Introduction
Pablo Lastras García (born 20 January 1976 in Madrid) is a Spanish former racing cyclist who rode for Spanish UCI ProTour team Movistar Team.
Lastras won a stage in the 2003 Tour de France and picked up two stages in the 2002 Vuelta a España. In 2005 he won stage 8 at Tour de Suisse. He also won the Vuelta a Burgos in 2003. His idols are Bernard Hinault and Miguel Indurain. He has a resting heart rate of 45bpm, and is 1.83m tall weighs 68 kg. In 2007 the team Caisse d'Epargne had announced that they would let him go, but after a stage win in Eneco Tour his contract was renewed for another year. Lastras had later success in overall classification in Vuelta a Andalucía and second place in the Giro d'Italia stage. In 2011, Lastras won stage 3 of La Vuelta de Espana.
After 18 years as a professional, in October 2015 Lastras announced that he had retired from racing after struggling to recover from pelvic injuries he had sustained in a crash at the Volta a Catalunya in March of that year. He competed in a total of 17 Grand Tours and 29 classics, and took a total of 13 professional victories. Following his recovery from his accident, in October 2016 it was announced that Lastras would return to Movistar as part of the squad's management team from 2017, becoming a directeur sportif.
Career achievements
Major results
- 1999
- 1st Stage 2a Troféu Joaquim Agostinho
- 1st Stage 12 Volta a Portugal
- 2000
- 10th Overall GP do Minho
- 1st Stage 4
- 2001
- 1st Memorial Manuel Galera
- 1st Stage 11 Giro d'Italia
- 1st Stage 4 (TTT) Volta a Portugal
- 3rd Overall GP CTT Correios de Portugal
- 3rd Giro della Toscana
- 9th Overall Tour de l'Avenir
- 2002
- Vuelta a España
- 1st Stages 9 & 11
- 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Volta a Portugal
- 7th Clásica de Almería
- 7th Giro di Lombardia
- 2003
- 1st Overall Vuelta a Burgos
- 1st Stage 18 Tour de France
- 1st Stage 2 (TTT) Vuelta a Castilla y León
- 4th Milano–Torino
- 2004
- 6th Subida al Naranco
- 9th Overall Volta a Catalunya
- 1st Stage 1 (TTT)
- 10th Trofeo Luis Puig
- 2005
- 1st Stage 8 Tour de Suisse
- 4th Japan Cup
- 2006
- 4th Clásica de los Puertos
- 6th Overall Escalada a Montjuïc
- 10th Overall Deutschland Tour
- 2007
- 1st Stage 6 Eneco Tour
- 6th Overall Tour de Pologne
- 2008
- 1st Overall Vuelta a Andalucía
- 2009
- 5th Trofeo Calvia
- 5th Japan Cup
- 8th Paris–Tours
- 9th Overall Tour de Pologne
- 10th Giro del Piemonte
- 2010
- 3rd Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia
- 3rd Giro di Lombardia
- 2011
- 1st Stage 3 Vuelta a España
- 3rd Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia
- 7th Overall Vuelta a Burgos
- 1st Stage 3 (TTT)
- 2014
- 7th Overall Tour de Wallonie
- 9th Vuelta a La Rioja
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
| Grand Tour | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Giro d'Italia
|
49 | — | — | — | — | — | 42 | 64 | 45 | 113 | 38 | DNF | 85 |
 Tour de France
|
— | — | 67 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
 Vuelta a España
|
— | 17 | 55 | 38 | 19 | 48 | — | — | — | — | 44 | 74 | DNF |
| — | Did not compete |
|---|---|
| DNF | Did not finish |