Maté and Ulloa, favorites at the first Durango Titan Desert México
This Friday, November 13, the first edition of the Durango Titan Desert Mexico. There will be four days of mountain biking: 350 kilometers and 5,500 meters of elevation gain over four stages held entirely in the Durango region.
A platoon with Titans from 12 different countries will fight to overcome the Mexican challenge, the first in the country in the two decades of history of the Titan World Series.
Of all these participants, a handful will aspire to take first place in the race, both in its men’s classification and in its women’s classification.
Among the candidates for the absolute general, stands out Luis Ángel Maté. The Andalusian cyclist, winner of the Škoda Titan Desert Morocco 2026 and the Titan Forest Patagonia 2025, is the big favorite to win the race. An edition that, in any case, will be very special for the ‘Lince’, which will become a Titan Legend, that is, it will exceed the 3,500 kilometers completed in Titan World Series tests.
The other great candidate seems, from the start, Gerardo Ulloa. The Mexican mountain biker, national champion on several occasions, will seek to keep the Durango Titan Desert Mexico trophy at home. Although it will be his first experience in the Titan World Series, Ulloa has spent several years in the top 20 of his category ranking and hopes to be able to compensate for possible inexperience with his high level on the bike.
Outside of these favorites, two young promises promise to fight with Maté and Ulloa every day: the local cyclist Iván Aguilar and the Moroccan Youssef Issmaili. Aguilar, 23 years old. He has already won MTB events at the Pan American Games; while Issmaili, 24, knows what it is to win stages in the Titan World Series and has just been proclaimed national champion in Morocco.
In the women’s general, the great candidate is the triathlete Fabiola Corona. The Mexican is a pioneer of triathlon in the country: she was the first to compete in the Olympic Games, in Beijing 2008, and has several triumphs in mountain bike in the Pan American Games. Other favorites stand in front of Corona, such as Michelle Gallegos or María Alejandra González.
