Jefferson Alveiro Cepeda: 2026 team, palmarès and profile

Team (2026): Movistar Team
Nationality: Ecuador
Born: 2 March 1996, El Playón de San Francisco, Sucumbíos, Ecuador
Profile: Climber and stage-race rider
Pro since: 2015
Previous teams: Team Ecuador (2015–2016), Equipo Bolivia (2017), Team Ecuador (2017–2018), Caja Rural–Seguros RGA (2019–2024)

Facts checked on 20 October 2026. Every fact has a source, listed at the bottom of this page.

2026 season

25 January 2026Santos Tour Down Under15th overall Source
28 February 2026Faun-Ardèche Classic8th Source
15 March 2026Paris–Nice27th overall Source
18 March 2026Milano–Torino18th Source
3 May 2026Tour de Romandie7th overall, 3:18 behind Tadej Pogačar Source
26 July 2026Tour de France101st overall (Tour debut) Source

Palmarès

2024Tour of Qinghai Lake1st overall Source
2024Tour du Limousin, stage 31st Source
2024O Gran Camiño4th overall Source
2019Pan American Road Championships, road race1st Source
2019Vuelta a Navarra1st Source
2018South American Games, road race1st Source
2018Ecuadorian national championships, road race and time trial1st in both Source
2025Ecuadorian national championships, time trial1st Source
2025Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana7th overall Source
2025O Gran Camiño7th overall Source

Biography

Jefferson Alveiro Cepeda Hernández is an Ecuadorian climber who rides for Movistar Team. He was born on 2 March 1996 and has been with Movistar since 2025. He should not be confused with his cousin Jefferson Alexander Cepeda, born in 1998, who is also an Ecuadorian professional but rides for EF Education–EasyPost.

Cepeda began his career with Team Ecuador in 2015 and rode for Equipo Bolivia in 2017. In 2018 he won the road race at the South American Games and both the road race and the time trial at the Ecuadorian national championships. He joined the Spanish team Caja Rural–Seguros RGA in 2019, and that year he won the Pan American road race championship and the Vuelta a Navarra. He rode the Vuelta a España for the first time in 2020 and finished 116th, then placed 32nd in 2021.

His biggest stage-race win came in 2024, when he won the Tour of Qinghai Lake overall. That year he also won stage 3 of the Tour du Limousin, was fourth overall at O Gran Camiño, fifth at the Brabantse Pijl and sixth overall at the Vuelta a Burgos. In 2025, his first season with Movistar, he won the Ecuadorian time trial title and finished seventh overall at both the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana and O Gran Camiño.

In 2026 he was 15th overall at the Santos Tour Down Under, eighth at the Faun-Ardèche Classic and 27th at Paris–Nice. His best result of the year was seventh overall at the Tour de Romandie, 3 minutes 18 seconds behind the winner, Tadej Pogačar. Ecuadorian press described him as the team’s main reference in that race. In July he made his Tour de France debut and finished 101st, in a Movistar team where his role was to support Cian Uijtdebroeks in the hardest stages.