Colombia<\/a>\u2019s national road title and champion crown after four days of championship racing. Credit: Dominique Dhoosche \/ CC BY NC ND 2.0<\/p>\nEgan Bernal is Colombia\u2019s cycling champion again after a triumphant final day at the 2026 National Road Championships in Zipaquir\u00e1, Cundinamarca. The Ineos Grenadiers rider successfully defended his elite men\u2019s road race title Sunday, adding a second consecutive national crown in a grueling more-than-200-kilometer test that unfolded over nearly six hours and included punishing climbs and relentless attacks.<\/p>\n
Egan Bernal, Colombia\u2019s road cycling champion tops 2026 championships<\/p>\n
Bernal, the 2019 Tour de France winner and 2021 Giro d\u2019Italia champion, emerged strongest in a select leading group, outpacing Iv\u00e1n Ramiro Sosa (Kern Pharma) and Juan Felipe Rodr\u00edguez (EF Education \u2013 Aevolo) in the closing kilometers to take the tricolor jersey. The Colombian star\u2019s victory caps a remarkable resurgence since his near-fatal training crash in 2022, reinforcing his return to top form on home roads.<\/p>\n
The national championships unfolded over several days of competition across elite, sub-23 and junior categories, beginning with the individual time trial. In the elite men\u2019s time trial held earlier in the week, Egan Bernal\u2019s Ineos Grenadiers teammate Brandon Rivera claimed the national title with a commanding performance over the 44-kilometer course. Rivera stopped the clock at 47:03 to win ahead of Daniel Felipe Mart\u00ednez (Red Bull \u2013 BORA \u2013 hansgrohe) and Rodrigo Contreras (Nu Colombia), while Bernal himself finished fifth in the discipline.<\/p>\n
The women\u2019s elite individual time trial saw the triumph of Diana Pe\u00f1uela, in a tightly contested race. In other categories, Team Sistecr\u00e9dito riders dominated the under-23 and junior ranks. Samara Bedoya won the women\u2019s under-23 time trial, Jeronimo Calderon captured the men\u2019s under-23 crown, Estefania Castillo topped the junior women, and Jose Manuel Posada claimed the junior men\u2019s time trial title.<\/p>\n
Road races followed over the weekend, starting Friday at the Autodromo de Tocancipa. Juan Esteban Sanchez won the junior men\u2019s road race over 81 kilometers, while Salome Vargas took the junior women\u2019s title after 67.5 kilometers.<\/p>\n
Luciana Osorio led the women\u2019s under-23 road race the same day, winning the 81-kilometer event with a time of 1:53:10. Diana Corrales and Yalecza Marin finished on the same time to complete the podium.<\/p>\n
On Saturday, William Colorado attacked late to secure the men\u2019s under-23 road race title over 124.5 kilometers between Sopo and Guasca. Laura Daniela Rojas won the elite women\u2019s road race on the same course, finishing in 3:27:38 ahead of Valbuena and Pe\u00f1uela.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Egan Bernal once again claimed Colombia\u2019s national road title and champion crown after four days of championship racing.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[64,63,32976,784,239429,77972,2186,85],"class_list":["post-468567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-colombia","tag-cycling","tag-cyling","tag-egan-bernal","tag-latin-america","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468567","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=468567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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