He made his Grand Tour debut at the Vuelta a España, finishing 82nd overall.
Having finished ninth at Tirreno–Adriatico, Yates was named in the start list for the Tour de France.
He finished seventh on Stage 8, which finished on the Mûr-de-Bretagne, and seventh on the first mountain stage, Stage 10, which finished on the Col de la Pierre St. Martin in the Pyrenees.
1992
Adam Richard Yates (born 7 August 1992) is a British professional road and track racing cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam.
2010
He added a further top-10 stage finish at the Pra-Loup ski resort, as he finished 50th overall.
The week following the Tour de France, Yates took his biggest victory to that point by winning the Clásica de San Sebastián one-day race, after attacking on the final climb as leader Greg Van Avermaet of was involved in a crash with a race motorcycle, and holding off the chasers on the descent into San Sebastián.
In the confusion after Van Avermaet's crash Yates did not realise he had won, so did not initially celebrate when crossing the finishing line.
In September, Yates recorded podium finishes in two Canadian races held in consecutive weeks; he finished second overall to Bauke Mollema at the Tour of Alberta – winning the young rider classification in the process – before losing a sprint à deux against Tim Wellens at the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal, a result that still left him "pretty happy".
Yates was selected to ride the Tour de France for the second successive year, with his season's best result to that point being a fourth-place overall finish at the Tour de Yorkshire.
On Stage 7, Yates broke clear of the leading group of general classification contenders on the descent of the Col d'Aspin, but was involved in an accident when the inflatable arch marking 1 km remaining of the stage – the flamme rouge – deflated as he rode underneath it.
Yates suffered cuts to his chin requiring stitches, but after the stage results were revised to give him the 7 second advantage he had over the peloton with 3 km to go, Yates rose to second overall and took the white jersey as leader of the Young rider classification from Julian Alaphilippe.
On Stage 9, at the race's first mountain top finish in Andorra, Yates finished tenth, leading home a select group of general classification contenders including Chris Froome, Nairo Quintana , Richie Porte and Dan Martin.
This meant Yates sat second overall going into the first rest day, 16 seconds behind Froome, and led the young rider classification by 39 seconds.
2013
Yates finished second by just 55 seconds to Spanish rider Rubén Fernández in the general classification of the 2013 Tour de l'Avenir while representing the British national team.
2014
Having spent a successful season with French amateur team CC Etupes, he joined the Australian UCI World Tour team along with his brother in 2014.
In his first professional race, the Tour de San Luis in Argentina, Yates finished eleventh overall and first in the young rider classification.
Yates's breakthrough results came at the Tour of Turkey in late April and early May 2014.
He had been one of the team's protected riders for the general classification, along with his brother.
On the third stage, he became the de facto team leader after Simon crashed out of the race.
Yates was the only person to follow an attack by Rein Taaramäe on the final climb to Elmalı, and ultimately finished the stage in second place, six seconds down on Taaramäe after he had attacked again in the closing metres.
After two stages that suited the sprinters, Yates achieved his first professional victory on the sixth stage, finishing at the House of the Virgin Mary in Selçuk.
A reduced peloton had formed on the final climb from which Yates attacked with around a kilometre remaining.
Yates held off the chasers – led home by Davide Formolo and Davide Rebellin, two seconds in arrears – and was able to take the leader's blue jersey from Taaramäe, who crossed the line seven seconds behind Yates.
Yates held the race lead until its conclusion in Istanbul two days later; he extended his lead by a further four seconds on the final stage, as there was a split on the run-in, with only a 28-rider group being given the same time as stage winner, Mark Cavendish.
He later described the victory – the first British overall win at the Tour of Turkey – as "unexpected", having set out with the ambition of winning stages.
Yates next competed at the Tour of California.
After being passed on the road by Bradley Wiggins on Stage 2, the 20 km individual time trial around Folsom, he finished fourth on Stage 3, which finished on Mount Diablo, and fourth on Stage 6, which finished on Mountain High.
Yates finished fifth overall in the general classification, 2 minutes and 14 seconds behind the winner, Wiggins.
Yates's good form continued at the Critérium du Dauphiné, where he placed eighth on the first mountain top finish on Stage 2.
He finished third on Stage 5 after launching a late attack with Wilco Kelderman, and again finished third on Stage 8, a mountain-top finish at Courchevel.
Yates finished the UCI World Tour race sixth overall.
decided not to select Yates for the Tour de France.
He returned to racing at the GP Industria & Artigianato di Larciano in July, which he won to take his first one-day professional victory.
Yates made the lead group at the Clásica de San Sebastián with Alejandro Valverde, Bauke Mollema , Joaquim Rodríguez and Mikel Nieve , but crashed heavily on a descent with 3.5 km remaining, missing out on the chance of his first World Tour victory.
2016
Yates placed fourth overall at the 2016 Tour de France and became the first British rider to win the young rider classification, one year ahead of his twin brother Simon Yates.
2020
Yates has taken more than twenty wins during his professional career, including overall victories at the 2020 UAE Tour, the 2021 Volta a Catalunya, the 2022 Deutschland Tour and the 2023 Tour de Romandie.
He has also won a stage at the Tour de France, in 2023, and the one-day races Clásica de San Sebastián (2015) and the Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal (2023).
Adam and Simon Yates took up cycling after their father John was injured in a collision with a car while riding – during his recovery he took the twins to Manchester Velodrome to track sessions run by his cycling club, Bury Clarion, to keep in touch with the other members.
Both brothers soon started riding on the road for Bury Clarion and on the track for Eastlands Velo.
Whilst Simon was selected for the British Cycling Olympic Academy programme, Adam pursued his road racing career in France with financial help from the Dave Rayner Fund.
