The Girona-born escape artist is Caja Rural through and through — seven seasons, one club, and a house-style of racing that means if there's a breakaway, Nicolau is probably in it. Fresh off silver at the Spanish road race championships in June, he wears the road captain's armband for the team's historic Tour debut.
Palmarès
- 2nd, Spanish national road race championships (2026)
- Mountains classification, Tour of Norway (2022, 2023)
- Mountains classification, Tour de Luxembourg (2022)
- Combativity awards at the Vuelta a España (2023, 2025)
- 4th overall CRO Race (2025)
Cut-out factHe has never ridden for another professional team — he came up through Caja Rural's own amateur squad — and has a habit of collecting Vuelta a España combativity prizes (2023 and 2025).
The squad
Riding the 2026 Tour with Fernando Gaviria, Abel Balderstone, Sebastian Berwick, Alex Molenaar, Stefano Oldani, Jakub Otruba, José Félix Parra — see the full Caja Rural team page.
Portrait: AI paper-collage render (gpt-image-2) after a reference photograph — source: Wikimedia Commons, author: Nicola, license: CC BY-SA 4.0.
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