# David Arroyo

David Arroyo Durán (born 7 January 1980) is a Spanish cyclist, who currently competes in mountain biking for the Primaflor–Mondraker–XSauce team. He is also a former professional road bicycle racer, who rode between 2001 and 2018 for the ONCE–Eroski, LA Alumínios–Pecol, Movistar Team, Caja Rural–Seguros RGA and Efapel teams.

## Career

Arroyo was born in Talavera de la Reina, Province of Toledo.

### Illes Balears–Banesto, later Movistar Team (2005–2012)

He was also one of the best climbers on the Movistar Team, Arroyo's team from 2005 to 2012, along with the team leader Alejandro Valverde. After Valverde crashed in the first week of the 2006 Tour de France, Arroyo was made team leader, until Óscar Pereiro claimed the leader's yellow jersey. Arroyo then helped to protect Pereiro in the mountain climbs and ensure his overall victory.
Arroyo's biggest win to that point was Stage 19 of the 2008 Vuelta a España. Prior to that, his only victories came at the 2004 Volta a Portugal, where he won two stages, the mountains classification and the young rider classification.
In the 2010 Giro d'Italia, Arroyo wore the pink jersey as race leader for five days. He was part of a fortunate breakaway in stage 11 of that race that took over 13 minutes from the race's overall favourites, and claimed the jersey three days later on a mountain stage. He kept it through two mountain stages and the climbing time trial to Kronplatz, but lost it to eventual Giro champion Ivan Basso in stage 19. He finished the race second overall, in the process proving himself to be one of the best descenders in the peloton.

## Major results
### 2000

    1st Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships

### 2003

    1st Stage 1 (TTT) Volta a Catalunya

### 2004

    2nd Overall Volta a Portugal
       1st Mountains classification
       1st Young rider classification
       1st Stages 4 & 8
    5th Subida al Naranco
    8th Overall Vuelta a Asturias
    10th Overall Vuelta a Castilla y León

### 2006

    5th Klasika Primavera
    9th Clásica a los Puertos de Guadarrama
    10th Overall Volta a Catalunya

### 2007

    10th Overall Giro d'Italia

### 2008

    1st Subida a Urkiola
    1st Stage 19 Vuelta a España

### 2009

    2nd Overall Tour du Limousin
       1st Stage 3
    4th Subida a Urkiola
    5th Vuelta a La Rioja
    6th Subida al Naranco
    8th Overall Giro d'Italia

### 2010

    2nd Overall Giro d'Italia
       Held after Stages 14–18
    5th Vuelta a La Rioja

### 2011

    1st Stage 3 (TTT) Vuelta a Burgos

### 2013

    2nd Overall Vuelta a Burgos
    3rd Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia

### 2014

    8th Overall Route du Sud
    8th Vuelta a Murcia
    9th GP Miguel Induráin
    10th Overall Vuelta a Castilla y León
    10th Overall Vuelta a Burgos

### 2015

    9th Overall Vuelta a la Comunidad de Madrid

### 2016

    2nd Overall Tour of Turkey
    4th Overall Vuelta a Castilla y León
    8th Overall Vuelta a la Comunidad de Madrid

### 2017

    5th Overall Route du Sud

### Grand Tour general classification results timeline

| Grand Tour | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 |
| Giro d'Italia | — | — | 10 | — | 8 | 2 | 13 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Tour de France | 53 | 19 | 12 | 29 | 66 | — | 34 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Vuelta a España | — | 19 | — | 17 | — | 24 | — | — | 13 | 20 | 12 | 122 | 89 |