Miguel Angel ‘Superman’ Lopez leads the team of 25 Colombian cyclists who will compete in the Pan American Road Championship in Panama City from April 18 to 23 and that it will give quotas for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games.
the cyclist ofl Team Medellin and current national time trial champion, will also be at the start line in the road race, as reported today by the Colombian Cycling Federation.
The boyacense climber runs this year with the Team Medellín after Astana terminate his contract for being involved in a scandal of alleged drug trafficking that also involves the Spanish doctor Marcos Maynar.
Among the elite competitors will also be the current Pan American individual time trial champion, Rodrigo Contreras (Colombia Pact for Sport), like the CRI champion in the Bolivarian and South American Games last season, Walter Vargas (Team Medellin).
The sprinter was also summoned Alvaro Hodeg (UAE Team Emirates), nelson soto (Colombia Pact for Sports) and Juan Diego Hoyos (Corratec America Racing Team).
In elite women’s trust was placed in Diana Peñuela, Lina Marcela Hernández, Stefanía Sánchez, Laura Rojas, Lina Rojas and Andrea Alzate.
The current champion of the Vuelta de la Juventud in Colombia, German Dario Gomez, It is the main asset in the sub’23 category. The GW Shimano Sidermec rider will take part in the individual time trial and the road race.
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The Pan American will deliver two quotas direct for the next Olympic Games Paris 2024 and 38 places for the Pan American Games Santiago 2023.
More than 800 cyclists from 44 countries will be in the competition, who will compete in tests in the modalities of individual time trial and route, in the elite, sub’23 and junior categories, for men, and elite and junior, for women.
