Daniel Navarro García (born 18 July 1983) is a Spanish former professional road bicycle racer, who competed as a professional from 2005 to 2023.
Career
Navarro was born in Salamanca.Palmarés de Dani Navarro Having been one of Alberto Contador's domestiques for most of his career, he left at the end of the 2012 season, and joined on a two-year contract from the 2013 season onwards. In 2013, Navarro won the Vuelta a Murcia and later had his first top ten grand tour finish, finishing 9th overall in the Tour de France. He had to abandon the 2014 Tour de France due to some intense stomach pain. At the 2014 Vuelta a España, he obtained the biggest victory of his career on Stage 13, a medium-mountain stage. He went on to finish 10th overall that year.
In August 2018, after six years away from the World Tour, announced that they had signed Navarro on a two-year deal from 2019, with a role as a climbing domestique for Ilnur Zakarin as well as having the opportunity to ride for himself on occasions. folded at the end of 2019, but the second year of Navarro's contract was honoured by , who took over the UCI WorldTeam licence. He left the team following the 2020 season, remaining without a team until the following March, when he signed for . He remained with the team through to 2023, when he announced his retirement from the sport.
Major results Source:
2001 2nd Road race, National Junior Road Championships 2004 5th Overall Circuito Montañés 2008 4th Overall Deutschland Tour 5th Overall Volta a Catalunya 2009 7th Gran Premio di Lugano 9th Overall Tour de l'Ain 2010 1st Stage 5 Critérium du Dauphiné 2012 3rd Overall Tour de l'Ain 1st Stage 3 3rd Overall Tour Méditerranéen 2013 1st Vuelta a Murcia 5th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné 9th Overall Tour de France 10th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía 2014 8th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía 9th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné 10th Overall Vuelta a España 1st Stage 13 10th Vuelta a Murcia 2016 9th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía 9th Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana 9th Vuelta a Murcia 2017 8th Boucles de l'Aulne Combativity award Stage 19 Vuelta a España 2018 2nd Overall Route d'Occitanie 7th Overall Tour of Oman 9th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné 2021 10th Overall Volta ao Algarve Combativity award Stage 14 Vuelta a España 2023 1st Stage 1a (TTT) GP Beiras e Serra da Estrela
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
Grand Tour 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 Giro d'Italia 90 — — 30 — 43 — — — — — — — DNF 48 — — — Tour de France — DNF — — 48 63 — 9 DNF 66 DNF 27 45 — — — — — / Vuelta a España — — — 13 — — 55 — 10 30 — 81 — 40 — 24 44 39
+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish
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