25 June, 2019
COSTA RICA WILL HAVE ITS FIRST GREAT UCI FUND
SAN JOSE. The International Cycling Union (UCI), reported that Costa Rica will have its first Grand Fund, after it was announced in the calendar of qualifying events for the World Grand Funds. This is the Gran Fondo de Costa Rica, a mega event that will bring together the best amateur cyclists and aims to have innovative routes and novel distances to mark a before and after in Costa Rican cycling. The event, in addition to
GUATEMALA. This Sunday the 2019 National Individual Time Trial Championship was held, with the victory of Manuel Rodas from the Decorabaños team, who won his ninth title and the eighth in a row, with an exact 43 minutes for the 38.5 kilometers, from Super 24, Escuintla to Super 24, Puerto Quetzal. Manuel Rodas was the last cyclist to take the exit ramp and after 10 kilometers he reached his rival, Alder Torres defeating him definitively
BOGOTÁ. El antioqueño Weimar Roldán, del equipo Team Medellín, venció en la séptima etapa de la Vuelta a Colombia Casanare Bicentenario Coldeportes, sobre un circuito que se llevó a cabo por las principales calles de la ciudad de Medellín, con distancia total de 98 kilómetros. Roldán, quien consiguió su segunda victoria en la edición 69 de la Vuelta a Colombia, se impuso con un tiempo de 2 horas, 02 minutos y 11 segundos, superando en
BOGOTÁ. The llanero Omar Mendoza, from the Coldeportes Strongman team, won the sixth stage of the Vuelta a Colombia Casanare Bicentenario Coldeportes that arrived in Antioquia after traveling 172.2 kilometers from Puerto Boyacá to Rionegro. Mendoza won with a time of 4 hours, 49 minutes and 40 seconds, beating Wálter Pedraza (GW Shimano) and Álvaro Duarte (Mixto 1), who reached 3 seconds. José Tito Hernández (Pride Paisa) closed the Top-5 and assumed the leadership of
BOGOTÁ. In the first two days of the National Championship of mountain biking that takes place in the city of Manizales, during this weekend, and left the first champions in the categories Relay and Eliminator. In the men’s Eliminator category, the podium went to Juan Pablo Zapata (Valle del Cauca), who won the gold medal, followed by Johan Cañaveral (Risaralda) and Jhon Garzón de Cundinamarca. Meanwhile, the female champion of this Friday was the experienced
20 June, 2019
WEIMAR ROLDÁN WON AND ROBIGZON OYOLA CONTINUES TO LEAD IN THE RETURN TO COLOMBIA CASANARE BICENTENARIO COLDEPORTES
BOGOTÁ. Team Medellín’s Antioquia, Weimar Roldán, won the fourth 122.6-kilometer fraction, which began in Bucaramanga and culminated in Barrancabermeja. Roldan won the stage after the jury of commissioners of the 69th edition of the Vuelta a Colombia Casanare Bicentenario Coldeportes, determined that the Cundinamarca Steven Cuesta (Nectar) invaded the race line at the time of closing the sprint at the Petroleum Port of Colombia. Roldán crowned Team Medellín’s fourth victory in the event with a
20 June, 2019
THE CUBAN CYCLING IS DECLARED READY FOR LIMA
HAVANA. The Cuban Sports Hall, located in the Coliseum of the Sports City, today hosted the Cycling Dignity Asset towards the XVIII Pan American Games in Lima. The main exponents of that discipline committed themselves to fight to fulfill the purposes that lead to the main competition of the year for Cuban sports. Lisandra Guerra spoke on behalf of the athletes … “We will face the most important challenge at this stage. We are confident
20 June, 2019
MONTOYA WON AND OYOLA SAVED THE LEADER OF THE RETURN TO COLOMBIA CASANARE BICENTENARIO COLDEPORTES
BOGOTÁ. The Antioquia Christian Montoya, Team Medellín Team rider, won in the third day of 107.8 kilometers, which started in San Gil and ended in Bucaramanga. The one born in San Vicente won with a time of 2 hours, 40 minutes and 48 seconds, exceeding by six seconds José Tito Hernández from Orgullo Paisa. The lot arrived at 11 seconds. Robigzon Leandro Oyola (Team Medellín) retained the lead and now accumulates 10 hours, 54 minutes
QUITO. Officials of Ecuadorian cycling welcomed on Tuesday the proposal to declare June 2 as national cycling day, coinciding with the victory of Richard Carapaz in the recent Giro d’Italia. The president of the Ecuadorian Olympic Committee (COE), Augusto Morán and the holder of the Ecuadorian Cycling Federation (FEC), Oswaldo Hidalgo, considered “transcendental” the proposal made by the legislator Sebastián Palacios to remember the feat of ‘the Locomotive’, as they also say to Carapaz. “I
19 June, 2019
OYOLA WON THE SECOND STAGE AND IS A NEW LEADER OF LA VUELTA TO COLOMBIA CASANARE BICENTENARIO COLDEPORTES
BOGOTÁ. Robigzon Oyola, Team Medellín cyclist, took the lead of the Vuelta a Colombia Casanare Bicentenario Coldeportes, after winning the second 203.1 kilometer fraction, which started in Paipa and ended in Socorro. The Tolima was imposed in a tight hand to hand Rosario Lara Johnatan Cañaveral (Strongman Coldeportes) and Boyacá Cayetano Sarmiento (EPM Scott), with a time of 4 hours, 46 minutes and three seconds. The fraction was disputed from start to finish. The first