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. 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 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 remaining, before winning the stage by sixteen seconds from his nearest competitor.

Following the collapse of the team at the end of the 2013 season, both Izagirre brothers were signed by the  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 and the others above him by virtue of a superior time trial performance on the rolling 25 km 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 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 by his brother Gorka for the 2018 season. In August 2018 it was announced that the brothers would join 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 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 MaillotEspaña.PNG 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 Jersey yellow.svg Overall Tour de Pologne
 * 2nd GP Miguel Induráin
 * 2nd Prueba Villafranca de Ordizia
 * 3rd Bronze medal blank.svg Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships
 * 3rd Overall Tour of the Basque Country
 * 10th Overall Volta ao Algarve


 * 2016 (5)
 * 1st MaillotEspaña.PNG 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 Jersey yellow.svg Overall Tour of the Basque Country
 * 1st Jersey yellow.svg 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 MaillotEspaña.PNG 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 GP Miguel Induráin
 * 9th Overall Tour of the Basque Country