The big peloton will go to the start of the 40th edition of the Cycling Race of Ecuador

Riobamba

In total 13 squadswith runners from eight countrieswill be a part 40th edition from Cycling tour of Ecuador which starts this Monday, September 25 in Riobamba.

The Ecuador bike tour starts its journey in Riobamba

Are they four continental teams, two international guests and seven national teams those who make up the list of the national tour that will be conducted in six stages, through four provinces in the central and northern areas of the Ecuadorian mountains.

Among the main compositions are two continental teams with the flag of Ecuador: Movistar-Best PC and Banco Guayaquil-Ecuadorthe team that will defend the title in 2022 with Colombian Robinson Chalapuda.

It will be with the defending champion two Ecuadorians and also winners of the national circuit in 2019 and 2021, Jorge Montenegro and Steven Haro, next to Sebastián Caicedo and Nixon Roser. Coffee growers Carlos Gutiérrez and Cristhian Montoya complete the team.

IN The dispute over favoritism at the Vuelta al Ecuador is Movistar-Best PCwhich for this edition arrives with a four-time test winner Byron of Guam (2004, 2008, 2010 and 2012) and also champion Santiago Montenegro (2020).

The contribution of the team’s experience and hierarchy is made by the Colombian Juan Diego Alba, part of the Spanish Movistar team that ran UCI WorldTour events in 2020 and 2021. The drivers who complete the team are Ecuadorians Richard Huera, national road champion in 2022, and Joel Fuertes, along with Colombian Marco Tulio Suesca and Venezuelan Carlos Galviz.

The third continental team in the race is Mexican Cane’s Zero Unodirected by Juan José Monsiváis, who defined the test as “the return of the most complicated and difficult to happen in Americamainly because of the altitude of the route and the bravery of the local runners.”

The runners of the Mexican team for this edition are the Aztecs Efrén Santos, Ignacio Prado and Eduardo Corte, the Colombian Heiner Parra, the Chilean Pablo Andrés Alarcón and the Irish Cormac McGeough.

Panama, Culture and Values​​​​ is the fourth continental team it will be in the ecuadorian round, the central american team that comes with the difference that it is the third team in the ranking of the UCI America Tour, a list in which Movistar-Best PC is sixth and Banco Guayaquil is eighth.

As international visiting teams are Americans Rio Grande Cycling Club, which already had an excellent performance by its members in the last edition. Also added Club AVV Perufor which it will be her first participation in the Vuelta.

The payroll of local staff is with Cinecable Internet Garra 04, CyS Technology, Team Pichincha, Club Halcones Unidos, Toscana and Team Narváez-SF, who arrive from young perspectives of national cycling These are their lines.

There is also Team Saitel, with the presence of experienced The second Navarretewhich marks his return to the national tour following an accident in November, a training accident that nearly cost him his life, as the Carchense native prepared for the 2022 Vuelta al Ecuador (D)