Iván Ramiro Sosa Cuervo (born 31 October 1997) is a Colombian cyclist, who currently rides for
UCI WorldTeam
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...
.
Career
Early life and amateur career
Sosa was born into a farming family in
Pasca
Pasca is a town and municipality in the Cundinamarca department of Colombia located in the Andes. It belongs to the Sumapaz Province. Pasca is situated on the Altiplano Cundiboyacense at a distance of from the capital Bogotá. It borders F ...
,
Cundinamarca, a town located at high altitude in the Colombian
Andes
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, near the capital
Bogotá.
His father, who is a cycling fan, chose the name Iván for his son after
Iván Parra
Iván Ramiro Parra Pinto (born 14 October 1975 in Sogamoso) is a Colombian former road bicycle racer, who competed professionally for Petróleos de Colombia, , , , Cafes Baque, , , and . Parra comes from a Colombian cycling family. His father, ...
, a Colombian cyclist whom he admired. He is the cousin of professional cyclist
Jhojan García
Jhojan Orlando García Sosa (born 10 January 1998) is a Colombian cyclist, who last rode for UCI ProTeam . In October 2020, he was named in the startlist for the 2020 Vuelta a España.
Major results
;2016
: 1st Overall Junior Vuelta a Colombia
; ...
,
and a close friend of fellow Colombian cyclist
Egan Bernal
Egan Arley Bernal Gómez (born 13 January 1997) is a Colombian cyclist who rides for UCI WorldTeam . In 2019 he won the Tour de France, becoming the first Latin American rider to do so, and the youngest winner since 1909. At the 2021 Giro d'Ita ...
.
He left Colombia for Europe in early 2016 to race for the amateur team Maltinti Lampadari-Banca di Cambiano, and settled in
Empoli,
Italy
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. His first win for the team came in June, in the 79th edition of the Schio-Ossario del Pasubio race.
Androni Giocattoli–Sidermec
In 2016, Sosa signed a two-year contract with Italian
Professional Continental team beginning with the 2017 season.
In January 2018, he took his first victory as a professional by winning the 4th stage of the
Vuelta al Táchira
The Vuelta ciclista al Táchira (''English'': Tour of Táchira) is a multi-day road bicycle racing stage race held annually each January since 1966 in the state of Táchira in western Venezuela. The Vuelta al Táchira is part of the UCI America ...
. His real breakthrough came the following month though, when he finished an impressing 6th overall in the inaugural edition of the Colombian stage race
Colombia Oro y Paz. In April, he was part of the team's line-up for the
Tour of the Alps
The Tour of the Alps is an annual professional cycling stage race in Italy and Austria. First held in 1962, it was named Giro del Trentino ( en, Tour of Trentino) until 2016, and run over four stages in the Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol region o ...
and wore the overall leader's jersey after finishing 3rd on the first two mountain stages, ahead of riders such as
Chris Froome
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,
Thibaut Pinot
Thibaut Pinot (born 29 May 1990) is a French professional road bicycle racer, who rides for UCI WorldTeam . Once considered one of the most promising talents in French cycling, he finished third overall in the 2014 Tour de France and first in t ...
and
Fabio Aru
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, but lost his leader's jersey after a crash during a descent on the third stage involving a race motorcycle.
Sosa was not a part of the team's planned line-up for the
Giro d'Italia, and team manager
Gianni Savio stated that Sosa's impressing performance at the Tour of the Alps had not made him reconsidering his decision, despite Sosa "perhaps wanting to take part in the Giro". He explained his decision by saying his philosophy is to discover talents and let them develop little by little, continuing "It's one thing to ride a race such as the Tour of the Alps with great champions like Froome and Aru, but it has just five racing days and the stages are only short. It's another thing to throw a young 20-year-old rider with no international experience into a three week race such as the Giro d'Italia with stages of over 200 km". Instead he was part of the team's squad at the
Tour of Bihor
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The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing
Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of r ...
, a
Romania
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n stage race, in early June, where he won the overall classification as well as one stage. Later the same month, he won the overall classification at the inaugural
Adriatica Ionica Race
The Adriatica Ionica Race is an Italian annual professional men's road bicycle race introduced in the 2018 season as a part of the UCI Europe Tour, and currently classified as a 2.1 event. The race is organised by former professional cyclist M ...
, an Italian stage race, as well as one stage.
World Tour contract dispute
Sosa initially signed a two-year contract with , beginning in 2019, with Trek paying Sosa's release clause of €120,000.
However after an initial press release from the team, as well as a video published from Sosa, a dispute between Alberati Fondriest Cycling Academy (Sosa's initial representation) and well-connected rider agent
Giuseppe Acquadro occurred.
Acquadro took over representation of Sosa, informing Trek that he would not be riding for the team. Androni reimbursed Trek for the release clause and in late November 2018, ''
Cyclingnews.com
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History
In 1995 Australian Bill Mitchell, a keen cyclist and professor of economics at the University of Newcastle, created the website titled "Bill’s Cycli ...
'' announced that Sosa would sign for on a three-year deal.
Team Sky
In May 2019, he was named in the startlist for the
2019 Giro d'Italia
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. In October 2020, he was named in the startlist for the
2020 Vuelta a España
The 2020 Vuelta a España was the 75th edition of the Vuelta a España, one of cycling's three grand tours. It was won for the second consecutive year by Primož Roglič of .
