Iván Romeo

Iván Romeo Abad was born on 16 August 2003 in Valladolid, Spain. At ten he joined a cycling club in Arroyo de la Encomienda, near Valladolid, encouraged by his younger brother Sergio, who also races. As a junior with the MMR Cycling Academy he won both the Spanish road race and time trial titles in 2021. In 2022 he went to the United States to ride for the Hagens Berman Axeon development team.

In 2023 he won stage 5 of the Tour de l’Avenir, took silver in the road race at the European under-23 championships and was eighth in the under-23 world road race. He joined Movistar Team that year, and in 2024 he became under-23 world time trial champion in Zurich. In 2025 he won the Spanish road race title and a stage of the Critérium du Dauphiné, was fourth overall at the UAE Tour with the young rider classification, and won stage 3 of the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana.

His 2026 season has brought several wins. On 22 February he won the Vuelta a Andalucía overall after taking stage 2, and in April he won stage 3 of O Gran Camiño and finished fifth overall. In August he was third overall at the Tour de Pologne. He rode the Vuelta a España, finishing 73rd, and in the autumn he was 15th in the world championship time trial, fifth in the European road race and tenth in the European time trial.

In May 2026 Movistar announced that he had renewed his contract until 2030. He is 1.93 m tall and weighs 75 kg.