2021 Gran Premio Miguel Induráin (1.Pro), Spain
22nd Edition, Saturday, April 3, 2021
GP Miguel Induráin historic results | 2019 edition (no race in 2020) | 2022 edition | Race map & profile | Start list
Estella - Estella, 203.2 km
Alejandro Valverde wins in Estella. Gomez Sport photo
Weather at the start/finish city of Estella at 1:45 PM, local time: 14C (58F), sunny, with the wind from the northwest at 23 km/hr (14 mph).
The Race: Here is the report from winner Alejandro Valverde's Team Movistar:
Looks like a nice day as the ribbon is cut to start the race.
The day he stops, he will do so with a level as extraordinary as the legacy he’ll leave. There’s very few doubts about that after Alejandro Valverde (Movistar Team) showed again at Saturday’s 2021 GP Miguel Indurain, the big Navarra race back after the pandemic hiatus, the legs of his best days. The ‘campeonísimo’ from Murcia reached the finish line at Estella’s Paseo Inmaculada solo, following a display of class in the last ten kilometers of the race by the name of the rider who, together with Alejandro, has left a bigger impression in the Eusebio Unzué-led squads.
The Telefónica-backed squad -affected by a crash from Enric Mas into the downhill of the second Ibarra climb, with several blows and bruises over his left-hand side yet no broken bones- took the reins of the field with about 80 kilometers to go. Carretero, Arcas, Samitier and Carlos Verona picked up the pace through the climbs of Guirguillano and Lezaun to select the favourites’ group, which a four-man move including Luis León Sánchez (APT) made suffer until the very end.
The work by Cofidis, BikeExchange and Bahrain alongside the Blues left Valverde at an attack’s reach, twenty seconds behind, at the steepest slopes of Eraul (-10 km). He ended up launching two: one to further reduce the field, then another one to go solo and chase Sánchez down.
Despite a late counter from Lutsenko (APT), Valverde kept himself composed and made the right moves -one at the non-categorized Alto de Muru, to drop the Kazakh rider; another at Ibarra, to leave the two Astanas behind- to secure his first victory in more than a year and a half (Mas de la Costa, 2019 La Vuelta); the second for the Movistar Team this week, after their other symbol’s, Annemiek van Vleuten, in Waregem; and Alejandro’s third in the GP Indurain, now up to 128 career victories.
REACTION / Alejandro Valverde:
“I want to thank everyone who supports me and all the people who cared about me and enjoys cycling. I’m super happy with this victory today. I want to thank the team, too, for their great job. We knew it was going to be a difficult day, with Astana being the strongest block today and doing a great job to keep the race under control from the beginning.
“At that final race situation with ‘Luisle’ and Lutsenko I was in a bit of fear – we’re talking about two super strong riders, which made it not easy to manage. When Lutsenko went so fast after Muru and took those meters I knew, though, that it wasn’t long until Ibarra, and I used my energy well to remain close and then, at the final part of the climb, give it my all with that final attack and open that gap.
“This victory gives me so much joy and confidence towards the Itzulia – hopefully we can have as good weather there as in Navarra. My legs are feeling well and we’ll be bringing a great them there. I want to dedicate this victory to our great friend, Gary Baños – wherever he is, he will have surely enjoyed that one. Things are starting to go well for us as a team, and that’s important to keep improving and leave more challenging times behind.”