The race was originally scheduled to be held from 14 August to 6 Sept ...
.
Major results
;2016
: 1st Schio-Ossario del Pasubio
;2017
: 3rd Overall
Tour of Bihor
The Tour of Bihor-Bellotto is a multi-day cycling race in Bihor, Romania established 2016. It is part of UCI Europe Tour
The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing
Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of r ...
::1st
![Jersey orange](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/Jersey_orange.svg)
Young rider classification
: 7th Overall
Vuelta al Táchira
The Vuelta ciclista al Táchira (''English'': Tour of Táchira) is a multi-day road bicycle racing stage race held annually each January since 1966 in the state of Táchira in western Venezuela. The Vuelta al Táchira is part of the UCI America ...
::1st
![Jersey pink](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Jersey_pink.svg)
Young rider classification
;2018
: 1st
![Jersey violet](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Jersey_violet.svg)
Overall
Vuelta a Burgos
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::1st
![Jersey red](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/Jersey_red.svg)
Mountains classification
::1st
![Jersey white](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Jersey_white.svg)
Young rider classification
::1st Stage 5
: 1st
![MaillotCyan](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/27/MaillotCyan.PNG)
Overall
Adriatica Ionica Race
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::1st
![Jersey white](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Jersey_white.svg)
Young rider classification
::1st Stage 3
: 1st
![Jersey yellow](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Jersey_yellow.svg)
Overall
Sibiu Cycling Tour
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::1st
![Jersey green](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/Jersey_green.svg)
Points classification
::1st
![Jersey white](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Jersey_white.svg)
Mountains classification
::1st
![Jersey orange](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/Jersey_orange.svg)
Young rider classification
::1st Stage 1
: 1st
![Jersey yellow](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Jersey_yellow.svg)
Overall
Tour of Bihor
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The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing
Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of r ...
::1st
![Jersey orange](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/57/Jersey_orange.svg)
Young rider classification
::1st Stage 2a
: 1st Stage 4
Vuelta al Táchira
The Vuelta ciclista al Táchira (''English'': Tour of Táchira) is a multi-day road bicycle racing stage race held annually each January since 1966 in the state of Táchira in western Venezuela. The Vuelta al Táchira is part of the UCI America ...
: 6th Overall
Tour de l'Avenir
Tour de l'Avenir ( en, Tour of the Future) is a French road bicycle racing stage race, which started in 1961 as a race similar to the Tour de France and over much of the same course but for amateurs and for semi-professionals known as independen ...
::1st Stage 7
: 6th Overall
Colombia Oro y Paz
: 10th Overall
Vuelta al Táchira
The Vuelta ciclista al Táchira (''English'': Tour of Táchira) is a multi-day road bicycle racing stage race held annually each January since 1966 in the state of Táchira in western Venezuela. The Vuelta al Táchira is part of the UCI America ...
::1st Stage 4
;2019
: 1st
![Jersey violet](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a7/Jersey_violet.svg)
Overall
Vuelta a Burgos
Vuelta Ciclista a Burgos is an elite professional road bicycle racing event held annually in the Burgos province of Spain. The men's Vuelta a Burgos has been a multi-day stage race as part of the UCI Europe Tour since 2005. In 2019, a multi-day ...
::1st
![Jersey red](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/Jersey_red.svg)
Mountains classification
::1st
![Jersey white](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Jersey_white.svg)
Young rider classification
::1st Stage 3 & 5
: 2nd Overall
Route d'Occitanie
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::1st
![Jersey white](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/07/Jersey_white.svg)
Young rider classification
::1st Stage 3
: 2nd Overall
Tour Colombia
The Tour Colombia, called earlier Colombia Oro y Paz is a stage professional cycling race held annually in Colombia since 2018. It is part of UCI America Tour in category 2.1.
Winners
See also
* Vuelta a Colombia
The Vuelta a Colombia ...
::1st
![Jersey pink](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Jersey_pink.svg)
Mountains classification
: 2nd
Gran Piemonte
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;2020
: 1st Stage 5
Vuelta a Burgos
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;2021
: 1st
![Jersey Tour De La Provence Leader](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/Jersey_Tour_De_La_Provence_Leader.svg)
Overall
Tour de la Provence
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::1st
![Jersey green](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c5/Jersey_green.svg)
Young rider classification
::1st Stage 3
;2022
: 1st
![Jersey yellow](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/29/Jersey_yellow.svg)
Overall
Tour de Langkawi
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::1st Stage 3
: 1st
![Jersey cyan](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/54/Jersey_cyan.svg)
Overall
Vuelta a Asturias
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::1st Stage 2
: 5th Overall
O Gran Camiño
::1st
![Jersey blue](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/Jersey_blue.svg)
Mountains classification
: 9th Overall
Deutschland Tour
The Deutschland Tour (English: ''Tour of Germany'' and sometimes ''Deutschland-Rundfahrt'' in German) is the most important multi-stage road bicycle race in Germany. Initially the race was held in May/June, but from 2005 until 2008 it was moved t ...
: 10th Overall
Vuelta a Andalucía
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Grand Tour general classification results timeline
References
External links
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sosa, Ivan
1997 births
Living people
Colombian male cyclists
People from Cundinamarca Department