Pello Bilbao

Pello Bilbao López de Armentia (born 25 February 1990) is a Spanish cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam .
Career
Caja Rural–Seguros RGA (2014–16)
Bilbao joined for the 2014 season, after his previous team – – folded at the end of the 2013 season. In 2015, Bilbao won the sixth stage of the Tour of Turkey, concluding his effort atop a steep climb.
Astana (2017–2019)
He was named in the start list for the 2017 Giro d'Italia. He finished 10th overall in the Tour de Suisse, which was his first top 10 in a general classification in a major stage race.
Bilbao finished 7th overall at the 2018 Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana. Months later he finished 8th overall at the Tour of the Basque Country. He won stage 1 of the Tour of the Alps, therefore riding stage 2 in the leader's jersey. He continued his great form at the Giro d'Italia, supporting Miguel Ángel López, and finishing 6th overall. Weeks later Bilbao won stage 6 of the Critérium du Dauphiné, which was his first World Tour victory.
In July 2019, he was named in the startlist for the Tour de France.
Bahrain–McLaren (2020–present)
In October 2019, it was announced that Bilbao was to join , later renamed as , for the 2020 season. He finished sixteenth at the 2020 Tour de France, before recording his best Grand Tour result to that point, placing fifth overall at the 2020 Giro d'Italia. He entered the 2021 Giro d'Italia as a domestique – initially for team leader Mikel Landa, before Landa had to withdraw from the race after a crash on the fifth stage. Damiano Caruso then took over as team leader, and following teamwork by Bilbao, won the penultimate stage of the race on his way to second overall; Bilbao ultimately finished 13th overall.
Bilbao finished on the overall podium at the 2022 UAE Tour, taking a third-place stage finish at Jebel Hafeet on the final day. At the Tour of the Basque Country, Bilbao won a small group sprint on the third stage into Amurrio; he ultimately finished the race in fifth overall. His next start was at the Tour of the Alps, where he again won a small group sprint, winning the second stage into Lana. Having finished second on the first stage, Bilbao assumed the race lead – which he would hold until the final day, when he lost forty seconds to three riders, who ultimately moved ahead of him in the general classification. At the Giro d'Italia, Bilbao finished in third place on the opening stage in Hungary, behind Mathieu van der Poel and Biniam Girmay. Bilbao held a top-ten position in the general classification for the duration of the race, ultimately finishing fifth overall, for the second time in three editions.
Major results
2011
2nd Tour de Vendée
7th Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia
2012
10th Overall Vuelta a Asturias
2013
7th Overall Vuelta a Asturias
2014 (1 pro win)
1st Klasika Primavera
3rd Circuito de Getxo
6th Overall Vuelta a Burgos
7th Overall Tour of Norway
7th Overall Tour du Gévaudan Languedoc-Roussillon
8th Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise
2015 (2)
1st Overall Tour de Beauce
1st Mountains classification, Vuelta a Andalucía
1st Stage 6 Tour of Turkey
4th Overall Vuelta a Castilla y León
1st Points classification
1st Stage 1
7th Overall Tour du Gévaudan Languedoc-Roussillon
10th GP Miguel Induráin
2016 (1)
1st Stage 2 Tour of Turkey
2nd Overall Vuelta a Castilla y León
5th Circuito de Getxo
6th GP Miguel Induráin
7th Milano–Torino
8th Klasika Primavera
9th Overall Tour of Norway
9th Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia
2017
10th Overall Tour de Suisse
2018 (2)
1st Stage 6 Critérium du Dauphiné
1st Stage 1 Tour of the Alps
6th Overall Giro d'Italia
7th Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
8th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
2019 (3)
Giro d'Italia
1st Stages 7 & 20
2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
3rd Overall Vuelta a Murcia
1st Stage 1
3rd Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
4th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía
2020 (1)
1st Time trial, National Road Championships
5th Overall Giro d'Italia
6th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía
6th Circuito de Getxo
2021 (1)
2nd Overall Tour of the Alps
1st Stage 4
4th GP Miguel Induráin
5th Time trial, National Road Championships
6th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
9th Overall Tour de France
10th Strade Bianche
2022 (3)
2nd Overall Deutschland Tour
1st Points classification
1st Stage 4
3rd Overall Tour de Pologne
3rd Overall UAE Tour
4th Overall Tour of the Alps
1st Stage 2
5th Overall Giro d'Italia
5th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
1st Stage 3
5th Strade Bianche
9th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
9th Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal
2023 (2)
2nd Clásica de San Sebastián
3rd Overall Tour Down Under
1st Stage 3
4th Overall UAE Tour
4th Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
6th Overall Tour de France
1st Stage 10
7th Strade Bianche
General classification results timeline
Classics results timeline
References
External links
1990 births
Living people
People from Guernica
Spanish Tour de France stage winners
Spanish Giro d'Italia stage winners
Cyclists from Biscay
Spanish male cyclists