A mountainous Tour de France will be the big objective for Daniel Navarro (Cofidis) next season. After getting a big win at this year's Vuelta a Espana and having finished in the top 10 in both grand tours, the Spaniard wants to win a stage in the French race and has defined his schedule for next year after a two-day gathering with his team in Lyon.

With a start in the Spanish Vuelta a Murcia - which he won in 2012 - the Clasica Ameria and the Vuelta a Andalucia, Daniel Navarro will start his season as he has done for the last two years, Biciciclismo reports. Then he goes into his first big test, Paris-Nice, but is still waiting for the route to be announced. After a one-year absence, he plans to return to the Vuelta al Pais Vasco while he is likely to skip the Volta a Catalunya since there is only one week between the finish of the Race to the Sun and the Catalan race. The Ardennes classics with Fleche Wallonne and Liege-Bastogne-Liege - Cofidis are unlikely to be invited for the Amstel Gold Race - will end the first part of his season.

The second part of his season will again start with the Criterium du Dauphiné where he won a stage in 2010, was fifth in 2013 and ninth in 2014. Then he will go to the Tour de France with a focus on stage wins after his ninth place in 2013 and his withdrawal in 2014. The Vuelta a Espana will depend on his condition.

He finished the 2014 with a very good taste after his stage in in Oregon and overall ninth place at the Vuelta a Espana. At the end of the year, he also did the Worlds in Ponferrada which helped him to secure a contract extension with Cofidis that will be built around Nacer Bouhanni in 2015.

Having turned professional in 2005, Navarro started his career at Liberty Seguro and rode for Astana-Würth in 2006, Astana from 2007 to 2010, Saxo Bank from 2011 and 2012 and has been at Cofidis since 2013.