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Esteban Chaves

Chaves at the 2015 Vuelta a España
Personal information
Full name	Jhoan Esteban Chaves Rubio
Nickname	Chavito, El Chivo, the Smiling Assassin
Born	(1990-01-17) 17 January 1990 (age 34) Bogotá, Colombia
Height	1.64 m (5 ft 5 in)
Weight	54 kg (119 lb; 8.5 st)
Team information
Current team	EF Education–EasyPost
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Climber
Amateur team
2009–2011	Colombia es Pasión–Coldeportes
Professional teams
2012–2013	Colombia–Coldeportes
2014–2021	Orica–GreenEDGE
2022–	EF Education–EasyPost
Major wins
Grand Tours Giro d'Italia 3 individual stages (2016, 2018, 2019) 1 TTT stage (2015) Vuelta a España 2 individual stages (2015) Stage races Abu Dhabi Tour (2015) One-day races and Classics National Road Race Championships (2023) Giro di Lombardia (2016) Giro dell'Emilia (2016)

Jhoan Esteban Chaves Rubio (born 17 January 1990) is a Colombian professional road bicycle racer, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam EF Education–EasyPost. Born in Bogotá, Chaves has competed as a professional since the start of the 2012 season, having signed for the Colombia–Coldeportes team as a neo-pro, after three seasons as an amateur with the Colombia es Pasión–Coldeportes team. Chaves is a two-time grand tour podium finisher, and a monument winner.

Career

Early career

As an amateur, Chaves was the winner of the French Tour de l'Avenir race in 2011, a race previously won by five future winners of the Tour de France. Chaves had been part of the breakaway on the first road stage of the race, taking the mountains jersey after the stage. He surrendered that lead to Garikoitz Bravo the next day, but reclaimed the lead on the third stage, having led the field over the Grand Ballon. Bravo took the lead again after the fourth stage until the end of the race, but Chaves moved into contention for the overall honours with several top-ten stage finishes, and trailed race leader David Boily by seven seconds before the final stage, in Alba, Italy. Chaves was part of a four-rider breakaway that moved clear of the field after the penultimate climb, and although he was beaten to the line by Warren Barguil and Mattia Cattaneo, Chaves's third place, coupled with a 24-second time gap to the field, allowed him to win the race by 17 seconds.

Colombia–Coldeportes (2012–13)

Chaves turned professional with the newly formed Colombia–Coldeportes team for the 2012 season, as his former team Colombia es Pasión–Café de Colombia returned to the domestic ranks in Colombia. He competed in several of the early-season Italian races, including Tirreno–Adriatico, but withdrew from the race on the penultimate day. After finishing 18th in his home race, the Vuelta a Colombia, Chaves returned to Europe for the Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia single-day race in the Basque Country. Chaves made an attack with 10 km (6.2 mi) remaining but Euskaltel–Euskadi's Gorka Izagirre shadowed his move, with Izagirre eventually beating Chaves in the sprint finish. Chaves continued his form into the Vuelta a Burgos, where he won the final stage of the race. Team Sky team-mates Rigoberto Urán and Sergio Henao animated the field on the final climb to Lagunas de Neila, and only Chaves was able to follow the pair; Chaves ultimately beat his former team-mate to take his first professional victory on the line, and allowed him to finish the race in third place overall. The following weekend, Chaves took victory in the Gran Premio Città di Camaiore in Italy, from a five-rider group, after forming the group with Italian national champion Franco Pellizotti of the Androni Giocattoli–Venezuela team, on the Monte Pitoro climb.

Chaves suffered severe injuries in a crash at the Trofeo Laigueglia in February 2013. The team doctor revealed that he had a compound fracture to his right clavicle, fractures in his left petrous bone, right cheekbone, maxillary sinuses and sphenoid bone, and also received pulmonary compressions, abrasions and suspected rib fractures.

Orica–GreenEDGE (2014–2021)

Chaves moved to the Orica–GreenEDGE team for the 2014 season, on an initial two-year contract.

2015

At the Vuelta a España, Chaves won stage 2 by outsprinting Tom Dumoulin (Team Giant–Alpecin) and Nicolas Roche (Team Sky) at the summit of the final third category climb of Caminito del Rey. By doing so he took the overall race lead. Chaves lost the race lead on stage 5, as he was caught out in a split in the peloton at the finish and dropped 6 seconds to Dumoulin. However, on stage 6 Chaves attacked 2 kilometres (1.2 miles) from the summit of the final climb to Sierra de Cazorla and held off Dan Martin (Cannondale–Garmin) and Dumoulin by five seconds for his second stage win and retake the race lead. During the Vuelta Chaves extended his contract for a further three years. He eventually finished the Vuelta in fifth place overall.

2016–2017

2016 was a strong season for him as he finished second in the Giro d'Italia and third in the Vuelta a España. On 1 October, Chaves won Il Lombardia, his – and Colombia's – first victory in one of cycling's "monuments".

