The squads competing this year in the Tour Colombia 2.1 have been presented to the public in anticipation of the start of the race, which since 2018 has become essential on the world cycling calendar. The competition brings together Colombian sports icons such as Rigoberto Urán, Egan Bernal and Nairo Quintana, who were together with their teams in the Plaza de Bolívar in Tunja as part of the inaugural activities of the sporting event. The tour will take place from February 6 to 11, 2024 and will be based in the departments of Boyacá and Cundinamarca, in the center of the country, to culminate in Bogotá.
Participating athletes
Nairo Quintana returns to high-performance racing as the leader of the Movistar Team, in which Colombians Iván Ramiro Sosa and Fernando Gaviria also participate. Quintana is coming off a difficult year, in which he was sanctioned after testing positive for the use of tramadol in the 2022 Tour de France and was left without a team until he was signed again by Movistar, to which he belonged between 2012 and 2019. “I am excited to come home. It’s been a difficult year. Days without sleep, many days of enormous sacrifice, getting on the bike and trying to walk forward, rain or shine. But it was worth it. “I’m not going to waste the opportunity,” said the cyclist when his signing was announced.
Among the teams present, the Astana Qazaqstan Team and the EF Education–Easy Post stand out, which will participate in a circuit that includes flat, medium and high mountain days. Santiago Umba, Harold Tejada, Rigoberto Urán and Esteban Chaves are some of the national cyclists who are part of these lineups. In addition, the presence of Egan Bernal, Brandon Rivera, Jonathan Restrepo, German Darío Gómez, Jesús David Peña and Juan Diego Alba has been announced.
Complete tour
The opening of the race will be held in the tourist municipality of Paipa, in the department of Boyacá, while the closing will be in the National Park of the capital. The fourth edition of the event is made up of a total of six stages, which are distributed as follows.
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RECEIVE ITStage 1 (February 6)
Route: 155 kilometers
Paipa – Duitama – La Y (5 laps around the Valley: Tibasosa – Sogamoso – Nobsa – La Y) – Duitama
Stage 2 (February 7)
Distance: 169 kilometers
Paipa – Tunja – Ventaquemada – – Tunja – Paipa – Duitama – Santa Rosa de Viterbo
Stage 3 (February 8)
Route: 155 kilometers
Circuit in Tunja – 12.9 kilometers (12 laps)
Stage 4 (February 9)
Distance: 181.8 kilometers
Paipa – Tunja – Ventaquemada – Villapinzón – Chocontá – Gachancipá – Tocancipá – Chía – Cajicá – Zipaquirá
Stage 5 (February 10)
Distance: 138.3 kilometers
Cota – Siberia – El Rosal – La Vega – Villeta – Alto del Vino
Stage 6 (February 11)
Route: 155 kilometers
Sopó – Tocancipá – Gachancipá – Chocontá – Return – Sesquilé – Guatavita – La Calera – Alto de Patios – Bogotá
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