Enric Mas

Enric Mas Nicolau was born on 7 January 1995 in Artà, a small town on the Spanish island of Mallorca. He trained with the Fundación Alberto Contador amateur team and then, in 2016, with Klein Constantia, the development team linked to Quick-Step, where he won the Volta ao Alentejo and the Tour de Savoie Mont-Blanc. He moved up to Quick-Step Floors in 2017, rode for Deceuninck–Quick-Step until 2019 and joined Movistar Team in 2020.

Mas is a climber and general classification rider, and most of his success has come at the Vuelta a España. In 2018, in only his second Grand Tour, he won stage 20 and moved from fourth to second overall, also winning the young rider classification. His first professional win had come earlier that year on the last stage of the Tour of the Basque Country at Arrate. He finished second at the Vuelta again in 2021, behind Primož Roglič, and in 2022, 2 minutes 2 seconds behind Remco Evenepoel, and he was third in 2024. At the Tour de France he was fifth in 2020 and sixth in 2021. He left the 2022 Tour after testing positive for COVID-19 and the 2023 Tour after a crash on stage 1 that fractured his scapula. His other wins include the 2019 Tour of Guangxi and the 2022 Giro dell’Emilia, where he beat Tadej Pogačar, and he was second at Il Lombardia in 2022. In 2025 he was second overall at the Itzulia Basque Country and third at the Volta a Catalunya.

In 2026 Mas won the Vuelta a España, his first Grand Tour victory. The race started in Monaco on 22 August and finished in Granada on 13 September. Pogačar, widely expected to win, withdrew after a crash on stage 8 while Mas was second overall. Mas inherited the red jersey, won stage 9 to the Alto de Aitana the next day and kept the lead to the finish. Earlier in the season he finished second at the Trofeo Ses Salines in January, 32nd at the Giro d’Italia, 12th at the Tour de Suisse and fifth at the Vuelta a Burgos. He ended the year with second place at Il Lombardia on 10 October. ProCyclingStats lists him with Movistar until 2029.