David de la Cruz
“My strengths lie in my self confidence and my resilience.”
David de la Cruz started his career as a cyclist in the year 2010 at the ProContinental Team Caja Rural. He has shown tremendous ability in the first three years of his professional cycling career, recently with his fourth place at stage 1b of the Giro del Trentino as well as placing ninth at the seventh stage of the Tour of California. David showed great form at the Vuelta a España in 2013, before he was forced to drop out of his first Grand Tour due to knee problems which he overcame by now.
- Born
- Sabadell, ESP
- Date of Birth
- 06/05/1989
- Height
- 1.81 m
- Weight
- 64 kg
- Speciality
- Climber, GC
- UCI Rank
- 604
- UCI Rank Team
- 6
- UCI Points
- 10.8
- UCI Points Team
- 801.4
- Previous Teams
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2010 – 2012 Caja Rural
2013 - 2014 Team NetApp - Endura
Palmarès
2014
6th Amgen Tour of California, Mountains Classification
2nd stage 6 Amgen Tour of California
2nd Stage 1 Giro del Trentino, TTT
4th Tirreno-Adriatico, Mountains Classification
9th Tirreno-Adriatico, Youth Classification
3rd Tour of Oman, Youth Classification
2013
7th Stage 1 Vuelta a Espana, TTT
9th Stage 7 Amgen Tour of California
6th Giro del Trentino, Youth Classification
4th Stage 1b Giro del Trentino
2012
5th Volta a Portugal
4th Volta a Portugal, stage 4
9th Vuelta a la Comunidad de Madrid
2nd Vuelta a Asturias
4th Vuelta a Asturias, stage 2b ITT
4th Vuelta a Castilla y Leon
2011
3rd Toscana - Coppa delle Nazioni
2010
9th Vuelta a Leon