Ion Izagirre (Cofidis) distanced Sergio Higuita (Bora-Hansgrohe) on the ultimate climb to win the 2023 Gran Premio Miguel Indurain after the 2 had distanced their rivals on the Alto de Eraul climb with 10 km to race.
Izagirre hails from close by Ormaiztegi and so celebrated a neighborhood victory close to his native Basque Nation. He additionally gained the one-day race in 2016.
Higuita completed two seconds behind Izagirre, with Mattias Skjelmose (Trek-Segafredo) third on the identical time and Andreas Kron (Lotto-Dstny) fourth at 13 seconds.
The one-day Gran Premio Miguel Indurain celebrates the five-time Tour de France winner who hails from close by Pamplona. It acts as a warm-up race to the Itzulia Basque Nation WorldTour stage race, that begins on Monday in Vitoria-Gasteiz.
EF Training-EasyPost took cost within the ultimate 80 kilometres of the hilly 203km race, driving to arrange Richard Carapaz and Esteban Chaves. Their pink jerseys spent lengthy spells on the entrance on the rolling roads, chasing down the early four-rider assault and making an attempt to distance as lots of their rivals as they may earlier than the decisive Alto de Eraul.
The race got here again along with 60km to go and stayed collectively till Nelson Oliveira (Movistar) and Luis León Sánchez (Astana Qazaqstan) attacked and reached the foot of the Alto de Eraul.
They have been quickly caught and Izagirre made a primary assault. When he was caught, Chaves tried to leap away however Izagirre was quickly on to him after which attacked once more, with Higuita becoming a member of. That they had a niche excessive of the Alto de Eraul and dived down in the direction of the end.
On the quick however steep Alto Ibarra climb with simply two kilometres to go, Izagirre attacked but once more and at last cracked Higuita. He opened sufficient of a niche for the descent to the end line, with the Colombian unable to shut the hole within the corners.
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