Bahrain, with Mikel Landa and Jack Haig to revalidate the Sun Cycle Route victory

After the success of Wout Poels In the 2022 edition, the squad will have a very talented team that will try to achieve the final victory in back to Andalusia including basque Michael Landa at the head of the ranks, the Australian Jack Haigsixth last year and second classified in the 2020 edition as well as a stage winner in the same season as a key asset for a squad that completes Damiano Caruso, Matej Mohoric, Hermann Pernsteiner and Andrea Pasqualon.

A real team has been assembled by Bahrain Victorius for the 69th edition of the Andalusian Cycling Tour which will be held from February 15 to 19. In addition, the Bahraini squad arrived premiering its victory box this season after the victory in Tour Down Under in Australia. Just having Mikel Landa (33) as leader is enough as a cover letter for a team that chooses for everyone in the Tour of Andalusia. Landa is a regular on the Ruta del Sol as he usually chooses it to start his season. He will come for the seventh time in the Andalusian round where he was third overall in 2021, sixth in 2018 and 2017, and on two occasions he was second in the stages with the final in the province of Cádiz (Grazalema and Alcalá de los Gazules).

Also coming with options to fight for the final victory is the Australian Jack Haig (29). The Aussie runner already knows what it’s like to get on the podium in the Andalusian race where he has always been a star and standout in the general classification, finishing second in 2020 and sixth in his two other participations in 2019 and last year. In addition, he achieved a success on stage andn Grenada and became the fourth of two finishes repeated this year, Alcalá de los Gazules and Alcalá la Real. An aspirant in everything that can have a good team in the event that they come bad.

Another of the aspiring runners coming to the Bahrain team is the Slovenian Matej Mohoricthe new winner of Milan Sanremo last year with his mythical descent he will compete in his third Ruta del Sol after his participation in 2020 and 2019. Three years ago he finished eleventh in the time trial of Mijas who closed the race while the year before he was sixth in the stage finish Alhaurin de la Torre with an ending similar to the one that will be repeated this year and the eleventh Alcala de los Gazules in another ending that is repeated in this edition. In two stages of success in Tour de France He has the record to qualify as an aspirant in everything.

the veteran Damiano Caruso (35) He is another one of those runners who is capable of competing in the race on any terrain. If he is in the fighting positions for the general classification, he can take the role of the leader of the formation, if not he can compete in stages and be a wonderful gregarious. This is the fourth time he has participated in the exam. Where last year he finished 13th and fifth in the final of Trick (Grenada). 2020 and 2016 are his two other participations, certainly in that year he was able to defeat the general of Mountain Grand Prix. The second rank 2021 Giro d’Italiawho also had successes on stage Turn around and Vback to spain He is another one of the big names in the Asian squad that will also be completed by the Italians Edoardo Zambani (21), who already participated last year and is one of the young promises to come out in 2022, and the veteran Andrea Pasqualon (35) which comes to the team after passing through Intermarché Wanty. This is his fourth participation in the Andalusian Tour in 2018, he opened fourth place in a stage that ended in Granada and the following year he was sixth in Torredonjimeno. The last time you visited us was in 2020.

The Austrian completes the participation roster Hermann Pernsteiner (32) who will be a rookie in the Andalusian breed.