Carlos Alberto Betancur Gómez (born 13 October 1989) is a Colombian

road racing cyclist Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and spectators. The two most common ...

, who most recently rode for Colombian amateur team .

Career

In 2010 he won the

Girobio Giro d'Italia Giovani Under 23, also known as Baby Giro, Girobio or Giro Ciclistico d'Italia, is an Italian road bicycle racing amateur stage race A race stage, leg, or heat is a unit of a race that has been divided in several parts for the reas ...

stage race; the amateur version of the Giro d'Italia; and in 2011 he won his first professional race at the Giro dell'Emilia. Betancur had been scheduled to join the team in 2012, but remained with . Betancur left at the end of the 2012 season, and joined on a two-year contract from the 2013 season onwards.

Ag2r–La Mondiale (2013–15)

He started his 2013 season with a seventh-place finish at the Tour of the Basque Country, including a second place on stage 3. He went on to light up the Ardennes Classics, coming 3rd at La Flèche Wallonne after an early attack with just over to go and scoring a 4th place in Liège–Bastogne–Liège, where it was his attack which created the final select group of six who contested the finish. After a 12th-place finish at the Tour de Romandie, Betancur went in to the Giro d'Italia as an outsider for a top 10 GC position. Initially things went poorly, as he lost time on the descent of stage 3 and on the long time trial of stage 8, by the end of which he was down in 28th position, 6:08 down on the leader and eventual winner Nibali. However, following second places on stages 9, 10, and 15, and some brilliant performances in the other mountain stages, he worked himself up to 7th place and just two seconds off the white jersey for the best young rider (which he had actually gained on stage 15, but lost in the stage 18 time trial) by the penultimate stage. On the final mountain stage, although he punctured at the bottom of the final climb, he managed to catch up and overtake most of his GC rivals, finishing 4th on the day. He ended the Giro as best young rider and 5th in the general Classification. In December 2013, Betancur confirmed he would be focusing on the Tour de France for 2014. However, he failed to fly from his training base in Colombia to France on 3 June, blaming a viral infection, and changed his target to the Vuelta a España. In August 2015 announced that they had come to an agreement with Betancur to release him from his contract with the team, which was due to run until the end of 2016.

Movistar Team (2016–20)

In October 2015, the announced that they had agreed an initial two-year deal with Betancur from 2016. Betancur won his first race for the team – the first stage of the

2016 Vuelta a Castilla y León The 2016 Vuelta a Castilla y León was the 31st edition of the Vuelta a Castilla y León cycle race and was held on 15 April to 17 April 2016. The race started in Alcañices and finished at the Alto de la Plataforma. The race was won by Alejandro ...

– ending a 760-day wait for a victory. The last race he had won was the

2014 Paris–Nice The 2014 Paris–Nice was the 72nd running of the Paris–Nice cycling stage race, often known as the ''Race to the Sun'', and the first European World Tour event of the season. It started on 9 March in Mantes-la-Jolie and ended on 16 Ma ...

. In June 2017, he was named in the startlist for the

2017 Tour de France The 2017 Tour de France was the 104th edition of the Tour de France, one of cycling's Grand Tour (cycling), Grand Tours. The 21-race stage, stage race took place across , commencing with an individual time trial in Düsseldorf, Germany on 1 July ...

Colombia Tierra de Atletas–GW Bicicletas

For the 2021 season, Betancur joined the team. In April, he announced that he was taking a break from cycling.

Major results

;2009 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall Vuelta de la Juventud de Colombia ::1st Stage 4 : 2nd Silver medal uci

Road race, UCI Road World Under-23 Championships ;2010 : 1st Jersey pink

Overall

::1st Stages 4 & 5 : 1st Stage 1 ( TTT) Vuelta a Colombia ;2011 : 1st Giro dell'Emilia : 5th Gran Premio Industria e Commercio Artigianato Carnaghese : 9th Giro di Lombardia ;2012 : 1st

Trofeo Melinda Trofeo Melinda was a single-day road bicycle race held annually in Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, Italy. After 2005, the race was organised as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. It was created after the disappearance of Giro dell'Umbria, held b ...

: 1st Stage 5 Tour of Belgium : 1st Jersey polkadot

Mountains classification,

Circuit de Lorraine The Circuit de Lorraine is a multi-stage road bicycle racing event held annually in Lorraine, France. Since 2005, it has been organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competi ...

: 2nd Giro di Toscana : 4th Overall

Giro del Trentino The Tour of the Alps is an annual professional cycling stage race in Italy and Austria. First held in 1962, it was named Giro del Trentino ( en, Tour of Trentino) until 2016, and run over four stages in the Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol region o ...

::1st

Young rider classification : 4th Overall

Four Days of Dunkirk The Four Days of Dunkirk (french: Quatre Jours de Dunkerque) is road bicycle race around the Nord-Pas de Calais region of northern France. Despite the name of the race, since the addition of an individual time trial in 1963, the race has been h ...

: 5th Milano–Torino : 5th Gran Piemonte : 7th Circuito de Getxo : 8th Overall Monviso-Venezia ::1st Jersey white

Young rider classification ::1st Stage 5 : 8th Trofeo Matteotti : 9th GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano ;2013 : 3rd La Flèche Wallonne : 4th Liège–Bastogne–Liège : 5th Overall Giro d'Italia ::1st Jersey white

Young rider classification : 7th Overall Tour of the Basque Country ;2014 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall

Paris–Nice Paris–Nice is a professional cycling stage race in France, held annually since 1933. Raced over eight days, the race usually starts with a prologue in the Paris region and ends with a final stage either in Nice or on the Col d'Èze overlookin ...

::1st

Young rider classification ::1st Stages 5 & 6 : 1st Jersey yellow

Overall Tour du Haut Var ::1st Jersey green

Points classification ::1st Stage 1 ;2016 : 1st Stage 2 Vuelta a Asturias : 9th Overall Vuelta a Castilla y León ::1st Stage 1 ;2018 : 4th Klasika Primavera : 5th GP Miguel Induráin ;2019 : 1st Klasika Primavera : 8th Overall Tour de Suisse

General classification results timeline

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Betancur, Carlos 1989 births Living people Colombian male cyclists Cyclists from Antioquia Department