Giro del Veneto victory confirms Mexican cyclist Isaac del Toro’s top 3 world ranking

Mexican cyclist Isaac del Toro claimed his 16th rubric of the 2025 play connected Sunday, winning the 161-kilometer Giro del Veneto with a precocious breakaway. The triumph came conscionable a time aft the merchandise of the caller satellite rankings that placed del Toro among the apical 3 cyclists successful the world.

The 21-year-old Baja Californian attacked connected the last climb, authoritatively breaking distant from the battalion and riding solo for the last 10.7 kilometers to the decorativeness line. He finished 22 seconds up of UAE teammate Pavel Sivakov.

Del Toro has enactment connected immoderate awesome performances this twelvemonth — including a second-place decorativeness astatine the Giro d’Italia successful June — catapulting himself into 3rd spot successful the UCI satellite rankings.

Rising from No. 57 astatine the opening of the season, Del Toro present sits down lone UAE teammate Tadej Pogaçar (four-time Tour de France winner) and Team Visma’s Jonas Vingegard (two-time victor successful Paris and victor of this year’s Vuelta de España). Only Pogaçar has much victories this season. The almighty Slovenian has 19 wins.

After Sunday’s race, ESPN wrote that Del Toro’s show “has not lone carved his sanction among the world’s cycling elite, but besides makes him 1 of the starring figures successful Latin American cycling.”

His societal media mentions are flooded with enactment from fans crossed Latin America. Proud Mexican flags, bosom emojis and chants of “Viva México!” tin beryllium recovered successful each remark thread.

Before the race, Del Toro spoke with ESPN astir his emergence into the precocious echelon of satellite cyclists successful conscionable his 2nd play with the elite UAE Team Emirates, admitting that helium ne'er imagined achieving specified occurrence truthful aboriginal successful his career.

“I would person liked to marque it aspirational and scope a apical ten; maybe, precise boldly, deliberation astir a apical five, but honestly not a apical three,” helium said. “It’s thing that has amazed me, and obviously, if you bash each the tiny goals successful the champion mode possible, they yet adhd up to a effect similar this.”

Del Toro said his main nonsubjective present is to stay calm and program for the aboriginal without rushing into anything.

“I request to remainder my caput a bit, not interest astir it,” helium said. “I’m precise young, and I privation to look astatine wherever I tin amended for adjacent twelvemonth and hole my full docket up of clip truthful I tin marque the astir of it and payment … for years to come.”

Before helium tin bash that, however, the Ensenada autochthonal is preparing for Sunday’s Andorra Cycling Masters, a peculiar accumulation contention successful which helium volition vie against Pogaçar, Vingegard and four-time Vuelta de España victor Primož Roglič.

With reports from ESPN, Hola! and La Jornada