Valls at the 2015 Tour de France. | |
Personal information | |
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Full name | Rafael Valls Ferri |
Born | Cocentaina, Spain | 25 June 1987
Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) |
Weight | 64 kg (141 lb) |
Team information | |
Current team | Team Jayco–AlUla |
Discipline | Road |
Role |
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Rider type | Climber |
Amateur teams | |
2007 | Relax–GAM (stagiaire) |
2008 | Scott–American Beef (stagiaire) |
Professional teams | |
2009 | Burgos Monumental–Castilla y León |
2010–2011 | Footon–Servetto–Fuji |
2012–2013 | Vacansoleil–DCM [1] |
2014–2015 | Lampre–Merida |
2016–2017 | Lotto–Soudal |
2018–2019 | Movistar Team [2] [3] |
2020–2021 | Bahrain–McLaren [4] [5] |
Managerial team | |
2023– | Team Jayco–AlUla |
Major wins | |
Stage races |
Rafael Valls Ferri (born 25 June 1987) is a Spanish former professional road bicycle racer, who rode professionally between 2009 and 2021 for seven different teams. Valls took four victories during his professional career – a stage at the 2010 Tour de San Luis, a stage and the general classification at the 2015 Tour of Oman, and a win in the 2019 Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia one-day race.
Following his retirement, Valls now works as a directeur sportif for UCI WorldTeam Team Jayco–AlUla. [6]
Born in Cocentaina, Valls left Vacansoleil–DCM at the end of the 2013 season, and joined Lampre–Merida for the 2014 season. [7] In 2015, Valls had his biggest victory to that point by winning the Tour of Oman and its fourth stage. [8] In September 2015 it was announced that Valls would join Lotto–Soudal from 2016 on a two-year deal. [9] In August 2020, he was named in the startlist for the 2020 Tour de France. [10] However, he crashed on the opening stage, and abandoned the race. [11]
At the end of the following year, Valls retired from the sport, despite holding a contract until the end of the 2022 season. [12]
Source: [13]
Grand Tour | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
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![]() | — | DNF | — | 29 | — | — | — | — | DNF | — | — | 96 |
![]() | 53 | — | 41 | — | DNF | 78 | — | — | — | — | DNF | — |
![]() | — | — | DNF | 43 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
— | Did not compete |
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DNF | Did not finish |
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