Bio

David de la Cruz Melgarejo (born 6 May 1989) is a Spanish cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Astana Qazaqstan Team. Career De la Cruz was born in Sabadell. On 28 August 2016, de la Cruz scored the biggest win of his career to that point, when he won stage 9 of the Vuelta a España from a breakaway and took over the general and combination classification jerseys. For these accomplishments he was voted as the best sportsperson of his hometown, Sabadell, in 2016. He would go on to finish the Vuelta in 7th place overall. In the 2020 Vuelta a España he would ride strongly again and finish the race in 7th.