The start of the 2022 season for Colombian cycling has been quite lively and full of emotions, despite the regrettable news of some riders such as Egan Bernal of the Ineos Grenadiers, Álvaro Hodeg of the UAE Team Emirates and Daniel Arroyave of EF Education Nippo who have not been able to make it to the first races of the year in Europe due to accidents he has suffered in recent months in Colombia.
Even so, the other coffee cyclists who play in teams from the old continent, have carried out great presentations in rounds in stages above all, reaching a total of 12 stage victories to date, and podiums as champions.
Nairo Quintana with Arkea Samsic accumulated two victories in the overall standings: one in the Tour de la Provence and one in the Alpes-Maritimes Tour where he also won the stage in each of the competitions.
With the same record in terms of partial victories appears the Antioquian Fernando Gaviria of the UAE Team Emirates who, before suffering a hard fall in competition that has left him out of the races for more than a month and a half, won two stages in the 2022 Tour of Oman.
Sergio Higuita won his first overall victory in a World Tour race during the 101st edition of the Vuelta a Catalunya 2022. However, his stage victory in the last stage of the Vuelta al Algarve in February contributed to the beetle win stock exchange in the year, and for the second year he was the national road champion of Colombia.
Daniel Martínez with Ineos Grenadiers had great moments this 2022 after in 2021 he could only stand out in the first months and in the Giro d'Italia helping Egan Bernal win the second Corsa Rosa for Colombia.
Soachuno won a great stage 4 victory of the Vuelta al País Vasco 2022 where he also won the overall title and the regularity shirt.
In the first days of competition of the year for Colombians, in the Vuelta al Táchira in Venezuela, the first to open the national record was Johan Colón of the Paisa Pride taking stage 1.
Stage 4 would then go to his teammate Marco Tulio Suesca to the sprint. Following the good run, also historic in the Venezuelan round, Didier Merchán premiered with Drone Hopper Androni Giocattoli with a stage victory on matchday 8, also managing to get third place on the final podium.
The Bogotá Santiago Buitrago, who plays for Bahrain Victorious, contributed his winning quota in stage 2 of the Saudi Tour, demonstrating that his years of training in the Arab squad have served.
Jhonatan Restrepo of Drone Hopper Androni Giocattoli won again in the Rwanda Tour as he has been doing for previous years. There he won the stage 3 victory in Rubavu.
Finally Nicolás David Gómez won the 105th edition of the Popolarissima, a competition on the Italian calendar and in which the Antioquian won the champion demonstrating his great talent and great projection as a sprinter.
There is still much left of the cycling calendar ahead where Colombians could still stand out, even, in the big three-week rounds.
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