Bahrain Victorius will try to revalidate the victory in the 69th edition of the Cycling Tour of Andalusia / Ruta del Solwhich will take place between February 15 and 19, although the winner of the last edition, the Dutchman Wout Poels, will not be on the starting line. The leaders and leaders will be the Spanish Mikel Landa and the Australian Jack Haigthe organization announced Monday in a statement.
The squad will have a team to try to achieve the final victory in the Tour of Andalusia with the Basque Mikel Landa as leader and the Australian Jack Haig, sixth last year and second classified in the 2020 edition as well as stage winner in that same season, as the main assets of a group that cCompleted by Damiano Caruso, Matej Mohoric, Hermann Pernsteiner and Andrea Pasqualon.
The Bahrain team will arrive having opened their record of victories this season after the triumph in the Tour Down Under in Australia. Landa is a regular at this race as he usually chooses it to start his season. He will participate for the seventh time in the Andalusian round, in which he was third overall in 2021, sixth in 2018 and 2017, and on two occasions he was second in stages with a final in the province of Cádiz (Grazalema and Alcalá de los Gazules).