# 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 Cofidis. 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 Euskaltel–Euskadi 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 4 km (2.5 mi) remaining, before winning the stage by sixteen seconds from his nearest competitor.
Following the collapse of the Euskaltel–Euskadi team at the end of the 2013 season, both Izagirre brothers were signed by the Movistar Team for the 2014 season.
In 2015, Izagirre won the Tour de Pologne. He started the final stage sixth on general classification but overhauled race leader Sergio Henao (Team Sky) and the others above him by virtue of a superior time trial performance on the rolling 25-kilometre (16-mile) circuit.
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 Bahrain–Merida 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 Bahrain–Merida by his brother Gorka for the 2018 season. In August 2018 it was announced that the brothers would join Astana 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 Cofidis 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
### 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 Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships
    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

### 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 |
| Giro d'Italia | — | 48 | — | — | 27 | — | — | — | 36 | — | — | — | — | — |
| Tour de France | — | — | 69 | 41 | — | 47 | DNF | 22 | — | DNF | 26 | 40 | 45 | DNF |
| Vuelta a España | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 9 | 16 | 29 | 26 | — | — | |
| Major stage race general classification results |||||||||||||||
| Race | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
| Paris–Nice | — | — | 55 | 19 | 26 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 21 | — | 3 | 7 | 21 | 26 |
| Tirreno–Adriatico | 24 | 16 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Volta a Catalunya | DNF | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | NH | — | — | — | — |
| Tour of the Basque Country | — | — | 47 | 55 | 3 | — | 3 | 3 | 1 | NH | 10 | 2 | 3 | 9 |
| Tour de Romandie | 103 | — | — | 8 | — | 3 | 5 | 89 | — | NH | 7 | 64 | DNF | |
| Critérium du Dauphiné | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 7 | — | — | |
| Tour de Suisse | — | — | 34 | 43 | DNF | 2 | 6 | 15 | — | NH | — | 34 | 12 | |
Legend :
| — | Did not compete |
| DNF | Did not finish |
| DSQ | Disqualified |
| NH | Not held |