Kaden Groves
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.jpg) Groves at 2022 Rund um Köln | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Kaden Groves |
| Nickname | Skip[citation needed] |
| Born | 23 December 1998 Gympie |
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) |
| Weight | 78 kg (172 lb) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Alpecin–Premier Tech |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | Sprinter |
| Professional teams | |
| 2017–2018 | St George Continental Cycling Team |
| 2018 | Mitchelton–BikeExchange |
| 2019 | SEG Racing Academy |
| 2019 | Mitchelton–Scott (stagiaire) |
| 2020–2022 | Mitchelton–Scott[1][2] |
| 2023– | Alpecin–Deceuninck |
| Major wins | |
Grand Tours
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Kaden Groves (born 23 December 1998) is an Australian cyclist who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Alpecin–Premier Tech.[3] Groves is a sprinter with speed on flat races, but who can also climb better than most sprinters.[4]
Groves was the 2016 winner of the junior race at the Australian National Road Race Championships.[5] In 2017, Groves finished runner-up in the prologue stage of the Tour de Kumano.[6] He won stage 3 of the Tour of Fuzhou.[7][8]
In August 2019, Groves joined UCI WorldTeam Mitchelton–Scott as a stagiaire for the second half of the season,[9] before joining the team permanently in 2020. In 2022, he won his first Grand Tour stage, when he won stage 11 of the Vuelta a España in a sprint finish. In 2023 he won stage 5 of the Giro d'Italia. He won stage 20 of the Tour de France 2025, which included a Category 2 climb, going out solo with about 17 kilometres remaining in the stage.
