Iván Sosa

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Iván Sosa Road cycling
To person
Full name Iván Ramiro Sosa Cuervo
Date of birth October 31, 1997
nation ColombiaColombia Colombia
discipline Street
Driver type Mountain riders
height 1.68 m
Racing weight 58 kg
To the team
Current team Ineos
function driver
Team (s)
2017–2018
2019– 		Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec
Team Sky / Team Ineos
Most important successes

Overall ranking Burgos Tour 2018, 2019

Iván Sosa (left) on the final podium of the Tour Colombia 2019

Iván Ramiro Sosa Cuervo (born October 31, 1997 in Pasca ) is a Colombian cyclist .

Career

Sosa joined the Professional Continental Team Androni Giocattoli-Sidermec for the 2017 season . In his first season with this team, he won the junior ranking of two stage races in the UCI category 2.2: the Vuelta al Táchira and the Tour of Bihor - Bellotto .

He was at the start of both tours the following year and was able to win the fourth stage of the Vuelta al Táchira and thus achieve his first international elite victory. In the Tour of Bihor Bellotto, as in the Adriatica Ionica Race, he won the overall and junior ranking as well as one stage. Subsequently, Sosa dominated the Sibiu Cycling Tour 2018, in which, in addition to a stage win, he won all the ratings. Sosa celebrated his greatest success to date at the Burgos Tour 2018. With a victory on the final stage of the tour, he was able to take the lead in the overall standings from his compatriot Miguel Ángel López . He also won the mountain classification and the junior classification of the Spanish Tour.

For the 2019 season he was signed by Team Sky (later Ineos) and thus rose as a driver to a UCI WorldTeam . He won the mountain classification of the Tour Colombia , a race in the first UCI category. He contested his first " Grand Tour " as part of the Ineos team in May with the Giro d'Italia 2019 .

successes

2017

2018

2019

2020

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 2019
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia 44
Yellow jersey Tour de France -
Red jersey Vuelta a España -

Web links

Commons : Iván Ramiro Sosa  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Sosa still catches the Lagunas de Neila compatriot Lopez. In: radsport-news.com. August 11, 2018, accessed May 17, 2019 .
  2. ↑ The confusion of change ended! Sosa is a new addition to Team Sky. In: radsport-news.com. November 26, 2018, accessed May 17, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Sosa, Iván
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sosa Cuervo, Iván Ramiro (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Colombian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH October 31, 1997
PLACE OF BIRTH Pasca