Enric Mas Nicolau (Catalan: [ənˈrik mas nikoˈlaw]) (born 7 January 1995) is a Spanish racing cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam Movistar Team.[4] Mas is primarily a climber and general classification contender. He has found the most success at the Vuelta a España, where he won a stage in 2018,[5] has finished second overall 3 times, and twice won the young riders classification. Mas's achievements also include winning the 2019 Tour of Guangxi, a stage win at the Tour of the Basque Country, and a victory at the one-day classic Giro dell'Emelia.
 Mas in 2014. | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Enric Mas Nicolau |
| Born | 7 January 1995 Artà, Spain |
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)[1] |
| Weight | 61 kg (134 lb; 9 st 8 lb)[1] |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Movistar Team |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | Climber |
| Amateur teams | |
| 2012 | Sepelaco |
| 2013–2015 | Specialized–Fundación Alberto Contador |
| Professional teams | |
| 2016 | Klein Constantia |
| 2017–2019 | Quick-Step Floors[2] |
| 2020– | Movistar Team[3] |
| Major wins | |
Grand Tours
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Career
editMas was born in Artà, 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.[citation needed]
Quick-Step Floors (2017–2019)
edit2017
editOn 19 July 2016, UCI World Tour team Quick-Step Floors announced the signing of Mas for 2017 season.[6] 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 España.[7] He won the Combativity Award on stages 6 and 20 at the Vuelta a España; 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 España, 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 Balcón 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 Ángel López 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
editMas 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.[8] 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 Primož Roglič in securing his second title through the circumstances of the race situation. Richard Carapaz dropped Roglič on the final climb of the final mountain stage but Roglič 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
editMas 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 España Mas proved himself to be in very good form early in the race and the race eventually turned into a battle between Primož Roglič and him. By the end of the first week he was among the handful of riders within +1:00 of Roglič. After stage nine all of the other general classification riders had fallen behind and he was the only rider within a minute of Roglič 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 Roglič 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 Ángel López attacked and won the stage. Mas did not join in this attack as he felt that if he also attacked Roglič would have gone with him.[9] 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 Roglič, finishing in second overall.[10]
2022
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Mas started the 2022 Tour de France as the leader for Team Movistar.[11] He was forced to withdraw before stage 19 due to testing positive for COVID-19. Before his withdrawal, Mas was in 11th place in the general classification.[12]
Later, Mas raced in the Vuelta a España, where he ultimately placed second overall, 2'02" behind Remco Evenepoel.[13] This was Mas's third time placing second in the race. Mas finished the season with a strong performance in the Italian autumn classics, where he defeated Tadej Pogacar to win the 2022 Giro dell'Emilia,[14] and placed second in Il Lombardia.[15]
2023
editMas started the 2023 Tour de France but was involved in a crash on the first stage; he and Richard Carapaz had to withdraw.[16]
Major results
edit- 2012
- 1st
Time trial, National Junior Road Championships - 2013
- 4th Time trial, National Junior Road Championships
- 2014
- 4th Overall Course de la Paix Under-23
- 2015
- 2nd Overall Vuelta al Bidasoa
- 2016
- 1st
Overall Volta ao Alentejo
- 1st
Points classification - 1st
Young rider classification - 1st Stage 2
- 1st
- 1st Overall Tour de Savoie Mont-Blanc
- 1st Points classification
- 1st Young rider classification
- 1st
- 2nd Overall Giro della Valle d'Aosta
- 1st Points classification
- 1st
- 6th Overall Carpathian Couriers Race
- 2017
- 2nd Overall Vuelta a Burgos
- 1st Young rider classification
- 1st
- Vuelta a España
Combativity award Stages 6 & 20
- 2018 (2 pro wins)
- 2nd Overall Vuelta a España
- 1st Young rider classification
- 1st Stage 20
- 1st
- 4th Overall Tour de Suisse
- 1st Young rider classification
- 1st
- 6th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
- 1st
Young rider classification - 1st Stage 6
- 1st
- 2019 (2)
- 1st
Overall Tour of Guangxi
- 1st Young rider classification
- 1st Stage 4
- 1st
- 4th Overall Volta ao Algarve
- 8th Clásica de San Sebastián
- 9th Overall Tour de Suisse
- 9th Overall Volta a Catalunya
- 10th Milano–Torino
- Tour de France
- Held after Stage 13
- Held
- 2020
- 5th Overall Tour de France
- 5th Overall Vuelta a España
- 2021 (1)
- 2nd Overall Vuelta a España
- 3rd Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
- 1st Stage 3
- 3rd Mont Ventoux Dénivelé Challenge
- 6th Overall Tour de France
