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Iván García Cortina

Building an excellent present

ALREADY A ‘MAN IN M’. 2024 marks the start of Iván García Cortina’s second three-year term with the Telefónica ‘m’ on his chest and back. Even though he’s always been described -and the proved so again last year: 5th in Harelbeke, top-20 in Flanders- as one of Spain’s best talents for the cobblestones, ‘Corti’ is well more than that. He’s someone able to excel at certain kinds of sprints, especially those coming after harder climbs, and one who’s taking significant steps towards sporting maturity, now aged 28.

VICTORIES AGAINST THE VERY BEST. Cortina left his mark in 2020, few months before joining the Movistar Team, with a brilliant performance in Paris-Nice, where he won one of the race’s bunch sprint in La Châtre -against Sagan, Bol, Bouhanni or Nizzolo-, and came 2nd just few days later, only behind attacker Niccolò Bonifazio. It was his second WorldTour success after a stage of the 2019 Tour of California, where he kept the pace of a short, 20-rider group before raising his arms victorious in Ventura. In 2022, the Gijón-born sprinter claimed his first victory in the Telefónica-backed squad’s jersey at the Italian race Gran Piemonte, with a sensational sprint at the end of a tough race with spits and echelons.

NOT A CONVENTIONAL START. Even if he did ride in our country for most of his youth stage -a member of the prestigious Las Mestas feeder squads-, Iván always had in mind that the key for his development, being a type of rider not that usual in Spain, would only be found across the border. He signed, aged just 19, with the development squad of the current Deceuninck team, where he had a chance to race at events all over the continent, from Portugal to Slovakia, gathering experience, learning how to ride in the peloton, finetuning his technique and strategy skills (plus obtaining many good results and even his first UCI win, at the Polish event Course de Solidarnosc). When he took the step towards the WorldTour with Bahrain in 2017, he wasn’t only one of our most experienced riders abroad: he was also one of the best known athletes from Spain by his foreign rivals.

From:
Gijón, Asturias
Birth:
20/11/1995
Country:
ESP
Height:
183 Cm
Weight:
77 Kg
Pro debut:
2015
Years in team:
3
Career path:

2021-23: Movistar Team
2017-20: Bahrain
2015-16: Klein Constantia

Palmares
1st
Gran Piemonte 2022
1st
3rdstage
Paris-Nice 2020
1st
5thstage
Tour d eCalifornia 2019
1st
4thstage
Course de Solidarnosc et des Champions Olympiques 2016
Results
2nd
1ststage
Vuelta a Burgos
3rd
1ststage
V. Comunitat Valenciana
4th
1ststage
Vuelta a Castilla y León
4th
5thstage
Challenge Mallorca
5th
21thstage
La Vuelta
5th
E3 Harelbeke Classic
5th
19thstage
La Vuelta
6th
2ndstage
La Vuelta
7th
2ndstage
Tour de Suisse
7th
Coppa Agostoni
8th
1ststage
Paris-Nice
10th
4thstage
Vuelta a Burgos
11th
Kuurne-Brussel-Kuurne
12th
5thstage
La Vuelta
12th
Coppa Bernocchi
13th
15thstage
La Vuelta
14th
7thstage
La Vuelta
18th
2ndstage
Challenge Mallorca
21th
12thstage
La Vuelta
21th
Ronde van Vlaanderen
24th
Vuelta a Castilla y León
25th
5thstage
Vuelta a Andalucía
27th
Clásica San Sebastián
27th
2ndstage
Vuelta a Castilla y León
32th
Paris-Roubaix
32th
20thstage
La Vuelta
33th
Milano-Sanremo
34th
Vuelta a Burgos
39th
5thstage
Vuelta a Burgos
39th
3rdstage
Challenge Mallorca
39th
2ndstage
Paris-Nice
41th
5thstage
Paris-Nice
41th
3rdstage
Vuelta a Burgos
49th
7thstage
Paris-Nice
54th
9thstage
La Vuelta
57th
Spanish RR Championships
61th
14thstage
La Vuelta
64th
Paris-Nice
64th
4thstage
Vuelta a Andalucía
64th
8thstage
Tour de Suisse
65th
16thstage
La Vuelta
66th
4thstage
La Vuelta
68th
18thstage
La Vuelta
69th
6thstage
La Vuelta
70th
1ststage
Vuelta a Andalucía
72th
La Vuelta
72th
Gran Piemonte
72th
5thstage
V. Comunitat Valenciana
73th
4thstage
Paris-Nice
75th
Vuelta a Andalucía
79th
17thstage
La Vuelta
79th
7thstage
Tour de Suisse
82th
10thstage
La Vuelta
83th
V. Comunitat Valenciana
83th
1ststage
Tour de Suisse
83th
2ndstage
V. Comunitat Valenciana
86th
Tour de Suisse
89th
3rdstage
V. Comunitat Valenciana
91th
5thstage
Tour de Suisse
93th
2ndstage
Vuelta a Andalucía
94th
11thstage
La Vuelta
94th
8thstage
La Vuelta
100th
4thstage
V. Comunitat Valenciana
103th
3rdstage
Vuelta a Andalucía
105th
3rdstage
La Vuelta
110th
8thstage
Paris-Nice
115th
4thstage
Tour de Suisse
117th
13thstage
La Vuelta
127th
3rdstage
Tour de Suisse

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