Ivo Oliveira

Ivo Emanuel Alves Oliveira is a Portuguese road and track cyclist, born on 5 September 1996 in Vila Nova de Gaia. He is 1.85 m tall and weighs 68 kg, according to his team. His twin brother Rui Oliveira is also a professional cyclist and has been his teammate at UAE Team Emirates. Ivo has ridden for the team since 2019, and the official roster confirms him for 2026.

Oliveira first won on the track. In 2014 he became junior world champion in the individual pursuit and also took bronze in the junior madison with his brother. In 2018 he won silver in the individual pursuit at the elite World Championships in Apeldoorn; Wikipedia describes it as the first medal for a Portuguese rider at the track world championships. He became European individual pursuit champion in 2020 and won a bronze medal in the event at the 2022 World Championships.

On the road he rode for the American development team Axeon Hagens Berman in 2017 and 2018, then joined UAE Team Emirates in 2019. He won the Portuguese time trial title in 2020 and the national road race in 2023 and 2025. In 2023 he won the prologue of the Boucles de la Mayenne, and in 2025 he won two stages of the Giro d’Abruzzo and a stage of the Tour of Slovenia. That year he was also part of the UAE squad that won the team time trial at the Vuelta a España.

In 2026 he was third in the prologue of the Tour de Romandie and second in the short time trial of the Sibiu Cycling Tour. At the national championships in June he was third in the time trial and fourth in the road race, where he had been the defending champion. He rode the Vuelta a España, finishing 99th, and was 21st in the world championship time trial in Montréal. In October he won stages 2 and 3 of the Tour de Kyushu in Japan and the overall classification. A week later, on 18 October, he won silver in the madison with Iúri Leitão at the track World Championships in Shanghai.