Pablo Castrillo: 2026 team, palmarès and profile

Team (2026): Movistar Team
Nationality: Spain
Born: 2 January 2001, Jaca, Spain
Profile: Climber and breakaway specialist, stage hunter and time trialist
Pro since: 2022
Previous teams: Lizarte (2019–2022), Equipo Kern Pharma (2022–2024)

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

2026 season

2 May 2026Tour de Romandie15th overall (3rd on stage 4) Source
25 June 2026Spanish National Time Trial Championships1st Source
7 July 2026Tour de France, stage 49th, combativity award Source
23 July 2026Tour de France, stage 187th Source
26 July 2026Tour de France29th overall Source
13 September 2026Vuelta a España81st overall Source
20 September 2026UCI Road World Championships, time trial24th Source

Palmarès

2022Spanish National Under-23 Time Trial Championships1st Source
2023Tour de Langkawi3rd overall Source
2024Vuelta a España, stage 121st Source
2024Vuelta a España, stage 15 (Cuitu Negru)1st Source
2024Tour of Slovenia5th overall Source
2025UAE Tour7th overall Source
2025Tour de Suisse9th overall Source
2026Spanish National Time Trial Championships1st Source

Biography

Pablo Castrillo Zapater is a Spanish road cyclist, born on 2 January 2001 in Jaca, in Aragon. He is 1.83 m tall and weighs 74 kg, according to Movistar Team, which he joined for the 2025 season. His brother Jaime also raced as a professional until 2022. Wikipedia describes him as a climber.

Castrillo rode for the amateur team Lizarte and in 2022 won the Spanish under-23 time trial title, as well as several small Basque and Spanish one-day races such as the Memorial Valenciaga and Oñati Proba. He took part in races with Equipo Kern Pharma as a trainee in 2022 and rode for the team as a professional in 2023 and 2024. In 2023 he finished third overall at the Tour de Langkawi.

His breakthrough came at the 2024 Vuelta a España, when he won stages 12 and 15 from breakaways. On stage 15 he won on the very steep Cuitu Negru, finishing ahead of Aleksandr Vlasov and Pavel Sivakov. He was also awarded the combativity prize on stages 4 and 12. Later that season he finished fifth overall at the Tour of Slovenia, and seventh at both the Vuelta a Burgos and the CRO Race.

After joining Movistar he was seventh overall at the 2025 UAE Tour and ninth at the Tour de Suisse. He rode the Tour de France that year, finishing 110th, and did not finish the Vuelta.

In 2026 he won the Spanish national time trial championship on 25 June. At the Tour de France he was 29th overall, was ninth on stage 4 from Carcassonne to Foix, which earned him the combativity award for that stage, and was seventh on stage 18 to Orcières-Merlette. Earlier in the year he took third on stage 4 of the Tour de Romandie and finished 15th overall there. He finished the Vuelta in 81st place and was 24th in the world championship time trial in Montréal on 20 September.