Spanish cyclist (born 1995)
In this
Spanish name
, the first or paternal
surname
is
Mas
and the second or maternal family name is
Nicolau
.
Enric Mas Nicolau
(
Catalan:
[?n?rik
mas
niko?law]
) (born 7 January 1995) is a Spanish
racing cyclist
who rides for
UCI WorldTeam
Movistar Team
.
[4]
He is a climber, and has finished in top 10 in world tour stage races, and has also won a stage at the
Tour of the Basque Country
.
Career
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Mas was born in
Arta
, a small town of about 7,500 people, which is the administrative seat of
Llevant
, on the island of
Majorca
, one of the
Balearic Islands
of Spain.
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Quick-Step Floors (2017?2019)
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2017
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On 19 July 2016,
UCI World Tour
team
Quick-Step Floors
announced the signing of Mas for 2017 season.
[5]
The 2017 season became the first season for Mas in the World Tour. His best result came at the
Vuelta a Burgos
, where he finished 2nd on the final stage and therefore finished 2nd overall. He was named in the startlist for the
2017 Vuelta a Espana
.
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He won the Combativity Award on stages 6 and 20 at the Vuelta a Espana; on the penultimate stage to
Angliru
, Mas was in the breakaway and helped
Alberto Contador
win the stage.
2018
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The 2018 season was Enric Mas's second on the World Tour, and his first top 10 result came at the
Tour of the Basque Country
. He won the final stage to Arrate, which was his first professional victory. He moved up to 6th place in the general classification after the last stage, which meant he got his first ever top 10 world tour stage race finish; he also won the young rider classification. He continued his form, 2 months later when he placed 4th overall at the
Tour de Suisse
, and won the Young rider classification. He also managed to finish 2nd on stage 5 behind
Diego Ulissi
.
At the
Vuelta a Espana
, Mas was outside top 10 before the last two stages of the second week. He finished 7th on the Stage to Las Praeres, and moved up to 8th place. On the following Stage to the
Lakes of Covadonga
, he finished 6th and moved up to 6th place. On the Time trial he once again showed he had great form when he finished 6th. He moved up another place in the general classification. The race visited a new climb Balcon de Bizkaia on Stage 17. Mas was the strongest of the General classification contenders, and moved up to 3rd position overall. However he dropped to 4th place on Stage 19 which visited
Naturlandia
,
Andorra
. At the start of Stage 20, the gap between him and the 3rd placed rider
Steven Kruijswijk
was only 17 seconds. He attacked on the final climb together with
Miguel Angel Lopez
and
Simon Yates
. Mas rode together to the finish line with Lopez and outsprinted him, to take his first stage victory in a
Grand Tour
. With his performance on stage 20, Mas moved from 4th to 2nd place overall in the Vuelta, finishing on the podium in just his second Grand Tour.
2019-2020
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Mas earned top 10 places in both the
2019 Volta a Catalunya
as well as the
2019 Tour de Suisse
. In July 2019, he was named in the startlist for the
2019 Tour de France
.
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He finished the race in 22nd place overall.
During the 2020 season he earned top 5 finishes in both the
Tour
and the
Vuelta
and won his second young rider competition in the latter. During that Vuelta he assisted
Primo? Rogli?
in securing his second title through the circumstances of the race situation.
Richard Carapaz
dropped Rogli? on the final climb of the final mountain stage but Rogli? was able to limit his losses by getting on the wheel of Mas and following him up the climb. Mas was fighting to gain time over
Dan Martin
and jump into 4th place in the overall standings.
2021
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Mas rode in the
2021 Tour de France
, which was marred by crashes and bad weather early in the race. He finished in 6th place overall, the highest placed rider on Movistar Team.
During the
2021 Vuelta a Espana
Mas proved himself to be in very good form early in the race and the race eventually turned into a battle between Primo? Rogli? and him. By the end of the first week he was among the handful of riders within +1:00 of Rogli?. After stage nine all of the other general classification riders had fallen behind and he was the only rider within a minute of Rogli? being about +0:30 behind. Throughout the remainder of the race Mas was able to consistently stay with the Slovenian on most of the climbs. He lost time to Rogli? on stage seventeen, which included a summit finish at
Lagos de Covadonga
, crossing the line with the surviving GC favorites about a minute and a half behind. On stage eighteen his teammate
Miguel Angel Lopez
attacked and won the stage. Mas did not join in this attack as he felt that if he also attacked Rogli? would have gone with him.
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Stage twenty saw several highly placed riders lose considerable time when a gap formed between the GC riders. Mas was able to stay in the lead group and went into the final time trial about two and a half minutes behind Rogli?, finishing in second overall.
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2022
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Mas defeated
Tadej Pogacar
to win the
2022 Giro dell'Emilia
.
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Later in the year, he finished second overall to
Remco Evenepoel
in the
Vuelta a Espana
, which was his third time placing second in the race.
2023
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Mas started the
2023 Tour de France
but was involved in a crash on the first stage; he and
Richard Carapaz
had to withdraw.
[11]
Major results
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General classification results timeline
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Classics results timeline
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Legend
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Did not compete
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DNF
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Did not finish
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NH
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Not held
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References
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External links
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