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Ten cycling teams from Guatemala and another five foreigners will take the start this March 23 in the so-called International Bicentennial Tour, which will run until March 27, with five stages and a 640-kilometer journey. The local Cycling Federation (FGC) confirmed that the event will pass through the departments of Guatemala, Santa Rosa, Jutiapa, Sacatepéquez, Escuintla, Suchitepéquez, Retalhuleu, Quetzaltenango, Sololá and Chimaltenango. Among the national teams are Hino-One-La Red Susuki, Ópticas Deluxe and Decorabaños, with

Manuel José Lira, who represented Team Papa John’s, won the grand prize of the Giro Pichidegua Elite 2022, after being the best in the Individual general classification with a time of 7:24:21 hours, ahead of Martin Westermeyer ( Regional Pelarco) and José Luis Rodríguez (Club Ciclista Austral Patagonia) The event, concluded last weekend and divided into three route stages, between the communes of Pichidegua and La Estrella, was attended by 23 teams from Antofagasta to

The Vuelta Ciclista, the main cycling event in Uruguay, returns after the covid-19 pandemic and will have its 77th edition from April 8, within the framework of Holy Week, the newspaper El Observador announced on Monday. The test organized by the Uruguayan Cycling Federation will start and finish in Montevideo, the nation’s capital, and the attendance of a hundred runners is expected to live a true pedal party. It will begin on April 8, in

Caracas.- The Venezuelan Orluis Aular (Caja Rural-Seguros RGA) was proclaimed the winner of the thirty-ninth edition of the Volta al Alentejo, held in the south of Portugal, with a difference of 5 seconds over the Spanish Mikel Xabier Azparren (Eusklatel-Euskadi ) and 24 on the Portuguese José Neves (W52/FC Porto). Aular, winner of the first and fourth stages of the Portuguese round, gave his impressions at the end of the race. “Very happy with the

The Peñamonte Supercross Track in Ubaté, Cundinamarca, hosted the III Valid of the GW Shimano BMX National Cup, which consecrated multiple Olympic medalist Mariana Pajón as the winner. The ‘Queen of BMX’ won a gold medal. Vineta Peterson, from Latvia, was left with the silver medal and the Atlantic cyclist Sharid Fayad occupied the third place on the podium. The two-time world champion had already added her first bronze medal at the departmental level this

The first edition of the Pan American Road and Track Para-cycling Championship closed its curtains this Sunday with the final victory by nations for the Brazilian hosts, who dominated the final table of medals with 45 golds and 122 podiums; while eight of the 12 participating nations reached at least one medal. On the final day, with a stage in the streets of Maringá, the road tests were held and once again the dominance of

The cyclist Arlenis Sierra makes her debut this Sunday with the prestigious Movistar squad in the legendary Alfredo Binda one-day race, in the Cittiglio commune, Italian province of Varese, where she arrived on Thursday. Precisely this competition of the Women’s World Tour of the International Cycling Union (UCI) keeps a special memory for the manzanillera. It was the second podium in his debut in 2017 in a club, the Kazakh-Italian Astana. Arlenis had just started

Brazil closed the penultimate day of the Pan American Para-cycling Championship in first place in the medal table, as this Saturday, March 19, it reached 38 podiums, distributed in 15 gold, 10 silver and 13 bronze medals, all achieved in the time trial held at the Forest Circuit 2, in Maringá, Paraná. The first medals of the day came in the Handbike category. Ronan Fonseca, from MH5, and Ulisses Freitas, from MH4, achieved first place

Once the year 2022 begins, the UCI ranking begins to undergo variations and, of course, the America Tour Ranking as well. The Olympic champion Richard Carapaz is the leader of the season in our continent, while Colombia rules for nations and the Team Banco Guayaquil Ecuador club heads the section among the professional teams. As for the individual section, Carapaz, from the Ineos Grenadiers team, has 2,170 points and is accompanied by Canadian Michael Woods

Brazilian para-cycling said goodbye this Friday the 18th to the first Para-cycling Pan American on Track in history, held at the Maringá Municipal Velodrome. The Brazilians won 48 medals, fifteen gold, sixteen silver and seventeen bronze. The results will also be key to defining the first places for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games. “Starting the Paralympic qualifying race ahead of time is very important, because arriving earlier in the classification of some places allows us