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Jon Izagirre

Ion Izagirre
Le Touquet-Paris-Plage - Tour de France, étape 4, 8 juillet 2014, départ (B116).JPG
Izagirre at the 2014 Tour de France
Personal information
Full name Ion Izagirre Insausti
Born (1989-02-04) 4 February 1989 (age 28)
Ormaiztegi, Basque Country, Spain
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight 60 kg (130 lb; 9.4 st)
Team information
Current team Bahrain–Merida
Discipline Road and cyclo-cross
Role Rider
Rider type All-rounder
Amateur team(s)
2009 Seguros Bilbao
2009 Orbea (stagiaire)
Professional team(s)
2010 Orbea
2011–2013 Euskaltel–Euskadi
2014–2016 Movistar Team
2017– Bahrain–Merida
Major wins

Grand Tours

Tour de France
1 individual stage (2016)
Giro d'Italia
1 individual stage (2012)

Stage races

Tour de Pologne (2015)

One-day races and Classics

National Road Race Championships (2014)
National Time Trial Championships (2016)

Grand Tours

Stage races

One-day races and Classics

Ion Izagirre Insausti (born 4 February 1989) is a Spanish professional road bicycle racer and cyclo-cross rider, who rides for UCI WorldTeam Bahrain–Merida. He is sometimes referred to as Jon Izaguirre, to retain the correct the correct pronunciation under Castilian orthography.

Born in Ormaiztegi in the Basque Country, Izagirre comes from a family of professional cyclists, as both his father José Ramón and brother Gorka have competed professionally on the roads and in cyclo-cross. Having joined the Euskaltel–Euskadi team – alongside brother Gorka – from the 2011 season onwards,

Izagirre won his first professional races in the spring of 2012; he won the individual time trial at the Vuelta a Asturias in April, before taking a victory during his Grand Tour début at the Giro d'Italia. During the sixteenth stage, Izagirre made a solo breakaway with 4 km (2.5 mi) remaining, before winning the stage by sixteen seconds from his nearest competitor.

Both Izagirre brothers were signed by the Movistar Team for the 2014 season.


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