# Eduardo Sepúlveda

Eduardo Sepúlveda (born 13 June 1991) is an Argentine racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Lotto. He rode at the 2014 UCI Road World Championships.

## Early life

Sepúlveda was born in Rawson, the capital of Chubut Province, in Argentine Patagonia. 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. 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.
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.

## 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 for allowing him a chance to train at the World Cycling Centre and to sign with the French second division team Bretagne–Séché Environnement.
Sepúlveda took his first professional win in February 2015 with a solo victory in the Classic Sud-Ardèche. 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). He participated in the 2015 Tour de France, but was disqualified on stage 14 for riding in a car instead of pedaling his bike.
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. In May 2018, he was named in the start list for the Giro d'Italia for the first time in his career.
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.
In November 2022, Sepúlveda signed with Lotto–Dstny for the 2023 season.

## Major results
### 2010

    3rd Individual pursuit, Pan American Track Championships

### 2011

    3rd Team pursuit, Pan American Track Championships
    7th Overall Rutas de América

### 2012

    Pan American Road Championships
       1st Under-23 time trial
       2nd Time trial
    2nd ZLM Tour
    5th Overall Coupe des nations Ville Saguenay
    8th Chrono Champenois

### 2013

    Pan American Track Championships
       1st Individual pursuit
       1st Team pursuit
       2nd Madison
    6th Overall Kreiz Breizh Elites
    9th Overall Tour du Poitou-Charentes
    10th Time trial, UCI Under-23 Road World Championships
    10th Circuito de Getxo

### 2014

    4th Overall Tour Méditerranéen
       1st Young rider classification
    5th Overall Critérium International
    6th Overall Tour de San Luis

### 2015 (2 pro wins)

    1st Classic Sud-Ardèche
    1st Tour du Doubs
    2nd Overall Tour of Turkey
    4th Overall Tour de San Luis
    5th Overall Route du Sud

### 2016 (1)

    2nd Overall Tour de San Luis
       1st Mountains classification
       1st Stage 4
    4th Tour du Doubs

### 2017

    4th Classic Sud-Ardèche

### 2019

    2nd Overall Tour of Austria

### 2021

    3rd Overall Tour of Turkey
    4th Overall Tour of Romania
    8th Overall Adriatica Ionica Race
    10th Giro dell'Appennino

### 2022 (1)

    3rd Overall Tour of Turkey
       1st Stage 4
    7th Overall Tour de Langkawi
    8th Overall Tour of Antalya

### 2023 (2)

    1st Overall Vuelta a Castilla y León
       1st Stage 2
    2nd Road race, Pan American Games
    7th Overall Sibiu Cycling Tour
    Vuelta a España
       Held after Stages 4–10

### 2024

    8th Overall Sibiu Cycling Tour
    9th Tour du Doubs

### Grand Tour general classification results timeline

| Grand Tour | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
| Giro d'Italia | — | — | — | 96 | — | 57 | 47 | 76 | — |
| Tour de France | DSQ | 59 | 66 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Vuelta a España | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 102 |
Legend :
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |
| DSQ | Disqualified |