Marc Soler
Marc Soler Giménez (born 22 November 1993) is a Spanish cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam UAE Team Emirates.
_(cropped).jpg.webp) Soler at the 2018 Tour de France | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Marc Soler Giménez |
| Born | November 22, 1993 Vilanova i la Geltru, Spain |
| Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)[1] |
| Weight | 68 kg (150 lb; 10 st 10 lb)[1] |
| Team information | |
| Current team | UAE Team Emirates |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | Climber |
| Amateur team | |
| 2012–2014 | Lizarte |
| Professional teams | |
| 2015–2021 | Movistar Team[2][3][4] |
| 2022– | UAE Team Emirates |
| Major wins | |
| Grand Tours | |
Career
Soler was born in Vilanova i la Geltru. In 2017, Soler finished third overall behind team mate Alejandro Valverde and Alberto Contador in the Volta a Catalunya, winning the young rider's classification. Later that year was named in the startlist for the Vuelta a España.[5]
In March 2018, he won the Paris–Nice stage race.[6][7] Having started the final stage 37 seconds down on race leader Simon Yates (Mitchelton–Scott) in sixth place overall, Soler attacked around halfway into the stage along with compatriot David de la Cruz (Team Sky); the duo joined Omar Fraile (Astana) at the head of the race, and the trio managed to stay clear of the rest of the field by the time they reached Nice. As de la Cruz and Fraile contested stage honours, Soler finished third – acquiring four bonus seconds on the finish in addition to three gained at an earlier intermediate sprint – and with a 35-second gap to Yates and the remaining general classification contenders, it was enough to give Soler victory over Yates by four seconds.
In June 2021, Soler was forced to abandon the 2021 Tour de France, after being involved in a crash on the opening stage and suffering fractures to both arms' radial heads and his left ulnar head.[8]
Major results
- 2013
- 1st Stage 3 Vuelta a Palencia
- 2014
- 1st Soraluzeko Saria
- 1st Ereñoko Udala Sari Nagusia
- 1st Grand Prix Kutxabank
- 1st Memorial Cirilo Zunzarren
- 1st Stage 3 Vuelta a Zamora
- 3rd Time trial, National Under-23 Road Championships
- 2015
- 1st
Overall Tour de l'Avenir - 6th Klasika Primavera
- 2016 (1 pro win)
- 2nd Overall Route du Sud
- 1st
Young rider classification - 1st Stage 4
- 1st
- 7th Circuito de Getxo
- 2017
- 3rd Overall Volta a Catalunya
- 1st Young rider classification
- 1st
- 4th Time trial, National Road Championships
- 5th GP Miguel Induráin
- 8th Overall Tour de Suisse
Combativity award Stage 9 Vuelta a España- 2018 (1)
- 1st Overall Paris–Nice
- 1st Young rider classification
- 1st
- 3rd Overall Vuelta a Andalucía
- 5th Overall Volta a Catalunya
- 6th Overall Vuelta a Aragón
- 6th GP Miguel Induráin
- 2019
- 8th Overall Vuelta a Aragón
- 9th Overall Vuelta a España
- 2020 (2)
- 1st Pollença–Andratx
- Vuelta a España
- 1st Stage 2
Combativity award Stages 11, 14 & 17
- 8th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía
- 2021 (1)
- 4th Overall Tour de Romandie
- 1st Stage 3
- 2022 (1)
- Vuelta a España
- 1st Stage 5
- Combativity award Stage 5 & Overall
- 7th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
- 2023
- 4th Overall Volta a Catalunya
General classification results timeline
| Grand Tour general classification results | |||||||||
| Grand Tour | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Giro d'Italia |
— | — | — | — | — | — | DNF | — | — |
| Tour de France |
— | — | — | 62 | 37 | 21 | DNF | DNF | 56 |
 Vuelta a España |
— | — | 48 | — | 9 | 18 | — | 27 | 14 |
| Major stage race general classification results | |||||||||
| Stage race | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
| Paris–Nice |
— | — | 24 | 1 | 50 | — | — | — | — |
 Tirreno–Adriatico |
— | — | — | — | — | — | 11 | 15 | — |
 Volta a Catalunya |
DNF | DNF | 3 | 5 | DNF | NH | 76 | DNF | 4 |
| Tour of the Basque Country |
— | — | — | — | — | — | 7 | DNF | |
| Tour de Romandie |
— | — | — | — | — | 4 | — | — | |
 Critérium du Dauphiné |
— | 79 | — | 16 | — | DNF | — | — | — |
| Tour de Suisse |
— | — | 8 | — | 12 | NH | 79 | DNF | — |
| — | Did not compete |
|---|---|
| DNF | Did not finish |
| NH | Not held |
References
- "Marc Soler". Movistar Team. Movistar Team. Retrieved 6 July 2019.
- "Movistar Team launches 2019 season with highest hopes". Telefónica. Telefónica, S.A. 18 December 2018. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
- "Movistar Team ready to open new era in 2020". Movistar Team. Abarca Sports SL. 19 December 2019. Retrieved 3 January 2020.
- "Movistar Team". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 1 January 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- "2017 > 72nd Vuelta a España > Startlist". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 17 August 2017.
- "Marc Soler grabs Paris-Nice title by four seconds from Simon Yates on final stage". Cycling Weekly. 11 March 2018. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
- "Marc Soler upsets Simon Yates to win Paris-Nice by 4 seconds". Washington Post. Retrieved 11 March 2018.
- "Twitter Movistar Team". Twitter. Retrieved 2021-06-27.
