# Pablo Lastras

Pablo Lastras García (born 20 January 1976) is a Spanish former racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 1998 and 2015, entirely for the Banesto team and its later iterations. During his career, he recorded stage victories at the three Grand Tours, winning five stages in total.
He now works as a directeur sportif for the team.

## Career

Born in Madrid, Lastras' idols are Bernard Hinault and Miguel Induráin. As a competitor, the 1.83-metre (6 ft 0 in) tall Lastras had a resting heart rate of 45bpm, and weighed 68 kg (150 lb).
Lastras won a stage in the 2003 Tour de France and picked up two stages in the 2002 Vuelta a España. In 2005 he won stage 8 at Tour de Suisse. He also won the Vuelta a Burgos in 2003. In 2007 the team Caisse d'Epargne had announced that they would let him go, but after a stage win in Eneco Tour his contract was renewed for another year. That off-season, in November 2007, Lastras won the second annual Criterium Ciudad de Jaén race, an unofficial two-day competition. In 2008, he won the overall classification in Vuelta a Andalucía, and placed second in a stage of the Giro d'Italia. In 2011, Lastras won stage 3 of the Vuelta a España.
In October 2015, after 18 years as a professional, Lastras announced that he had retired from racing after struggling to recover from pelvic injuries he had sustained in a crash at the Volta a Catalunya in March of that year. He competed in a total of 17 Grand Tours and 29 classics, and took a total of 13 professional victories.
Following his recovery from his accident, in October 2016 it was announced that Lastras would return to Movistar as part of the squad's management team from 2017, becoming a directeur sportif.

## Major results
### 1999

    1st Stage 2a Troféu Joaquim Agostinho
    1st Stage 12 Volta a Portugal

### 2000

    10th Overall GP do Minho
       1st Stage 4

### 2001

    1st Memorial Manuel Galera
    1st Stage 11 Giro d'Italia
    1st Stage 4 (TTT) Volta a Portugal
    3rd Overall GP CTT Correios de Portugal
    3rd Giro della Toscana
    9th Overall Tour de l'Avenir

### 2002

    Vuelta a España
       1st Stages 9 & 11
    1st Stage 1 (TTT) Volta a Portugal
    7th Clásica de Almería
    7th Giro di Lombardia

### 2003

    1st Overall Vuelta a Burgos
    1st Stage 18 Tour de France
    1st Stage 2 (TTT) Vuelta a Castilla y León
    4th Milano–Torino

### 2004

    6th Subida al Naranco
    9th Overall Volta a Catalunya
       1st Stage 1 (TTT)
    10th Trofeo Luis Puig

### 2005

    1st Stage 8 Tour de Suisse
    4th Japan Cup

### 2006

    4th Clásica a los Puertos de Guadarrama
    6th Overall Escalada a Montjuïc
    10th Overall Deutschland Tour

### 2007

    1st Stage 6 Eneco Tour
    6th Overall Tour de Pologne

### 2008

    1st Overall Vuelta a Andalucía

### 2009

    5th Trofeo Calvià
    5th Japan Cup
    8th Paris–Tours
    9th Overall Tour de Pologne
    10th Giro del Piemonte

### 2010

    3rd Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia
    3rd Giro di Lombardia

### 2011

    1st Stage 3 Vuelta a España
    3rd Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia
    7th Overall Vuelta a Burgos
       1st Stage 3 (TTT)

### 2014

    7th Overall Tour de Wallonie
    9th Vuelta a La Rioja

### Grand Tour general classification results timeline

| Grand Tour | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 |
| Giro d'Italia | 49 | — | — | — | — | — | 42 | 64 | 45 | 113 | 38 | DNF | 85 |
| Tour de France | — | — | 67 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Vuelta a España | — | 17 | 55 | 38 | 19 | 48 | — | — | — | — | 44 | 74 | DNF |
Legend :
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |