Pavel Novák

Pavel Novák is a Czech climber who rides for Movistar Team in his first season in the WorldTour. He was born on 3 December 2004 in Jindřichův Hradec, and is 1.81 m tall and 64 kg.

He raced for the junior teams RBB Invest Force in 2020 and Tufo–Pardus Prostějov in 2021, and in 2022 he rode for the Italian club Ciclistica Trevigliese. That year he won the Czech junior time trial title, was second in the national junior road race and took 10th place in the junior road race at the world championships.

In 2023 he joined the Continental team Colpack, which later raced as MBH Bank Colpack Ballan and MBH Bank Ballan CSB, and he stayed until the end of 2025. He rode as a stagiaire with Q36.5 Pro Cycling Team from August 2023 and with Team Jayco AlUla from September 2024. His results grew each season. In 2023 he was second at Bassano–Montegrappa and sixth overall at the Giro della Valle d’Aosta. In 2024 he won the Trofeo Piva and was fifth overall at the Giro Next Gen.

His best year at under-23 level was 2025. He won Bassano–Montegrappa, finished second at GP Capodarco, sixth overall at the Tour de Hongrie and third overall at the Giro Next Gen, where he also won stage 7 from Bra to Prato Nevoso and was second in the mountains classification.

Movistar announced on 19 September 2025 that it had signed him for 2026 to 2028. His first races for the team were in Australia, where he was 64th overall at the Tour Down Under in January. He was 29th at the UAE Tour in February and 53rd at the Tour de Romandie, and he took fourth place in the Czech national time trial championship in June. He rode the Deutschland Tour in August, finishing 36th overall.