19 Facts About Esteban Chaves

Esteban Chaves is a two-time grand tour podium finisher, and a monument winner.

Esteban Chaves had been part of the breakaway on the first road stage of the race, taking the mountains jersey after the stage.

Esteban Chaves surrendered that lead to Garikoitz Bravo the next day, but reclaimed the lead on the third stage, having led the field over the Grand Ballon.

Bravo took the lead again after the fourth stage until the end of the race, but Esteban Chaves moved into contention for the overall honours with several top-ten stage finishes, and trailed race leader David Boily by seven seconds before the final stage, in Alba, Italy.

Esteban Chaves was part of a four-rider breakaway that moved clear of the field after the penultimate climb, and although he was beaten to the line by Warren Barguil and Mattia Cattaneo, Esteban Chaves's third place, coupled with a 24-second time gap to the field, allowed him to win the race by 17 seconds.

Esteban Chaves continued his form into the Vuelta a Burgos, where he won the final stage of the race.

Team Sky team-mates Rigoberto Uran and Sergio Henao animated the field on the final climb to Lagunas de Neila, and only Esteban Chaves was able to follow the pair; Esteban Chaves ultimately beat his former team-mate to take his first professional victory on the line, and allowed him to finish the race in third place overall.

Esteban Chaves suffered severe injuries in a crash at the Trofeo Laigueglia in February 2013.

At the Vuelta a Espana, Esteban Chaves won stage 2 by outsprinting Tom Dumoulin and Nicolas Roche at the summit of the final third category climb of Caminito del Rey.

Esteban Chaves lost the race lead on stage 5, as he was caught out in a split in the peloton at the finish and dropped 6 seconds to Dumoulin.

However, on stage 6 Esteban Chaves attacked 2 kilometres from the summit of the final climb to Sierra de Cazorla and held off Dan Martin and Dumoulin by five seconds for his second stage win and retake the race lead.

Esteban Chaves eventually finished the Vuelta in fifth place overall.

Esteban Chaves struggled at the event, eventually finishing 62nd in the general classification, almost two-and-a-half hours down on winner Chris Froome.

Esteban Chaves returned to the Vuelta a Espana later in the year.

Esteban Chaves showed good form in the opening stages, but later slipped back to finish eleventh overall.

Esteban Chaves started his 2018 campaign at the Cadel Evans Great Ocean Road Race, before starting the Herald Sun Tour.

Esteban Chaves broke away from the peloton at the final ascent of the penultimate stage, taking the victory and the lead in the overall classification.

Esteban Chaves held on to his lead to win the event overall the next day, his second victory in a stage race.

Esteban Chaves rode the Giro d'Italia as his season highlight, winning stage 6.