Spanish cyclistIn this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Florencio and the second or maternal family name is Cabré.

Xavier Florencio Cabré (born December 26, 1979 in Tarragona, Catalonia) is a Spanish former professional road bicycle racer, who competed as a professional between 2001 and 2013. Over his career, Florencio competed for ONCE–Eroski, Relax-Fuenlabrada, Bouygues Télécom, Cervélo TestTeam, Geox–TMC and Team Katusha.

Contents

• 1 Career
• 2 Career achievements
  • 2.1 Major results
  • 2.2 Grand Tour general cl*ification results timeline
• 3 References
• 4 External links

Career

Xavier Florencio Cabré is an ex Catalan cyclist, born in Mont-roig del Camp (Tarragona) on the 26th of December 1979.From a family of cyclists, his father José and his sister Núria were also professional cyclists.

At present he lives in Andorra with his wife Xary, who also rode professionally, and with whom he shares his interest in cycling and sport. His two daughters, Lola and Vera, are his biggest fans.

Xavier started as a professional as part of the ONCE-Eroski team in August of the year 2000 in the Vuelta a Galicia, he remained with this team until the end of 2003. He spent the following two years 2004–2005 with Relax-Bodysol and the next with Relax-Fuenlabrada. After his two years with the Relax Team he was three years with the French team Bouygues Telecom and it was there that he triumphed winning the San Sebastian Cl*ic in 2006, beating a group of illustrious cyclists in the sprint, such as Stefano Garzelli, Andrey Kasheckin and Alejandro Valverde.

After two years with the French team he signed for two seasons with the Cervelo-Test Team after their lead cyclist Carlos Sastre requested that Xavier join the team. Finishing with the Swiss team he signed with Geox for a year following that he signed with Katusha until 25 October 2013 when he announced his retirement from cycling due to a health problem at 33 years old and after 13 seasons as a professional. Nonetheless he has remained linked with Katusha as an *istant in 2014 then in 2015 he became their Sports Director.

At present he is still a sports director in the cycling world as well as an entrepreneur in the hotel and services sector.

Career achievements

Major results

19961st National Junior Road Race Championships20021st, 8th Stage, Tour de l'Avenir3rd, Vuelta a La Rioja5th, GP CTT Correios de Portugal20035th, Ronde van Nederland5th, Vuelta Valenciana6th Tour Down Under20061st, Clásica de San Sebastián3rd, Overall, Tour de l'Ain20074th, National Road Race Championships9th, Clásica de San Sebastián20083rd Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana1st, Points cl*ification3rd Overall Tour du Limousin20129th Clásica de San Sebastián

Grand Tour general cl*ification results timeline

References

External links

• Profile on Team Katusha official website
• Official website
• Xavier Florencio at trap-friis.dk