Adrià Pericas

Adrià Pericas Capdevila is a Spanish cyclist, born on 26 May 2006 in Tona, in Catalonia. ProCyclingStats lists him at 1.73 m and 60 kg. He is in his first season with the UAE Team Emirates WorldTeam in 2026, and the team’s official roster confirms him.

As a junior he rode for the Spanish team Torrent–Tadesan–Purito. In 2023 he finished second in the Spanish junior time trial championship. In 2024, his last junior year, he won the national junior time trial title and several Spanish junior stage races, including the Vuelta al Besaya and the Vuelta a la Montaña Central de Asturias. Abroad, he was second overall at the Tour du Pays de Vaud.

In 2025 he joined UAE Team Emirates Gen Z, the team’s development squad. He finished second overall at the Istrian Spring Tour, where he won a stage, fifth overall at the Tour du Rwanda and sixth at Liège–Bastogne–Liège for under-23 riders. At the World Championships in Kigali he was ninth in the under-23 road race.

He moved up to the WorldTeam for 2026. In late February he was eighth overall at the Giro di Sardegna, and in April he finished second overall at the Vuelta a Asturias, where he won the young rider classification and was second on two stages. On 1 May he was tenth at Eschborn–Frankfurt, a WorldTour one-day race, and later that month he was seventh overall at the Tour de Hongrie. On 13 August he won stage 7 of the Volta a Portugal. According to his team, he followed an attack on the Alto de Germil climb, then won the sprint of a three-rider group at Termas do Gerês. It was his first professional win. He finished the Volta fifth overall and won its young rider classification.