The Colombian cyclist Harold Tejada (Pitalito, 26 years old) will continue one more year in the Astana Qazaqstan Team after signing an extension through the end of the 2024 season, a year in which he will try to “achieve some success.”
“After four years in the team, I feel the time has come for the results to come out. This season everything started to work, I did well in the second half of the year and achieved the first podium at the Tour of Turkey. But for me this is just the beginning and I don’t want to stop. I am seriously preparing for the new season and will strive to achieve the main goal: win the racesTejada said.
The Huila department runner turned professional in 2020 with Astana Qazaqstan and, from that moment on, participated in five grand tourswhere he always supports the team leaders.
This season, harold he finished tenth in the general classification of the Tour of Switzerland, eighth in the Gran Piemonte and achieved his first professional podium in the Presidential Cycling Tour of Turkey, placing third behind race winner and teammate, Alexei Lutsenko.
“We see him more and more in the Top-10 in important mountain stages, he had a solid Tour of Switzerland and had a good time in the Tour of Turkey, where he supported Alexey Lutsenko but he also achieved his own podium. We hope that in the new era the development will continue not only with good results but also with successes. Harold is a great team racer, but he also has everything he needs to win races“said Alexandr Vinokurov, general manager of Astana Qazaqstan.
Source: La Verdad
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