# Eddie Dunbar

Eddie Dunbar (born 1 September 1996) is an Irish road racing cyclist who rides for Team Jayco–AlUla on the UCI World Tour. Dunbar won two stages at the 2024 Vuelta a España and was the 2024 Irish National Time Trial Champion.

## Career
### Amateur career

Hailing from Banteer, County Cork, Dunbar joined local amateur team O'Leary Stone Kanturk in 2013. He quickly shot to prominence on the national junior scene, winning the Irish National Championships Junior Time Trial the same year. He followed this up with victory in the junior Road Race and third in the junior Time Trial in 2014. He was named 2014 Irish Male Cyclist of the Year at the Cycling Ireland Awards.

### Aqua Blue Sport & Team Sky (2018–22)

Dunbar joined Irish team Aqua Blue Sport for the 2018 season. However, the team encountered financial difficulties and was given dispenation by the governing body UCI to allow riders to move to other teams. Dunbar was transferred to Team Sky in September 2018. He competed in the 2019 Giro d'Italia and came third on stage twelve of the race.

### Team Jayco–AlUla

In August 2022, it was announced that Dunbar was to join Team Jayco–AlUla from the 2023 season, on a three-year contract. He finished 7th in the 2023 Giro d’Italia.

## Race wins

Dunbar has five professional wins, and a further win in a professional race while temporarily riding as an amateur. These include two general classification victories, three stage wins and a national time trial championship.
He won two stages at the 2024 Vuelta a España, finishing first on stages eleven and twenty. On stage eleven, he was in a large group that broke clear of the peloton early in the stage and stayed ahead of the main field for over 100km. Approaching the finish in a group of fourteen riders, he sprinted clear with one kilometre to go and held on to win the stage ahead of Quinten Hermans and Max Poole.
His win on stage twenty came after he moved clear of the race leader's group with five kilometres to go and started to chase down stage leader Pavel Sivakov. Dunbar made up the deficit of forty seconds and continued to push on the hilly terrain as Sivakov faded, ultimately taking the win by seven seconds from Enric Mas. Race leader and eventual champion Primož Roglič was a further three seconds behind in third place.
He took his first general classification win at the 2022 Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali, a five-stage race in Italy. Dunbar finished second to Mauro Schmid on stage one and moved into the race lead after the second stage. He held the lead from there until the end of the race, finishing nine seconds ahead of Ben Tulett. His second overall victory came a few weeks later at the 2022 Tour de Hongrie. The first four stages were won by sprinters, with the fifth and final stage proving decisive. Dunbar took the overall victory after a second place finish on the last day, winning by twenty-three seconds ahead of Óscar Rodríguez.
Dunbar was the 2024 Irish National Time Trial Champion. Raced on a 36.6km course around Athea, Dunbar finished 15 seconds ahead of Ryan Mullen to take his first elite national title. Dunbar had finished second in the race behind six-time winner Mullen on three previous occasions.
His first win in a professional race came at the 2016 An Post Rás. Dunbar won stage seven from Dungarvan to Baltinglass and finished fourth in the general classification. At the time, Dunbar was riding professionally with American team Axeon Hagens Berman. However, the team did not enter the race and Dunbar rode as part of the nominally amateur Irish National Team.

## Grand Tour participation

In addition to the 2024 Vuelta a España where he finished eleventh and scored two stage victories, Dunbar also competed in the 2023 Vuelta and the 2019, 2023 and 2024 editions of the Giro d'Italia.
In his first Grand Tour appearance at the 2019 Giro, Dunbar finished the race in 22nd place and was the second-highest overall finisher on the Ineos Grenadiers team. He finished third on stage twelve from Cuneo to Pinerolo, his first stage podium in a Grand Tour race. Dunbar finished the race ahead of future Grand Tour winners Jai Hindley and Sepp Kuss.
His second appearance at one of cycling's showpiece three-week races came at the Giro in 2023, taking five top-ten stage results on his way to seventh place overall. He finished fourth on stage 16 from Sabbio Chiese to Monte Bondone, his best stage result of the race. He returned to the Giro in 2024 but withdrew early in the race after crashing on stage two. He remounted and completed the stage but did not take the start for stage three.
His first Vuelta appearance came in 2023. He was in 42nd place overall after stage four but crashed in the neutral zone before the official start of stage five and withdrew from the race.

## Major results

Source:

### 2013

    1st Time trial, National Junior Road Championships
    5th Overall Junior Tour of Wales

### 2014

    National Junior Road Championships
       1st Road race
       3rd Time trial
    1st Overall Junior Tour of Wales
       1st Stages 2 & 5
    1st Overall Trofeo Karlsberg
    2nd Shay Elliott Memorial Race

### 2015

    National Road Championships
       1st Under-23 road race
       2nd Time trial
       2nd Road race
       2nd Under-23 time trial
    4th Overall Tour of the Reservoir
    9th Time trial, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships

### 2016

    National Road Championships
       1st Under-23 time trial
       2nd Time trial
    4th Overall An Post Rás
       1st Stage 7
    6th Time trial, UEC European Under-23 Road Championships
    9th Time trial, UCI Under-23 Road World Championships

### 2017

    1st Ronde van Vlaanderen Beloften
    2nd Overall Le Triptyque des Monts et Châteaux
    3rd Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships
    3rd Trofeo Città di San Vendemiano
    5th Overall Volta ao Alentejo
    5th Clássica da Arrábida
    6th Gran Premio Palio del Recioto

### 2018

    4th Overall Tour of Belgium
    5th Volta Limburg Classic
    8th Overall Tour de Yorkshire
    8th Overall Tour de l'Avenir
    8th Memorial Marco Pantani

### 2019

    National Road Championships
       2nd Road race
       2nd Time trial
    3rd Overall Tour de Yorkshire
    5th Overall Route d'Occitanie
    6th Overall Tour de Wallonie
    6th Giro della Toscana
    7th Overall Tour de la Provence

### 2020

    4th Giro dell'Emilia
    6th Overall Tour de la Provence

### 2021

    1st Young rider classification, Tour de Suisse
    9th GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano

### 2022 (2 pro wins)

    1st Overall Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
    1st Overall Tour de Hongrie
    3rd Time trial, National Road Championships

### 2023

    7th Overall Giro d'Italia
    7th Overall Tour de Pologne
    9th Overall Tour de Romandie

### 2024 (3)

    1st Time trial, National Road Championships
    Vuelta a España
       1st Stages 11 & 20

### Grand Tour general classification results timeline

| Grand Tour | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
| Giro d'Italia | 22 | — | — | — | 7 | — |
| Tour de France | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Vuelta a España | — | — | — | — | DNF | 11 |
Legend :
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |

### Awards

In 2014, Dunbar was named as the Irish Male Cyclist of the Year.