Jorge Soto
Jorge Soto during the 2011 Pan American Road and Track Championship
Personal information
Full nameJorge Adelbio Soto Pereira
Born (1986-08-08) 8 August 1986
Salto, Uruguay
Team information
DisciplineRoad and track
RoleRider
Amateur teams
2004Salto Nuevo
2005Villa Teresa
2006C.C. Fénix
2006–2007Champagnat
2008–2010Villa Teresa
2010–2012Porongos
2014Fénix
2015–2016Club Social Amanecer
2018Ciudad del Plata
2019Avenida Artigas de Guichón
2021–2022Ciudad del Plata

Jorge Adelbio Soto Pereira (born 8 August 1986, in Salto, Uruguay) is a Uruguayan road bicycle racer and track cyclist.[1]

He has won several stages of both Rutas de América as Vuelta Ciclista del Uruguay. In 2005, he received a grant for a month in Switzerland in the World Cycling Centre of the UCI to improve his performance, which ultimately became more than a year.[2]

Soto represented Uruguay at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Men's road race. He won the Rutas de América in 2011 and 2012.[3]

Major results

2005
1st Stage 3 Rutas de América
Pan American Under-23 Road Championships
2nd Road race
2nd Time trial
2008
1st Stage 5 Vuelta del Uruguay
10th Time trial, Pan American Road Championships
2009
6th Overall Vuelta del Uruguay
1st Stages 6 & 8
2010
1st Time trial, National Road Championships
3rd Overall Vuelta del Paraguay
1st Stage 1 (ITT)
9th Overall Rutas de América
1st Stage 4
2011
1st Overall Rutas de América
1st Stage 5b (ITT)
3rd Overall Vuelta del Uruguay
2012
1st Time trial, National Road Championships
1st Overall Rutas de América
1st Points classification
1st Mountains classification
1st Stage 2
4th Time trial, Pan American Road Championships
6th Copa América de Ciclismo
2013
1st Time trial, National Road Championships
2014
2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
10th Overall Vuelta del Uruguay
1st Stage 12
2015
1st Stage 4 Rutas de América
2019
1st Time trial, National Road Championships
2021
5th Road race, National Road Championships
2022
1st Stages 3 & 5 Vuelta del Uruguay

References

  1. "Flash: Jorge Soto" (in Spanish). ovaciondigital.com.uy. 22 November 2010. Archived from the original on 27 November 2010. Retrieved 9 July 2012.
  2. "Ciclista Jorge Soto viajó a perfeccionarse a Suiza" (in Spanish). lr21.com.uy. 9 November 2005. Retrieved 9 July 2012.
  3. "Soto ganó Rutas de América" (in Spanish). elobservador.com.uy. 26 February 2012. Retrieved 9 July 2012.


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