Sergio Higuita
.jpg) Higuita in 2020. | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Sergio Andrés Higuita García |
| Nickname | Higuita Monster |
| Born | 1 August 1997 Medellín, Colombia |
| Height | 1.66 m (5 ft 5 in) |
| Weight | 54 kg (119 lb) |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Red Bull–Bora–Hansgrohe |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | All-rounder |
| Amateur team | |
| 2015 | 4-72 El servicio de envíos |
| Professional teams | |
| 2016–2018 | Team Manzana Postobón[1] |
| 2019 | Fundación Euskadi |
| 2019–2021 | EF Education First[2][3] |
| 2022– | Bora–Hansgrohe |
| Major wins | |
Grand Tours
| |
Sergio Andrés Higuita García (born 1 August 1997) is a Colombian professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Red Bull–Bora–Hansgrohe.[4]
Career
[edit]He moved to EF Education First from UCI Continental team Euskaltel–Euskadi in May 2019,[5] having initially been set to join in the summer.[6] In August 2019, he was named in the startlist for the 2019 Vuelta a España.[7] In early 2020 he finished 3rd in Paris-Nice and won the best young rider jersey. In August 2020, he was named in the startlist for the 2020 Tour de France.[8] He did not finish the Tour but the following year he placed 25th overall.[9]
Higuita moved to Bora–Hansgrohe for the 2022 season. On stage 6 of the 2022 Volta a Catalunya he went on a long distance attack with Richard Carapaz. The pair stayed away for over 100 kilometers and Higuita moved into the leader's jersey.[10] He defended his position on the final stage in Barcelona and also won the Mountains and Best Young Rider classifications.
Major results
[edit]- 2016
- 9th Overall Tour de Gironde
- 10th Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia
- 2017
- 1st
Mountains classification, Vuelta a Asturias - 2018
- 9th Klasika Primavera
- 9th Overall Vuelta a Castilla y León
- 9th Overall Tour of China I
- 1st
Mountains classification
- 1st
- 2019 (1 pro win)
- Vuelta a España
- 1st Stage 18
Combativity award Stage 18
- 1st Young rider classification, Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
- 2nd Overall Tour of California
- 3rd Giro dell'Emilia
- 3rd GP Miguel Induráin
- 4th Overall Tour de Pologne
- 4th Road race, UCI Road World Under-23 Championships
- 4th Klasika Primavera
- 4th Trofeo Serra de Tramuntana
- 5th Overall Volta ao Alentejo
- 1st Stage 4
- 5th Tre Valli Varesine
- 6th Trofeo Campos, Porreres, Felanitx, Ses Salines
- 7th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía
- 2020 (3)
- 1st
Road race, National Road Championships - 1st
Overall Tour Colombia
- 1st Young rider classification
- 1st Stages 1 (TTT) & 4
- 1st
- 3rd Overall Paris–Nice
- 1st Young rider classification
- 1st
- 2021
- 6th Tre Valli Varesine
- 9th Giro della Toscana
- 10th Giro di Lombardia
- 2022 (5)
- 1st Road race, National Road Championships
- 1st
Overall Volta a Catalunya
- 1st
Mountains classification - 1st
Young rider classification
- 1st
- 1st Stage 4 Tour de Romandie
- 1st Stage 5 Volta ao Algarve
- 2nd Overall Tour de Suisse
- 1st Young rider classification
- 1st
- 2nd Tre Valli Varesine
- 4th Giro di Lombardia
- 5th Liège–Bastogne–Liège
- 8th Overall Tour de Pologne
- 1st Stage 3
- 10th Strade Bianche
- 2023 (1)
- 2nd GP Miguel Induráin
- 3rd Overall Vuelta a San Juan
- 6th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
- 1st Stage 5
- 2024
- 2nd Road race, National Road Championships
- 3rd Overall Czech Tour
- 6th Vuelta a Murcia
- 8th Grand Prix of Aargau Canton
- 9th Overall Sibiu Cycling Tour
- 10th Overall Vuelta a Burgos
General classification results timeline
[edit]| Grand Tour general classification results | ||||||||
| Grand Tour | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Giro d'Italia
|
— | — | — | — | — | — | ||
 Tour de France
|
— | DNF | 25 | — | — | |||
 Vuelta a España
|
14 | — | — | 23 | 43 | |||
| Major stage race general classification results | ||||||||
| Race | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | ||
| Paris–Nice
|
— | 3 | — | — | — | — | ||
 Tirreno–Adriatico
|
— | — | 35 | — | — | — | ||
 Volta a Catalunya
|
— | NH | — | 1 | — | 33 | ||
| Tour of the Basque Country
|
— | 28 | DNF | 6 | — | |||
| Tour de Romandie
|
— | — | 24 | DNF | 82 | |||
 Critérium du Dauphiné
|
— | 64 | — | — | — | — | ||
| Tour de Suisse
|
— | NH | — | 2 | 43 | |||
Monuments results timeline
[edit]| Monument | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Milan–San Remo | — | — | 36 | — | — | — |
| Tour of Flanders | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Paris–Roubaix | — | NH | — | — | — | — |
| Liège–Bastogne–Liège | — | — | 31 | 5 | DNF | |
| Giro di Lombardia | 76 | — | 10 | 4 | DNF |
| — | Did not compete |
|---|---|
| DNF | Did not finish |
| IP | In progress |
References
[edit]- ^ "Manzana Postobon confirms 2018 squad". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 29 November 2017. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
- ^ Bacon, Ellis (1 January 2020). "2020 Team Preview: EF Education First". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. Retrieved 2 January 2020.
- ^ "EF Education - Nippo". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 1 January 2021. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- ^ "BORA - HANSGROHE". UCI. Retrieved 18 February 2022.
- ^ Ballinger, Alex (7 May 2019). "'Exceptional' Colombian youngster Sergio Higuita makes mid-season switch to EF Education First". Cycling Weekly. TI Media. Retrieved 20 May 2019.
- ^ Videla, Franco (17 January 2019). "EF-Drapac cede a Sergio Higuita a la Fundación Euskadi" [EF-Drapac hands over Sergio Higuita to the Euskadi Foundation]. Ciclismo Internacional (in Spanish). Pablo Martín Palermo. Retrieved 20 January 2019.
- ^ "2019: 74th La Vuelta ciclista a España". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 23 August 2019.
- ^ "107th Tour de France: Startlist". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 27 August 2020.
- ^ "Sergio Higuita". www.procyclingstats.com. Retrieved 27 March 2022.
- ^ "Higuita takes Volta a Catalunya lead after 117km stage 6 attack". Cycling News by Daniel Ostanek. 26 March 2022.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sergio Higuita.
- Sergio Higuita at UCI
- Sergio Higuita at Cycling Archives
- Sergio Higuita at ProCyclingStats
- Sergio Higuita at Cycling Quotient
- Sergio Higuita at Olympedia
