Miguel Ángel Rubiano and three more Colombians to lead new Mexican cycling team

Miguel Ángel Rubiano will be the most visible face of Mexico's new Petrolike cycling project. After his time with the Colombia Tierra de Atletes team, the capital decided to turn his experience a little around and move to another level: to be the leader and guide of a project that will call for the best of hand pedalism, in order to reactivate this sport at the highest level in that country.

Rubiano, 37, had the opportunity to go through European cycling with Cerámica Panaria Navigare in the mid-2000s. Then, in the end, he would become part of a Serbian team, where he would begin to grow his record, even though he had not had so much experience in Colombian pedalism, so it could be said that his sports training was mainly in the old continent.

In 2011 he signed with an Italian and Japanese licensed team with which he would be able to distinguish in continental competitions such as the Vuelta a San Luis, in Argentina, as at that time he won a stage, or in the Slovak Tour.

The experience and strengths by then were already aligned with the intention of demonstrating something even greater from his talent, so when he arrived at the renowned Italian team Androni Giocattoli, a squad where Egan Bernal, Iván Ramiro Sosa and José Serpa have passed, as well as other Colombians today, he managed to raise his arms to the win stage 6 of the Giro d'Italia in 2012.

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He spent two years in the team of director Gianni Savio, before returning to his country to form the Team Colombia project, with which he toured Europe and, also, he was teammates with Jarlinson Pantano, Sebastián Molano, Edwin Ávila, among other riders who still stand out today in cycling in Europe and in the best teams in the world, like Daniel Martínez del Ineos.

What would follow for Bogota's Miguel Ángel Rubiano would be his consecration as one of the strongest cyclists, winning the National Road Championship in 2014 against great exponents of national pedalism, ahead of Winner Anacona who belonged in that year to the extinct Lampre Merida.

All that experience and the one that came after being champion in Colombia has given him the power to be seen as an important asset when it comes to leading a new project in Mexico, after having spent the two years in Colombia Tierra de Atletes.

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This is how he defined the formation of the Colombian Petrolike team for the Mundo Ciclistico Magazine:

Also speaking was Rubiano, who will lead the team along with Colombians Jordan Parra, Diego Cano and Andrés Camilo Pedroza. It is worth saying that the squad will compete in Colombia and will seek to join the Colombian Cycling Federation, since the Mexican federation has a sanction, he said.

“We processed the registration of a team for the Vuelta de la Juventud with 4 Mexican and 2 Colombian cyclists, hoping later to compete in the Vuelta a Colombia,” Rubiano said.

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