LOYAL SUPPORT. After his 2021 season was severely hampered by health issues and injuries, 2022 was a more conventional, trouble-free season for Austrian Gregor Mühlberger, who was able to complete his expected program. A committed domestique for Enric Mas at Le Tour and La Vuelta, he notably featured in the breaks at both races, towards Mende in the ‘Grande Boucle’ and quite active on the Vivero climbs around Bilbao in Spain, where he also tried to help out Enric on his final attempt to dethrone Evenepoel at the Sierra de Guadarrama. His calendar from last season, made almost entirely of WorldTour stageraces, speaks loads about his current role within the team: being by the side of his leaders at the key events.
A REINFORCEMENT FOR THE TOUGHEST RACES. Aged 28, Gregor is currently at the peak of maturity in his professional career, with already six seasons of WorldTour experience on his shoulders. He’s a really talented rider for tough courses, both mountain stages and hilly roads, as well as one to rely on for one-day events. Supported by Patxi Vila, who knows him well and really appreciates his potential, he joins the Movistar Team after a successful 2020, conquering no less than the first post-pandemic stagerace -the Sibiu Tour (2.1), where he was the strongest uphill- and shining on the attack in Mallorca -2nd behind Soler in Andratx- against the riders who are now his team-mates.
FROM SNOW TO ASPHALT. Gregor took up riding bikes really early, at just five years of age, when his dad, Erwin, bought him his first mountain bike. It wasn’t the only sport he practised, as he combined cycling with ski until age 15. He soon made his name into the Central European / U23 calendar with a couple Conti outfits from his home country -already coming close to the Austrian road race title, which he would go on to conquer in 2017-, and with just 21 years old, he took the leap towards the Bora squad, which was itself going up on their way to the WorldTour. There, he competed at six Grand Tours -including spectacular performances in the 2019 TDF- at took, other than Sibiu, two more wins: the 2017 Rund um Köln and a stage of the 2018 BinckBank Tour.
