Miguel Ángel López (cyclist)

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Miguel Ángel López Road cycling
Miguel Angel López (2016)
Miguel Angel López (2016)
To person
Full name Miguel Ángel López Moreno
Nickname Superman
Date of birth 4th February 1994 (age 26)
nation ColombiaColombia Colombia
discipline Street
Driver type Mountain specialist
To the team
Current team Astana
function driver
Team (s)
2015– Astana
Most important successes

Overall ranking Tour de Suisse 2016
Overall ranking Catalonia Tour 2019

Last updated: August 19, 2018

Miguel Ángel López Moreno (born February 4, 1994 in Pesca ) is a Colombian cyclist .

Career

Miguel Ángel López won the Tour de l'Avenir in 2014 . The following year he joined the UCI WorldTeam Astana Pro Team and won a stage of the Vuelta a Burgos . He was also overall seventh in the Tour de Suisse . In 2016 he won stages in the Tour de San Luis and the Tour de Langkawi . With the overall ranking of the Tour de Suisse 2016 , he achieved his greatest career success to date. He finished the race twelve seconds ahead of runner-up Ion Izagirre .

In September 2016 he took part in a " Grand Tour " for the first time with the Tour of Spain , which he had to give up prematurely after two falls during the sixth stage. After his recovery, he won the Italian classic Milan – Turin at the end of September .

After Lopez was thrown back in preparation during a training fall in November 2016, he fell again as defending champion during the Tour de Suisse and had to forego the planned start at the Tour de France . Instead, he competed in the Tour of Austria and won a stage there. He scored his second win of the season at the Burgos Tour. He then contested his second Vuelta a España , which he finished eighth overall, ahead of the regular Astana captain Fabio Aru (13th), after two stage wins on the mountain finishes of the eleventh and fifteenth day segments .

In the 2018 season, Lopez was third overall in the Giro d'Italia , winning the junior ranking . He also won stages of the Tour of Oman , the Tour of the Alps and the Tour of Burgos.

At the beginning of the 2019 season, Lopez won the overall ratings of the Tour Colombia and the Tour of Catalonia . At the subsequent Giro d'Italia he was brought down by a spectator in the final climb of the 20th stage and lost 1:49 minutes. After his accident, Lopez hit the viewer. Finally, he was overall seventh of the tour and again won the Maglia Bianca,

successes

2014

2015

2016

2017

2018

2019

2020

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour 2016 2017 2018 2019
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - - 3 7th
Yellow jersey Tour de France - - - -
Red jersey Vuelta a España DNF 8th 3 5
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Web links

Commons : Miguel Ángel López  - Collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vinokourov: "López can win a GrandTour". In: radsport-news.com. June 20, 2016. Retrieved September 11, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Miguel Angel López secures the greatest success of his career. In: radsport-news.com. June 19, 2016. Retrieved September 11, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Broken tibia - long break for Miguel Ángel López. In: radsport-news.com. November 5, 2016. Retrieved September 11, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Miguel Angel Lopez triumphs at the Superga basilica. In: radsport-news.com. September 28, 2016. Retrieved September 11, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Astana: Two captains aiming for the top ten. In: radsport-news.com. June 29, 2017. Retrieved September 11, 2017 .
  6. ↑ Lopez wins on Calar Alto, Froome significantly extends leadership. In: radsport-news.com. August 30, 2017. Retrieved September 11, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Lopez wins the queen stage, Froome extends the lead again. In: radsport-news.com. September 3, 2017. Retrieved September 11, 2017 .
  8. ↑ Bilbao sprints faster than Landa on Monte Avena. In: radsport-news.com. June 1, 2019, accessed June 14, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME López, Miguel Ángel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES López Moreno, Miguel Ángel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Colombian cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH 4th February 1994
PLACE OF BIRTH Pesca