Rafael Valls

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Rafael Valls
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Valls at the 2015 Tour de France.
Personal information
Full nameRafael Valls Ferri
Born (1987-06-25) 25 June 1987 (age 36)
Cocentaina, Spain
Height1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight64 kg (141 lb)
Team information
Current team Team Jayco–AlUla
DisciplineRoad
Role
Rider typeClimber
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
Tour of Oman (2015)

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.

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Following his retirement, Valls now works as a directeur sportif for UCI WorldTeam Team Jayco–AlUla. [6]

Career

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]

Major results

Source: [13]

2005
3rd Time trial, National Junior Road Championships
2008
9th Overall Grand Prix du Portugal
2009
4th Overall Circuito Montañés
10th Overall Tour de l'Avenir
2010
2nd Trofeo Inca
3rd Overall Tour de San Luis
1st Jersey red.svg Mountains classification
1st Stage 2
9th Trofeo Deia
2014
8th Overall Settimana Internazionale di Coppi e Bartali
2015
1st Jersey red.svg Overall Tour of Oman
1st Stage 4
8th Overall Paris–Nice
8th Overall Volta a Catalunya
2016
8th Overall Tour Down Under
2017
7th Overall Tour Down Under
10th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné
2019
1st Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia
2020
9th Overall Route d'Occitanie

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour 201020112012201320142015201620172018201920202021
Jersey pink.svg Giro d'Italia DNF 29 DNF 96
Jersey yellow.svg Tour de France 53 41 DNF 78 DNF
Jersey red.svg Vuelta a España DNF 43
Legend
Did not compete
DNF Did not finish

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