Raúl García Pierna

Raúl García Pierna is a Spanish all-rounder who has ridden for Movistar Team since 2026. He was born in Tres Cantos, near Madrid, on 23 February 2001. His father, Félix García Casas, is a former professional rider, and his brother Carlos García Pierna also races professionally.

He came through the amateur structure of the Fundación Alberto Contador. In 2020 he joined Lizarte and became Spanish under-23 time trial champion, and he also raced on the track, taking a bronze medal in the elimination race at the under-23 European Track Championships. He turned professional with Kern Pharma in 2021. His first professional win came on 24 June 2022, when he won the Spanish national time trial championship. In 2023 he won the young rider classification at the Tour of Slovenia and finished fourth in the under-23 time trial at the World Championships, before announcing in September that he would move to Arkéa for 2024.

At Arkéa–B&B Hotels he was third overall at the 2024 Tour de la Provence. In 2025 he won the opening time trial of La Route d’Occitanie, finished sixth overall at the Tour de la Provence, where he also won the young rider classification, and was third on stage 7 and fifth on stage 9 of the Vuelta a España.

He moved to Movistar for 2026 and won stage 5 of the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana on 8 February. At the Itzulia Basque Country he was second on stage 6. Movistar named him in its Tour de France team, led by Cian Uijtdebroeks, for what the team called his third Tour. He was third on stage 4 into Foix on 7 July and sixth on stage 18, and finished the race 34th overall. He then rode the Vuelta a España, where he finished 22nd overall. In June, before the Tour, he rode the Tour Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, where Movistar says he made four breakaways and finished three stages in the top ten; he was 42nd overall.