Ion Izagirre

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

Career 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 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 remaining, before winning the stage by sixteen seconds from his nearest competitor.

Following the collapse of the team at the end of the 2013 season, both Izagirre brothers were signed by the for the 2014 season.

Izagirre won Stage 20 of the 2016 Tour de France in Morzine, after attacking on the wet descent from a three rider group that led over the final climb of Col de Joux Plane.

Izagirre moved to the newly formed team for the 2017 season. He was the team's GC leader at the Tour de France, but crashed out on Stage 1, an individual time trial in Düsseldorf, suffering a lumbar fracture which ended his season.

He was joined at by his brother Gorka for the 2018 season. In August 2018 it was announced that the brothers would join in 2019. In his first year with Astana, Izagirre won the overall titles of the Tour of the Basque Country and the Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana as well as the final stage of Paris–Nice. His win at the Basque Country made him the first Basque rider to win the race since Iban Mayo in 2003. The following season, he won his third Grand Tour stage and first in the Vuelta a España, completing the trio. In June 2021, he won his second national time trial championship, before signing an initial one-year contract to ride for in 2022 three months later.

His first win with Cofidis came on stage six of the 2022 Tour of the Basque Country. In 2023, he GP Miguel Induráin one-day race as well as his second Tour de France stage, in a solo victory on stage 12.

Major results Izagirre at the 2017 Paris–Nice, where he finished in seventh place.

2006 3rd National Junior Cyclo-cross Championships 2008 1st Gipuzkoa Individual Time Trial 3rd Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships 2009 1st Basque Under-23 Cyclo-cross Championships 1st Memorial Angel Mantecon 1st Stage 4 Bizkaiko Bira 5th Overall Bidasoa Itzulia 2011 4th Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia 2012 (2 pro wins) 1st Stage 16 Giro d'Italia 1st Stage 2b (ITT) Vuelta a Asturias 3rd Les Boucles du Sud Ardèche 7th Overall Tour de Pologne 2013 National Road Championships 2nd Road race 4th Time trial 2nd Overall Tour de Pologne 4th Overall Tour Down Under 9th Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal 2014 (1) National Road Championships 1st Road race 2nd Time trial 2nd Overall Tour de Pologne 4th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía 6th Overall Tour of Britain 8th Overall Tour de Romandie 2015 (1) 1st Overall Tour de Pologne 2nd GP Miguel Induráin 2nd Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia

3rd Overall Tour of the Basque Country 10th Overall Volta ao Algarve 2016 (5) 1st Time trial, National Road Championships 1st GP Miguel Induráin 1st Stage 20 Tour de France 2nd Overall Volta ao Algarve 2nd Overall Tour de Suisse 1st Stage 8 (ITT) 3rd Overall Tour de Romandie 1st Prologue 4th Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana 5th Overall Paris–Nice 8th Time trial, Olympic Games 8th Overall Eneco Tour 8th Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal 2017 3rd Road race, National Road Championships 3rd Overall Tour of the Basque Country 5th Overall Tour de Romandie 5th Liège–Bastogne–Liège 6th Overall Tour de Suisse 6th Vuelta a Murcia 7th Overall Paris–Nice 7th Amstel Gold Race 2018 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships 3rd Overall Tour of the Basque Country 4th Overall Paris–Nice 6th Giro di Lombardia 7th Clásica de San Sebastián 9th Overall Vuelta a España 2019 (3) 1st Overall Tour of the Basque Country 1st Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana 1st Stage 8 Paris–Nice 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Vuelta a España 2nd Overall Vuelta a Andalucía 2020 (1) 1st Stage 6 Vuelta a España 4th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía 7th Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana 2021 (2) 1st Time trial, National Road Championships 3rd Overall Paris–Nice 7th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné 7th Overall Tour de Romandie 10th Overall Tour of the Basque Country 1st Stage 4 2022 (1) 2nd Overall Tour of the Basque Country 1st Stage 6 5th Time trial, National Road Championships 6th Overall O Gran Camiño 6th Overall Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle-Aquitaine 7th Overall Paris–Nice 7th GP Miguel Induráin 2023 (2) 1st GP Miguel Induráin 1st Stage 12 Tour de France 3rd Overall Tour of the Basque Country 5th Clásica de San Sebastián 7th Circuito de Getxo 8th Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal 8th Tre Valli Varesine 10th Coppa Bernocchi 2024 4th Giro di Lombardia 4th GP Miguel Induráin 5th Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal 9th Overall Tour of the Basque Country 2025 3rd Japan Cup 10th Tre Valli Varesine 2026 (1) 1st GP Miguel Induráin 4th Overall Tour of the Basque Country 5th Figueira Champions Classic 6th Eschborn–Frankfurt 7th Overall Paris–Nice 7th Overall Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle-Aquitaine 7th La Flèche Wallonne 9th Andorra MoraBanc Clàssica

General classification results timeline Grand Tour general classification results Grand Tour 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Giro d'Italia — 48 — — 27 — — — 36 — — — — — — — Tour de France — — 69 41 — 47 DNF 22 — DNF 26 40 45 DNF 69 45 Vuelta a España — — — — — — —9 16 29 26 — — 37 Major stage race general classification results Major stage race 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Paris–Nice — — 55 19 26574 21 —37 21 26 —7 Tirreno–Adriatico 24 16 — — — — — — — — — — — — 28 — Volta a Catalunya DNF — — — — — — — —NH — — — — — — Tour of the Basque Country — — 47 553 —33110239 664 Tour de Romandie 103 — —8 —35 89 —7 64 DNF — 22 — Critérium du Dauphiné — — — — — — — — — —7 — — — — Tour de Suisse — — 34 43 DNF26 15 —NH — 34 12 DNF 52 —

Classics results timeline Monument 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Milan–San Remo DNF 85 — — 24 — — — — — — — — — — — Tour of Flanders 133 — — — — — — — — — — — — — — — Paris–Roubaix DNF 79 — — — — — — —NH — — — — — — Liège–Bastogne–Liège DNF — 87 86 — 305 101 56 — — 26 16 19 34 Giro di Lombardia DNF — DNF DNF DNF DNF —6 DNF 79 — — 404 13 Classic 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026 Amstel Gold Race DNF — DNF DNF — 247 19 — — — — — DNF — 12 La Flèche Wallonne 107 — 67 71 — 64 12 101 DNF — — 128 27 DNF —7 Eschborn–Frankfurt — — — — — — — — — — — — — — —6 Clásica de San Sebastián — — — — — 19 —7 —NH — DNF5 47 99 Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec 73 DNF 32 — 22 62 — — —NH DNF 65 44 DNF Grand Prix Cycliste de Montréal 32 729 — 248 — — — 6385 13 Tre Valli Varesine — — — — — — — — — — — 398 NR10

+ Legend — Did not compete DNF Did not finish DSQ Disqualified NH Not held NR No result