Jorge Adelbio Soto Pereira (born 8 August 1986, in Salto, Uruguay) is a Uruguayan

road bicycle racer 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 ...

and

track cyclist Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using purpose-designed track bicycles. History Track cycling has been around since at least 1870. When track cycling was in its infancy, it ...

. He has won several stages of both Rutas de América as

Vuelta Ciclista del Uruguay The Vuelta Ciclista del Uruguay is a stage cycling race held annually in Uruguay. It was created in 1939 and is part of the UCI America Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in ...

. In 2005, he received a grant for a month in Switzerland in the World Cycling Centre of the UCI to improve his performance, which ultimately became more than a year. Soto represented Uruguay at the

2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

in the Men's road race. He won the Rutas de América in 2011 and 2012.

Major results

;2005 : 1st Stage 3 Rutas de América : Pan American Under-23 Road Championships ::2nd Silver medal america

Road race ::2nd Silver medal america

Time trial ;2008 : 1st Stage 5 Vuelta del Uruguay : 10th Time trial,

Pan American Road Championships The Pan American Road Championships are the continental cycling championships for road bicycle racing held annually for member nations of the Pan American Cycling Confederation. Riders competing in the Pan American Cycling Championships are sel ...

;2009 : 6th Overall Vuelta del Uruguay ::1st Stages 6 & 8 ;2010 : 1st MaillotUruguay

Time trial, National Road Championships : 3rd Overall Vuelta del Paraguay ::1st Stage 1 (

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) : 9th Overall Rutas de América ::1st Stage 4 ;2011 : 1st Overall Rutas de América ::1st Stage 5b (ITT) : 3rd Overall Vuelta del Uruguay ;2012 : 1st MaillotUruguay

Time trial, National Road Championships : 1st Overall Rutas de América ::1st Points classification ::1st Mountains classification ::1st Stage 2 : 4th Time trial,

: 6th

Copa América de Ciclismo The Copa América de Ciclismo is a single-day road bicycle racing event held in Brazil. From 2001 to 2007 and in 2009 it took place at Autódromo José Carlos Pace, in São Paulo. The 2008 edition was held in a street circuit around Flamengo Pa ...

;2013 : 1st MaillotUruguay

Time trial, National Road Championships ;2014 : 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships : 10th Overall Vuelta del Uruguay ::1st Stage 12 ;2015 : 1st Stage 4 Rutas de América ;2019 : 1st MaillotUruguay

Time trial, National Road Championships ;2021 : 5th Road race, National Road Championships ;2022 : 1st Stages 3 & 5 Vuelta del Uruguay

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* 1986 births Living people Sportspeople from Salto, Uruguay Uruguayan track cyclists Olympic cyclists for Uruguay Cyclists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Uruguayan male cyclists {{Uruguay-cycling-bio-stub