Egan Bernal is the main letter from Colombia in the Tour of Burgos 2025.
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The return to Burgos on Tuesday starts a new edition with a large Colombian presence. Seven beetles will say present on the roads of northern Spain to face this traditional five -stage competition that serves as a prelude to the return to Spain.
The total competition will be 851.4 kilometers, distributed in a flat day, three medium mountain stages and a high mountain decisive fraction. On Saturday, in the mythical lagoons of Neila, the new champion will be crowned.
The fight for the general classification has among its greatest applicants to the Mexican Isaac del Toro, runner -up of the Italian turn and the UAE Team Emirates tab. The Italian Giulio Ciccone (Lidl-Trek) and the Spanish Mikel Landa, head of the ranks of Bahrain Victorious will also be in the deck.
By Colombia, the cyclist with more options to get into the upper part of the general is Egan Bernal. The Cundinamarqués, champion of the 2019 Tour of France, comes from being seventh in this year's turn and gradually recovers the level that led him to the top of world cycling.
Bernal will be one of the strong letters of the ineos Grenadiers, a team in which he has Brandon Rivera, who was eighth last year in the Burgos Ronda General. Together they want to give prominence to Colombia in northern Spain.
In the ranks of Movistar Team will be Nairo Quintana and Diego Pescador. Nairo, champion in 2013 and 2014, returns to a race that knows well and where he already knows what it is to raise his arms. Next to him will be the young Quindiano, one of the promises of national cycling.
Bogota Esteban Chaves leads the EF Education – Easypost, a team that trusts his experience. Juan Sebastián Molano, Boyacense of the UAE Team Emirates, will seek to shine in the Sprints. For his part, Santandereano Germán Darío Gómez will be a workpiece in the Polti Kometa.
The return to Burgos is a race that has left great memories of Colombian cycling. In addition to the two titles of Quintana, Colombia has celebrated with Mauricio Soler in 2007 and Iván Ramiro Sosa, two -time champion in 2018 and 2019.
They have also had outstanding actions in the history of this career beetles such as Martín Farfán (1991), Walter Pedraza (2008), Sergio Luis Henao (2012), Esteban Chaves (2012) and Miguel Ángel López (2018), who despite not taking the title got on the podium.
Colombian fans will be able to follow this edition of the Tour of Burgos through the Claro Sports (1502 in HD and 502 in SD), as well as on the Claro Video and Vía Streaming platform by YouTube. The transmissions of the five stages start at 8:00 am
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