MADRID, 15 Sep. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Asturian cyclist Iván García Cortina will lead the elite Spanish men’s team in the 2023 European Road Cycling Championships, which will be held between September 20 and 24 in the Dutch province of Drenthe, where the Movistar Alex Aranburu and Gonzalo Serrano for commitments with his team.
The competition will start on Wednesday, September 20 with the individual time trials; The men’s race will begin at 4:15 p.m. on a mostly flat 29.5-kilometer route starting and finishing in Emmen that, due to its long straights, will favor pure rollers and time trialists.
The national coach, Pascual Momparler, has chosen to face the time trial Xabier Mikel Azparren, who was already in charge of representing Spain at the World Championships in Glasgow.
In the online test, which will take place on Sunday, September 24, Iván García Cortina leads a team that will also include Imanol Erviti, Jon Barrenetxea, Fernando Barceló, David González, Jesús Ezquerra, Víctor de la Parte and the aforementioned Xabier Mikel Azparren.
Neither Alex Aranburu nor Gonzalo Serrano will be able to be there, despite the fact that it was “the wish of the technical staff of the Spanish team”, due to commitments with their team, the Movistar Team. Oier Lazkano will not travel either, who has suffered from a virus throughout the celebration of the Vuelta a España.
The route will start from the town of Assen, from where they will make an initial sector of 115 kilometers to reach the final circuit, which includes the Col du VAM – a 400 meter slope at 10% -, which they will do six laps to complete a total of 199.8 kilometers.