Sad farewell to professional cycling for Ion Izagirre after breaking his left wrist

Misfortune has crossed my path Ion Izagirre. The veteran Spanish cyclist (37 years old), as his team has announced, Cofidissuffered a fall while training in the Basque Country, with such misfortune that he fractured his left wrist.

As a result of this mishap, the Ormaiztegi corridor He will no longer be able to compete again for the remainder of the season and it so happens that Izagirre had already warned that this was going to be his last active campaign and that on December 31 he was going to stop being a professional cyclist.

In this way, Ion Izagirre says goodbye to professional cycling after 16 seasons, since he debuted in 2010 in the ranks of the Orbea-Oreka SDA. Throughout his long career, Ion has achieved a total of 20 victories. The last one, on September 12, in the Marco Pantani Memorial. Thus, and within the misfortune, Ion Izagirre will always be able to say that his last race ended with victory, the second of this 2026 season after the one achieved in the Miguel Indurain Grand Prize.

He has his signature in the three great cycling tours

Ion Izagirre He is one of the few cyclists who has achieved at least one victory in the three great cycling tours: In 2012 in the 16th stage of the Giro d’Italiain 2016 in the 20th stage of the Tour de Francein 2010 in the sixth stage of The Returnrepeating in the ‘Big Boucle’ on the 12th day of 2023.