Iván Velasco

Iván Velasco

Iván Velasco at the Tour de Romandie 2011
To person
Full name	Iván Velasco Murillo
Date of birth	February 7, 1980
nation	Spain
discipline	Street
To the team
Current team	Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
function	driver
Team (s)
2006 2007–2012 2013–2014	Orbea Continental Euskaltel-Euskadi Caja Rural-Seguros RGA
Last updated: October 31, 2014

Iván Velasco Murillo (born February 7, 1980 in Arrasate , Gipuzkoa ) is a former Spanish cyclist .

Career

He started his career in 2006 with the second-rate Spanish professional team Orbea . In the 2007 season he moved to the Basque team Euskaltel-Euskadi , which takes part in the UCI Pro Tour .

Velasco was a member of the Euskaltel-Euskadi squad at the Giro d'Italia 2007 . He finished the three-week race in 76th place. In the following years he took part twice in the Giro d'Italia and once each in the Tour de France and the Vuelta a España . His best result was 51st place at the Vuelta a España 2008 .

Velasco had a good spring in 2010 when he finished 16th in the Tour of Catalonia and 18th in the Tour Down Under and the Basque Country Tour . In 2012 he was ninth in the overall ranking of the Vuelta a Castilla y León .

He ended his career at the end of the 2014 season.

Placements in the Grand Tours

Grand Tour	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014
Giro d'Italia	76	54	-	-	-	DNF	-	-
Tour de France	-	-	-	62	WD	-	-	-
Vuelta a España	-	51	-	-	-	26th	WD	-

Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Web links

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

• Iván Velasco in the Radsportseiten.net database