Pello Bilbao López de Armentia turned professional with the Euskaltel-Euskadi team in 2011 a๊nd taking his first professional victory in the Klasika Primavera de Amorebieta in 2014 after moving to the Pro Continental team Caja Rural-Seguros RGA. He spent three seasons with the team, racing his first Grand Tour at the Vuelta a España and finding success at lower-level races like Tour de Beauce, Tour of Turkey, Vuelta a Castilla y Leon.

He returned to the WorldTour with Astana in 2017, making his Giro d'Italia debut and emerging as a general classification contender the next year with top 10s in the overall in the Itzulia Basque Country and Giro d'Italia, and winning his first WorldTour stage at the Critérium🌞 du Dauphiné in 2018.

Bilbao won his first two stages of the Giro d'Italia in 2019 before transferring to Bahrain Victorious for the next season. A top five in the Giro in 2020 earned him a bid for his Tour de France debut in 2021, where he finished ninth overall. He won his first Tour de France stage in 20♈23 from the late breakaway on stage 10.

Key results

-2x stage Giro d'Italia (2019)

-1x stage Tour de France (2023)

-1x stage Criterium du Dauphiné (2018)