Juan José Lobato

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Lobato and the second or maternal family name is del Valle.
Juan José Lobato
Lobato in 2016.
Personal information
Full nameJuan José Lobato del Valle
NicknameJuanjo
Born (1988-12-30) 30 December 1988 (age 35)
Trebujena, Andalusia, Spain
Height1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight64 kg (141 lb)
Team information
Current teamRetired
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeSprinter
Amateur teams
2006Huevar–Aljarafe
2007Würth
2008Cantabria Infinita
2009Cueva El Soplao
2010Andalucía–Cajasur amateur
2010Andalucía–Cajasur (stagiaire)
Professional teams
2011–2012Andalucía–Caja Granada
2013Euskaltel–Euskadi
2014–2016Movistar Team[1]
2017LottoNL–Jumbo[2]
2018–2019Nippo–Vini Fantini–Europa Ovini[3][4]
2020–2023Fundación–Orbea[5][6][7]

Juan José Lobato del Valle (born 30 December 1988) is a Spanish former professional road racing cyclist, who competed as a professional from 2011 to 2023.

Career

Lobato joined the Movistar Team for the 2014 season,[1] after his previous team – Euskaltel–Euskadi[8] – folded at the end of the 2013 season.[1] He then went on to sign a 2-year contract with LottoNL–Jumbo starting 2017.[2] In December 2017, Lobato's contract was terminated, for possession of sleeping pills during a pre-season training camp – violating the team's internal rules.[9]

He joined Nippo–Vini Fantini–Europa Ovini during the 2018 season, remaining until the end of 2019,[4] before joining Fundación–Orbea for the 2020 season.[5]

Major results

2006
1st Road race, National Junior Road Championships
2010
9th Road race, UCI Under-23 Road World Championships
2011
1st Circuito de Getxo
7th Trofeo Mallorca
10th Clásica de Almería
2012
Vuelta Ciclista de Chile
1st Stages 2 & 10
1st Stage 5 Tour of Qinghai Lake
2013
1st Circuito de Getxo
1st Stage 2 Vuelta a Castilla y León
4th Clásica de Almería
6th Vuelta a La Rioja
2014
1st Stage 1 Vuelta a Burgos
2nd Overall Tour de Wallonie
1st Stage 3
2nd Clásica de Almería
4th Gran Premio Nobili Rubinetterie
4th Milan–San Remo
8th Vattenfall Cyclassics
2015
Vuelta a Andalucía
1st Stages 2 & 5
1st Stage 2 Tour Down Under
2nd Down Under Classic
2nd Circuito de Getxo
2nd Clásica de Almería
3rd Overall Dubai Tour
4th Gran Premio Nobili Rubinetterie
2016
1st Overall Vuelta a la Comunidad de Madrid
1st Points classification
1st Stage 1
3rd Overall Dubai Tour
1st Stage 3
3rd Overall Circuit de la Sarthe
1st Stage 4
4th Gran Piemonte
2017
1st Stage 1 Tour de l'Ain
6th Eschborn–Frankfurt – Rund um den Finanzplatz
2018
1st Coppa Sabatini
4th Coppa Bernocchi
4th Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli
5th Brussels Cycling Classic
10th Eschborn–Frankfurt
2019
6th Overall Tour de Korea
10th Overall Tour de Hokkaido
1st Points classification
2020
7th Trofeo Playa de Palma
9th Clásica de Almería
2021
1st Stage 1 Volta ao Alentejo
7th Trofeo Calvià
10th Clàssica Comunitat Valenciana 1969
2022
1st Stage 5 Volta ao Alentejo

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021
A pink jersey Giro d'Italia — — — — DNF — — — 134 — —
A yellow jersey Tour de France — — 165 — — — — — — — —
A red jersey Vuelta a España DNF 174 — — — — 112 — — — 136

References

  1. ^ a b c Farrand, Stephen (28 October 2013). "Movistar sign sprinter Juanjo Lobato for 2014". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
  2. ^ a b "Juan Jose Lobato signs for LottoNL-Jumbo". Cyclingnews.com. 1 August 2016. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
  3. ^ "Lobato given second chance by Nippo–Vini Fantini". Cyclingnews.com. 23 February 2018. Retrieved 1 March 2018.
  4. ^ a b "Nippo-Fantini-Faizanè, 17 uomini in organico nel 2019" [Nippo-Fantini-Faizanè, 17 men on roster in 2019]. SpazioCiclismo – Cyclingpro.net (in Italian). Gravatar. 28 November 2018. Retrieved 22 January 2019.
  5. ^ a b "Fundacion – Orbea". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 24 December 2019. Retrieved 24 December 2019.
  6. ^ "Euskaltel – Euskadi". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 7 June 2020. Retrieved 7 June 2020.
  7. ^ "Euskaltel – Euskadi". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 6 January 2021. Retrieved 6 January 2021.
  8. ^ Brown, Gregor (10 December 2012). "Euskaltel to sell team vehicles to balance books". Cycling Weekly. IPC Media Ltd. Retrieved 5 January 2013. It signed 11 new cyclists: Jon Aberasturi Izaga (Spain), Garikoitz Bravo Oiarbide (Spain), Juan Jose Lobato Del Valle (Spain), Tarik Chaoufi (Morocco), Jure Kocjan (Slovenia), Robert Vrečer (Slovenia), Ricardo Jorge Correia Mestre (Portugal), Steffen Radochla (Germany), André Schulze (Germany), Alexander Serebryakov (Russia) and Ioannis Tamouridis (Greece).
  9. ^ Benson, Daniel (18 December 2017). "LottoNL-Jumbo fire Lobato after sleep medication fiasco". Cyclingnews.com. Retrieved 3 January 2018.