Andres Higuita - A Colombian Professional Road Racing Cyclist
Andres Higuita is a professional road cyclist from Columbia. He is currently a member of the UCI World Team Bora-Hansgrohe. He recently went on a long-distance attack with Richard Carapaz on stage 6 of the 2022 Volta a Catalunya.
Andres Higuita was named to the start list for the Vuelta La Espana in August 2019 shortly after joining the UCI Continental team Euskaltel-Euskadi in May 2019.
In early 2020, he finished third in Paris-Good, earning the best young rider jersey.
He was named to the starting list for the 2020 Tour de France in August 2020.
Andres Higuita of EF Education first won his first grand tour stage on the 18th stage of the Vuelta La Espana in his first year on a WorldTour team.
He did not complete the Tour, but he finished 25th overall in the year 2021.
Andres Higuita went on a long-distance attack with Richard Carapaz on stage 6 of the 2022 Volta a Catalunya.
On the final stage in Barcelona Spain, Andres Higuita defended his position by winning the Mountains and Best Young Rider classifications.
Here are some of his professional cycling accomplishments:
2016 9th Total Tour de Gironde
2016 10th Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia
2017 1st Mountains classification, Vanelta an Asturias
2018 9th Klasika Primavera
2018 9th All round Vuelta a Castilla y León
2018 9th round Tour of China I
2019 1st Young rider classification, Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
2019 2nd In general Tour of California
2019 3rd Giro dell Emilia
2019 3rd GP Miguel Induráin
2019 4th In general Tour de Pologne
2019 4th Highway race, UCI Street World Under–23 Championships
2019 4th Klasika Primavera
2020 1st Highway race, National Highway Championships
2020 1st General Tour Colombia
2021 6th Tre Valli Varesine
2021 9th Giro della Toscana
2021 10th Giro di Lombardia
2022 1st Street race, Countrywide Road Championships
The South Americans scored twice, winning the stage and seizing control of the overall standings in the cycling competition.
Colombian Andres Higuita won the third stage of the Tour of Poland, which took place over 237.9 kilometers between Krasnik and Przemysl, taking the yellow jersey away from Norwegian Jonas Abrahamsen.
Higuita beat Spaniard Peio Bilbao (TBV) and Belgian Quinten Hermans (IWG) to the top of a three-kilometer climb by four and six seconds, respectively.
Quentin Pacher, the first Frenchman, finished ninth in ten seconds.
The Bora-Hansgrohe climber, who won his ninth career victory, thus gave himself a nice gift for his 25th birthday.
Completing a list of winners that already includes a final victory in the previous Tour of Catalonia and a stage victory in the Tour of Spain 2019.
With his three second and third category difficulties and a finish judged at the top of a hill with passages at 15%, the reigning Colombian road champion won at the end of a very uneven final favorable to the punchers.
This third stage was highlighted by a long breakaway of five riders who managed to gain up to seven minutes on the peloton.
In the day's final difficulty, a group of about forty mentook over these attackers.
A group of thirteen riders then formed to compete for the victory.
Andres Higuita is racing on a custom-colored Size 48cm Cannondale SuperSix EVO frame to commemorate his Colombia Road Bike Champion title.
Andres Higuita is a Climber rider who stands 1m63 and has a 120mm stem length. As a result, Higuita's Prologo Scratch 2 saddle is 664mm high and 515mm away from the handlebar.
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