Results:
203.2 kilometers raced at an average speed of 39.230 km/hr
| 1 | Alejandro Valverde | Movistar | 5hr 10min 47sec |
| 2 | Alexey Lutsenko | Astana-Premier Tech | @ 6sec |
| 3 | Luis Leon Sanchez | Astana-Premier Tech | 0:15 |
| 4 | Pello Bilbao | Bahrain Victorious | 0:17 |
| 5 | Elie Gesbert | Arkéa-Samsic | 0:18 |
| 6 | Krists Neilands | Israel Start-Up Nation | 0:21 |
| 7 | Bauke Mollema | Trek-Segafredo | s.t. |
| 8 | Jesus Herrada | Cofidis | s.t. |
| 9 | Omar Fraile | Astana-Premier Tech | s.t. |
| 10 | Laurens De Plus | INEOS Grenadiers | 0:30 |
| 11 | Ben Hermans | Israel Start-Up Nation | s.t. |
| 12 | Gino Mader | Bahrain Victorious | 0:31 |
| 13 | Pierre Latour | Total Direct Energie | 0:49 |
| 14 | Guillaume Martin | Cofidis | 0:53 |
| 15 | Anthony Delaplace | Arkéa-Samsic | 0:54 |
| 16 | Roger Adria | Kern Pharma | 0:59 |
| 17 | Toms Skujins | Trek-Segafredo | 1:03 |
| 18 | Jesus Ezquerra | Burgos-BH | 1:04 |
| 19 | Mathieu Burgaudeau | Total Direct Energie | s.t. |
| 20 | Sebastian Henao | INEOS Grenadiers | s.t. |
| 21 | Julien Simon | Total Direct Energie | 1:06 |
| 22 | Kevin Colleoni | Team BikeExchange | s.t. |
| 23 | Simon Geschke | Cofidis | s.t. |
| 24 | Jan Polanc | UAE Team Emirates | 1:08 |
| 25 | Jonathan Castroviejo | INEOS Grenadiers | s.t. |
| 26 | James Piccoli | Israel Start-Up Nation | s.t. |
| 27 | Alejandro Osorio | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | s.t. |
| 28 | Urko Berrade | Kern Pharma | 1:14 |
| 29 | Mikel Iturria | Euskaltel-Euskadi | 1:18 |
| 30 | Frederico Figueiredo | Efapel | s.t. |
| 31 | Jose Felix Parra | Kern Pharma | 1:21 |
| 32 | Alex Aranburu | Astana-Premier Tech | 1:25 |
| 33 | Julien Bernard | Trek-Segafredo | s.t. |
| 34 | Cristian Rodriguez | Total Direct Energie | s.t. |
| 35 | Carlos Verona | Movistar | s.t. |
| 36 | Nathan Brown | Rally Cycling | 1:34 |
| 37 | Ben Swift | INEOS Grenadiers | 1:42 |
| 38 | Winner Anacona | Arkéa-Samsic | 1:59 |
| 39 | Jonathan Lastra | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | 2:05 |
| 40 | Mikel Nieve | Team BikeExchange | 2:13 |
| 41 | Luis Angel Mate | Euskaltel-Euskadi | 2:22 |
| 42 | Ion Izagirre | Astana-Premier Tech | 2:46 |
| 43 | Nicola Conci | Trek-Segafredo | 3:40 |
| 44 | Fernando Barcelo | Cofidis | 4:50 |
| 45 | Anthony Perez | Cofidis | s.t. |
| 46 | Diego Ulissi | UAE Team Emirates | s.t. |
| 47 | Jefferson Cepeda | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | s.t. |
| 48 | Edward Dunbar | INEOS Grenadiers | s.t. |
| 49 | Jhojan Garcia | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | s.t. |
| 50 | Mikel Bizkarra | Euskaltel-Euskadi | 5:57 |
| 51 | Sergio Samitier | Movistar | s.t. |
| 52 | Thomas Armstrong | Electro Hiper Europa | 6:34 |
| 53 | Antonio Angulo | Euskaltel-Euskadi | s.t. |
