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Race days 2023
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Iván Sosa

Unstoppable uphill

RISE TO FAME. The beginning of Iván Sosa in cycling were not so conventional, as the Colombian was focused on finishing high school – and used a bike to go from home to the ‘instituto’, a heavy, MTB one. It wasn’t until he finished 11th grade, the last in Colombia, when the Pasca native, supported by his uncle Joaquín, an avid cyclist, starting taking cycling more seriously and not just as a weekend distraction. His excellent performances in Colombia’s Vuelta de la Juventud in 2015, where he won the Queen stage at just 18 years of age, opened him the doors of European cycling.

A DECISIVE YEAR. Helped by an Italian ‘headhunter’, Sosa raced during the 2016 season with the amateur squad Maltinti Lampadari, where he shone brightly in the always-competitive ‘dilettanti’ scene. From there, he took the pro leap in 2017 towards Gianni Savio’s Androni Giocattoli, leaving a good impression on mountainous terrain that year and making his real breakthrough in 2018. 6th overall, against the biggest names in his country, at the Colombia Oro y Paz; race leader in the Tour of the Alps; winner of four GCs (Bihor, Sibiu, Adriatica Ionica Race and the Vuelta a Burgos (!!), including a stage win atop Neila); victor at one of the most demanding stages of the Tour de l’Avenir, against McNulty and Pogacar – those results made inevitable for him to jump straight into one of the best WorldTour squads, Sky, in 2019.

PLENTY STILL AT REACH. Iván would again snatch quite some wins in his three years with the British squad: another Burgos GC (2019), with 2x Neila and another 2x Picón Blanco; the Queen stage of the Route d’Occitanie (2019), against no less than Alejandro Valverde; the overall classification of the Tour de La Provence (2021), with a sensational Mont Ventoux victory in the process; and two stagerace victories in his Movistar Team debut in 2022: the Vuelta a Asturias and Le Tour de Langkawi, also claiming the Queen stage at both (Alto del Acebo and Genting Highlands). In 2023, he made the GC podium at the Vuelta a Asturias (3rd, behind team-mate Rubio), came 6th atop the Mont Ventoux and 8th overall in the Route d’Occitanie.

From:
Pasca, Cundinamarca
Birth:
31/10/1997
Country:
COL
Height:
168 Cm
Weight:
52 Kg
Pro debut:
2017
Years in team:
2
Career path:

2022-23: Movistar Team
2019-21: INEOS Grenadiers
2017-18: Androni Giocattoli

Palmares
1st
Le Tour de Langkawi 2022
1st
3rdstage
Le Tour de Langkawi 2022
1st
Vuelta a Asturias 2022
1st
2ndstage
Vuelta a Asturias 2022
1st
Tour de La Provence 2021
1st
3rdstage
Tour de La Provence 2021
1st
5thstage
Vuelta a Burgos 2020
1st
Vuelta a Burgos 2019
1st
5thstage
Vuelta a Burgos 2019
1st
3rdstage
Vuelta a Burgos 2019
1st
3rdstage
Route d'Occitanie 2019
1st
7thstage
Tour de l'Avenir 2018
1st
Vuelta a Burgos 2018
1st
5thstage
Vuelta a Burgos 2018
1st
Sibiu Tour 2018
1st
1ststage
Sibiu Tour 2018
1st
Adriatica Ionica Race 2018
1st
3rdstage
Adriatica Ionica Race 2018
1st
Tour of Bihor 2018
1st
2ndstage
Tour of Bihor 2018
1st
4thstage
Vuelta al Táchira 2018
Results
3rd
2ndstage
Vuelta a Asturias
4th
1ststage
Tour of the Alps
5th
3rdstage
Route d'Occitanie
6th
CIC Mont Ventoux
7th
2ndstage
Tour of the Alps
7th
1ststage
Vuelta a Asturias
8th
Route d'Occitanie
18th
Tour of the Alps
20th
Volta a Catalunya
22th
3rdstage
Vuelta a Asturias
22th
4thstage
Route d'Occitanie
22th
2ndstage
Volta a Catalunya
22th
3rdstage
Volta a Catalunya
24th
7thstage
Volta a Catalunya
27th
3rdstage
Tour of Oman
29th
3rdstage
O Gran Camiño
29th
3rdstage
Tour of the Alps
30th
2ndstage
O Gran Camiño
34th
5thstage
Tour of the Alps
35th
Tour of Guangxi
36th
O Gran Camiño
37th
4thstage
Tour of Guangxi
39th
4thstage
Tour of the Alps
40th
5thstage
Tour of Oman
47th
Tour of Oman
47th
Muscat Classic
48th
5thstage
Volta a Catalunya
48th
2ndstage
Deutschland-Tour
49th
Gran Piemonte
50th
3rdstage
Deutschland-Tour
51th
1ststage
Tour of Guangxi
55th
4thstage
Volta a Catalunya
59th
Deutschland-Tour
62th
1ststage
Route d'Occitanie
66th
3rdstage
Tour of Guangxi
66th
2ndstage
Route d'Occitanie
68th
1ststage
Tour of Oman
71th
6thstage
Volta a Catalunya
71th
2ndstage
Tour of Oman
73th
5thstage
Tour of Guangxi
74th
2ndstage
Tour of Guangxi
77th
6thstage
Tour of Guangxi
84th
Prueba Villafranca - Ordiziako Klasika
85th
5thstage
Deutschland-Tour
88th
4thstage
Tour of Oman
98th
1ststage
Volta a Catalunya
101th
4thstage
O Gran Camiño
103th
4thstage
Deutschland-Tour
118th
1ststage
Deutschland-Tour