- 2022 (1)
- 1st Giro dell'Emilia
- 2nd Overall Vuelta a España
- 2nd Giro di Lombardia
- 4th Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
- 7th Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana
- 9th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
- 9th Coppa Agostoni
- 2023
- 4th Giro dell'Emilia
- 5th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
- 5th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía
- 6th Overall Vuelta a España
- 6th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
- 2024
- 3rd Overall Vuelta a España
- 5th Overall Volta a Catalunya
- 5th Giro di Lombardia
- 6th Overall Tour de Romandie
- 7th Overall Tour de Suisse
- 8th Road race, UCI Road World Championships
- 8th Giro dell'Emilia
Combativity award Stage 20 Tour de France
General classification results timeline
edit| Grand Tour general classification results | ||||||||
| Grand Tour | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Giro d'Italia
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— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
 Tour de France
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— | — | 22 | 5 | 6 | DNF | DNF | 19 |
 Vuelta a España
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71 | 2 | — | 5 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 3 |
| Major stage race general classification results | ||||||||
| Race | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
| Paris–Nice
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— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
 Tirreno–Adriatico
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— | — | — | — | — | DNF | 6 | 12 |
 Volta a Catalunya
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75 | 44 | 9 | NH | 19 | — | — | 5 |
| Tour of the Basque Country
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14 | 6 | 11 | 18 | 9 | 5 | — | |
| Tour de Romandie
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— | — | — | — | — | — | 6 | |
 Critérium du Dauphiné
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DNF | — | — | 20 | 11 | DNF | 17 | — |
| Tour de Suisse
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— | 4 | 9 | NH | — | — | — | 7 |
Classics results timeline
edit| Monument | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Milan–San Remo | Has not yet contested during his career | |||||||
| Tour of Flanders | ||||||||
| Paris–Roubaix | ||||||||
| Liège–Bastogne–Liège | DNF | 81 | 59 | — | 116 | 12 | DNF | — |
| Giro di Lombardia | — | 51 | 13 | — | — | 2 | DNF | 5 |
| Classic | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
| La Flèche Wallonne | — | DNF | 30 | — | 77 | 33 | 17 | — |
| Clásica de San Sebastián | 77 | — | 8 | NH | — | — | — | — |
| Milano–Torino | — | 66 | 10 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Giro dell'Emilia | — | — | — | — | — | 1 | 4 | 8 |
| Tre Valli Varesine | — | — | — | NH | — | 22 | 11 | NR |
| — | Did not compete |
|---|---|
| DNF | Did not finish |
| NH | Not held |
| NR | No result |
References
edit- ^ a b "Enric Mas, Deceuninck - Quick-Step Cycling team". Archived from the original on 15 July 2019. Retrieved 15 July 2019.
- ^ Torrego, José María (23 December 2018). "El Deceuninck Quick Step busca no sucumbir del cetro mundial del ciclismo en 2019" [The Deceuninck Quick Step seeks not to succumb from the cycling world title in 2019]. La Guía del Ciclismo (in Spanish). Digipress Ibérica SL. Retrieved 2 January 2019.
- ^ "Movistar Team ready to open new era in 2020". Movistar Team. Abarca Sports SL. 19 December 2019. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
- ^ "Movistar Team". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 1 January 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- ^ "2018 Best Moments: Enric Mas' brilliant runner-up spot at Vuelta a España". Soudal Quick-step. 3 December 2018. Retrieved 29 September 2024.
- ^ "Three neo-pros join Etixx–Quick-Step for 2017". etixx-quickstep.com. 19 July 2016. Retrieved 19 July 2016.
- ^ "2017 > 72nd Vuelta a España > Startlist". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
- ^ "2019: 106th Tour de France: Start List". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 1 July 2019.
- ^ "Ancaba Yo Roglic Me Hubiera Seguido Las Palabras de Enric Mas Tras La Victoria de Etapa 18 de Superman Lopez que Generan Criticas en La Vuelta a Espana". Semana. 2 September 2021.
- ^ "Enric Mas Has to be very Happy With Second Runner Up Finish at Vuelta a España". Cycling News by Alisdair Fotheringham. 5 September 2021.
- ^ "Mas, Van Vleuten lead Movistar's Tour de France and Giro Donne squads". CyclingNews. 28 June 2022. Retrieved 29 September 2024.
- ^ "Movistar team leader Enric Mas out of Tour de France after COVID-19 positive". CyclingNews. 22 July 2022. Retrieved 29 September 2024.
- ^ "Official classifications of La Vuelta - Stage 21". LA VUELTA.ES. Retrieved 11 September 2022.
- ^ "Enric Mas tunes up for Il Lombardia with Giro dell'Emilia win". Cycling News. 1 October 2022.
- ^ "Tadej Pogacar retains title with win at Il Lombardia 2022 – Results". olympics.com. 8 October 2022. Retrieved 29 September 2024.
- ^ "Mas abandons". Cycling News. 2 July 2023.
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