Francisco Mancebo Perez

  • Age: 37
  • Born: Madrid, SPN

Mancebo can climb like a billy goat and is always a contender on a TT machine

Undoubtedly the most accomplished rider aboard the Competitive Cyclist Pro Racing Team, Francisco Mancebo’s skills on a bicycle are quite simply jaw-dropping. Mancebo has raced (and finished) all three Grand Tours, including seven Tour de France appearances, where he managed to place in the top ten a remarkable five times. Mancebo was even awarded the Maillot Blanc (Best Young Rider) in the 2000 Tour de France.

Other notable palmarès include two Vuelta a España GC podium finishes, a Tour of Utah win, and a 2004 Spanish National Championship victory. Known primarily as a stage-race specialist, Mancebo can climb like a billy goat and is always a contender on a TT machine.

Racing professionally since 1998, Mancebo has been a familiar face in the pro peloton, and has donned kits from such teams as Banesto, Illes Balears-Caisse d’pargne, Ag2r Prevoyance, Rock Racing and Canyon Bicycles throughout wildly successful his career.

Career highlights pre-2012

  • (2005) 4th Overall Tour de France
  • (2004) 1st Spanish National Road Race Championships
  • (2004) 3rd Overall Vuelta a España
(2003) 1st Overall Vuelta a Castilla y León (2000) 1st Best Young Rider Competition Tour de France (White Jersey) 2009 1st Stage #1 Tour of Utah 1st Overall Tour of Utah 1st Stage #4 Vuelta a Asturias 1st Overall Vuelta a Asturias 1st Stage #2 Amgen Tour of California 2nd KOM Competition Vuelta a Asturias 2nd KOM Competition Tour of Utah 2nd KOM Competition Vuelta a Chihuahua 2nd Overall Cascade Cycling Classic 2nd Stage #13 Vuelta Pilsen a Colombia 2nd Stage #2 Tour of Utah 3rd Stage #4 Tour of Utah 3rd Stage #1 Cascade Cycling Classic 3rd Stage #2 Cascade Cycling Classic 3rd Stage #4 Cacade Cycling Classic 3rd Stage #4 Volta ao Alentejo em Bicicleta 4th Stage #7 Vuelta Pilsen a Colombia 4th Stage #12 Vuelta Pilsen a Colombia 4th Stage #14 Vuelta Pilsen a Colombia 4th prologue Vuelta a Chihuahua 4th Spanish National Time Trial Championships 5th Stage #5 Vuelta a Asturias 6th Stage #2 Vuelta a Asturias 6th Stage #3 Vuelta a Chihuahua 7th prologue Tour of Utah 9th Stage #3b Vuelta a Asturias 10th Stage #6 Cascade Cycling Classic 10th Stage #5 Tour of Utah 2008 1st Overall Vuelta Chihuahua Internacional 2nd Stage #2 Vuelta Chihuahua Internacional 2nd Stage #3 Vuelta a la Comunidad de Madrid 2nd Overall Vuelta a la Comunidad de Madrid 3rd Stage #3 Vuelta Chihuahua Internacional 3rd Stage #4 Vuelta Chihuahua Internacional 6th Spanish National Road Race Championships 6th Overall Volta a Portugal 2007 1st Overall Vuelta Chihuahua Internacional 3rd Overall Tour de San Luis 4th Stage #3 Tour de San Luis 7th prologue Tour de San Luis 8th Stage #4 Tour de San Luis 2006 3rd Stage #5 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré 4th Stage #1 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré 5th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré 6th Stage #7 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré