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David Arroyo
Arroyo at the 2012 Critérium du Dauphiné
Personal information
Full nameDavid Arroyo Durán
Born (1980-01-07) 7 January 1980 (age 44)
Talavera de la Reina, Spain
Height1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight60 kg (132 lb)
Team information
Current teamPrimaflor–Mondraker–XSauce
Disciplines
  • Road (retired)
  • Mountain biking
RoleRider
Rider typeAll-rounder
Professional teams
2001–2003ONCE–Eroski
2004LA Alumínios–Pecol
2005–2012Illes Balears–Banesto
2013–2017Caja Rural
2018Efapel
2019–Primaflor–Mondraker–Rotor (MTB)
Major wins
Grand Tours
Vuelta a España
1 individual stage (2008)
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Arroyo and the second or maternal family name is Durán.

David Arroyo Durán (born 7 January 1980) is a Spanish cyclist, who currently competes in mountain biking for the Primaflor–Mondraker–XSauce team. He is also a former professional road bicycle racer, who rode between 2001 and 2018 for the ONCE–Eroski, LA Alumínios–Pecol, Movistar Team, Caja Rural–Seguros RGA and Efapel teams.

Career

Arroyo was born in Talavera de la Reina, Province of Toledo.

Illes Balears–Banesto, later Movistar Team (2005–2012)

He was also one of the best climbers on the Movistar Team, Arroyo's team from 2005 to 2012, along with the team leader Alejandro Valverde. After Valverde crashed in the first week of the 2006 Tour de France, Arroyo was made team leader, until Óscar Pereiro claimed the leader's yellow jersey. Arroyo then helped to protect Pereiro in the mountain climbs and ensure his overall victory.

Arroyo's biggest win to that point was Stage 19 of the 2008 Vuelta a España. Prior to that, his only victories came at the 2004 Volta a Portugal, where he won two stages, the mountains classification and the young rider classification.

In the 2010 Giro d'Italia, Arroyo wore the pink jersey as race leader for five days. He was part of a fortunate breakaway in stage 11 of that race that took over 13 minutes from the race's overall favourites, and claimed the jersey three days later on a mountain stage. He kept it through two mountain stages and the climbing time trial to Kronplatz, but lost it to eventual Giro champion Ivan Basso in stage 19. He finished the race second overall, in the process proving himself to be one of the best descenders in the peloton.

Major results

2000
1st Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships
2003
1st Stage 1 (TTT) Volta a Catalunya
2004
2nd Overall Volta a Portugal
1st Mountains classification
1st Young rider classification
1st Stages 4 & 8
5th Subida al Naranco
8th Overall Vuelta a Asturias
10th Overall Vuelta a Castilla y León
2006
5th Klasika Primavera
9th Clásica a los Puertos de Guadarrama
10th Overall Volta a Catalunya
2007
10th Overall Giro d'Italia
2008
1st Subida a Urkiola
1st Stage 19 Vuelta a España
2009
2nd Overall Tour du Limousin
1st Stage 3
4th Subida a Urkiola
5th Vuelta a La Rioja
6th Subida al Naranco
8th Overall Giro d'Italia
2010
2nd Overall Giro d'Italia
Held after Stages 14–18
5th Vuelta a La Rioja
2011
1st Stage 3 (TTT) Vuelta a Burgos
2013
2nd Overall Vuelta a Burgos
3rd Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia
2014
8th Overall Route du Sud
8th Vuelta a Murcia
9th GP Miguel Induráin
10th Overall Vuelta a Castilla y León
10th Overall Vuelta a Burgos
2015
9th Overall Vuelta a la Comunidad de Madrid
2016
2nd Overall Tour of Turkey
4th Overall Vuelta a Castilla y León
8th Overall Vuelta a la Comunidad de Madrid
2017
5th Overall Route du Sud

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017
Giro d'Italia — — 10 — 8 2 13 — — — — — —
Tour de France 53 19 12 29 66 — 34 — — — — — —
Vuelta a España — 19 — 17 — 24 — — 13 20 12 122 89

References

  1. "Arroyo, Txurruka y Velasco destacan "el ambiente familiar" de Caja Rural y su "ilusión" por 2013" [Arroyo, Txurruka and Velasco emphasize "family atmosphere" of Caja Rural and its "enthusiasm" for 2013]. Biciciclismo (in Spanish). Cycling Total comunicación y servicios S.L. 10 November 2012. Retrieved 7 January 2013.
  2. "David Arroyo y Quillo Márquez completan la carrera perfecta en el Gran Premio Villa de Paterna UCI" [David Arroyo and Quillo Márquez complete the perfect race at the Villa de Paterna UCI Grand Prix]. Primaflor–Mondraker–XSauce (in Spanish). PMX Racing Team. 10 October 2021. Retrieved 30 December 2021.
  3. Mariano Martín, Jesús (31 October 2017). "David Arroyo correrá en Efapel en su último año en el pelotón" [David Arroyo will compete for Efapel in his last year in the peloton]. Diario AS (in Spanish). Ignacio Díez, Promotora de Informaciones, S.A. Retrieved 7 January 2018.

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