Eloy Teruel Rovira (born 20 November 1982) is a Spanish cyclist. At the
2012 Summer Olympics, he competed for
Spain
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in the
men's omnium. He signed with the for the 2013 road season, and joined for the 2014 season. As a rider for the Jamis team at the prestigious
Tour of California
The Tour of California (officially sponsored as the Amgen Tour of California) was an annual professional road cycling stage race on the UCI World Tour and USA Cycling Professional Tour that ran from 2006 to 2019. It was the only event on the ...
, Eloy gained widespread coverage for celebrating what he believed to be a victory in the 7th stage, a lap before the end of the race; he ended up 56th.
Major results
;2005
:2nd Gran Premio Ciudad de Vigo
;2007
: 7th
Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia
Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia – Clásica de Ordizia is a Spanish professional cycle road race held in Ordizia, Basque Country. The first edition was held in 1922. Since 2005, the race has been organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour ...
;2013
: 2nd
Points race
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Sports
Competitions
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,
UCI Track World Championships
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: 3rd
Points race,
UEC European Track Championships
The European Track Cycling Championships are a set of elite level competition events held annually for the various disciplines and distances in track cycling, exclusively for European cyclists, and regulated by the European Cycling Union (UEC ...
;2014
: 2nd
Scratch race,
UEC European Track Championships
The European Track Cycling Championships are a set of elite level competition events held annually for the various disciplines and distances in track cycling, exclusively for European cyclists, and regulated by the European Cycling Union (UEC ...
: 3rd
Points race
A points race is a mass start track cycling event involving large numbers of riders simultaneously on track. It was an Olympic
Olympic or Olympics may refer to
Sports
Competitions
* Olympic Games, international multi-sport event held since 18 ...
,
UCI Track World Championships
The UCI Track Cycling World Championships are the set of world championship events for the various disciplines and distances in track cycling. They are regulated by the Union Cycliste Internationale. Before 1900, they were administered by the UCI ...
;2015
: 2nd
Points race
A points race is a mass start track cycling event involving large numbers of riders simultaneously on track. It was an Olympic
Olympic or Olympics may refer to
Sports
Competitions
* Olympic Games, international multi-sport event held since 18 ...
,
UCI Track World Championships
The UCI Track Cycling World Championships are the set of world championship events for the various disciplines and distances in track cycling. They are regulated by the Union Cycliste Internationale. Before 1900, they were administered by the UCI ...
;2019
: 5th
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, National Road Championships
References
External links
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Spanish male cyclists
Living people
Olympic cyclists for Spain
Cyclists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Spanish track cyclists
1982 births
Sportspeople from Murcia
Cyclists from the Region of Murcia
Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
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