| 54 | Sebastian Berwick | Israel Start-Up Nation | 6:53 |
| 55 | Rafael Valls | Bahrain Victorious | 7:01 |
| 56 | Colin Joyce | Rally Cycling | 8:04 |
| 57 | Mauricio Moreira | Efapel | 8:06 |
| 58 | Fabien Grellier | Total Direct Energie | 8:28 |
| 59 | Diego Sevilla | Eolo-Kometa | s.t. |
| 60 | Remy Rochas | Cofidis | s.t. |
| 61 | Cristian Munoz | UAE Team Emirates | s.t. |
| 62 | Oscar Cabedo | Burgos-BH | s.t. |
| 63 | Andrey Amador | INEOS Grenadiers | s.t. |
| 64 | Dayer Quintana | Arkéa-Samsic | s.t. |
| 65 | Andres Ardila | UAE Team Emirates | s.t. |
| 66 | Niklas Eg | Trek-Segafredo | 8:53 |
| 67 | Damien Howson | Team BikeExchange | 9:13 |
| 68 | Victor Lafay | Cofidis | s.t. |
| 69 | Oscar Rodriguez | Astana-Premier Tech | 9:21 |
| 70 | Thibault Guernalec | Arkéa-Samsic | 9:37 |
| 71 | Diego Lopez | Kern Pharma | s.t. |
| 72 | Valerio Conti | UAE Team Emirates | 9:41 |
| 73 | Daniel Navarro | Burgos-BH | s.t. |
| 74 | Julen Irizar | Euskaltel-Euskadi | 10:49 |
| 75 | Ibon Ruiz | Kern Pharma | 10:51 |
| 76 | Raul Garcia | Kern Pharma | s.t. |
| 77 | Barnabas Peak | Team BikeExchange | 13:44 |
| 78 | Diego Rosa | Arkéa-Samsic | s.t. |
| 79 | Sergio Araiz | Kern Pharma | 15:05 |
| 80 | Alan Riou | Arkéa-Samsic | s.t. |
| 81 | Carlos Canal | Burgos-BH | s.t. |
| 82 | Julen Amezqueta | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | s.t. |
| 83 | Oscar Pelegri | Electro Hiper Europa | s.t. |
| 84 | Yukiya Arashiro | Bahrain Victorious | s.t. |
| 85 | Vincenzo Albanese | Eolo-Kometa | s.t. |
| 86 | Alexander Cataford | Israel Start-Up Nation | s.t. |
| 87 | Marcos Jurado | Electro Hiper Europa | s.t. |
| 88 | Ibai Azurmendi | Euskaltel-Euskadi | s.t. |
| 89 | Jon Irisarri | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | s.t. |
| 90 | Luca Wackermann | Eolo-Kometa | 20:47 |
| 91 | Robin Plamondon | Israel Start-Up Nation | s.t. |
| 92 | Francesco Gavazzi | Eolo-Kometa | 20:51 |
| 93 | Angel Madrazo | Burgos-BH | s.t. |
| 94 | Juan Diego Alba | Movistar | s.t. |
| 95 | Josu Etxeberria | Caja Rural-Seguros RGA | s.t. |
Course map
Course profile
Start list with back numbers, April 2, 2021:
| TOTAL DIRECT ENERGIE | |
| 1 | BURGAUDEAU Mathieu |
| 2 | DE LA PARTE Victor |
| 3 | DOUBEY Fabien |
| 4 | GRELLIER Fabien |
| 5 | LATOUR Pierre |
| 6 | RODRIGUEZ Cristian |
| 7 | SIMON Julien |
| ASTANA-PREMIER TECH | |
| 11 | IZAGIRRE Ion |
| 12 | ARANBURU Alex |
| 13 | FRAILE Omar |
| 14 | LUTSENKO Alexey |
| 15 | RODRIGUEZ Oscar |
| 16 | ROMO Javier |
| 17 | SANCHEZ Luis Leon |
| BAHRAIN VICTORIOUS | |
| 21 | ARASHIRO Yukiya |
| 22 | BILBAO Pello |
| 23 | CAPECCHI Eros |
| 24 | LANDA Mikel |
| 25 | MADER Gino |
| 26 | PADUN Mark |
| 27 | VALLS Rafael |
| COFIDIS | |
| 31 | MARTIN Guillaume |
| 32 | BARCELO Fernando |
| 33 | LAFAY Victor |
| 34 | HERRADA Jesús |
