Diego Pescador

Diego Fernando Pescador Castro is a Colombian climber who rides for Movistar Team. He was born on 21 December 2004 in Quimbaya, in the Quindío department of Colombia, and is nicknamed “The Fisherman”. He has said he is the first rider from Quindío to join Movistar, and he names Nairo Quintana as his hero.

After racing for Colombian amateur teams he joined the Continental team GW Shimano–Sidermec in 2023, which became GW Erco Shimano in 2024. In 2023 he won the Vuelta a Antioquia overall and its young rider classification, won the young rider classification at the Vuelta a Colombia, and won stage 8 of the Clásico RCN, where he was fifth overall. In 2024 he was second overall at the Vuelta de la Juventud de Colombia, winning stage 3, second at the G.P. Palio del Recioto, third at the Trofeo Piva and fourth at the Clásico RCN, where he won the young rider classification. He also finished seventh overall at the Tour de l’Avenir.

On 30 September 2024 Movistar announced that he would join its WorldTour squad for 2025 on a three-year contract ending in December 2027, when he was 19. In 2025 he was sixth overall at the Vuelta a Asturias.

His 2026 season began strongly. He was second at the Classica Camp de Morvedre in January, ninth at the Trofeo Andratx–Pollença, and eighth overall at the Tour of Oman, where he won the young rider classification. In March he was 21st at Strade Bianche. In April he finished third overall at the Vuelta a Asturias, behind his team-mate Nairo Quintana, who won the race. Later in the year he was 36th at Eschborn–Frankfurt, 47th at the Vuelta a Burgos and 35th at the Tour of Guangxi.