Isaac del Toro started from Ensenada to Rome

By the age of 15, Isaac del Toro had already trained with four different coaches and was already giving his first interviews.

“I started cycling thanks to my parents and uncles who were into this sport, they instilled it in me since I was little (...) My first coach was 'Chompiras', 'Chon' trained there with the pupils, and then they put me with Güerito Álvarez and then with Freddy Cruz (Alfredo Cruz) and then I continued training with Güero and in the end, with Nelson,” he told the news portal Cycling Passion, which has followed his career since 2019.

The teenage Isaac demonstrated his degree of maturity in understanding the sporting life: “My dad trusts me in what I do while he's not around. He knows I've done my job for a while and that sometimes I'll have bad days and good days, and hopefully race day will be a good one.” In an interview with El Economista in December 2023, just a few days before traveling from Ensenada, Baja California to Europe, Isaac shared: “I started competing in Ensenada from a very young age. I really enjoyed it from the very first moment. Someone else saw quality, and I was just having fun. I was given the opportunity to lean on them. As an ambitious kid, I started learning little by little. I've always had clear goals, and that leads me to be demanding. I won in Ensenada; you have to start somewhere. If I hadn't been there that day, who knows what would have happened.”

In Ensenada, he won a municipal race and others like the Baja Epic and the National Championship in Campeche. He excelled in the road and mountain disciplines. Of the three cycling disciplines—road, MTB, and cyclocross—there's one he feels he can work on the most: "Road is a discipline that requires a lot of hours, but also a lot of precision. It requires both quality and quantity, and I'd say I need to improve. I feel I need to improve more in this than in the others. I have room to improve in that regard," he told this newspaper.

Isaac won the 2023 Tour de l'Avenir, a race organized by the same company as the Tour de France (ASO). He represented the AR Monex Pro Cycling Team, which developed and trained him in Europe for four years.

It's been a year since Isaac started competing for UAE Team Emirates, and he no longer has the "promising" label. Whether he wins the Giro d'Italia or not, he has already graduated as the Mexican and Latin American revelation to hold the lead for two weeks in the 116 years of the competition's existence.

“Isaac had to go to Europe; he's at another level, beyond the box of surprises we've had as Mexicans. The good performance and results, Isaac has already surpassed that; he's in one of the best teams. We have to wait for the genius that will come from him, because he has a lot of class and is ready for great things. Cyclists are born with class; they don't make it, and Isaac was born with it; he has a very classy edge,” Raúl Alcalá, the first Mexican to participate in a Grand Tour, explained to this newspaper. He rode the Tour de France, winning stages.

Isaac's debut at the 2025 Giro d'Italia changed his team's original plan. Team Emirates relied on Juan Ayuso as a strong point, but he withdrew on stage 18. The Spaniard suffered knee discomfort that affected his performance and also suffered a bee sting on his face near his eye, an unusual incident that caused swelling.

Isaac del Toro achieved his first feats in the Giro d'Italia and belongs to a team that immediately recognized his talent upon winning the Tour de l'Avenir. Álex Carera (Milan, 1975) is currently his manager, having founded A&J Allsports, considered the world's leading cyclist agency, among whom are Vincenzo Nibali, two-time Giro d'Italia winner, and Tadej Pogacar.

“UAE Team is the perfect team for any runner, the team is the best for any new runner, they have all the money and conditions, logistical, medical, interdisciplinary development, it's a team that will provide you with the conditions, it's the best team for Isaac and perhaps, he would have shone in another, but not with the strength that he is doing right now,” Diana Peñuela, of Team Sistecredito and Colombian national champion, responded to this media.

From Ensenada to Rome, Isaac has been outstanding in every category, with an elite-level build and class.

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