{"id":136295,"date":"2025-09-11T22:56:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T22:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/136295\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T22:56:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T22:56:09","slug":"three-wins-in-5-days-confirm-mexican-cyclist-del-toros-star-statusmexico-news-daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/136295\/","title":{"rendered":"Three wins in 5 days confirm Mexican cyclist Del Toro’s star statusMexico News Daily"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mexican cyclist Isaac del Toro bulldozed to another win Thursday and has now earned laurels at three Italian one-day races inside of five days.<\/p>\n

At the 197.6 km Coppa Sabatini in Peccioli, Italy, Del Toro wheeled away from two breakaway companions to finish first with a time of 4 hours, 46 minutes and 56 seconds.<\/p>\n

\"crowdDel Toro\u2019s 12 victories so far this year have moved Mexican cycling to a place on the world stage and created a lot of fans in Mexico. (Cristina Espinosa Agular\/Cuartoscuro)<\/p>\n

The 21-year-old Baja California native, racing for UAE Emirates-XRG, outclassed Benjamin Thomas and Ben Granger, attacking on the final climb<\/a> with 0.4 km to go and pulling away to win by 5 seconds and 8 seconds, respectively.<\/p>\n

\u201cI like racing here in Italy; the fans are very attentive and passionate about cycling,\u201d Del Toro said. \u201cI\u2019m always happy to race here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Del Toro is being called a phenom after claiming 10 victories since his impressive second-place showing at the three-week-long Giro d\u2019Italia<\/a> that ended on June 1. He now ranks No. 4 in the world in ProCyclingStats\u2019 Best Rider Rankings<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Cycling analysts see him fast-tracking toward the Rwanda world championships<\/a> later this month and a potential showdown with teammate Tadej Poga\u010dar in Africa. Poga\u010dar, the world\u2019s top-ranked cyclist, won the Tour de France in July and is only just now returning to competition<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Del Toro has been on a tear since taking a five-week break after the Giro d\u2019Italia. He won three of five stages to finish first at the Tour of Austria<\/a> in mid-July.<\/p>\n

He then won three times in Spain \u2014 a one-day road cycling race in the Terres de l\u2019Ebre; the one-day Circuito de Getxo; and the five-stage Vuelta a Burgos.<\/p>\n

This week, \u201cEl Torito\u201d completed an Italian hat trick by finishing first in the GP Industria & Artigianato on Sunday, the Giro della Toscana on Wednesday before his triumph at Thursday\u2019s Coppa Sabatini. He won each in spectacular fashion.<\/p>\n

In Sunday\u2019s 196.3 km test, Del Toro burst out of the pack with 12 kilometers remaining, pulling away from defending champion Marc Hirschi and pre-race favorite Michael Storer. He chased down the leaders Christian Scaroni and Davide Piganzoli, passing them at the 300-meter mark and racing past the finish line first in a time of 4:32:47.<\/p>\n

In Wednesday\u2019s 189 km race, he launched a solo move with 27 km to go, pulling away from co-leader Storer and holding off all challenges from in front. Del Toro finished in 4:25:38, 15 seconds better than Storer.<\/p>\n

And in Thursday\u2019s Coppa Sabatini, Del Toro kicked into gear with 6 km remaining before powering past Thomas and Granger on the uphill drag to the finish line, denying Hirschi a three-peat.<\/p>\n

Del Toro has 12 victories this year, and 15 since turning pro <\/a>in January 2024.\u00a0<\/p>\n

With reports from Cycling News<\/a>, Velo<\/a>, Fox Sports<\/a> and ESPN<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mexican cyclist Isaac del Toro bulldozed to another win Thursday and has now earned laurels at three Italian…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136296,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,9753,784,93896,93897,93898,85],"class_list":["post-136295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-baja-california","tag-cycling","tag-isaac-del-toro","tag-mexican-athletes","tag-mexican-cyclist","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136296"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}