Kaden Groves

Born in Gympie, Queensland, Kaden Groves became the Australian junior road race champion in 2016.

Throughout 2017 and 2018, he spent most of his season on the Asian circuit with St George Continental and Mitchelton-BikeExchange, notching two stage wins at the Tour of Fuzhou in China.

As he developed as a sprinter, Groves joined SEG Racing Academy in 2019 and earned strong results in European under-23 races. Those included wins in Belgium and France and a second-place finish at the Tour de l’Avenir. By the end of the year, Groves was a stagiaire with the WorldTour team Mitchelton-Scott and subsequently signed with them for the next season.

In 2020, Groves won two bunch sprints at the Herald Sun Tour. In 2021, he won the criterium national title in Ballarat and a prologue at the Tour of Slovakia.

The Queenslander landed his first WorldTour victory in 2022 when he won a stage at the Volta a Catalunya. Later that year, he scored his first grand tour stage win, winning stage 11 of the Vuelta a España, a seaside sprint in Andalusia.

2023 was a stellar year for Groves. After transferring to Alpecin-Deceuninck, he scored seven more wins across the season, including two in Catalunya, three at the Vuelta, and a stage of the Giro d’Italia. He also became the first Australian to win the points classification at the Vuelta, finishing perfectly in Madrid with a stage victory in the green jersey.

That earned him the honour of being named AusCycling’s Male Road Cyclist of the Year.

In 2024, Groves again raced the Giro but was unable to land a win, coming close on several occasions. It wasn’t until he returned to his happy hunting ground in Spain that he opened his account for the season.

At La Vuelta, Groves added three more stage wins to his burgeoning palmarès. He also won the points classification for the second year in a row, inheriting the green jersey after Belgium’s Wout van Aert crashed out on Stage 16.