Pello Bilbao

Pello Bilbao López de Armentia turned professional with the Euskaltel-Euskadi team in 2011 and taking his first professional victory in the Klasika Primavera de Amorebieta in 2014 after moving to the Pro Continental team Caja Rural-Seguros RGA. He spent three seasons with the team, racing his first Grand Tour at the Vuelta a España and finding success at lower-level races like Tour de Beauce, Tour of Turkey, Vuelta a Castilla y Leon.

He returned to the WorldTour with Astana in 2017, making his Giro d'Italia debut and emerging as a general classification contender the next year with top 10s in the overall in the Itzulia Basque Country and Giro d'Italia, and winning his first WorldTour stage at the Critérium du Dauphiné in 2018.

Bilbao won his first two stages of the Giro d'Italia in 2019 before transferring to Bahrain Victorious for the next season. A top five in the Giro in 2020 earned him a bid for his Tour de France debut in 2021, where he finished ninth overall. He won his first Tour de France stage in 2023 from the late breakaway on stage 10.

Key results

-2x stage Giro d'Italia (2019)

-1x stage Tour de France (2023)

-1x stage Criterium du Dauphiné (2018)