# Carlos Rodríguez (cyclist)

Carlos Rodríguez Cano (born 2 February 2001) is a Spanish cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Ineos Grenadiers.

## Career

Prior to being a road cyclist, Rodríguez was a BMX rider for the Spanish national team.
For his junior years in 2018 and 2019, Rodríguez raced for the Kometa development team run by former cyclist Alberto Contador. During these two seasons, he was a two-time national junior time trial champion and won the Tour de Gironde and the Gipuzkoa Klasika in 2019. He was also the bronze medalist at the 2018 European Junior Road Race Championships.
In 2020, he was recruited by UCI WorldTeam Team Ineos at only 18 years old on a four-year contract, while simultaneously working on an engineering degree.
In 2021, he finished second at the Tour de l'Avenir and fourth at the Vuelta a Andalucía. The following year, he took his first senior-level wins, being crowned the elite national road race champion in addition to winning stage five of the Tour of the Basque Country. In August, he was selected for his first Grand Tour, the Vuelta a España, finishing 7th overall. In his final race of the season in October, he placed fifth in his first Monument, the Giro di Lombardia.
In March 2023, he crashed in Strade Bianche and sustained a clavicle fracture. In June, he returned to racing, placing ninth at the Critérium du Dauphiné. He next rode in the Tour de France, where he finished fifth overall in the general classification and won stage 14 ahead of Tadej Pogačar and Jonas Vingegaard.
In April 2024, he won the final stage and finished second overall at the Tour of the Basque Country, being the only rider able to follow Juan Ayuso up the final climb. Later that month, he won the Tour de Romandie, his first major stage race win, after taking the lead on stage four. He rode in the 2024 Tour de France.

## Major results
### 2018

    1st Time trial, National Junior Road Championships
    UEC European Road Championships
       3rd Road race
       7th Time trial
    4th Overall Tour de Gironde
       1st Points classification
       1st Young rider classification
       1st Stage 1 (TTT)
    5th Overall Trophée Centre Morbihan
       1st Stage 2b
    6th Paris–Roubaix Juniors

### 2019

    1st Time trial, National Junior Road Championships
    1st Overall Tour de Gironde
       1st Points classification
    1st Gipuzkoa Klasika
    6th Overall Trophée Centre Morbihan

### 2021

    2nd Overall Tour de l'Avenir
       1st Mountains classification
       1st Young rider classification
       1st Stage 9
    3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
    4th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía
    7th GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano
    10th Overall Tour of Britain
       1st Stage 3 (TTT)

### 2022 (2 pro wins)

    National Road Championships
       1st Road race
       4th Time trial
    1st Stage 5 Tour of the Basque Country
    2nd Overall Route d'Occitanie
       1st Young rider classification
    3rd Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
    4th Overall Vuelta a Burgos
       1st Young rider classification
    4th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía
    5th Giro di Lombardia
    5th Clásica de San Sebastián
    5th Trofeo Laigueglia
    7th Overall Vuelta a España

### 2023 (2)

    4th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía
    5th Overall Tour de France
       1st Stage 14
    7th Giro di Lombardia
    9th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné
       1st Young rider classification
    9th Tre Valli Varesine
    10th Overall Tour of Britain
       1st Stage 8
    10th Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana

### 2024 (3)

    1st Overall Tour de Romandie
       1st Young rider classification
    2nd Overall Tour of the Basque Country
       1st Stage 6
    4th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné
       1st Stage 8
    7th Overall Tour de France
    10th Overall Vuelta a España
       Held after Stages 11–14 & 16–18

### 2025

    6th Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
       1st Young rider classification

### General classification results timeline

Grand Tour general classification results :
| Grand Tour | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
| Giro d'Italia | — | — | — | — | |
| Tour de France | — | — | 5 | 7 | |
| Vuelta a España | — | 7 | — | 10 | |
| Major stage race general classification results |||||||||
| Race | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
| Paris–Nice | — | — | — | 28 | |
| Tirreno–Adriatico | — | — | — | — | |
| Volta a Catalunya | — | 15 | — | — | |
| Tour of the Basque Country | — | 26 | — | 2 | |
| Tour de Romandie | — | — | — | 1 | |
| Critérium du Dauphiné | 33 | — | 9 | 4 | |
| Tour de Suisse | — | — | — | — | |
Legend :
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |