Jhonatan Narvaez signs for UAE Team Emirates

Jhonatan Narvaez has put pen to paper on a new contract to join UAE Team Emirates as part of a two year deal which will see him with the squad through to the end of 2027.

The 27 year-old puncheur holds 11 professional victories to his name, most notably two stage wins in the Giro D’Italia in 2020 and 2024 alongside a gold medal in the Pan American Championships road race in 2023. He will come across from Ineos where he has spent the previous 6 seasons.

Jhonatan Narvaez : “Since the beginning of my career I’ve always wanted to be involved at the highest level of cycling and we can say that UAE Team Emirates is the best team in the world in the last years so it’s an honour to be moving there.I feel I’ve taken big steps at Ineos but I think I still have margin to take another step in the coming years.”

From the outside UAE looks like a well organised team with a really good ambiance amongst the riders, and with a very experienced and specialised staff who are the best at what they do and look to dispute each race they go to. 
I feel like I still haven’t reached my full maturity as a rider and hope to keep progressing and improve both as a classics rider and as an all-rounder.”

 

Mauro Gianetti (Team Principal & CEO): “We are very pleased to welcome Jhonatan to UAE Team Emirates for the coming years. He’s shown his ability both as a winner and as a worker and we feel he can slot in well to our team. Jhonatan is an aggressive rider with lots of experience at the top level so we are confident to see the best of him over the next years with us. ”