Egan Bernal

**Egan Arley Bernal Gómez** (born 13 January 1997) is a Colombian cyclist. He rides for UCI WorldTeam . In 2019, he won the Tour de France. After that, he became the first Latin American rider to won and the youngest winner since 1909. At the 2021 Giro d'Italia, Bernal took his second Grand Tour win.

## Early life

Bernal was born in Bogotá, Colombia. Later he was raised in Zipaquirá. He studied one semester at Universidad de la Sabana in Chia, Colombia.

He primarily focused on the mountain biking, winning races in Brazil, Costa Rica, and the United States. He got both silver (2014) and bronze (2015) in the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships junior cross country events.

## Professional road racing

Bernal had begun to gain success in junior road racing both in Colombia and Italy, besides doing mountain biking. He won the Clasica Juventudes Cajica and the Sognando Il Giro delle Fiandre in 2015.

### Road

- 2016
- 1st  Overall Tour of Bihor
    - 1st  Young rider classification
    - 1st Stage 1
- 1st  Young rider classification, Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali
- 1st  Young rider classification, Giro del Trentino
- 4th Overall Tour of Slovenia
    - 1st  Young rider classification
- 4th Overall Tour de l'Avenir
- 2017
- 1st  Overall Sibiu Cycling Tour
    - 1st  Points classification
    - 1st  Young rider classification
    - 1st Stages 2 & 3
- 1st  Overall Tour de Savoie Mont Blanc
    - 1st  Points classification
    - 1st  Young rider classification
    - 1st Stages 2 & 4 (ITT)
- 1st  Overall Tour de l'Avenir
    - 1st Stages 7 & 8
- 2nd Giro dell'Appennino
- 3rd Memorial Marco Pantani
- 4th Overall Settimana Internazionale Coppi e Bartali
    - 1st  Young rider classification
- 5th Overall Giro della Toscana
    - 1st  Young rider classification
- 5th GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano
- 7th Overall Tour de Langkawi
- 9th Overall Tour of the Alps
    - 1st  Young rider classification
- 9th Overall Vuelta a San Juan
    - 1st  Young rider classification
- 2018
- 1st  Time trial, National Road Championships
- 1st  Overall Tour of California
    - 1st  Young rider classification
    - 1st Stages 2 & 6
- 1st  Overall Colombia Oro y Paz
    - 1st  Mountains classification
    - 1st  Young rider classification
- 2nd Overall Tour de Romandie
    - 1st  Young rider classification
    - 1st Stage 3 (ITT)
- 6th Overall Tour Down Under
    - 1st  Young rider classification
- 10th Milano–Torino
- 2019
- 1st  Overall Tour de France
    - 1st  Young rider classification
- 1st  Overall Tour de Suisse
    - 1st  Young rider classification
    - 1st Stage 7
- 1st  Overall Paris–Nice
    - 1st  Young rider classification
- 1st Gran Piemonte
- 2nd Giro della Toscana
- 3rd Overall Volta a Catalunya
- 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
- 3rd Giro di Lombardia
- 4th Overall Tour Colombia
- 6th Milano–Torino
- 9th Giro dell'Emilia
- 2020
- 1st  Overall Route d'Occitanie
    - 1st  Points classification
    - 1st  Young rider classification
    - 1st Stage 3
- National Road Championships
    - 2nd Road race
    - 3rd Time trial
- 2nd Overall Tour de l'Ain
- 4th Overall Tour Colombia
- Tour de France
    - Held  after Stages 7–12
- 2021
- 1st  Overall Giro d'Italia
    - 1st  Young rider classification
    - 1st Stages 9 & 16
- 2nd Trofeo Laigueglia
- 3rd Overall Tour de la Provence
- 3rd Strade Bianche
- 4th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
- 6th Overall Vuelta a España
    - Held  after Stages 3–19
    - Combativity award Stage 17

#### General classification results timeline

|scope="col"|Grand Tour|2017|2018|2019|2020|2021|2022|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|colspan="7" style="text-align:center;"|**Grand Tour general classification**|||||||
|—|—|—|—|style="background:pink;"|1|—||
|—|15|style="background:yellow;"|1|DNF|—|—||
|—|—|—|—|style="background:#ddf;"|6|||
|colspan="7" style="text-align:center;"|**Major stage race general classification**|||||||
|—|—|style="background:yellow;"|1|—|—|—||
|16|—|—|—|style="background:#ddf;"|4|—||
|—|DNF|style="background:#ddf;"|3|rowspan="3" style="color:#4d4d4d;"|NH|—|—|
|—|—|—|—|—||||
|—|style="background:#ddf;"|2|—|—|—|||
|—|—|—|DNF|—|—|||
|—|—|style="background:yellow;"|1|style="color:#4d4d4d;"|NH|—|—|
|scope="row"|—|
| --- | --- |
|Did not compete||
|Did not finish||
|Not held||
|In Progress||

### Mountain Bike

- 2014
- 2nd  Cross-country, UCI World Junior Championships
- 3rd  Cross-country, Pan-American Junior Championships
- 2015
- 1st  Cross-country, Pan-American Junior Championships
- 3rd  Cross-country, UCI World Junior Championships

## Other websites

- Egan Bernal at FirstCycling