The Dutchman Koen Bouwman (Jumbo-Visma) took the victory in stage 19 of the Giro d’Italia, after four hours, 32 minutes and 55 seconds, a day in which the Ecuadorian Richard Carapaz finished eighth and kept the pink jersey for the sixth day consecutive. Koen Bouwman got into the break from the first kilometers and prevailed over Mauro Schmid (Quick-Step) and Alessandro Tonelli (Bardani), who finished second and third, respectively. Bouwman achieved his second victory in
27 May, 2022
First Pan American MTB Cycling medalists
Daniela Campuzano, Fátima Hijar, Andrea Ornelas, Gerardo Ulloa, Ángel Barrón and David Rico climbed to the top of the podium to win gold in the team relay event of the Catamarca Pan American MTB Championship, Argentina 2022. The second place went to the team from Brazil, and the third to Chile, while Colombia and Argentina finished fourth and fifth. This was the first test that distributed medals in a contest that brings together hundreds of
The Belgian Dries de Bondt won Stage 18 of the Giro d’Italia, in a sprint that featured the breakaway runners, while the Ecuadorian Richard Carapaz arrived with the main group and maintained the lead in the general classification for the fifth consecutive day. Dries de Bondt, of the Alpecin-Fenix team, signed his first victory in a Grand Tour, after three hours, 21 minutes and 21 seconds. He got into the breakaway of the day and
26 May, 2022
Mexican cyclist Heriberto Quiroz wins in Belgium
Against the wind, but with his heart ahead, and after pedaling for two hours, the Mexican rider Heriberto Quiroz achieved a new victory in Belgium. His first statements told it like this: “I felt very good, it was flat terrain although with such strong air that my legs and rhythm were cut, but I stayed strong”. The young 18-year-old cyclist, from Purísima del Rincón, Guanajuato, learned from Flanders and is now looking for an escape.
Santiago Buitrago became the youngest Colombian to win a stage in the history of the Giro d’Italia, after entering Lavarone first on the seventeenth day, after an attack in the final kilometers where he also fought for the podium general had the Ecuadorian Richard Carapaz in defense of the pink jersey. The Bogota native (Bahrain-Victorious) reached his second professional triumph after rejoining from a fall on Wednesday and having a bitter taste after finishing second
The Cycling Union of the Argentine Republic (ukra) and the Argentine Mountain Biking Federation (facimo), organize the XXV UCI Mountain Bike Pan-American Championship 2022 in the modalities: XCO – XCE – XCR – XCC and the MTB Children’s Festival, from May 25 to 29 in the City of San Fernando del Valle de Catamarca, Province of Catamarca. With a hundred bikers between the ages of 4 and 12, the Pan-American Mountain Bike Festival for Children
The Czech Jan Hirt (Intermarché Wanty) was the strongest man in the large breakaway of the day and claimed victory alone in the sixteenth stage of the Giro d’Italia, disputed between Salò and Aprica, with a distance of 202 km, in which Richard Carapaz (Ineos) kept the pink jersey, although in the end he gave up three seconds to the Australian Jai Hindley, who follows him in the general classification. Hirt (Trebic, 31 years old)
Mariana Pajón, from Antioquia, was a great protagonist in the La Roche Yon BMX French Cup, in which she added a gold medal to her extensive list of winners, in a competition held over the weekend, with a large number of participants. . The triple Colombian Olympic medalist, who has been recovering from the physical discomfort that has afflicted her in recent months, showed that her recovery is on the right track by climbing to
The cyclist Jaime Alberto Restrepo, who was the Pan-American junior team pursuit champion in 2013 in Mexico, was killed by gunmen who shot him when he was on a street in the Colombian town of Ciudad Bolívar, in the department of Antioquia. The Antioquia authorities are trying to establish the reasons surrounding the death of this well-known Antioquia cyclist, who was the Pan-American youth champion in the team pursuit in 2013 in Aguascalientes, Mexico. Then,
Ecuadorian cyclist Richard Carapaz promised this Monday, on the third and last day of rest, to do his best to finish as leader of the Giro d’Italia, a position he currently occupies after having already disputed 15 stages. I am calm, and with the team I am prepared for what is to come, said Carapaz, who acknowledged that the Bora formation controlled the most recent stages at a collective level, but recalled that now there