- Place: Ses Salines, Mallorca
- Birth: 15/10/1989
- Country: ESP
- Height: 181 Cm
- Weight: 69 Kg
- Pro debut: 2009
- Career path:
2014-2018: Caja Rural
2009-2013: Burgos
Lluís Mas
SAFEGUARD AND SACRIFICE. Lluís Mas joins the Movistar Team to protect the team’s main leaders at the toughest days of wind, bad weather and high speeds, also adding strength to the TTT lineups that often play a crucial factor in Grand Tour success. Those are the main goals the Mallorca native has set on himself as he lands in the WorldTour in 2019. A real powerhouse, a very courageous rider with amazing physical skills, his commitment will surely help the Blues at flat stages, and even at fast-paced finishes, where he also finds himself comfortable at.
DREAMING OF THE CLASSICS. Mas has always felt he had a place in the cobblestone races, and stepping onto the WorldTour with the Movistar Team jersey will finally grant him that chance: riding the spring classics. He describes this signing as “a dream”, which he started to live as he arrived in Gorraiz to join the rest of the team – and a neighbor, Mavi García. She was one of the people most supportive about his addition to thye team, and made him realise that the group managed by Eusebio Unzué would offer him all chances he deserved to “keep on growing as a rider.”
SEASONED AND CONSISTENT. Aged 28, he’s got already ten years of professional experience under his belt, the last five (since 2014) with Caja Rural. Called up for the 2015 and 2017 World road race Championships, as well as 7th-placed in his only U23 ITT Worlds appearance (Copenhagen, 2011), Mas has one UCI stage victory to his name in the 2015 Tour of Turkey, where he derailed the trains leading up to a sprint finish in Istanbul with a powerful attack, which saw him outclassing the likes of Mark Cavendish and Alessandro Petacchi. In 2018, his best result was a 10th spot at the Spanish ITT Champs.
Mas pours his heart out for his 3-year-old son, also called Lluís. His family and animals are his way of chilling out in between races.
A talkative, affable, jolly guy, his presence acts as relief for stressed-out groups in crucial races like a Vuelta a España. He once uploaded a video on social media showing how he stored his helmet into a fridge to protect himself from Andalusia’s heat in the summer.
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- His stage win in the Tour of Turkey.
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- At a time trial, one of his best skills.
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- Alongside Soler and Valverde at the 2018 Catalunya podium.
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- With Mavi García, now a team-mate of him.
Palmares
1 Victories as professional
1st (8th stage) Tour of Turkey 2015
Results
2019
29 Days of Racing
4263.9 Km covered
12th Tour de la Provence
14th (3rd stage) Tour de la Provence
15th Down Under Classic
15th (5th stage) Tour Down Under
18th (2nd stage) Tour de la Provence
20th (1st stage) Tour de la Provence
21th (4th stage) Tour Down Under
22th (3rd stage) Tirreno-Adriatico
24th Tour Down Under
25th (1st stage) Tour Down Under
28th (6th stage) Tour Down Under
40th (4th stage) Tour de la Provence
41th (7th stage) UAE Tour
42th (3rd stage) Tour Down Under
42th (2nd stage) Tirreno-Adriatico
44th (1st stage) Challenge Mallorca
46th (4th stage) Challenge Mallorca
54th (6th stage) UAE Tour
58th UAE Tour
61th (3rd stage) UAE Tour
74th (4th stage) Tirreno-Adriatico
76th (2nd stage) UAE Tour
91th (4th stage) UAE Tour
93th Milano-Sanremo
97th (2nd stage) Tour Down Under
116th Dwars door Vlaanderen
123th Ronde van Vlaanderen
133th (5th stage) UAE Tour