| 35 | ROCHAS Rémy |
| 36 | PEREZ Anthony |
| 37 | GESCHKE Simon |
| INEOS GRENADIERS | |
| 41 | AMADOR Andrey |
| 42 | CASTROVIEJO Jonathan |
| 43 | DE PLUS Laurens |
| 44 | DUNBAR Eddie |
| 45 | HENAO Sebastian |
| 46 | SWIFT Ben |
| 47 | WURF Cameron |
| ISRAEL START-UP NATION | |
| 51 | BERWICK Sebastian |
| 52 | CATAFORD Alexander |
| 53 | HERMANS Ben |
| 54 | NEILANDS Krists |
| 55 | NIV Guy |
| 56 | PICCOLI James |
| 57 | PLAMONDON Robin |
| MOVISTAR | |
| 61 | ARCAS Jorge |
| 62 | ALBA Juan |
| 63 | CARRETERO Hector |
| 64 | ROJAS Jose |
| 65 | SAMITIER Sergio |
| 66 | VALVERDE Alejandro |
| 67 | VERONA Carlos |
| TEAM BIKEEXCHANGE | |
| 71 | COLLEONI Kevin |
| 72 | HOWSON Damien |
| 73 | GRMAY Tsgabu |
| 74 | NIEVE Mikel |
| 75 | PEAK Barnabas |
| TREK-SEGAFREDO | |
| 81 | BERNARD Julien |
| 82 | CONCI Nicola |
| 83 | EG Niklas |
| 84 | KAMP Alexander |
| 85 | LOPEZ Juan |
| 86 | MOLLEMA Bauke |
| 87 | SKUJINS Toms |
| UAE TEAM EMIRATES | |
| 91 | CONTI Valerio |
| 92 | ARDILA Andres |
| 93 | MIRZA Yousif |
| 94 | MOLANO Juan |
| 95 | MUNOZ Christian |
| 96 | POLANC Jan |
| 97 | ULISSI Diego |
| BURGOS-BH | |
| 101 | CABEDO Oscar |
| 102 | LANGELLOTTI Victor |
| 103 | EZQUERRA Jesús |
| 104 | MADRAZO Ángel |
| 105 | NAVARRO Daniel |
| 106 | SANCHEZ Pelayo |
| 107 | CANAL Carlos |
| CAJA RURAL-SEGUROS RGA | |
| 111 | AMEZQUETA Julen |
| 112 | CEPEDA Jefferson |
| 113 | IRISARRI Jon |
| 114 | LASTRA Jonathan |
| 115 | ETXEBERRIA Josu |
| 116 | GARCIA Jhojan |
| 117 | OSORIO Alejandro |
| EOLO-KOMETA | |
| 121 | GRAVALOS Arturo |
| 122 | VIEGAS Daniel |
| 123 | SEVILLA Diego |
| 124 | GAVAZZI Francesco |
| 125 | ALBANESE Vincenzo |
| 127 | WACKERMANN Luca |
| KERN PHARMA | |
| 131 | ADRIA Roger |
| 132 | GARCIA Raúl |
| 133 | PARRA José |
| 134 | BERRADE Urko |
| 135 | ARAIZ Sergio |
| 136 | LOPEZ Diego |
| 137 | RUIZ Ibon |
| RALLY CYCLING | |
| 141 | BROWN Nathan |
| 142 | JOYCE Colin |
| 143 | KING Benjamin |
| 144 | MURPHY Kyle |
| 145 | ORONTE Emerson |
| 146 | ROSSKOPF Joey |
| 147 | SWIRBUL Keegan |
| ARKÉA-SAMSIC | |
| 151 | ANACONA Winner |
| 152 | DELAPLACE Anthony |
| 153 | GESBERT Elie |
| 154 | GUERNALEC Thibault |
| 155 | QUINTANA Dayer |
| 156 | RIOU Alan |
| 157 | ROSA Diego |
| EUSKALTEL-EUSKADI | |
| 161 | ANGULO Antonio |
| 162 | AZURMENDI Ibai |
| 163 | BIZKARRA Mikel |
| 164 | IRIZAR Julen |
| 165 | ITURRIA Mikel |
| 166 | JUARISTI Txomin |
| 167 | MATE Luis |
| ELECTRO HIPER EUROPA | |
| 171 | BALLESTEROS Miguel |
| 172 | PELEGRI Oscar |
| 173 | JURADO Marcos |
| 174 | ESTELRICH Mateu |
| 175 | ARMSTRONG Thomas |
| 176 | KOVACS Dávid |
| EFAPEL | |
| 181 | FIGUEIREDO Federico |
| 182 | MENDONCA Luís |
| 183 | MOREIRA Mauricio |
| 184 | CARVALHO Antonio |
| 185 | REIS Rafael |
| 186 | FERNANDES Fábio |
| 187 | DOMINGUES Andre |