The Rotterdam-born wanderer has taken the scenic route to the Tour: Burgos-BH, two Spanish continental squads, and finally Caja Rural in 2025, where his punchy climbing has flourished — top-ten at Brabantse Pijl this spring. A stage-race winner at 20 in Romania, he now combines duties in Gaviria's sprint train with a licence to attack on hilly transition days.
Palmarès
- Tour of Romania overall winner + young rider classification (2019)
- Stage winner Tour of Qinghai Lake (2019)
- Combativity award, stage 10 Vuelta a España (2020)
- Top-10 at Brabantse Pijl (2026)
Cut-out factHe celebrates his 27th birthday on 13 July, right in the middle of the Tour — and he won his first pro stage race, the Tour of Romania, before he could legally rent a car.
The squad
Riding the 2026 Tour with Fernando Gaviria, Abel Balderstone, Sebastian Berwick, Joel Nicolau, Stefano Oldani, Jakub Otruba, José Félix Parra — see the full Caja Rural team page.
Portrait: AI paper-collage render (gpt-image-2) after a reference photograph — source: Wikimedia Commons, author: Renhour48, license: CC0.
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