Personal information | |
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Full name | Juan Sebastián Molano Benavides |
Born | Paipa, Colombia | 11 April 1994
Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) |
Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) |
Team information | |
Current team | UAE Team Emirates |
Disciplines |
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Role | Rider |
Rider type | Sprinter |
Amateur teams | |
2011–2012 | Proyectos Alcaldía Paipa |
2013 | Fuerzas Armadas–Ejército Nacional |
2014 | Coldeportes–Claro |
Professional teams | |
2015 | Colombia |
2016–2018 | Team Manzana Postobón [1] |
2019– | UAE Team Emirates [2] [3] |
Major wins | |
Grand Tours
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Juan Sebastián Molano Benavides (born 11 April 1994) is a Colombian professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam UAE Team Emirates. [4]
Molano was named in the startlist for the 2017 Vuelta a España. [5]
He started riding in the 2019 Giro d'Italia, [6] but he was suspended by his team following stage 3 after "seemingly unusual physiological results". The team refrained from commenting further until more tests were carried out. Molano did not start stage 4. [7] Molano was later cleared to resume racing at the Adriatica Ionica Race in late-July 2019 after further tests found he was "highly sensitive to altitude changes." [8]
In June 2022, Molano was disqualified from the Critérium du Dauphiné after he punched Hugo Page in the head. [9] [10] In September of the same year, he won the final stage of the 2022 Vuelta a España ahead of his team-mate Pascal Ackermann, despite the expectation that Ackermann would be the final man in the team's lead-out train. [11]
Molano competed in the 2023 Vuelta a España. He took a win on Stage 12 of the race, finishing ahead of Kaden Groves. [12]
Grand Tour | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
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Giro d'Italia | — | — | DNF | DNF | 126 | — | — | 125 |
Tour de France | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
Vuelta a España | 152 | — | 143 | — | DNF | 126 | 147 |
— | Did not compete |
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DNF | Did not finish |