In June 2017, he was named in the startlist for the Tour de France. He struggled at the event, eventually finishing 62nd in the general classification, almost two-and-a-half hours down on winner Chris Froome. He returned to the Vuelta a España later in the year. He showed good form in the opening stages, but later slipped back to finish eleventh overall.

2018

Chaves started his 2018 campaign at the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race, before starting the Herald Sun Tour. He broke away from the peloton at the final ascent of the penultimate stage, taking the victory and the lead in the overall classification. He held on to his lead to win the event overall the next day, his second victory in a stage race. Chaves also rode the Giro d'Italia as his season highlight, winning stage 6.

2019

On 31 May, Chaves won stage 19 of the Giro d'Italia from the breakaway, his first victory in over a year.

EF Education–EasyPost

After eight seasons with Team BikeExchange and its precursors, Chaves signed for the EF Education–EasyPost team for the 2022 season.

Major results

2006

2nd Road race, National Novice Road Championships

2009

1st Stage 1 Vuelta a Cundinamarca

2010

5th Overall Circuito de Combita

2011

1st Overall Tour de l'Avenir

1st Stage 1 Clásica Club Deportivo Boyacá

3rd Overall Circuito de Combita

2012 (2 pro wins)

1st Gran Premio Città di Camaiore

1st Young rider classification, Vuelta a Colombia

2nd Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia

3rd Overall Vuelta a Burgos

1st Young rider classification

1st Stage 5

5th Memorial Marco Pantani

6th Road race, UCI Under-23 Road World Championships

2014 (2)

1st Stage 8 Tour de Suisse

3rd Overall Tour of Beijing

1st Young rider classification

4th Overall Tour de Langkawi

7th Overall Tour of California

1st Stage 6

2015 (4)

1st Overall Abu Dhabi Tour

1st Young rider classification

1st Stage 3

Giro d'Italia

1st Stage 1 (TTT)

Held after Stage 4

5th Overall Vuelta a España

1st Stages 2 & 6

Held after Stages 2–4 & 6–8

Held after Stages 2–3 & 7–14

Held after Stage 2

Held after Stages 2–8

8th Giro di Lombardia

2016 (3)

1st Giro di Lombardia

1st Giro dell'Emilia

2nd Overall Giro d'Italia

1st Stage 14

Held after Stage 19

3rd Overall Vuelta a España

9th UCI World Tour

2017

2nd Overall Tour Down Under

9th Overall Herald Sun Tour

2018 (3)

1st Overall Herald Sun Tour

1st Stage 3

Giro d'Italia

1st Stage 6

Held after Stages 6–8

2019 (1)

1st Stage 19 Giro d'Italia

6th Overall Tour of Slovenia

2020

4th Overall Vuelta a Burgos

5th Time trial, National Road Championships

7th Overall Tour Colombia

2021 (1)

3rd Grand Prix of Aargau Canton

6th Overall Volta a Catalunya

1st Points classification

1st Mountains classification

1st Stage 4

8th La Flèche Wallonne

9th Overall Tour of the Basque Country

10th Overall Tour de Suisse

2022

National Road Championships

2nd Time trial

3rd Road race

2nd Mont Ventoux Dénivelé Challenge

4th Coppa Sabatini

5th Giro della Toscana

6th Overall Tour de Langkawi

7th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné

9th Overall Tour of Norway

2023 (1)

1st Road race, National Road Championships

2024

8th Overall Tour Colombia

General classification results timeline

Grand Tour general classification results
Grand Tour	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
Giro d'Italia	—	—	—	55	2	—	72	40	—	—	—	—	35
Tour de France	—	—	—	—	—	62	—	—	23	13	—	DNF
Vuelta a España	—	—	41	5	3	11	—	19	27	—	DNF
Major stage race general classification results
Race	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022	2023	2024
Paris–Nice	—	—	—	—	—	—	DNF	51	—	—	—	—
Tirreno–Adriatico	DNF	—	—	—	30	—	—	—	—	—	—	—
Volta a Catalunya	—	—	46	13	48	—	DNF	34	NH	6	44	11
Tour of the Basque Country	—	—	101	21	—	—	—	—		9	—	12
Tour de Romandie	Has not contested during his career
Critérium du Dauphiné	—	—	—	—	—	26	—	—	—	—	7	32
Tour de Suisse	—	—	16	14	—	—	—	—	NH	10	—	—

Monuments results timeline

References

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External links

• Esteban Chaves at UCI
• Esteban Chaves at Cycling Archives (archived)
• Esteban Chaves at ProCyclingStats
• Esteban Chaves at Cycling Quotient
• Esteban Chaves at CycleBase

• Colombian male cyclists
• 1990 births
• Living people
• Cyclists from Bogotá
• Colombian Vuelta a España stage winners
• Colombian Giro d'Italia stage winners
• Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
• Olympic cyclists for Colombia
• Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
• Tour de Suisse stage winners