48 Facts About Adam Yates

Adam Richard Yates was born on 7 August 1992 and is a British professional road and track racing cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam UAE Team Emirates XRG.

Adam Yates has taken more than twenty wins during his professional career, including overall victories at the 2021 Volta a Catalunya, the 2023 Tour de Romandie and the 2024 Tour de Suisse.

Adam Yates has won a stage at the Tour de France, in 2023, and the one-day races Clasica de San Sebastian and the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montreal.

Adam Yates grew up in Bury in Greater Manchester and attended Derby High School.

Whilst Simon was selected for the British Cycling Olympic Academy programme, Adam Yates pursued his road racing career in France with financial help from the Dave Rayner Fund.

Adam Yates finished second by just 55 seconds to Spanish rider Ruben Fernandez in the general classification of the 2013 Tour de l'Avenir while representing the British national team.

Adam Yates had been one of the team's protected riders for the general classification, along with his brother.

Adam Yates held the race lead until its conclusion in Istanbul two days later; he extended his lead by a further four seconds on the final stage, as there was a split on the run-in, with only a 28-rider group being given the same time as stage winner, Mark Cavendish.

Adam Yates finished fifth overall in the general classification, 2 minutes and 14 seconds behind the winner, Wiggins.

Adam Yates finished third on Stage 5 after launching a late attack with Wilco Kelderman, and again finished third on Stage 8, a mountain-top finish at Courchevel.

Adam Yates made the lead group at the Clasica de San Sebastian with Alejandro Valverde, Bauke Mollema, Joaquim Rodriguez and Mikel Nieve, but crashed heavily on a descent with 3.5 kilometres remaining, missing out on the chance of his first World Tour victory.

Adam Yates made his Grand Tour debut at the Vuelta a Espana, finishing 82nd overall.

Adam Yates finished seventh on Stage 8, which finished on the Mur-de-Bretagne, and seventh on the first mountain stage, Stage 10, which finished on the Col de la Pierre St Martin in the Pyrenees.

Adam Yates added a further top-10 stage finish at the Pra-Loup ski resort, as he finished 50th overall.

The week following the Tour de France, Adam Yates took his biggest victory to that point by winning the Clasica de San Sebastian one-day race, after attacking on the final climb as leader Greg Van Avermaet of BMC Racing Team was involved in a crash with a race motorcycle, and holding off the chasers on the descent into San Sebastian.

Adam Yates was selected to ride the Tour de France for the second successive year, with his season's best result to that point being a fourth-place overall finish at the Tour de Yorkshire.

Adam Yates suffered cuts to his chin requiring stitches, but after the stage results were revised to give him the 7 second advantage he had over the peloton with 3 kilometres to go, Adam Yates rose to second overall and took the white jersey as leader of the Young rider classification from Julian Alaphilippe.

On Stage 9, at the race's first mountain top finish in Andorra, Adam Yates finished tenth, leading home a select group of general classification contenders including Chris Froome, Nairo Quintana, Richie Porte and Dan Martin.

Adam Yates ultimately finished the Tour de France in 4th place, 21 seconds from a podium finish; he did win the white jersey with a margin of 2 minutes, 16 seconds over Louis Meintjes.

Adam Yates ran as high as third overall following the first summit finish at Mount Etna on stage four, but lost almost five minutes five stages later on the stage to Blockhaus following a crash with a police motorbike, and dropped outside of the top ten.

Adam Yates worked his way back up to eighth, but lost a position to Bob Jungels on the final day individual time trial, which determined the winner of the young rider classification.

Adam Yates came third on stage 16, having crashed while in the lead on the final descent and was passed by mountains jersey wearer Julian Alaphilippe.

Adam Yates then rode the Vuelta a Espana in support of his brother Simon Yates, with both riders competing at the same Grand Tour for just the third time.

Simon Adam Yates ultimately became the second British rider to win the race overall, finishing 1 minute, 46 seconds clear of second-placed Enric Mas.

Adam Yates finished second in the general classification at the 2019 Volta a Catalunya and won stage 3.

Adam Yates won the final stage of the Tour of the Basque Country following a 3.5-kilometre solo move, as he finished fifth overall and won the mountains classification.

Adam Yates led the Criterium du Dauphine for three days, and was within eight seconds of race leader Jakob Fuglsang going into the final day, but withdrew from the race due to illness.

Adam Yates then finished third on the fifth stage, which finished on the same climb, behind Tadej Pogacar and Alexey Lutsenko.

However, the race was then abandoned due to multiple positive tests for COVID-19, with Adam Yates designated as the winner.

Adam Yates held the lead for four days, before losing almost a minute on stage nine, ceding the jersey to Roglic; he ultimately finished the race in ninth place overall, his first top-ten finish at the race since 2016.

Adam Yates maintained second overall for the remainder of the race, despite a crash on the final day.

Adam Yates then contested the Volta a Catalunya, winning at the Vallter 2000 ski resort for the second time in as many editions of the race, to take a 45-second overall lead ahead of teammate Richie Porte.

Adam Yates held this lead over Porte for the remainder of the race, with Geraint Thomas ultimately completing a podium lockout for the Ineos Grenadiers.

Adam Yates recorded a fourth-place overall finish at the Tour of the Basque Country, but rode neither the Giro d'Italia nor the Tour de France, as his focus was on the Vuelta a Espana.

Adam Yates finished in ninth place in the road race at the COVID-19 pandemic-delayed Tokyo Olympics, as the last rider in the eight-rider chase group that determined the silver and bronze medals behind race winner Richard Carapaz.

Just as was the case in 2021, Adam Yates finished second to Tadej Pogacar at the UAE Tour, with a pair of second-place stage finishes on uphill finishes at Jebel Jais and Jebel Hafeet.

Adam Yates dropped from fifth to tenth in the Pyrenees over consecutive days due to sickness, but ultimately finished the race in ninth overall, following the disqualification of Nairo Quintana.

Adam Yates concluded the season with five one-day races in Canada and Italy, recording a best finish of fourth place at the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montreal.

Adam Yates transferred to UAE Team Emirates for the 2023 season, having signed a three-year contract with the team.

Adam Yates made his first start with the team at the UAE Tour, with two-time defending race winner Tadej Pogacar electing to ride in Spain instead.

Adam Yates won the final stage of the race, finishing at Jebel Hafeet; he moved up from tenth overall to a podium finish, exactly one minute behind race winner Remco Evenepoel.

Adam Yates then finished second overall at the Criterium du Dauphine, but was more than two minutes down on the race winner, Jonas Vingegaard.

Adam Yates held the race lead until stage five, when Jai Hindley took the jersey following a 20-kilometre solo move into Laruns.

Adam Yates dropped no lower than sixth overall during the race, and worked his way back up to third, following the race's only individual time trial in the Alps during the final week.

Adam Yates started the 2024 season with a campaign in the Middle East, where he won the fifth and final stage of the Tour of Oman, which moved him up from eighth to first overall.

Adam Yates next competed at the UAE Tour, but dropped out on stage three.

Adam Yates then came 6th overall at the Tour de France.

Adam Yates lost the jersey to Wout van Aert after stage 13, as van Aert was able to win several points in the category from the breakaway.