Pablo Lastras

Pablo Lastras
	Lastras at the 2009 Tour Down Under.
Personal information
Full name	Pablo Lastras García
Born	20 January 1976 (age 48); Madrid, Spain
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	68 kg (150 lb)
Team information
Current team	Movistar Team
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider (former); Directeur sportif;
Rider type	Domestique
Professional teams
1997	Banesto (stagiaire)
1998–2015	Banesto
Managerial team
2017–	Movistar Team
Major wins
	Grand Tours Tour de France 1 individual stage (2003) Giro d'Italia 1 individual stage (2001) Vuelta a España 3 individual stages (2002, 2011)

Pablo Lastras García (born 20 January 1976) is a Spanish former racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 1998 and 2015, entirely for the Banesto team and its later iterations. During his career, he recorded stage victories at the three Grand Tours, winning five stages in total.

He now works as a directeur sportif for the team.^[1]

Career edit

Born in Madrid, Lastras' idols are Bernard Hinault and Miguel Induráin. As a competitor, the 1.83-metre (6 ft 0 in) tall Lastras had a resting heart rate of 45bpm, and weighed 68 kg (150 lb).

Lastras won a stage in the 2003 Tour de France and picked up two stages in the 2002 Vuelta a España. In 2005 he won stage 8 at Tour de Suisse. He also won the Vuelta a Burgos in 2003. In 2007 the team Caisse d'Epargne had announced that they would let him go, but after a stage win in Eneco Tour his contract was renewed for another year. That off-season, in November 2007, Lastras won the second annual Criterium Ciudad de Jaén race, an unofficial two-day competition.^[2] In 2008, he won the overall classification in Vuelta a Andalucía, and placed second in a stage of the Giro d'Italia. In 2011, Lastras won stage 3 of the Vuelta a España.

In October 2015, after 18 years as a professional, Lastras announced that he had retired from racing after struggling to recover from pelvic injuries he had sustained in a crash at the Volta a Catalunya in March of that year. He competed in a total of 17 Grand Tours and 29 classics,^[3]^[4] and took a total of 13 professional victories.

Following his recovery from his accident, in October 2016 it was announced that Lastras would return to Movistar as part of the squad's management team from 2017, becoming a directeur sportif.^[5]^[6]^[7]