Pablo Lastras

Pablo Lastras García, born on 20 January 1976 in Madrid, is a Spanish former road racing cyclist who rode professionally from 1998 to 2015, spending his whole career with the Banesto team and the later teams that grew out of it. Over those eighteen years he started 17 Grand Tours and 29 classics and took 13 professional victories, including five stage wins across the three Grand Tours. His stage wins include one at the 2003 Tour de France, two at the 2002 Vuelta a España and another at the 2011 Vuelta, and he also won the 2003 Vuelta a Burgos and the 2008 Vuelta a Andalucía overall. He retired in October 2015 after struggling to recover from pelvic injuries suffered in a crash at the Volta a Catalunya, and from 2017 he returned to the Movistar squad as a directeur sportif.