Igor Antón

Igor Anton
	Igor Antón at the Euskal Bizikleta 2008
To person
Date of birth	March 2, 1983
nation	Spain
discipline	Street
Driver type	Mountain riders
End of career	2018
Team (s)
2004–2013 ; 2014–2015 ; 2016–2018	Euskaltel-Euskadi ; Movistar Team ; Team Dimension Data
Most important successes
	four stages Vuelta a España; one stage Giro d'Italia
	Last updated: November 24, 2018

Igor Antón Hernández (born March 2, 1983 in Galdácano , Spain ) is a former Basque cyclist .

Career

At the end of the 2004 season Anton made his debut as a stagiaire in the Euskaltel-Euskadi team and received a regular contract from the 2005 season. With the Giro d'Italia 2005 he contested his first Grand Tour and finished the race 83rd.

In 2006, at the age of 23, Igor Antón won the mountainous 16th stage of the Vuelta a España and took 15th place overall. The following year he won a mountain finish on the Tour de Romandie and was seventh overall. He finished his first Tour de France after the eleventh stage, but drove a very good Vuelta a España as assistant to Samuel Sánchez , who finished the Vuelta in third, and achieved eighth place in the overall standings.

At the Tour de Suisse 2008 , Antón won a stage, wore the yellow jersey of the overall leader for several days and ended up third overall. At the Vuelta a España 2008 he gave up the race lying in position in the overall standings after a fall.

Antón won the royal stage of the Vuelta a Castilla y León in 2010 ahead of Alberto Contador and took the leadership jersey, which he had to give back to Contador after the final time trial . Antón drove a very good spring in the Ardennes classics with a fourth place at Flèche Wallonne and a sixth at Liège-Bastogne-Liège . At the Vuelta a España 2010 , Antón reached third place in the third stage and won the fourth stage a day later. On the eighth stage he kept up with the favorites and got the leadership jersey, which he had to give back to Joaquim Rodríguez through a time credit on the tenth stage . With his victory on the eleventh stage, he got it back one day later. On the 14th stage, Antón fell and had to give up the race.

At the Giro d'Italia 2011 , he won the mountain finish on Monte Zoncolan and was 18th in the overall ranking of the tour . In the subsequent Vuelta a España , he won the 19th stage in Bilbao single-handedly after he was able to break away from a four-man breakaway group. At the Vuelta a España 2012 he was ninth overall.

After Anton did not achieve any particular individual successes in 2013 and 2014, he won the overall ranking and a stage of the Vuelta a Asturias in 2015 . Until his last race, the Vuelta a España 2017 , he could not win any more races on the international calendar or achieve significant placements,