the 2019 Volta a Catalunya as well as the 2019 Tour de Suisse. In July 2019, he was named in the startlist for the 2019 Tour de France.[8] He finished the race in 22nd place overall.

During the 2020 season he earned top 5 finishes in both the Tour and the Vuelta and won his second young rider competition in the latter. During that Vuelta he assisted Primoz Roglič in securing his second title through the circumstances of the race situation. Richard Carapaz dropped Roglič on the final climb of the final mountain stage but Roglič was able to limit his losses by getting on the wheel of Mas and following him up the climb. Mas was fighting to gain time over Dan Martin and jump into 4th place in the overall standings.

2021[]

Mas rode in the 2021 Tour de France, which was marred by numerous crashes and foul weather early in the race. He finished in 6th place overall, the highest placed rider on Movistar Team.

During the 2021 Vuelta a España Mas proved himself to be in very good form early in the race and the race eventually turned into a battle between Primož Roglič and him. By the end of the first week he was among the handful of riders within +1:00 of Roglič. After stage nine all of the other general classification riders had fallen behind and he was the only rider within a minute of Roglič being about +0:30 behind. Throughout the remainder of the race Mas was able to consistently stay with the Slovenian on most of the climbs. He lost time to Roglič on stage seventeen, which included a summit finish at Lagos de Covadonga, crossing the line with the surviving GC favorites about a minute and a half behind. On stage eighteen his teammate Miguel Ángel López attacked and won the stage. Mas did not join in this attack as he felt that if he also attacked Roglič would have gone with him.[9] Stage twenty saw several highly placed riders lose considerable time when a gap formed between the GC riders. Mas was able to stay in the lead group and went into the final time trial about two and a half minutes behind Roglič. Of all the daily awards and jersey classifications that follow each stage, over a hundred total, Mas was not awarded a single one and did not wear a single jersey for even one stage, despite the fact he dominated the rest of the field finishing in second overall.[10]

Major results[]

2012
1st MaillotEspaña.PNG Time trial, National Junior Road Championships
2013
4th Time trial, National Junior Road Championships
2014
4th Overall Course de la Paix Under–23
2016
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Volta ao Alentejo
1st Jersey green.svg Points classification
1st Jersey white.svg Young rider classification
1st Stage 2
1st Jersey yellow.svg Overall Tour de Savoie Mont Blanc
1st Jersey green.svg Points classification
1st Jersey white.svg Young rider classification
2nd Overall Giro della Valle d'Aosta
1st Jersey green.svg Points classification
6th Overall Carpathian Couriers Race
2017
2nd Overall Vuelta a Burgos
1st Jersey white.svg Young rider classification
Vuelta a España
Jersey green number.svg Combativity award Stages 6 & 20
2018
2nd Overall Vuelta a España
1st Jersey white.svg Young rider classification
1st Stage 20
4th Overall Tour de Suisse
1st Jersey green.svg Young rider classification
6th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
1st Jersey light blue.svg Young rider classification
1st Stage 6
2019
1st Jersey red.svg Overall Tour of Guangxi
1st Jersey white.svg Young rider classification
1st Stage 4
4th Overall Volta ao Algarve
8th Clásica de San Sebastián
9th Overall Tour de Suisse
9th Overall Volta a Catalunya
10th Milano–Torino
Tour de France
Held Jersey white.svg after Stage 13
2020
5th Overall Tour de France
5th Overall Vuelta a España
1st Jersey white.svg Young rider classification
2021
2nd Overall Vuelta a España
3rd Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
1st Stage 3
3rd Mont Ventoux Dénivelé Challenge
6th Overall Tour de France
2022
4th Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
7th Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana

General classification results timeline[]

Grand Tour general classification results
Grand Tour 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
A pink jersey Giro d'Italia
A yellow jersey Tour de France 22 5 6
A red jersey Vuelta a España 71 2 5 2
Major stage race general classification results
Race 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
Jersey yellow.svg Paris–Nice
Jersey blue.svg Tirreno–Adriatico
MaillotVolta.png Volta a Catalunya 75 44 9 NH 19
Jersey yellow.svg Tour of the Basque Country 14 6 11 18
Jersey yellow.svg Tour de Romandie
Jersey yellow-bluebar.svg Critérium du Dauphiné DNF 20 11
Jersey yellow.svg Tour de Suisse 4 9 NH
Legend
Did not compete
DNF Did not finish
NH Not held

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Enric Mas, Deceuninck - Quick-Step Cycling team". Archived from the original on 15 July 2019. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
  2. ^ Torrego, José María (23 December 2018). "El Deceuninck Quick Step busca no sucumbir del cetro mundial del ciclismo en 2019" [The Deceuninck Quick Step seeks not to succumb from the cycling world title in 2019]. La Guía del Ciclismo (in Spanish). Digipress Ibérica SL. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
  3. ^ "Movistar Team ready to open new era in 2020". Movistar Team. Abarca Sports SL. 19 December 2019. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
  4. ^ "Movistar Team". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 1 January 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
  5. ^ "Mas: I want to be the first Enric Mas, not the next Alberto Contador". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 2018-09-15.
  6. ^ "Three neo-pros join Etixx–Quick-Step for 2017". etixx-quickstep.com. 19 July 2016. Retrieved 19 July 2016.
  7. ^ "2017 > 72nd Vuelta a España > Startlist". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
  8. ^ "2019: 106th Tour de France: Start List". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
  9. ^ "Ancaba Yo Roglic Me Hubiera Seguido Las Palabras de Enric Mas Tras La Victoria de Etapa 18 de Superman Lopez que Generan Criticas en La Vuelta a Espana". Semana. 2 September 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  10. ^ "Enric Mas Has to be very Happy With Second Runner Up Finish at Vuelta a España". Cycling News by Alisdair Fotheringham. 5 September 2021.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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