Enric Mas Nicolau

Enric Mas Nicolau () (born 7 January 1995) is a Spanish racing cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam . He is a climber, and has finished in top 10 in world tour stage races, and has also won a stage at the Tour of the Basque Country.

Career

Mas was born in Artà, a small town of about 7,500 people, which is the administrative seat of Llevant, on the island of Majorca, one of the Balearic Islands of Spain.

Quick-Step Floors (2017–2019)

2017

On 19 July 2016, UCI World Tour team announced the signing of Mas for 2017 season. The 2017 season became the first season for Mas in the World Tour. His best result came at the Vuelta a Burgos, where he finished 2nd on the final stage and therefore finished 2nd overall. He was named in the startlist for the 2017 Vuelta a España. He won the Combativity Award on stages 6 and 20 at the Vuelta a España; on the penultimate stage to Angliru, Mas was in the breakaway and helped Alberto Contador win the stage.

2018

The 2018 season was Enric Mas's second on the World Tour, and his first top 10 result came at the Tour of the Basque Country. He won the final stage to Arrate, which was his first professional victory. He moved up to 6th place in the general classification after the last stage, which meant he got his first ever top 10 world tour stage race finish; he also won the young rider classification. He continued his form, 2 months later when he placed 4th overall at the Tour de Suisse, and won the Young rider classification. He also managed to finish 2nd on stage 5 behind Diego Ulissi.

At the Vuelta a España, Mas was outside top 10 before the last two stages of the second week. He finished 7th on the Stage to Las Praeres, and moved up to 8th place. On the following Stage to the Lakes of Covadonga, he finished 6th and moved up to 6th place. On the Time trial he once again showed he had great form when he finished 6th. He moved up another place in the general classification. The race visited a new climb Balcón de Bizkaia on Stage 17. Mas was the strongest of the General classification contenders, and moved up to 3rd position overall. However he dropped to 4th place on Stage 19 which visited Naturlandia, Andorra. At the start of Stage 20, the gap between him and the 3rd placed rider Steven Kruijswijk was only 17 seconds. He attacked on the final climb together with Miguel Ángel López and Simon Yates. Mas rode together to the finish line with Lopez and outsprinted him, to take his first stage victory in a Grand Tour. With his performance on stage 20, Mas moved from 4th to 2nd place overall in the Vuelta, finishing on the podium in just his second Grand Tour.

2019-2020

Mas earned top 10 places in both the 2019 Volta a Catalunya as well as the 2019 Tour de Suisse. In July 2019, he was named in the startlist for the 2019 Tour de France. He finished the race in 22nd place overall.

During the 2020 season he earned top 5 finishes in both the Tour and the Vuelta and won his second young rider competition in the latter. During that Vuelta he assisted Primož Roglič in securing his second title through the circumstances of the race situation. Richard Carapaz dropped Roglič on the final climb of the final mountain stage but Roglič was able to limit his losses by getting on the wheel of Mas and following him up the climb. Mas was fighting to gain time over Dan Martin and jump into 4th place in the overall standings.

2021

Mas rode in the 2021 Tour de France, which was marred by crashes and bad weather early in the race. He finished in 6th place overall, the highest placed rider on Movistar Team.

During the 2021 Vuelta a España Mas proved himself to be in very good form early in the race and the race eventually turned into a battle between Primož Roglič and him. By the end of the first week he was among the handful of riders within +1:00 of Roglič. After stage nine all of the other general classification riders had fallen behind and he was the only rider within a minute of Roglič being about +0:30 behind. Throughout the remainder of the race Mas was able to consistently stay with the Slovenian on most of the climbs. He lost time to Roglič on stage seventeen, which included a summit finish at Lagos de Covadonga, crossing the line with the surviving GC favorites about a minute and a half behind. On stage eighteen his teammate Miguel Ángel López attacked and won the stage. Mas did not join in this attack as he felt that if he also attacked Roglič would have gone with him. Stage twenty saw several highly placed riders lose considerable time when a gap formed between the GC riders. Mas was able to stay in the lead group and went into the final time trial about two and a half minutes behind Roglič, finishing in second overall.

Major results

;2012
: 1st Time trial, National Junior Road Championships
;2013
: 4th Time trial, National Junior Road Championships
;2014
: 4th Overall Course de la Paix Under–23
;2016
: 1st Overall Volta ao Alentejo
::1st Points classification
::1st Young rider classification
::1st Stage 2
: 1st Overall Tour de Savoie Mont-Blanc
::1st Points classification
::1st Young rider classification
: 2nd Overall Giro della Valle d'Aosta
::1st Points classification
: 6th Overall Carpathian Couriers Race
;2017
: 2nd Overall Vuelta a Burgos
::1st Young rider classification
: Vuelta a España
:: Combativity award Stages 6 & 20
;2018
: 2nd Overall Vuelta a España
::1st Young rider classification
::1st Stage 20
: 4th Overall Tour de Suisse
::1st Young rider classification
: 6th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
::1st Young rider classification
::1st Stage 6
;2019
: 1st Overall Tour of Guangxi
::1st Young rider classification
::1st Stage 4
: 4th Overall Volta ao Algarve
: 8th Clásica de San Sebastián
: 9th Overall Tour de Suisse
: 9th Overall Volta a Catalunya
: 10th Milano–Torino
: Tour de France
::Held after Stage 13
;2020
: 5th Overall Tour de France
: 5th Overall Vuelta a España
::1st Young rider classification
;2021
: 2nd Overall Vuelta a España
: 3rd Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
::1st Stage 3
: 3rd Mont Ventoux Dénivelé Challenge
: 6th Overall Tour de France
;2022
: 1st Giro dell'Emilia
: 2nd Overall Vuelta a España
: 2nd Giro di Lombardia
: 4th Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
: 7th Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana
: 9th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
: 9th Coppa Agostoni

General classification results timeline

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1995 births
Living people
Spanish Vuelta a España stage winners
Spanish male cyclists
Sportspeople from Mallorca
Cyclists from the Balearic Islands
20th-century Spanish people
21st-century Spanish people